Disney is investing $1.5b in Epic Games and building a new universe connected to Fortnite

[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Epic is not a saint but there are worse companies than them. For example Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Microsoft + ABK, 2k...

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What makes Epic "the most unethical game vendor"? Real question. The criticism I always see is "I already have a library on Steam and don't want two clients", which is understandable, but it!a hardly unethical to just exist.

Edit: Damn, people real don't like you asking totally fair and reasoned questions about the accepted narrative around here, huh?

[-] technohacker@programming.dev 27 points 9 months ago

They did engage in buying out studios to make their games exclusive to their platform. One prominent example was Rocket League, they bought Psyonix and made them discontinue macOS and Linux support, along with delisting the game on Steam

[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that is a pretty shitty, anti-consumer practice. Still not entirely sure I'd give them the award of the most unethical, but that only speaks to the absolute shittiness of corporation, really.

[-] zecg@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

They'te not even the vendor with the shittiest client anymore, ubi stole it with the redesign.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Ubi has been putting in a lot of effort in their race to the bottom lately. Apparently someone in Ubisoft looked at EA and ActiBlizzard and thought "Pfft amateurs".

[-] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

LEGO fortnite, was just looking at job postings

[-] asymmetric@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

So what's next, Fortday?

[-] 108@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Were they in the wave of companies with layoffs recently? Wish that money went to keeping people in jobs.

[-] Minotaur@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

This is one of those things that feels viscerally weird to me (Who the hell is playing Fortnite for the "Universe") but then I remember Mojang and Microsoft were able to do basically the same thing (to incredibly profitable results) with... Minecraft of all things.

It's kind of a weird state of things. In the past you had various Universes (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, etc) that got adapted into games and such. Now you have games that get adapted into Universes. Different culture in a way.

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