Sweeney’s Descent into Insanity

>epic game store still exists
i honestly would've completely forgotten about it if not for this thread. the shilling has almost entirely stopped due to mmo wars and pokemon imploding

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Who the heck is wednesday addams

the girl from half-life 2

Looks like a job for Scooby and gang.

the steam event is fucking awesome
i clicked the banner, clicked some buttons, and went up 20 steam levels without spending a dime
anyone who thinks they'll win a free game is a moron

it is fortnite drm
I dont even see games being produced on ue4 that aren't shovelware asset flips

why is he using that old picture?

the shilling stopped almost outright after that sale fiasco
it was like a switch was flipped

>I THINK THE EPIC GAMES STORE SUCKS!

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deez nuts wednesday slap your chin

Oh yea I practically doubled my steam level but the racing bullshit built around it is stupid.

someone call /x/ quick!

>levels
I've been on steam for 7 years and still don't know what the fuck are those

what sale fiasco?

who cares? i got more out of this sale than any other sale ever

>Steam steam steam steam steam
Is he obsessed?
He's like one of those """lesbians""" who can't stop talking about men.

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The one where he made every game discounted without telling the publishers and Devs.

when EVERY game went on sale and devs who didn't want to devalue their game had to pull their game from EGS to remove it from the sale as their was no other way to opt out

Epic listed games at 10% off without publisher's approval.

Tim be like, "i paid for exclusives copies of this game so you don't have to. Pirate Epic Exclusives, it's on me" while Gaben be like, "TEAM CORGI GETS ALL THE FREE GABES"

Can't shill for games if they are removed from the store. Hell, even Gearbox is panicking, I've been getting Borderlands 3 discount codes for GMG and I've never, ever seen an Epic Store game go on sale like that on a 3rd party site but Gearbox is really trying to inflate their sales.

jfc

Funniest part it's unreal tournament games ain't available on the EGS

EGS

Epic Games Store

Ember Ghost Squad

>he didn't get a free game during the 2011 holiday sale
LMAOing@yourlife

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idk maybe i did but that was a lifetime ago man

Gearbox gets what it gets. Hope the console sales are enough to recoup their pc idiocy.

he knows if fortnite ever dips in popularity that epic will fucking tank, and the attempts at trying to get their foot in the door with a storefront are going really poorly
worst part is that epic's problems are mostly just that the store fucking sucks too, maybe if they hired a UI man instead of paying out the ass for timed exclusives they wouldn't have to fight tooth and nail to actually get off the ground

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He works for the kuei-jin

Cope harder turtlefag

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>Implying PC stands for personal computer

I don't even understand what he's trying to say here.

tertiarily related, but i have a conspiracy theory that chivalry 2 is meant to fail and just a fundraiser

epic will pay $$$ upfront for your game's exclusivity and make your UE4 license free if you put it on their store, and since mirage arcane warfare flopped hard they probably need cash badly, so they can release chivalry 2 with absolutely no effort, nobody will play it, but they'll still be up in finances because epic pays a shitload of money

and when nobody plays it they can quietly cut support and put their fortnite dollars towards their next title

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Not 10% off, $10 off anything over $15 with Epic covering the difference, considering the cut, I'm shocked there was no scheme to buy $15 games en mass to make Epic pay money to the games publisher

The best part of this is that Valve literally published their own research on how to conduct sales, and Tim is too vain to read up on them. Gabe literally provided Tim all the info he needed to conduct a sale but he was too proud to read it.
>It's typically best to ease into discounting, and increase the level of discount over time. For example, a title might move from 33% to 50% to 66% to 75% and beyond, over the course of a year or more. Rushing into a 50% or 75% discount weeks after your launch, or releasing with a very high launch discount sends a bad message to customers who bought at full price and undermines the value of your title.

