• @qooqie
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • @kadu
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      411 year ago

      That’ll be the death of epic

      Don’t threaten me with a good time

      • @BURN
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        171 year ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          I really enjoyed THE FINALS, but I don’t play much games with unreal engine so I can see a future without Epic Games

          • @BURN
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            41 year ago

            Pretty much the majority of (large) single player games in development or recently released have been unreal properties. It’s by far the best game engine for its use cases

            • RobotsLeftHand
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              11 year ago

              This is it. Most games beyond small scope/indie projects start in Unreal.

              • @BURN
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                11 year ago

                Unreal or Unity, and one of those recently became not really an option.

                I think it’s in everyone’s interest to have more variety in engine choice, but that just leads to everyone only being familiar with their proprietary engine implementation.

                Godot is trying to break in, and seems to be picking up some steam though

      • @Mango
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        41 year ago

        But Tencent is worse.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

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

    • @mrbaby
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      1 year ago

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

      ~ rocket league players

    • @Fredselfish
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      11 year ago

      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.

  • @jacktherippah
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    451 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

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

  • bridge_too_close
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    311 year ago

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

      • bridge_too_close
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        111 year ago

        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.

    • @edgemaster72
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      21 year ago

      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

  • ono
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    91 year ago

    Great evil + great evil + smaller evil = ?

  • @QuandaleDingle
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    31 year ago

    AWW HELL NAH. 😤 This bettah not happen.