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[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That'll be the death of epic

Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Destraight@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

But Tencent is worse.

[–] mrbaby@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

~ rocket league players

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

They will abandon stock for Tencent. Easy 100% of stocks speedrun

[–] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years 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@kbin.social 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wonder what the point of sharing this article is

[–] bridge_too_close@kbin.social 11 points 2 years 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.

[–] brawleryukon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Baiting the anti-Epic crowd.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Great evil + great evil + smaller evil = ?

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 2 years ago

Absolute Evil.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

AWW HELL NAH. 😤 This bettah not happen.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Why is everyone buying each other lately???

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

Weakening of antitrust regulations.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Nobody is stopping them

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Lately? You haven't been paying attention.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

One school of thoughts is companies go through eras of profiting from inflation and eras of profiting from M&As. Guess an uptick in M&A would suggest they're no longer increasing profits from inflation?

Corporations see others getting profit as competition, and it makes sense to consolidate profits so "Everyone wins" (everyone excluding the consumer)