4d ago

Epic Games Store is coming to the Play Store as Google loses in court appeal

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great! now do fdroid!
Good call. Even digital markets are markets and shouldnt be monopolized
- I still don't understand how some people find this controversial given how important mobile devices are to people now.
  
  A lot of people think fragmentation of digital markets will deliver a worse experience.
  While it does add a tiny amount of friction, the trade-offs are massive.
  
  I think it's mostly just the "China = BAD" factor because of Tencent's part-ownership.
- Sundar and Tim don't appreciate you
For anyone that hasn't tried it, the EGS store with 3rd party games for Android released back in January. Since then they still haven't added a library/purchased view. You just scroll up and down to find where the games you own among games you don't own. If it helps a company that makes a better store/game platform popular, sweet. If it's just EGS and most other stores like on PC, it'll be a nothing burger. If no one tries to actually improve on Google Play for customers, these stores are going to be glorified game launchers/advertisers
- A crappy mobile app is par for the course for EGS, considering how bad their desktop app is
  
  Along with the desktop store, it's like epic and Tim specifically try to do as little as they can and then get mad at the lack of user adoption. I hope O3DE and Godot keep developing and gain in adoption to topple unreal engine and more games come out and eat away at Fortnite. If their cash cows went into decline maybe they'd start doing more than what they think people should accept as the minimal viable product to spend their money on
- Honestly it's pretty crazy that Steam hasn't entered the most lucrative gaming market.
  
  Epic winning this case might just open that for them.
  On the other hand, do they want to enter the mobile market? They're a privately owned company, so they don't have the same shirt sighted pressures to chase exponential growth endlessly, like cancer. They are already making money hand over fist.
Even if you are against epic for valid reasons, you have to admit that competition is good and they're not going to be the only challenger.
- Let's hope we do in fact get other challengers because Epic is the last company that I want to succeed as a major platform.
I hope F-Droid comes to EGS. Tim Sweeny is a crusader for openness after all…
- Why would anyone even want that?
- I don't see that happening
all i see is two monkies in a suit fighting in a cage.
every 3rd party store should have been allowed on the play store...except epic, for trying to fuck over basicly both sides and circumventing payment. then being mad for getting kicked out for violating basic rules, just because of greed.
best part is, the playerbase was trained for gambling, not for apk install, so the userbase flopped even in an already open invironment.
- then being mad for getting kicked out for violating basic rules
  They were kicked out for intentionally violating anti-competitive rules. It's bullshit. And it's sad to see anyone at all defending Google here.
This is great news for anyone who is affected!
I'm sure a lot of us here won't even notice.

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