There's been so many instances of people creating companies to just be bought up by a larger entity. They literally pull the same shit Tim did, but those companies only last like 1-5 years at most Because the belief is that you'll find a buyer for something even in a flaming dumpster heap, but if it doesn't get bought within the allotted time period then shit really does hit the fan and then the leadership abandons ship leaving the employees to hold the bag..
Oh, I'm sure that's true, but I just don't think that's what Tim will do. His ego is too great and he's taken this shit personally at this point. Maybe Tencent will have him whacked and sell off the store, though.
The thing is unless you're bill gates or Bezos levels of wealth, very egotistical people will usually take the cash payout because they will wind up boosting their ego more.
Except Tim didn't create this from the ground up. He created it as a side project to Epic and it's attached to Epic, this isn't the faggots behind Youtube who started their site and sold it to Google. This is basically just another department of Epic, there's no ego boost if you sell this because it's not an upwards move and if you sell it that means it was never good which turns it into a downwards move. Plus to sell the Epic Game Store they'd be selling it to a person who can't use the word Epic in the title because Epic owns the trademark to Epic.
I dunno, they could decide to split it off since many companies have done things like that where they turn entire divisions or branches into their own separate business. But this is all hypothetical.
I don't think they can make it a separate business because if it's not attached to Epic Games then it won't be able to use Epic in the name since Epic Games owns that trademark. Or they should anyways in regards to the digital entertainment front.
Because Epic pays them large sums of money upfront? Seems a lot more plausible than some moral panic about Steam's hentai games.
Yeah, one indie company said that Epic's payment was more than they likely woulda earned on Steam in a year.
Paying for shit is honestly the quickest and most surefire way to get stuff on your platform. But they have to make it up on the consumer end.
Epic isn't profitable. It's only afloat due to Fortnite money and Chinese Tencent money
Them losing 100-200 million isn't anything major especially considering where they get money from. Their benefactors give them way more and do expect losses because holding on and managing the market share is the important thing. It sounds retarded on paper but many businesses do operate like this.
I'm not saying it's retarded, I fully understand their business plan. But losing $200M yearly isn't proof that your strategy is working just because you have endless Chinese investor money backing you up. "They're doing something right or the store would be dead" doesn't apply here, because none of the money is coming in from the store. It's like if a billionaire started a personal hobby project.
That's been every failed Valve, Google, and Amazon venture.
Growing the company or gaining market share is only desirable on the expectation that at some future date they turn profitable. It's too early to tell, maybe they will start making a profit in 2027 and it will all have been worth it by 2035 or whatever. But even if they eventually fail it still would've looked the same to us in 2021.
It's a revenue stream that's costing more to maintain than it's bringing in income. Again it would have to turn itself profitable before it becomes attractive to potential buyers. Which I don't think will ever happen either, Epic is valued at something like $30B and it's the CCP's bridgeheard into the Western gaming industry. If they're bought out by anybody it's Sweeney giving up 50+% to Tencent.
No awkward sex scenes where Shiki is a near rapist, no buy. Also fuck the removal of the granny skirt for a mini skirt. In all seriousness, the removal of the Far Side routes is baffling considering they were the best parts of the game.
Look man times have changed, granny skirts are more frequently worn by men than actual grannies in this day and age.
Game seems to be a gigantic monkey's paw due of how long it took to be developed and released, with rewritten parts to "subvert your expectations" (I guess), not to mention the thing is quite huge in size in spite of not having all the story content from the original title. I can see it as the Final Fantasy 7 Remake of visual novels frankly.
What's a Nintendo Switch Pro?
The Final Fantasy 7 Remake of visual novels already happened, it was the ZAN games from Utawererumono, they made them full fledged Action games and retold the same story from the Mask Duology. Every character had full 3d models and they included new what if scenarios.
You have no idea how much I wish these guys could try and make a new game.