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Well yes. And “political oponents” are nazis.
This is a CEO who shares opinions on many things he is truly uninformed on.
His argument is that he can’t read notes, so people who can read notes shouldn’t
I don’t know if people are just not recognizing the metric fuckton of nuance with this situation, or they’re being willfully ignorant. Either way, not my monkeys, not my circus.
Wow. There was just zero reason for him to say anything. Nobody is accusing Fortnite of being unsafe for kids. And he chose to say that. For himself.
He’s probably just trying to get noticed by Trump. “Hey, look at me! I’m on the side of you and the other pedoNazis! You’re the best!”
“I like kids too!”
We already know they’re buddies; Tim Sweeney travelled to Saudi Arabia with Trump’s bribe-seeking entourage.
“Epic MAGAgames”
Edit: better link
He was on the list, but I couldn’t find him in any of the photos or videos from the event. The CEOs of Nvidia and OpenAI were indeed present and shaking hands though.
He wants an invitation to Epstein island v2
I think the USA is a bit big to be considered an island
Well if north-Korea can call itself and democracy, why can’t Trump call the us an island?
“We have certain things in common, Donald. Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? A pal is a wonderful thing to have!”
Is EpicGames involved with Roblox? Because as far as minors go, I hear THAT game is a dumpster fire with zero redeemable qualities.
Not really, no. It’s clear that Epic took way worse a direction than Digital Extremes.
Digital Extremes, the makers of Warframe?
Indeed. DE branched off from Epic Games in the 90s, I believe. Obviously took a more ethical direction.
As per their download page https://www.roblox.com/download , no. Not to say EGS is good, it’s Roblox treasuring independency where they can.
Going by the claims their CEOs make you could swap them and things would progress as usual. Or regress, rather.
Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents," Sweeney wrote in a first tweet responding to MacRumors’ report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores.
Politicians want the offending apps removed from the app stores, and Sweeney thinks app store business is his business. He really ought to worry more about improving his own store.
But, his store has nothing to do with X. And, for example, Horses was banned from EGS too.
Hi every one, my name is Tim, and I like video games.
I like it when kids can fully enjoy playing video games.
Kids are great, they’re the future, and they should be able to enjoy video games!
. … …
You know what else I like?
Well, its called ERP, and it stands for…
wretching, vomit splashing noises
So, what you’re saying is that Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is a pedophile?
Majority of them are it seems. It’s why the full Epstein files still haven’t been released.
Oligarchs gunna oligarch.
Or why they exist in the first place. Takes a village to make Epstein Island.
It is Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney telling us he is a pedophile and a nazi.
Hardly a surprise.
A far-right pedophile since his concern is also that far-right speech would be “censored” (despite occupying a majority of media)
Please don’t trip into that fallacy. He may be a self-serving asshole, but blanket-labelling people pedophiles for their policies only helps those trying to monitor and censor our communication and thoughts, see chat control.
His policy of not wanting to censor CSAM? I mean, it certainly seems like something a pedophile would do.
Banning twitter, not censoring it
Okay? Twitter, at this point, is a Nazi hellscape. It should be banned.
It’s almost impressive how Sweeney manages to have the most wrong take on every single issue.
The day he says something I agree with is the day I reevaluate everything I believe.
All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.
You’re an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.
The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.
*only entitlted PC gamers had a reason to care
No entitlement necessary.
People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.
What people don’t welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren’t interfering with games they didn’t own.
What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.
The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.
If his decisions weren’t openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.
1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It’s not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.
2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.
3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.
No one forced the studios to take up Epic’s offer of exclusivity. Nevertheless Sweeney is a cunt.
I swear, the whole outrage over EGS can only be plainly and simply explained as the stupid “no steam no buy”. When a game remains exclusive to this DRM launcher made by an American corporation for 50 years, all is well in the world, but when the game becomes exclusives to that DRM launcher made by that other American corporation for a year, suddenly all hell breaks loose. They’re both the same toxin! Just blind devotion to a company that only did very pro-consumer things like make lootboxes really popular and making it hip and cool to give up ownership of your games.
For the record, the Tim should really just shut up. Or really, any American wealthy CEO for that matter, their grand standing over freeze peach isn’t worth the oxygen required to produce it instead of just… not enabling CSAM like normal platforms do?
The problems with EGS are not about steam loyalty.
Yeah, no. EGS is a piece of shit DRM launcher, just like Valve’s own piece of shit, but it has the Epic logo. Heck, they even have free games and not even that is enough to kill the vitriol, so yeah it’s just “no steam no buy” all over again, or Steam would also be chided for many of the same things - which would be very dandy if it happened, after all, neither of them respect us enough to own our games without having to phone them home first.
I would rather pirate a game than claim it for free on Epic.
How is that Steam loyalty?
I’ll raise you one and say I’d rather pirate games than use either of them. At least there’s GOG, itch, Zoom-Platform, putting aside games that never come there until a decade later.
Weird how many billionaires are just openly pro paedophia.
They’ve been given a green light for it by the pedo in chief. It’s not that surprising really, they only care about themself (singular because there isn’t any real solidarity among them).
Take names. Don’t forget.
PedoTUS
Thinking about it, being the type to take moral “forbidden fruits” such as exploiting your workers is what makes people rich over time.
It does make sense “clubs and connections” would start to form around pedophilia.
And since it becomes more of an advantage in business, the richest of the rich may just be as rich thanks to their pedophilia.
Besides the greed and the luck, of course.
Tim Sweeney vocally supports child porn and deep fake porn? He certainly looks like the type of creeper, so I guess I’m not that surprised.
I wonder how many times he’s been to Trump and Epstein’s Pedophile Island 🤔
This just in: Epic games CEO tim Sweeney is against banning child porn!
I guess “think of the children” only applies when it erodes consumer privacy
They’re thinking about children all right …
Censoring child porn is extra unfair to republicans as it’s the only way many if them can cum and only banning orgasms for one party isn’t fair.
“Hey kids, Tim Sweeney here, want to play Fortnite!?!”
Wanna see my noodskin?
Wow, even with everything going on these days it’s been a long time since I’ve seen this fella. I can’t believe I’m getting a nostalgia wave over god damn Pedobear of all things
When I’m in a dogshit opinions competition and my opponent is Tim Sweeney
I have the sneaking suspicion that in private the guy agrees with some very nasty political views.
He’s probably in the Epstein files
And has generated some very nasty AI images.
“Tim Sweeney totally down with child porn if it owns the libs”
The last five words in your sentence might not be needed…
Yet another reason not to use the Epic Games Store.
Haven’t touched that pile of shit in years.
