Gullible comments on Disney Is Reportedly Eyeing a Full Acquisition of Fortnite Creator, Epic Games, For $1.5 Billion

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

How’re they going to attract new customers to fragment the market? Epic is literally giving games away for free and it’s barely helping

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

They could try by being the only place to get Star Wars games or Marvel or any of the many, many other IPs Disney has accumulated over the years. It's how they got Disney+ off the ground.

Like I said, others have tried this approach and failed, but Disney might actually have the critical mass to get people to use a client other than Steam. Or at least attempt to and make getting certain games a nightmare for a few years until they come crawling back, like EA/Ubisoft/Microsoft/all the others.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago*

For once, I’m glad that there haven’t been any good Star Wars games in nearly 20 years. Here’s to Disney going up in females!

Edit: autocorrect did a thing, but I think I’ll leave it because funni

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