Valve is also a privately owned company. They don’t need to make more money this quarter vs last quarter to keep shareholders happy, they can just be happy that they’re making a lot of money. That requirement to always become more profitable than before leads companies to enshitify products with anti-consumer “features” and cut costs (ie layoffs).
I think the point being made is that Gabe rewards his employees first and then himself after, and yet hes still somehow made more money personally than Tim Sweeney.
Well he knows his customers. Have you ever worked in a computer parts store? Every mistake a manufacturer makes is remembered for decades and punished. You can’t make shitty stuff and sell it to this crowd. Hell, Epic is technically paying us to use it, and we still won’t use it.
“Epic is technically paying us to use it, and we still won’t use it”
I think it’s because it feels like an obvious bait and switch. We’ve seen it so many times over the years. Services reel people in, get them hooked on their platform, then enshittify them with ads and paid subscription tiers etc. Like everything that Epic does just seems so desperate, and that makes me belive they can’t be trusted. “Please bro. Please install Epic. Bro I’ll give you free games. I swear bro, I won’t start scraping your data and selling ads. Trust me, bro. Please”
Valve is also a privately owned company. They don’t need to make more money this quarter vs last quarter to keep shareholders happy, they can just be happy that they’re making a lot of money. That requirement to always become more profitable than before leads companies to enshitify products with anti-consumer “features” and cut costs (ie layoffs).
I think the point being made is that Gabe rewards his employees first and then himself after, and yet hes still somehow made more money personally than Tim Sweeney.
“Somehow” he owns the only PC video game store that matters.
Well he knows his customers. Have you ever worked in a computer parts store? Every mistake a manufacturer makes is remembered for decades and punished. You can’t make shitty stuff and sell it to this crowd. Hell, Epic is technically paying us to use it, and we still won’t use it.
“Epic is technically paying us to use it, and we still won’t use it”
I think it’s because it feels like an obvious bait and switch. We’ve seen it so many times over the years. Services reel people in, get them hooked on their platform, then enshittify them with ads and paid subscription tiers etc. Like everything that Epic does just seems so desperate, and that makes me belive they can’t be trusted. “Please bro. Please install Epic. Bro I’ll give you free games. I swear bro, I won’t start scraping your data and selling ads. Trust me, bro. Please”
Seriously. The local drug dealer giving out testers.
Epic is also privately owned…
Yes, that’s exactly the point being made. Tim is basically the movie villain version of a greedy CEO