You can tell a lot about a mans character from the things they do. Tim Sweeney buys a ton of land not to profit from but to preserve nature meanwhile lets look at Gabe Newells actions, he buys a fleet of super yachts which is terrible for the oceans all for his vanity and gluttony over the health of the world. Not only that Gabe bought an entire company that specializes in creating super yachts so he can have even more super yachts!The board doesn't realized they were psyoped to hate Tim Sweeney and they don't realize this fact. I always seen the hate as being forced and over the top where it didn't seem genuine.
>>726068963His character doesn't make his stupid shitty chinese store, games or engine good, OP.
>>726068963>Tim protects some forest land and let's researchers study the land>Gabe buys a bunch of yachts for his deep sea research companyI can't be angry at either for doing something useful with their money
>>726070260Yatches are bad for the environment
>not to buildNot yet*
>>726070260Gabe's company was the first to put loot boxes and prioritize cash shops over gameplay in mainstream non-korean games. If you respect him then I believe you to be subhuman.
>>726068963wtf I love Epic now
They both sound very Jewish.
>>726070797Oh I agree, but it's better then the usual rich person vanity shit>>726071045You are aware you can have various opinions on a person and avoid black & thinkingI hate loot boxes but Valve wasn't the first non Korean company to use them, that honor belongs to EA with FIFA.
>>726068963maybe theres a gold mine or some expensive mineral in there?
>>726070260deep sea research is just a front for PR to make it look good to the public eye. It would be like Tim saying he bought the land to preserve it then builds a mansion on the land and lives in it. Gabe lives on yachts more than on land
>>726071045valve mtx are also 100% cosmetic. I know you don't care about this but basically everyone else rushed to see how much money they could make from selling everything else in the game
>>726068963cool of him, he's still an asshole though
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>>726068963Is he related to Sidney Sweeney?
>>726068963He is responsible for untold environmental damage by making every 5090 spin at 100% whenever it tries to render one of the games made in his shitty engine
>>726072276One more person living on a yacht is far less impactful than one person building a mansion in the wilderness.
>>726068963why are EGS shills extra bitchy today?
>>726072338Hows he an asshole, he fights megacorps for the benefits of the creators and users like his fight with Google. I dont see Gabe fighting for any noble goals despite his vast wealth and influence instead he's just buying yachts and relaxing all day
>>726072952Do you think Epic, a multibillion dollar corp is small or something?
>>726072753>One more person living on a yachtHe has an entire fleet of yachts and a company making more, lets not forgot he has to hire sailors, cooks, medical personnel, maids on the ship so hes never alone
Tim cares about one thing, and that's money. He goes not care about art, he does not care about the medium at large, and he does not care about the environment beyond its use to deflect the perception of him as a rich scumbag.
>>726073042Compared to steam they might as well be a mom & pop shop
>>726073042Smaller than google and its not about Epic being a megacorp themselves but the fact Tim instead of being ok with his money and just easy live for the rest of his life decides to fight other corps that take advantage of their status like Google and challenge them
>>726073278All this applies to Gabe too
Timmy killed EAC on linux.it's nice he saved nature (seemingly), but he is not innocent
>>726073621Except steam uses their vast resources to allow their developers to do whatever passion projects they want. Try again, shill.
>>726068963>rich asshole buys a bunch of cheapass land that no one wants and he doesn't need to do anything with for optics and probably tax cutswho caresat least buy the land in the amazon or something that's actually at risk of being burned down by beaners
>>726068963>EGS is so worthless and unmarketable he can't even shill it anymore>reduced to "my billionaire > your billionaire"Just when I think you jeets can't sink any lower
>>726073919>hehe they get to be slothful and work on vanity projects that don't affect me or help the world in any way!Tell me these "passion projects" you enjoy from them? Do you like canceled L4D3? do you like dota underlords or artifact? Do you like his yacht fleet?
>>726074203>>reduced to "my billionaire > your billionaire"The irony this is how YOU reduced it to, YOU think this discussion is just billionaire fan fight
>>726068963Don't care, Epic shill. Your store still sucks.
