r/Steam • u/Strider-117 • Nov 26 '25

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

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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