[johnnyanmac]

>Which is exactly the thing Epic can't compete on.

I mean, with these criteria is Epic really that far behind? They made desktop a better experience for devs, have decent enough customer support, and they don't exactly shit talk their users like other parts of the industry. The only arguable part is good platform, but it depends on what you need out of the platform. Does a platform have to offer a way to play windows games on linux to be "good"?

>I honestly couldn't name anybody else that has kept their company private, grown it to such heights and stayed true to their founding principles, without selling out to shareholders and advertisers for an easy buck.

hard to find platforms like that, but there are certainly creators that stayed small and humble despite growing huge in influence and pull.

[neurostimulant]

When they buy out any game exclusivity (so the games are only sold on Epic store on pc), they would make the game drop linux support even when the games previously can run on linux natively (e.g. rocket league, payday 2, etc). That's a huge negative in my book, enough to make me never consider using Epic store.

[happymellon]

> they don't exactly shit talk their users like other parts of the industry

Sweeney is legendary in doing this. Unfortunately with the Twitter debacle it's pretty much impossible to pull out all his comments.