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Excellent feature. One of the first things I check anyways when buying early access games is when the last news post was.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Epic Games is also a private company... and they're the posterchild for "fuck the consumer, we want a monopoly."

It might have something to do with Epic being partly owned by Tencent and Disney, but it more likely comes down to the philosophies of their CEOs. Gabe came from a corporate shithole and runs with the diametrically-opposed view that good service = loyal customers = profit. Sweeney, not so much.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Epic Games is also a private company

Considering the majority of stakeholders in Epic are all public companies, I disagree with this notion. Tim Sweeney owns a bit over 40%, the rest is held by:

Tencent Sony Disney Kirkbi (Lego)

Not very private, I say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I doubt Epic would give out the number of free games they do if they were public. Investors hate anything that takes more than a quarter to give returns.