Thank fucking god they’re selling Bandcamp before they had a chance to ruin it🙏
Now it’ll go to some private equity vampire who will really ruin it
Yeah, people speculated that this was coming.
Also, why the hell do they own bandcamp, lol.
They’re also increasing the price of V-Bucks to try to get even more money out of Fortnite players.
It’s funny really. They probably could continued growth had Tim Sweeney just swallowed his pride and accepted the 30% commission rate. Instead, the game has a nearly non-existent prominence on mobile because of it.
The second good news for Godot today and I’m here for it
People are losing their jobs. Their families are going to be in serious distress. I don’t wish layoffs on anyone.
Does Lemmy (this community specifically) circlejerk as hard as reddit does when it comes to Epic bad?
It’s getting pretty tiring on Reddit. You’d think Sweeney were Hitler. I get that Epic’s exclusives were annoying, but they also give us free games every week. The hate is far past justification.
I by no means have a raging hate-boner for Epic or anything, but they’ve definitely done enough to irritate me to the point where I haven’t even bothered with the store for the free games.
It started off poorly with the store launching in such a bad state that it would’ve failed the HTML class I took in high school (it didn’t even have a cart. How can you launch a shopping site without even having the ability for people to buy more than one item at a time? I learned how to program that in 2007!) and it went downhill from there with stuff like the exclusivity deals and that sale they did where they marked 30% off on games that hadn’t even released yet, without even telling the developers or asking permission. Then they’ve rushed to embrace pretty muchthing I’ve praised Valve for refusing to deal with, from NFT games to AI that may or may not be violating copyright laws with the stuff making up the learning databases.
Plenty to criticise, but I’m getting tired of watching them try to shove their foot back into their mouth.
Selling Bandcamp
Thank god, keep your grimy paws off my music, Sweeney.
Monkey’s paw: Google buys it
In the not too distant future:
Today we’re announcing we’re ending support for Bandcamp and merging it to YouTube music….
At the same time, Epic is divesting itself of Bandcamp, a deeply strange acquisition in the first place. It’s being sold to Songtradr.
Not today, monkey’s paw.
Tomorrow: Songtradr joins the Koch Media family
