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Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney claims 'Valve has held gaming back for years' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 week ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Sure there Tim.

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 192 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The client is basically irrelevant in this day and age. Anyone could build one better than Steam and it wouldn't even be hard.

Lol. So do it Timmy.

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[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 127 points 1 week ago (1 child)

From the people that took two years to implement a shopping cart. The same people that are so incompetent they had to resort to vibe coding their Linux client.

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[–] M137@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago

Not just the Linux client, but the new Windows one too and in their own words "Coding is hard so we vibe coded" (literally word for word).

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[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 64 points 1 week ago

AnYONe COUld Do iT

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 child)

His company released the very best client AI tokens could buy. (Its not great.)

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[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

It started faster than steams new rt3 client for -1 days.

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 31 points 1 week ago

Wow is this an actual quote? This guy is hella toxic.

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[–] RustySharp@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago

and it wouldn't even be hard.

Then who said this, Timmy? The LLM you used to do your press releases?

Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher

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