>>726068963>buy a bunch of undeveloped land because it's incredibly cheap>get positive coverage from libtards and try to parlay that into more delusional EGS users>few years later build a bunch of solar panels on the land>spin it this time as "eco friendly power">make millions by working with elon musk and other rich assholes>sell the power to ai datacenters anyway
>>726068963I'm still mad seething and fuming like a steamtrain that he canceled Unreal Tournament 4 for Fortdiarrhea
>>726074467Don't care lol. What I do care about is artistic integrity, not the outright admitted blind pursuit of profit. btw you sound like a dalit.
>>726076731>artistic integrityValve clearly doesn't have this, they shit out cosmetic F2P slop only
>>726077335In addition to supporting the entire pc game market, enabling smaller studios and indie devs to publish their projects without having to worry about interference from suits. Keep trying, Dalit.
>>726077743That isnt hard to do and they take 30% which is higher than almost every other digital platform, most devs can't make enough to support themselves and valve takes 30% while others like Google you have to make over a million until they take a cut and its like 15%
>>726068963Yeah OP and Mr Beast totally planted all those trees out of the goodness of his heart and not as a publicity stunt.Ask yourself why game journalist who are infamously lazy when it comes to doing journalistic detective work know about Tim Sweeney buying up land and what he intends to do with it. Almost like Sweeney leaked it to journalists himself to make himself look good.Yes I know you are bait made me reply anyway.
>>726073429>6 billion versus 11 billion What the fuck kind of mom & pop shops exist in your area?
>>726079126Yeah im sure journalists cant figure out a shit ton of public land was purchased, your only logic is journalists dont know anything therefore no one could figure this out
>>726073779 No kidding. The irony of a guy preaching open platforms and nature preservation while quietly kneecapping Linux gaming support is just peak hypocrisy. EAC was one of the biggest barriers to Proton/Wine compatibility and the second Epic bought it, boom-progress stalled. He’s not some digital messiah, he’s just another suit playing PR chess.
>>726068963>>726070260Both are retardedLand should be used for economic purposes, not kept as a fucking petAnd boats are stupid, nobody should have boatsWe invented planes for a reason dumbass, it's so that we don't need to have boats anymore
>>726074467Valve repeatedly releases stuff like the Team Fortress webcomics that probably barely bring in money.They're constantly developing games from decades ago so it wouldn't surprise me if Half-Life 2 randomly got an update to put in new technology to make Dr Breen's hair 10% more realistic. Have you seen the credits to a Valve game? They don't even list them based on how prestigious their job was it's just alphabetical order for everyone who works at the company so even Gabe doesn't end up at the top of the credits.They make enough money from Steam they really don't have to give a shit about what the employees are working on if they just want to work on passion projects.
>>726079980>They make enough money from Steam they really don't have to give a shit about what the employees are working onThat is a BAD thing. It's why the company has done nothing useful for the past 20 years.
>>726079601Sweeney is a billionaire. At some point of wealth you end up with so much money you don't even know what to do with it's so it's easy to give a small fraction it to charity. Plus they can use it for tax purposes. How many billionaires you know who HAVEN'T done some charitable PR stunt?
>>726068963So how does this piece of land work on his portfolio? Because I'm pretty sure average US citizen can't buy a reserved and protected land. Right now he claim that it was meant to be untouched and preserved, but its still something he bought, an asset.So how does this work on his tax sheet?
>>726080140>That is a BAD thing. It's why the company has done nothing useful for the past 20 years.Disingenuous faggot or retard, which are you?
>>726079980>Valve repeatedly releases stuff>like the Team Fortress webcomicsLmao it took 7 years to release the last one, their passion is being lazy
>>726070797how else are you going to explore the oceans? 17th century galleons?
>>726080327>How many billionaires you know who HAVEN'T done some charitable PR stunt?Gabe
>>726068963None of that newly unprotected land should have been up for sale in the first place.
>>726079749>We invented planes for a reason dumbass, it's so that we don't need to have boats anymorei mean youre a retard, you cant carry cargo on an international level through planes
>>726068963He's building a bunker isn't he?
>>726080412yachts arent for exploring, broski. exploring how many sex crimes you can get away with maybe
>>726080140>That is a BAD thing. It's why the company has done nothing useful for the past 20 years.They've put in enough dev time they've basically made Half-Life 3 multiple times over. The reason HL3 is in development hell isn't because they're lazy but because they can't stand the idea of releasing HL3 without it being some 10/10 industry changing masterpiece.
