Comment on The Outer Worlds and Thief are free from Epic next week

GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• nac82@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Says the dude using a free lemmy account.

  Why even complain about this? Paid products are also harvesting your data for resale. This isn’t a unique feature of Epic.

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  • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because Epic’s store is bad and rather than trying to compete on quality, they use anticompetitive practices such as paid exclusives to force you to use their inferior app store.

    The free games as bait pulls in people to inflate their user counts artificially for investors, because from what I’ve read devs aren’t seeing a lot of purchases from their store.

    And they are trying to force these terrible practices into the iOS ecosystem by abusing the legal system in multiple markets.

    At the end of the day Epic’s attempt to purchase market share has already been bad for me as a consumer on one platform and it seems like they’re going to cause that same harm on another.

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    • brick@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re free games though. You may be on a crusade against the epic store and I don’t like multiple stores/launchers/exclusives either, but it’s pretty shitty to begrudge people for downloading and playing free games just because you think it’s counterproductive to the progress of your pet issue. The Outer Worlds is a good game with a compelling story, and your average person who would like to play that game doesn’t have a bunch of spare cash available to buy it when the option of getting it for free is available and extremely easy.

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      • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People have the choice between supporting Epic or sailing the high seas.

        I would argue that the latter is the more ethical option.

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    • nac82@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You just said free games were bad 3 times with no justification lmao.

      A loss leader is standard business practice across all businesses.

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      • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Loss leaders aren’t bad.

        Epic games is bad and their loss leaders support them, which is bad.

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lemmy’s not a company shrug

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    • nac82@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t think companies pull data from lemmy? Do you use an app to access the website?

      It’s not that hard to wrap your head around this.

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      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I use a FOSS app and the website from a Linux desktop. What I am saying is the incentives for the Lemmy devs to work on Lemmy are ideological and funded by donations. The fact that companies can extend it isn’t relevant to the intention of design of Lemmy.

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    • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Didn’t one of the fediverse developers sign an NDA with Meta

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      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean some of the fediverse devs work at Meta so surely right?

        These aren’t totally cut and dry because of the open nature of the software and network.

        You can have Marxist Leninist build an app with support for donations and have someone turn around and interoperate with Meta using the protocol whos standard is hosted by a industry non profit.

        Life’s weird living in the free world shrug

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