#bonus true statement: EGS offering cash up front to devs to get year long 'exclusives' is good

[callmearcturus]

Also, point of interest? Epic is not suing for damages. They actually aren’t asking for a cut of the profit from that 30% storefront tax from Apple and Google. They have floated the idea of being released to make their own storefront in the iOS infrastructure. Which would function like EGS, in that it provides an alternative to the megaplatform that has a stranglehold on the platform.

EGS wants money! They are motivated to get more money! But the thing they are offering is breaking up that stranglehold and actually offer devs a more equitable option to lure them over. They will never eradicate Steam. They will never beat the App Store. But giving devs a better option, to give an option outside the monopoly is good.

A true statement: Fortnite is a cash shop with a game attached that preys on children to make money.

A true statement: EGS’s disruption of the Business As Usual model of the games industry is good for devs, who have been crushed under the boots of publishers and platform holders for a long time.