>>726072298Not reallyCS agent skins are camouflaged in some maps And some TF2 cosmetics completely block team recognition
>>726080709Yet they are ok with releasing skinner box trend chasers like dota underlords or artifact, its weird to be perfectionists then release slop
>>726068963No one should be allowed to own more than 1,000 acres of land.
>>726080468Valve is a privately held company. This means their profits are not publicly known information like most big game companies. They do not have to answer to stockholders and if they decide to give a bazillion dollars to some random charity they don't have to tell the public.
>>726080983So youre saying they are just secretly doing it, charities also have to report who donated and how much so it would be on their records
>>726068963wow that's greati'm still not spending a single dime in his store and games though
>>726068963>gives away games for free>refuses to improve business>wastes a shit ton of money on landthis dude is genuinely an awful businessman no wonder /v/ worships him.
>>726079749Boats facilitate the majority of international commerce
>>726081870>have to reportnaive fool
>>726068963>You can tell a lot about a mans character from the things they do.Like try to make backroom deals with Apple so he can get special exclusive deals other developers wouldn't get and had an entire propaganda campaign made and ready to release for when he didn't get his way
>>726081983>/v/ worships him.If you mean a few shitposters yeah
>>726068963>buys 40,000 acres surrounding US military installations in rural areas>"I did it for the treeeees!">"btw, all hail the CCP">"because trees. or something."
>>726080668yacht is a loose termsome have sex dungeons, but it's not a requirement
>>726081983Hows he a billionaire then and have the most used game tool
>>726068963>HE BOUGHT A SHIT TON OF LAND HES SO RELATABLEI hope you’re joking
>>726068963Okay? I don't care about who they are, only the service they provide
>>726081870Even if you're a normie poorfag you can go to a random charity site and donate anonymously. If you're rich you can even set up dummy companies to make it even more difficult for people to know of your donation history.Also donating to charity is not the same as donating to a politician. Sites like what you posted exist so if a politician gets a bunch of donations from like a ketchup company and then make a bunch of votes in favor of big Ketchup Inc we can look up their bias. Same rules don't apply to donating to the "little kids with brain cancer" charity.
>>726082260>HES SO RELATABLENo one implied that autismo
>>726082716Yeah im sure the guy with a fleet of super yachts is secretly donating to charities
>>726082229It's an opt-out kind of situationGabe ripped his out to make a LAN roomI'm not joking
This entire thread is femoid logicWhy should i care what some fatfuck does with the money he gets from me using his service
>>726072342KEK
>>726082931You remind me of that Bioshock 2 quote:>"she would rather everyone be equally as miserable than anyone be happy"I get it you hate the idea of anyone having more money than you even if they earned it. Go start a communist compound.
>>726073278I don't understand how these guys are so smart in making gamesbut so fucking retarded in not noticing that the 'money makers' always wind up causing the destruction of their companies and the small games are what creates franchises
>>726083127Yeah who cares what epistein does, he earned his money
>>726068963Looks can be decieving. We dont know what is UNDER those 40.000 acres.
>>726083361>if you criticize a CEO then youre a communist!!!!!This is child levels of thinking
>>726072058he's making an irl battle royale arena. homeless people are gonna start to go missing in that state
>>726068963>You can tell a lot about a mans character from the things they do.Sure>Spends decades saying PC Gaming is dead and not investing anything in it, wakes up one day butthurt and crying that he doesn't have his proper share of the market>Makes an Online store mainly for publishers to "get a larger cut", believes customers will just flock to it without almost any incentives or even the most basic Feedback features like reviews, forums or Mods, includes "Metacritic" for games instead long after gaming journalism has become utterly irrelevant>Tries starting an Excl000sive war on PC that doesn't benefit anyone but his company>Looks at the Top Wishlisted games on Steam and Top KickStarters and attempts to buy exclusivity for his store, even though he knows it will be worse for both customers and developers in the end>Thinks he can bribe people to use his shitty store throwing around Free games
>>726070797How bad?
>>726084593It took OVER TWO YEARS for EGS to get a cart function. Before that, if you bought too many games at a time then they'd also lock out your account.It was a bitch if you tried to buy DLCs.
