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
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
Be crazier and huge boost to FOSS game development tools to open source the latest version of Source 2 but it’s probably full of proprietary middleware that would have to be replaced to make usable in an open source state
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.
I don’t know. Just because they’re not a publicly traded company doesn’t mean they don’t want more money 🤷 but certainly they may want to “stay in their lane” and focus on what they’re best at. Just seems like an absolute fuckton of money they’re leaving on the table to me.
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
If Half Life 3 was made using Godot, things would get wild.
Be crazier and huge boost to FOSS game development tools to open source the latest version of Source 2 but it’s probably full of proprietary middleware that would have to be replaced to make usable in an open source state
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.
I don’t know. Just because they’re not a publicly traded company doesn’t mean they don’t want more money 🤷 but certainly they may want to “stay in their lane” and focus on what they’re best at. Just seems like an absolute fuckton of money they’re leaving on the table to me.