more competition and a level playing field will make it more profitable for smaller companies like Epic
which means that to you, it’s literally impossible for any company that’s not an anti-competitive monopoly to try and change competition law, since it will benefit them and then it’s not altruistic, right?
Because here’s the thing about breaking up monopolies and changing anti-trust law to enable more competition: it doesn’t really matter why you do it. It is an objective improvement to the world.
conveniently ignoring Epic’s many sins not limited to the one I personally despise him the most for: killing the Linux and Mac builds of rocket league. Epic bought the studio and nuked the Linux version, no apology.
And Rocket League is still alive and well and widely played to this day, including through Proton on Linux, something that can’t necessarily be said about many other games from its era. You’re acting like if they hadn’t bought Psyonix that Psyonix would still be alive and well and devoted to nothing but Rocket League to this day.
Someone has drunk the koolaid. What makes you think that anything Sweeney pushes would lead to fairer competition and not just skew things in favour of Epic?
He’s not different. He’s just playing the underdog.
You don’t have to “drink the koolaid”, you just have to understand how monopolies and anti-competitive markets always lead to abuse. In this specific case, that would look like Apple and Android’s unavoidable 30% cut of revenue for every single sale.
You’re reasoning for that is:
which means that to you, it’s literally impossible for any company that’s not an anti-competitive monopoly to try and change competition law, since it will benefit them and then it’s not altruistic, right?
Because here’s the thing about breaking up monopolies and changing anti-trust law to enable more competition: it doesn’t really matter why you do it. It is an objective improvement to the world.
And Rocket League is still alive and well and widely played to this day, including through Proton on Linux, something that can’t necessarily be said about many other games from its era. You’re acting like if they hadn’t bought Psyonix that Psyonix would still be alive and well and devoted to nothing but Rocket League to this day.
Someone has drunk the koolaid. What makes you think that anything Sweeney pushes would lead to fairer competition and not just skew things in favour of Epic?
He’s not different. He’s just playing the underdog.
You don’t have to “drink the koolaid”, you just have to understand how monopolies and anti-competitive markets always lead to abuse. In this specific case, that would look like Apple and Android’s unavoidable 30% cut of revenue for every single sale.