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Valve veteran slams Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for laying off 1000 people while making 'as much money as possible… and hey Tim, Gabe's better at that than you' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 11 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

I think the point being made is that Gabe rewards his employees first and then himself after, and yet hes still somehow made more money personally than Tim Sweeney.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    "Somehow" he owns the only PC video game store that matters.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well he knows his customers. Have you ever worked in a computer parts store? Every mistake a manufacturer makes is remembered for decades and punished. You can't make shitty stuff and sell it to this crowd. Hell, Epic is technically paying us to use it, and we still won't use it.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "Epic is technically paying us to use it, and we still won't use it"

    I think it's because it feels like an obvious bait and switch. We've seen it so many times over the years. Services reel people in, get them hooked on their platform, then enshittify them with ads and paid subscription tiers etc. Like everything that Epic does just seems so desperate, and that makes me belive they can't be trusted. "Please bro. Please install Epic. Bro I'll give you free games. I swear bro, I won't start scraping your data and selling ads. Trust me, bro. Please"

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