It even provides warnings on what Epic did wrong with Supergiant's games where Supergiant doubled their game's price during the sale.
>If a discount is already live on a product, any additional discounts will stack on top. For example, if a 20% Weeklong deal is active on your product, and overlaps with a 20% Summer Sale discount, the price displayed for customers will be 40%. If possible, avoid discount stacking as it causes confusion for customers. If the combined discount is 100% or more, your product will not be purchasable on Steam.

i think he's trying to equate a silly extra metagame being poorly thought out with fucking up a sale so bad that devs pull their game from the store outright

>Fortnite revenue is down over 30% from the same time period of April/May of last year
>Epic Store has publishers up their ass over badly handling their first sale, including having exclusives that had to be pulled off the store entirely
>Majority of EGS game sales are literally copies Epic bought in exchange for exclusivity
Epic's 15 minutes of fame are almost up and they are gonna be losing money fast if they don't change real quick

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thats on the level of making a shell company of a tech startup and hoping google or amazon buys you out for millions
if thats true then i respect that kind of suicide run business plan

It does tho

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THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS

That really would require people to own Epic Store accounts in the first place. The only ones that own them are Fortnite kiddies, seething Half Life fags, unironic commies and pirates that want the free games.

>the state of Peepee Caca Gaming

Why is Fortnite still an EGS exclusive?
shouldn't they lead by example?

I think the bigger level you have, the higher you're placed on your friend's list.
It's useless trash.

my favorite bit from that is they were suspending accounts that bought too many games in a row; because they had no shopping cart, and they didn't expect people to buy a lot of games during a fucking SALE

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>because apparently getting a discount on these games is bad

It's because they broke a law by not abiding to the minimum advertised price by selling new games at a lower price than physical retailers, which can utterly fuck sales for places like Gamestop, Wal-Mart, etc. since they're stuck at a disadvantage selling a game at a higher price than Epic.

You're not wrong.

I doubt itll do much damage to them but I'd assume EPIC are losing more money than they're gaining from the whole EPIC EXCLUSIVE shite

>tfw after Tim complains about Steam exclusivity, he restricts games from going to GOG too

>Implying

>Be in Year 6
>"user do you like PC or Console better?"
>Say PC
>"Lol you like plastic cocks"

kek

i think its just big dick internet points like your gamerscore

I won a free game

they still don't have a shopping cart
it's absurd at this point, like they're taking the piss

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I'm sure that was a traumatizing experience for you but why even bring that up?

if that's stuck with you for this long you deserved it in full

This

you know the rules

It was just a shitty joke based on a personal story you silly boys need to chill

LAND OF THE FREE

Gabe officially broke a man without saying a word or interacting with him. How does he do it?

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They won't go under, Unreal 4 licenses already turn profits, but they basically are going to be stuck having to stop trying to pay for exclusivity and actually produce exclusives

my post still stands

>removed games from their store during this sale because apparently getting a discount on these games is bad
It is. It devalues both the game and your brand. Day 1 sales are incredibly important and devaluing the bland hurts it in the long term. Here is a good example of what happened on Steam. Falcom and Sega tried to build up a fanbase by selling old games really cheaply on Steam for around $10, these are old games from years ago. When they finally decided to release the latest AAA games on the store after building up a fanbase?
>REEEEEEEEEEEE WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO PAY $40-$60, I WANT TO PAY $10 FOR THE LATEST AAA GAMES

That is what Epic's sale was doing. Remember that the majority of money made from a game are the initial sales. Long-term sales at a discount is a nice bonus but relatively negligible, outside of Nintendo games because they are huge jews.

as the old saying goes
haters gonna hate

mine still stands too, you little bitch

he's just shitposting at this point, steam is living rent free in his head

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/x/ is too busy doing what they always do.

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sounds like you guys like plastic cocks too

yes, so?

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twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1144406954091171840
>50 year old virgin goes senile LIVE on twitter

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One of the other anons posted this from Steamworks documentation earlier
"It's typically best to ease into discounting, and increase the level of discount over time"
"releasing with a very high launch discount sends a bad message to customers who bought at full price and undermines the value of your title"

>People actually wasting points on getting Steam levels instead of using them on the $7.50 discount

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that wasn't really accurate so I fixed it for you, please save it, it's all yours my friend

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Why is he so obsessed with steam?

ok this is epic

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He has been totally ignored by Valve since the EGS was first announced. He has become increasingly desperate to provoke some kind of response.

how can I get it?

