@DavidShares@tyleraloevera getting people to pay with crypto is the hard part, because nothing people actually wanna use was produced over two bull cycles
@YouM3tv@smartbackwards@Nohte they are being sued for lootboxes by New York, so it's a touchy subject.
Clearly they need to make these real life cards, which apparently are legally kosher /s
>be tim sweeney
>unreal, fortnite, great success
>launch epic games store, more choice for developers and users, lower cuts, received fairly well
>make deals with studios to release some games exclusively on epic for a year, not much for choice lol
>launcher is completely terrible, runs worse than ue5, literal garbage, browser within a browser type shit, lacks features, is literally a pain to use
>offer games for free, people redeem them, never play them or buy them on steam
>user base grows 173% in five years, revenue grows by 1.6%
>epic exclusive games tank
>turns out gamers like having all their games in one place, or at the very least have a decent launcher
shiittt steam must be a monopoly lemme bitch and cry on the internet like the small envious man i am
@ZooL_Smith the newer games added elements playing custom characters, instead of relying on premade ones.
Ultimately this is to give it more mass appeal and avoid messy personality and creative expression.
@ScottyTidwell We've been running in-person mobile game tournaments at our gaming cafe for the past year and I haven't heard anyone talk about any mobile game that isn't Brawl Stars or Clash Royale (the latter of which has recently fallen off a cliff).
Mobile esports is waiting for a killer app
@RocketJumpNinja snax is the last person you'd look at for potential maxxing. He's old and not exactly the star player of his team, so he doesn't need to strain himself to squeeze out every last bit of performance.
@delRE__ given their lower budget and past successes 20th HLTV is not bad at all.
That aside: stopping their working SoMe strategy makes little sense, like why would they need to sabotage the biggest thing they can sell to sponsors?