Seriously!!

The best part to me is that this is a former “principal animation engineer,” and they still have no self-awareness about why Epic sucks.

It reminds me of an old saying that really good people hire really good people… but mediocre people often hire those that are worse than them to look better. That is, “A” people hire “A” people, but “B” people hire “C” people, and the team (or company) declines.

Essays like this make me wonder if Epic has hired many good people over the years.

It’s not a good sign that the cult of entitlement at Epic is so strong, even their most experienced former technical staff still write entitled essays after they leave. And they post them on X.

they bought a game I liked after it was released and now I can't play it, because I don't internet without VPN. I'm very upset with them about this.

because they own it now.

and they want my money.

I was gonna say, isn't this just the "free market" at work? Consumers chose the superior product and the inferior products decided to whine and bitch rather than put time into making their product worth a consumer's money, attention, and time.

He argues if a better launcher emerged it "would still be of no interest to Steam users"

What part of that sounds like “no reason” to give such a service money? If the guy in the article was talking about Epic I’d be inclined to agree with you, but he’s talking about a hypothetical service that’s better than Steam. I’m inclined to agree with him too, it would be very difficult to make a better service than Steam (he’s obviously wrong for thinking you could vibe code such a thing) but even if someone did at this point I have so much of my gaming life on Steam that it would be difficult to switch.

It reads to me like you’re arguing with Tim Sweeney more than the guy in the article you’re responding to.