?????
This isnt wrong

this is Randy Pitchford levels of embarrassing

Steamies are literally obsessed with this man. Understandable since their platform is threatened.

Why does he keep using twitter when he keeps getting dabbed all the time?

He can't be happy with them calling EGS "another PC store"?

You think Tim will also perform magic tricks?

Epic sale be like
>publisher just removes their game from the store to prevent it going on sale

hahe based ceo fire emoji 100 joy emoji

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how can you be this retarded

why hasn't tim applied for his blue headcrab

I don't know, are magic tricks allowed in china?

I mean, there certainly were a few impressive ones of them dissapearing under escalators, so I'd say they are.

I remember reading a theory that the Epic store discount fiasco was an attempt by Epic to force studios to lower prices so that Epic could shout from the rooftops that their 12% revenue split is being passed on to the consumer through.

Naturally, studios told Epic to shove it and pocketed the extra revenue for themselves meaning that customers see no benefit to the 12% cut whatsoever.

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5 social credit points deducted.

>are magic tricks allowed in china?

well they're making all the uighurs disappear

But there's nothing I want to buy, why would I want the discount?

>Xi Jinping, the Chinese Wizard that makes Muslims disappear

Would make for a great children's book.

Yeah the $6 discount look sweet but what I did was pirate almost every game I was going to buy (bought one because it had nothing but a shitty outdated torrent, so I guess being unpopular has its perks!) and that was about an $80 discount so that's even better. Then I went up a bunch of badge levels even though I still don't understand how this retarded race thing works, it's one of the most poorly explained and poorly designed things I've ever seen and there's like a team at Valve that exists solely to make stupid sale shit up yet this is the best they could do for one of the two biggest Steam sales all year.

>if
it's already happening

Damn, the ebin pr department must be fuming.

He's broken the steamfags

Correction: Fortnite is printing money while Epic Game Store burns it. Epic Game Store has not made a dime of profit so far because they are spending so much money on securing exclusives and subsidizing sale prices.

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tick tock timmy boy fortnite is already on the decline

hahaha, this fag likes plastic cocks.

He needs to be seen as a legit competitor, and absolutely no one not on his payroll thinks that. Getting Gaben to say it would be the only way to fill that hole, but Gaben's smart enough to see that and won't give him the satisfaction.

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>Not a single purchase has ever been made on the service.
No matter how unpopular it may be, that can't possibly be true. People here are so contrarian they probably shop there just so they can post a screencap of their purchase for free (You)'s. I'm sure the registration was busted for a time though.

You think Randy lets Tim visit his child rape dungeon?

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What good is piracy going to do you against censorship and SJW's exactly?

If you stop buying shit products people will stop making them

OK, technically the (You)'s wouldn't be "free" in this scenario. Yeah I fucked up.

Pirated copy = no Denuvo = anti censorshop mods.

If they look at the download numbers on popular piracy sites, you're sending the message you want to play the game. They aren't going to make the connection that you didn't pay because of censorship.

how you get a discount?

I might be wrong, but i think Epic announced "everything on sale", but some people didnt want their newest release on sale so soon, so they straight up removed those games temporarily s9 "everything (left) is on sale"
Also they dont support sales on their API and needed to manually reprice every single game for that sale

you act like people will suddenly start buying games when they continue to make them with all that ridiculous bullshit implemented.

That's not why you're an idiot, bro.

It was more that thing went on PREORDERS as well, and the 10 bucks off was not regionally scaled compared to the scaled normal price. So some places were scoring preorders for Borderlands 3 or VTMB2 for practical pocket change.

That was because the EGS couldn't support having non-discounted and discounted games available at the same time

Enlighten this idiot then.

EGS = Ember Ghost Squad

BASED

I wonder how much 2k demanded for Borderlands 2 since they only got it for 6 months. I'm sure some people would wait 6 months anyway for all the DLC.

