The Context
Epic originally sued Google on August 14, 2020 over the removal of Fortnite on the Google Play Store, which was less than 24 hours after its legal salvo against Apple for the same with iOS App Store. The Epic v. Google finally kicked off with a jury trial on November 6, 2023.
The month that followed was marked by a series of explosive revelations against Google, so darning that the judge presiding over the court case called Google out for, amongst other things, "...intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence". The verdict, handed down on December 12, found Google guilty of anticompetitive and monopolistic behavior.
Yesterday, Epic Games Store tweeted:
We're coming to iOS and Android!
Same fair terms, available to all developers, on a true multi-platform store – with amazing games for everyone.
The Drama
The tweet is posted to /r/Android. There would be a lively discussion about competition, app commissions, and the quality of mobile games... right?
Can't see how this can be a bad thing, but people really seem to have a hateboner for epic
They removed Games from Steam to be exclusive on Epic Games. Greeting from Rocket League
[user A] Aka they offered Devs a good deal to continue developing their games.
[user B] Valve has more exclusives than any other store including any console.
[user C] So? Steam also has "exlusive" games... Valve and steam are the evil ones here.
[Well there are several factors, their exclusivity deals, their way of trying to be a good guy when they are after market share. The fact that more and more developers put their games into their engine. Tencent being one of the big owners.
There are many factors why you shouldnt cuddle with mr tim.](https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1bjk1xb/epic_games_store_were_coming_to_ios_and_android/kvs8sj8/?context=8&sort=controversial)
That's just normal stuff isn't it? I don't understand why everybody is sucking off the clear market leader but hates on companies trying to compete. Steam would do all the same if they needed to but they don't have to. Not because their product is so much better but because of their early moved advantage. I mean steam UI looks like it's from 2008.
it's more to do with tim sweeny's lies and hypocrisy, but sure it's just the launchers.
Why can't we say anything about Epic, Sweeney or the EGS without people jumping at our throats defending them?
Doesn't mean that we like google or apple's practices either
it's a weird thing i've noticed where there's so much hate for something, eventually some amount of contrarians will always show up and defend it, even when there's very little to defend. honestly a little baffling.
What people are mad about is Tim Swiney calling Valve's Steam a monopoly while Valve has never forced a developer to be exclusive to Steam lmao.
Most games that were released only on the EGS died there and had to release on Steam after a year to make money and even then it was DOA (the latest Predator game)
The service steam provides is vastly superior to epic, all my friends are on steam, my games for the past 14 years are all on steam.
Valve is historically pro-consumer are innovate in the gaming space, Epic made a child's game super popular and now want a piece of the case, they haven't done anything ground breaking.
At least Google never outright blocked third party app stores. Instead, made it easier for third party app stores to autoupdate apps.
Apple having to be forced to do this is the real lede.
Yeah instead Google just pretended to be an open platform whilst threatening OEMs and developers behind closed doors, so much better.
Exactly more competition is good for everyone
Sadly what timmy wants isn't competition and instead a walled monopoly
He managed to do it on PC by buying up third party exclusives and I bet will have an easier time on phones
Steam fanboys are a fricking weird breed.
How tf does Epic has a monopoly when Steam controls the majority of the market?
That's called competition. Are we mad about competition now and implying it's shady?
What exclusives? The only games that Steam has that are exclusive are developed by Valve themselves, publishers choose to be on steam because that's where the players are. Valve has never paid any developer or publisher for exclusivity on Steam.
You write these comments like it doesn't benefit the developer/publisher. God forbid a team of highly talented individuals have done the research and found out going with EPIC meant they can fund their next project etc.
All it means to you is you have to click a different icon on your desktop. Oh no.
EDIT: Why did I expect any rational, non selfish, thought in /Android
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Might as well do it by white knighting themselves online
yelling "you fricking people" doesn't make you smart
most of the other Redditors were still in their daddy's balls
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Epic is pretty cool, they have a good dev package, are more reasonable on AI. But frick if I ever develop something that forces me to distribute on steam/epic platforms
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