Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again

• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  it’s also bankrolled by Tencent.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is that a bad thing?

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      depends how much chinese influence you want in the gaming market. They are already the biggest gaming company in the world.

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      • Ashtear@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        depends how much chinese influence you want in the gaming market.

        There’s no stopping that train now, Tencent or no.

        Traditional devs need to be ready to compete, and breaking up monopolies makes for a market more prepared to do so.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah. Tim just wants his shitty App Store in more places so he can make his own anti competitive deals to force people to use it.

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• greenskye@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I wish more people could recognize you can support specific actions without liking or approving of the entity taking those actions. It’s not a binary choice.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    in this case, the specific action gives the entity an unfair advantage in the global market. Epic (with the help from tencent) is suing US companies for antitrust laws, but tencent benefits from exactly that with stores like Steam and Google play outright banned in china. They have the entire chinese market to themselves and use the profit from that to push out further into the global market by doing stuff exactly like this.

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