I agree with you. In particular with Shenmue 3.
Its a very niche game and most fans already secured a key during the kickstarted. Deepsilver didnt actually expected to sell many aditional copiesz so they tricked EGS to pay for those copies that arent ever coming, to make up for the probable metro blunder

>Valve literally published their own research on how to conduct sales, and Tim is too vain to read up on them

I'm all for making fun of Tim but I don't think he should need to "read up" on Valve's research to learn such gems as
>It's typically best to ease into discounting, and increase the level of discount over time

I mean come fucking on

The fact is, there's a better way to send a message, and that's not to play the game at all. Piracy indicates interest. Interest means you aren't taking a firm stance against something. Someone who pirates is usually someone who just doesn't want to pay for something. There's no way for game companies to see "this person pirated because _____"

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It's satire, you fucking dolt. You replied to it as if what it says is a real report.

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But... satire is supposed to be funny.

He gave that Drodo guy like $50 Million USD for AutoChess and got beat to market by Valve

It's not like that because Google and Amazon aren't activelly looking to buy companies just so they don't do business with some other company.

I only pirate games that have utterly buttfucking insane DLC (looking at you Paradox games)
but yeah Epic Store games would be on that list if I cared about literally any of them. None of them look decent, it's all either eurojank or some western bullshit.

>I didn't get it so it can't possibly be a humorous piece

I remember when Tropico guys fucked up with additive discounts and I got the game for a few cents.

The Shenmue snipe has me worried they're going to start sniping good Japanese games. Aside from that I'm just laughing from a distance.

Ok I chuckle'd. Hope this shit isn't from reddit you faget.

>piracy indicates interest
>piracy ruins games
they'll spin it however they want, it doesn't matter

I stopped reading less than halfway through precisely because it wasn't attention-grabbing in its humor or whatever it was going for. Absurd statements are not funny. Go back to watching Stephen Colbert.

imagine being a billionaire but still needing a bunch of your employees to give you pity likes on twitter

The fact they can spin it is precisely why piracy doesn't do shit against censorship or SJW's in game design. That just proves my point.

Shenmue was handled by deepsilver who at this point would sell off limbs for a dime. I wouldn't worry about that for anything else.

SamSho would clearly benefit from the EGS buyout deal but those crazy dudes realistically understood that they'd hurt their entire franchise to make good 'sales' on a single title.

no, I just made it up the other night lol

>this long
bet hes still in year 6

honestly if it keeps getting worse, it'll give me more time to finish my backlog and just buy shit for the switch. not an ideal outcome, but not terrible either.

>Epic secures exclusives by buying 100k to 200k worth of games
>any dev bragging about their EGS sales are using inflated numbers

The shilling stopped because the steamdrones who make epic threads every hour to circlejerk now make steam sale threads every hour.
Wait until the steam sale is over and they'll be back the next day.

>mfw no face when I used to respect this guy for making ue1 in 1998
it hurts bros...

the fact that epic still doesn't have so many basic features on their storefront makes me think they have no real long term plans for the store and are just trying to capitalize on the fortnite traffic to sell some games in the short term then abandon the PC market again like they did a decade or so ago, they are investing so much in buying exclusives I can't understand why they aren't investing on basic infrastructure and backend stuff

The EGS shilling on Yea Forums is clearly a majority positive mate

This, Steamfags have to play shit like Halo and Nioh and Devil May Cry while Epic has quality games like mediocre indie game #3872, Badasslands, and Metro's worst game.

>I can't understand why they aren't investing on basic infrastructure and backend stuff

Because their devs are working 60 hour weeks to keep up Fortnite updates. Taking breaks from that to fix the fucking store means a potential content drought which may cause Zoomers to drop the game.

Yeah after Fornite is dead Epic will crumble. Not like they have an engine that 85% of all games released in the past 10 years use that they receive 7% of all profits those games make or anything

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>I mean come fucking on
Except that's true though. People forget that Valve is still a business. Sure you can immediately give away games at like 80% off but then you would earn no money.

autism

If that spares your feelings for liking Colbert humor, sure bro.

