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by gowld 1569 days ago
> This seems like an odd move for a gaming company.

Amazon is a bookstore.

Epic sees Steam and Apple (and Amazon) and knows that the platform is the chokepoint where all the money is.
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bduerst 1569 days ago
Yeah, this is just Epic blurring the lines between video games and music content as it moves to become more of a media company.

It's also an easy way to to procure licensing to sell music content in games. I'd be interested to know why they passed up others like SoundCloud.

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posterboy 1569 days ago
How would it make licensing easier?

As for SoundCloud, either they didn't come to terms for whatever reason, or they didn't try to begin with if marketing considerations favor BP.

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bduerst 1569 days ago
>How would it make licensing easier?

If you have a platform that artists allow purchasing of their music through, you can extend it to allow customers to sell/license songs in their games (developer) or buy snippets of song in Fortnite (gamer).

Sound Cloud would achieve these features too, and I am certain they considered more than just Bandcamp, as well as kept everyone under NDA during the shopping around.

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