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mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Google discussed teaming up with Tencent to buy Epic Games

www.tweaktown.com

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Google discussed teaming up with Tencent to buy Epic Games

www.tweaktown.com

mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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New info from the Epic v Google trial shows that in 2018, Google had floated the idea of teaming up with Tencent to buy full 100% ownership of Epic Games.
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    Abso-fucking-lutely not. That’ll be the death of epic and unreal engine as we know it if it ever happened. And why team up with Google if you know they’ll abandon it in 2-3 years?

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      That’ll be the death of epic

      Don’t threaten me with a good time

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        The loss of unreal would be rough for the industry. We’d be better off without Epic, but not without unreal

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        Epic does a lot good things that aren’t competing with the de facto monopoly on pc game sales.

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        You’re either trolling or incredibly stupid

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          • Summzashi@lemmy.one
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            Dumbass it is then

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              • Summzashi@lemmy.one
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                If you think losing Unreal is good for developers and the gaming industry you’re absolutely retarded. Your rant about the storefront stuff is just weird. I don’t like the epic games store either, but I guess that’s not enough for a dedicated Steam fanboy like you. What a sad neck beard you are.

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            the company who decides to sign exclusivity agreements for PC games

            Why you so interested in killing Valve and GOG?

            https://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40203

            https://www.gearboxpublishing.com/press_release/homeworld-emergence-the-stand-alone-expansion-to-the-original-game-is-available-drm-free-and-exclusively-on-gog-com/

            They both did it before Epic did.

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              • Brawler Yukon@lemmy.world
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                Yes, comical that Valve secured exlusivity of an already-on-sale third-party game to try to drive support of their nascent digital store more than a decade before Epic did it and you fanboys are all just okay with it because you weren’t there.

                You all try to pretend that Epic invented this sort of exclusivity on PC, but it’s been a thing for years and years before they even opened their store. But go on and bury your head in the sand even further about it, I’m sure GabeN will be your bff if you do it hard enough!

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      Just let us play with our balls in peace! :(

      ~ rocket league players

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      Yeah first thing they probably do is end the free games and without it I wouldn’t have any games on Epic nor use the platform. It would suck.

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      They will abandon stock for Tencent. Easy 100% of stocks speedrun

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    In case anyone didn’t read the article, this was all the way back in 2018. They’re not buying Epic any time soon, relax.

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      Also they discussed approaching Tencent internally, they didn’t actually make plans with them. The title sort of implies they were both in talks.

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    I can tell folks here didn’t read the article. These talks were in 2018, when Stadia was still a thing.

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      Wonder what the point of sharing this article is

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        The Epic v Google lawsuit is bringing to light a lot of interesting tidbits of info, so I think it’s just that. It’s an interesting tidbit, but not really relevant to much outside the trial. That said, I do like seeing this kind of info shared, as it gives us a peek behind the curtain of these megacorps’ operations.

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        Baiting the anti-Epic crowd.

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      Had to check to see if Stadia even existed in 2018 (it did), because it’s totally plausible for it to have come and gone in less time

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    Great evil + great evil + smaller evil = ?

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      Profit!

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      Absolute Evil.

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    AWW HELL NAH. 😤 This bettah not happen.

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    Why is everyone buying each other lately???

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      Weakening of antitrust regulations.

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      Nobody is stopping them

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      Lately? You haven’t been paying attention.

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      Lately?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)

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      One school of thoughts is companies go through eras of profiting from inflation and eras of profiting from M&As. Guess an uptick in M&A would suggest they’re no longer increasing profits from inflation?

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