Epic Games announces Epic Games Store

[Chazore]

Darwinianevolution said:

Chazore said:

Also, another thing. People seem to forget that Tencent own a lot of Epic's shares, and so far Tencent do not have a client storefront in the West, so by default, Epic's new client could become Tencent's proxy in the West. I know how Tencent see Steam ads their enemy, and will do anything to Steal Steam's thunder (for their own gain, not the consumer's) 

Dammit, that's true. Compared to Tencent, Steam is an innocent lamb, so I really dread the idea of Epic turning into Tencent's key to the western PC market.

If Tencent's going all in for this, though, they could put bot League of Legends and Fortnite in their service. That's huge, bigger than anything Steam has by far.

Also this:

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/epic-games-is-no-longer-actively-working-on-unreal-tournament/

Great PC "support" so far right?.

 

People give Steam shit for not pulling a Ubisoft and spamming franchises yearly (which is actually quite bad and shows a willingness to milk something to death, but some forum users here don't give a fuck about artistic vision or integrity), yet here is Epic deciding to drop a PC IP because Tencent likely told them to, all because it's not a "billion dollar franchise". 

All this tells me, is that it's all about money and nothing else. Although Valve are making some VR games and a card game, both of which I have no interest in, at least they are still making something, while Epic just drop their PC ip's like a rock, because a greedy af Chinese company told them to (just like they told them to make FN a BR game and to focus less on the original design).