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Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

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Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

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Is that the same company that recently was in the news due to brutal workloads and work hours?

Most videogame companies are like that. It is definitely horrible, but the company's attitude toward its employees' work hours is unrelated to its attitude toward China.

Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

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post #21

Epic CEO says a lot of stuff he doesn’t mean or live up to.

There's a real risk for just saying something at this point. Thus lip-service like this is itself more than "just lip service".

I'm a total cynic, and do not care about video games or sports, but this does seem like he's taking on a legitimate financial risk in lieu of all the articles bubbling up about the situation

Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really disingenuous. You're removing context, cherry picking and inserting your own context to create a false narrative. Why?

It's popular to hate Sweeney and Epic within the gaming community at the moment.

Because they've done a very shitty thing.

Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

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post #8

Tencent bought 40% of Epic Games at some point: what's different between Blizzard and Epic's relationship - is it, as the CEO said, he is the controlling shareholder? As many gamers are saying however, him stating this, because Tencent will profit from their ownership of Epic - they will boycott Epic's games as well.

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Re: Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

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post #22
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it" by Tim Sweeney in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft... 3 years later ends up buying out indie games and puts them behind exclusivity on the Epic Store On Linux gaming "The real enemy of Linux are these trolls who try to overrun social media channels to make claims in bad faith and attempt to harass developers int…

This is really disingenuous. You're removing context, cherry picking and inserting your own context to create a false narrative. Why?

You could say that he's a troll, attempting to overrun social media channels while making claims in bad faith.
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