Sooo...
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Thread Topic: Sooo...
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And I am still confused as to why, but I suspect that no matter what people at Bandcamp may be saying, this is probably not good news. .-.
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That is certainly a purchase that I don't have enough inside information to understand. I don't like epic all that much though. They make nice things, but they just do not care about their players at all. They don't listen to community feedback and definitely care about money and popularity more than they care about quality mechanics.
Spellbreak probably could've been a really great game by them but the executives at epic have made it very clear that they don't care enough about it to do anything with it.
As far as bandcamp goes, they are worlds away from epic games. I cannot understand why a site dedicated for indie and underground artists is in collaboration with a multi billion dollar company. -
No matter what any of the executives say, the obvious answer for why is always money.
They claim artists will still get a majority of revenue, but like if there's no monetary gain in this deal I it wouldn't have happened. I guess we'll see what hidden agendas they have down the track ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -
Yeah, that's the concerning part. Epic says they're all about a free and open internet but at the same time it's pretty clear they do things for the money, not for doing what's best for the projects under them.
And the lack of listening to community feedback sounds a lot like the situation with Spotify, I stopped listening to music there a long time ago because they did an update to the UI to make it "better", but it broke a bunch of things and IMO looks terrible. A ton of other people didn't like it, too, there was a massive thread on the feedback forum about it, but Spotify just didn't care. (honestly what's the point of having a feedback forum when you apparently never listen to feedback?) What's the relevance here? It's possible a lot of that has to do with Tencent having a stake in Spotify, and also in Epic. Hopefully Bandcamp doesn't end up in the same situation...though it probably eventually will.
It definitely is a money thing, they were probably offered such a large sum to be bought out that they couldn't resist. Even in the unlikely case that everything does stay exactly the same, they still got monetary gain from this from the deal itself.
I'm just as confused about the relationship there. Who thought this acquisition made any sense? Because, whoever made that mistake must have been very confused...Even if it was 100% for the money, usually companies join when they're in related markets and can help each other in some way. How exactly are what Bandcamp and Epic do related...? O_o -
I just had the thought that perhaps it has something to do with fraud or embezzlement. Perhaps one of the companies knew something shady about the other or perhaps both of them needed each other so the deal was offered up as blackmail or to help both companies hide their finances or some other scandal.
I mean fraud is SUPER common amongst major corporations so there's always a possibility? I really have no clue why else they would do this. -
It could also have something to do with the technological monopolies that people are building up. Maybe it's just as simple as epic wanted another piece of the pie and this was the easier piece to get
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Those are both reasonable guesses, to me.
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