The Epic Brutality Of Unchecked Capitalism (Jimquisition)

[Mr. Scorpio]

This is entirely correct. I apologize if the way I described myself seemed to imply that more money will necessarily lead to a specific outcome in all instances. That wasn't my intent.

My point is that money allows for a studio to continue operating. Not that it will, just that it can.

[Garro]

I will never understand why people short circuit over such a stupid thing. Happens every thead.

[Janus Vesta]

It's cool man. It's very intuitive to think more time and more money should make a better product. Sadly reality is often disappointing.

[Hollywood SN]

He apparently joined 11 years ago too.

So he deleted his account of 11 years cause he couldnt argue in good faith on one topic in one random thread with like 5 people.

[Mr. Scorpio]

Yeah. Entertainment just isn't very deterministic.

Sometimes there are projects that go nowhere no matter how much gets thrown at them, and sometimes projects are tragically underdeveloped but still amazing given the limited resources they had to work with.

[revengeanomics]

being wrong 100% of times is allowed, but its still being wrong

[27X]

Post history will say otherwise.

As a dev I absolutely see the flat benefit of the split, you have to be a drooling idiot not to. That only plays out as intended (and by epic's owner's own admission) in a very limited environment where hard recoup is needed. That doesn't even kind of apply to most of the companies taking part in this.

Epic is not doing this in good faith nor in permanency, and that's the real issue. Sure fortnite bux is great and all but in five or ten years I sincerely doubt this split will remain and any dev expecting it to is frankly fucked, and maybe they should be for being so absurdly greedy and shortsighted, and none of that will affect publishers or devs in a publisher stranglehold.

If Epic loved devs as much as they say they do, they'd be making UE4 literally idiot proof and infinitely robust, they'd be hitting up dev programs with funbux and getting kickstarted products an SKU to literally go from prototype to alpha in weeks.

None of that is happening, because epic only cares about establishing platform presence before online only becomes cemented by idiots and their soon parted money.

[Stiffy360]

Imo, the issue isn’t how the exclusive deal happened in the first place, but the fact it’s an exclusive to begin with. Whether or not egs funded the development or garunteed its success instead, the end result to the consumer is you no longer have a choice on which platform you want to purchase it on.

People are only really mad that they can’t get metro or phoenix point on steam, which is their prefferred choice. Not the fact that epic gave them money.