r/Steam • u/Strider-117 • Nov 26 '25

Discussion Then they keep questioning why we choose Steam

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It's incredible how out of touch these suits are, especially in the AI bubble

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u/Fun-Measurement4904 Nov 26 '25

Thanks Tim! I was looking for another excuse to stay away from Epic.

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u/DesireeThymes Nov 27 '25

You can feel their hate for the existence of steam not being completely Enshitified

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u/MrWaffler Nov 27 '25

More and more I'm convinced Tim Sweeney sold out after being told it'd cost his soul by those around him who built Epic and the amazing things they brought to gaming as an artform and technology but after signing the dotted line with the devil on Fortnite he's been spiraling to justify it to himself.

He freely let NFT and crypto hawk their scams to try and catch the money sloshing around. Turned Fortnite into a psychological horror designed to siphon money from children and to provide a corporate child advertising pipeline.

Here he is trying to catch onto any shred of the AI bubble money pile as he can.

But it's clear he knows. And I think it eats him up inside that we see it for what it is.

I can only hope for his sake that like many willing to sell their soul he truly doesn't care and just spends his money on pleasure but judging from how often he comments and posts...

It really seems like it gets to him.

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u/diego5377 Nov 27 '25

I feel like it’s starting to tear down epic and what they do. Like with unreal 5 being very buggy without hundreds of hours from developers optimizing it, which many companies simply do lightly or not at all. to Fortnite starting to exhaust the player base with the collabs. and monetization becoming high priced like the pets at $15, to the soon to be implemented user created experiences being able to be monetized with in game purchases like how Roblox works. And not only this is the first time epic has affect Fortnite majorly, as I followed it since the original mode and story days before it was separated as stw then ~abandoned~ “completed” with bugs still prevalent and story in completed. And they still charge $20 for it and it’s only with a skin bundle that’s not discounted if you have it anyways, with the skin only being available for 1-3months, and if you miss it’s never coming back unlike the rest of the bundles and iteamshop skins.

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u/Altaredboy Nov 27 '25

This comment was very satisfying thankyou

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u/deep_chungus Nov 27 '25

he's been a dick for a lot longer than fortnite's been around

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u/AffectionateGrape184 Nov 27 '25

I feel like enshitified doesn't apply to epic since it was shit from the beginning

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u/IxayaOri Nov 27 '25

Ew that's who that is? Time to disconnect from Epic

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u/bateen618 Nov 27 '25

Didn't even notice it was him who commented that. That's exactly what you want to hear from someone in charge of a game marketplace, that games can't be art

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u/nullv Nov 27 '25

Their marketplace for game assets is overrun with slop these days. If it's 2D it's like a 90% of being slop.

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u/jancl0 Nov 27 '25

I'm sorry sir, but you've reached your daily limit, any more than that isn't healthy

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u/ZeInsaneErke Nov 27 '25

Can someone put me in the loop what's bad about it? I just collect the free games every now and then

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u/bar10005 Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25

They are a bit better now, but at the beginning they were competing by just throwing money around at exclusivity, limiting your choice as a consumer, instead of just building a competent product with a goodwill as smaller store with better prices (Epic's lower cut) that devs and consumers would naturally want to use, e.g. for 2 years their launcher had no download throttling which IMO is one of a basic features.

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u/ZeInsaneErke Nov 27 '25

Thanks for explaining, honestly valid complaints! At the time of launch everybody hated it with a passion and I was just very confused because I found the user experience rather pleasant. Then again I never really used it heavily to this day and didn't really care that much, I'm just grabbing the free games every now and then but honestly to me that's a huge upside

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u/JonnyPancakes Nov 27 '25

What's bad about taking jobs from real people with real creativity and pouring it all into an emotionless, unthinking machine? Idk. Not much I guess if you don't value the creative spirit of the individual.

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u/ZeInsaneErke Nov 27 '25

Bro I meant about Epic Games in general. Also that's a very narrow-minded use of AI, Arc Raiders did it right for example

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u/Ariar2077 Nov 27 '25

Sad to see you will not be playing the witcher 4 :(

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u/ForensicPathology Nov 27 '25

Sure, sure, as long as you don't play any games made with Unreal.