>Metro
probably the best option of the 3 things you said, but even with this you can actually play it on the xbox game pass launcher thing for a buck.

Uh, I hate to point this out to you dude, but lack of intelligence and a short attention span doesn't make you smart. Shocking, I know.

Valve = based
Epic = cringe

did gaben fuck his wife or something wtf

I bet gaben has $3b more in knife collections

Post yfw Epic crumbles under their own weight in less than a year

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Uh, like, shocking, like omygawd

Sorry little buddy, I'm all out of gold stars. Try again tomorrow.

They won't because Unreal Engine.

This fucking boomer has got to go

Posting like a passive-aggressive little bitch doesn't pay out big in gold stars? Guess you should work on a new routine then.

They won't straight up die but having Unreal as their main source of revenue would mean less exclusivity purchases, if not a complete halt.
That's good enough for me. Their shitty store can slowly fade into irrelevance

It's a hell of a lot easier to be passive-aggressive than it must be to so willfully continue to be so goddamn stupid.

fuck off retard not even that guy but eat shit :^ )

actual kek

>O-oh yeah? U're dum!
Saving the big guns for last, huh?

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Tims fw the vcucks cash infusion inevitably stops and a cheaper platform be it steam or another future platform come and cuts the only appealing thing about egs so all the jews you bought out fuck off to the cheaper platform and they and the consumers forget about you because you've done nothing but give bad publicity to epic games and any hope for it to last as a game selling platform is gone. and all your left with is the social security check that is unreal royalties

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I'm not going to lie my own personal experience with gaming makes this seem possible, if not plausible.

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a month later and I'm still pissed this asshole got ONI's major launch update moved from may to july

Bonus points: it was a flat $10 US off the price, no matter what currency you were paying with
This made a lot of games that were the standard $60 u.s. cost the equivalent of $5 in places like russia, literally ruining the value of that game forever, because it was so far on sale, buying it for a normal price would be retarded

And we're done here.

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I just want them to fucking stop.
My hate for them isn't personal. They're actively trying to deprive me of games from my platform of choice, be it GOG, Steam or whatever and that only serves to piss people off while bringing nothing useful to the table.

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I didn't waste my time fully reading your blog screencap, and I'm the faggot? We were done before you even started.

>steam levels

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From the horse's mouth, no less.

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This, aside from small indie games that I wanted to support, I have pirated every single game I've played over the past decade.

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RENT FREE

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Sorry your blog didn't catch on sweety. There's always next time.

Aww, that's cute. You're trying to be passive-aggressive and aloof. After all that retard vomit, no less. Bless your heat.

I pirate anything from Nintendo and any game that uses DRM beyond Steamworks

>passive-aggressive and aloof
Jesus christ. That's every post you've made so far. Zero self-awareness.

It stands for Personal Computer Computers

I'm plenty self-aware. It's just adorable that your idiotic ass thinks you're capable of actually pulling it off.

>D-dumb! You're d-dumb!
You bore me. If you're going to shitpost have something fresh and exciting. Or just stop posting. Have fun getting the last word if weak shit like this passes as a win for you.

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You're both retarded faggots

Now back to the topic at hand - shitting on Sweeney because he's a short-sighted jackass

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kys

>didn't ask him if he had a PSP (pretty small penis) as a comeback
Pleb

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Just a couple more shovel fulls and we will catch up with Steam's market control!

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I swear I've seen this exact thread with the same responses before... I'm also completely sober so I'm a little freaked out.

user, turn the shitposting machine off right now!

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somebody stop retard idubbbz

Ice cream? I love ice cream!

it's like i'm really on SA circa 04

You've been shitposting for a long time. Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

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>what is satire
I've seen the screenshots, there's fucking retards that have purchased every game the store has and even purchased games they were to get for free. Some faggots will buy anything.

now 300k sales for some of these games? lol I don't think so, I would be surprised if egs had ever hit more than 50k in any game. very fucking surprised.