>>726084593>>Spends decades saying PC Gaming is deadHe's right tho, PC marketshare has been declining since 2018 and console marketshare went up. The crypto and AI boom took most inventory and made it way more expensive to bother with a PC and graphics got good enough where its not worth it when console looks the same but 1/4 the price. Steam is mostly non English speakers
>>726083741UnironicallyDo you have any idea where every single dollar you pay goes to?
Epic Games won and that broke us.
>>726083992>if you don't hate the billionaire CEO then you are a bootlicker!!!Two can play at this game.
>>726078075They're deliberately going below the standard because they're desperate to claw back relevance from valve, and it's not working, Sajmeet.
>>726072342Kek
>>726068963>PLEASE HATE STEAM PLEASE HATE STEAM PLEASE HATE GABEN GABEN BAD GABEN FAT PLEASE LOVE TIMMY PLEASE LOVE EPIC PLEASE USE THE EPIC STORE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WE ARE HEMORRHAGING MONEY EVERY QUARTER PLEASE LEAVE STEAM AND USE EPIC PLEASEThese threads are sadder every month.
>>726068963I can you don’t live in North Carolina or you’d be well aware that Sweeney is a piece of shit.
>>726072043Yatches are the usual rich person vanity shit.
>>726079749are you 12?
>>726086051>>if you don't hate the billionaire CEO then you are a bootlicker!!!I never said or implied that, you got the tism
>>726086141Who cares its a better standard for small indie studios, its good we get better standards even if they are doing it for business reasons
Bump
>>726068963Unreal is good and I dont mind timmy trying to compete in the market. But epic games store is a clunky, slow, unoptimized interface.
>>726084789Pretty fucking bad. I've worked as a sailor and the amount of pollution even small ships create is appalling.
>>726072485Probably not. Sweeney is an Irish surname. Basically for hundreds of years people in Ireland would change their surnames to be the same as whatever the dominant local warlord's tribe was. This is because the warlords wouldn't attack tribes with the same last name as them. The result is that over time the total number of distinct surnames in Ireland diminished.
>>726090129>But epic games store is a clunky, slow, unoptimized interface.I dont get whats the problem with it. I click download on free game, it installs, i play it. Seems to work just fine
>>726087729Tim is on record during the apple trial saying that the standard being that low was not sustainable for the store. Also it's not a good standard for indies when Steam provides them with a lot more than just a store to host their game. A store that might sell 1 copy for every 100 copies sold on Steam.
>>726068963He bought? Burn it.
>>726091658>saying that the standard being that low was not sustainable for the store.How when apple and google map more money from gaming than valve
>>726091834I could see a steam cultist trying to burn the forest
>>726070260How many trawling companies has Gaben's Yacht company closed down?That's what I thought.
>realize I haven't gone on /v/ for a while>open /v/>first thread is the most transparent viral marketing thread I've ever seen>remember why I left /v/>close /v/
>>726094763See ya tomorrow
>>726070260>deep sea researchHere's your Deep sea, bro, or what remains of it.
>>726072552Grifter.
>>726070260Nigga you ever been in a yacht? You ain't putting nothing useful in that shit besides hookers
>>726084895Nope
>>726092994Unlike most companies Valve is privately held which means we don't really know their actual income/profits/revenue.Also your pic is about "revenue". Keep in mind what "revenue" actually means:>"Revenue is the total income your business earns before any expenses">"before any expenses"Valve has a tiny workforce compared to other places like Microsoft. Plus they don't have near as much expense cost in the production of hardware like Microsoft/Sony. Your pic lists Microsoft gaming revenue at $16 billion? It cost Microsoft $75 billion to buy Activision Blizzard and that was just one of multiple highly expensive acquisitions for the Xbox brand in recent years.
>>726068963>another billionaire that buys fertile land to help create artificial food shortagesso, unsurprisingly, he was one of them
>>726068963>Clemson University fired an employee for celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder>Tim Sweeney got madFuck Epic Games. When they cheer on Charlie Kirk's murder, they're cheering on everyone on the right-wing to be murdered. This faggot has pedo written all over his ugly phenotype. Zero girlfriends despite being 55 and a billionaire? Figure that one out.
>>726073516Valve fights Microsoft and made Linux gaming a thing. Tim Spunky just made a bad store and started a hate campaign for Gabe because he's a jealous little bitch. Hope that clears it up for you, sweaty.
