Tim, you’re just dumb. You think people don’t see right through your business-brain bullshit, and it makes you look even dumber. Sit down and shut up.
If you ever somehow falter, and believe that you should listen to this man… Remember that he went on the record very recently saying that if a game is to be successful, it must launch on their competitor’s platform, Steam.
What a mega loser…
You might even say he’s an epic loser…
Stop literally taking my money by making me work hard on my project.
Good grief, Tim Sweeney is such an insufferable cunt.
It’s too bad, I really like his early work. Jill of the Jungle, Epic Pinball, Jazz the Jackrabbit, Tyrian, all the Unreal Tournament games, Unreal Engine 1/2/3
Tim should just start his own store where he can set the rules and let the market decide whether or not they like the disclosures.
If he’s right, his store would be a dominant force, and … what’s that? He’s been trying that for the better part of a decade and nobody buys anything there?
Man if I were Steam’s PR guy I would nor resist making fun of Sweeney all day long.
They don’t have to, Valve can do nothing and Sweeney keeps making himself look like a whiny idiot.
Classic Valve strategy: Do nothing Win. Profit. GabeN buys new megayatch
Has no one sat Tim down and explained to him how much free marketing he gives Steam?
A disclosure for transparency is not a hate campaign. Actually, Tim is doing a hate campaign against Valve.
All digital storefronts take 30% btw
Edit: Most All*
Steam takes less as a game sells more copies. Iirc their minimum is a 20% cut
And selling to brick and mortar (which doesnt exist much anymore anyway) ends up costing even more.
The big take away is him arguing AI discloser is somehow an afront to developer privacy. Bullshit. I like the response in the screenshot: Sweeney is telling us to be okay buying food without ingredients lists. AI slop is cancerous to the industry and the vast majority of indie dev communities for instance despise GenAI and want the disclosures.
Epic is 0% up to $1 million and 12% after.
Microsoft store is 5% if it’s through your website and 15% if it’s through the app.
GoG is 30%
Google Play store is 30% after 1 million
Why lie?
30% used to be the standard, all consoles took 30%, Apple and Google took 30%, and all the PC game storefronts did. Sweeney doesn’t give a shit about saving anyone money but himself. He’s been on a decade long crusade to avoid paying these fees and will say whatever he can to make them go away or get lower.
They may just be misinformed. Sony and MS take 30% on both their platforms so that may be why they think that.
Used to. Not anymore.
No matter what your living conditions, you can never beat Valve on the price of real estate. Because they will live for free in Sweeney’s mind as long as he’s alive.
Sweeney is such a fucking clown
Fuck around and find out. He fucks around and still doesn’t find out.
Having too much money insulates you from having to find out
There is no AI hate campaign, it’s natural hate!
He’s so jealous of Steam you can smell it.
He calls Valve a monopoly, but he doesn’t actually hate monopolies, he hates that he’s not in charge of one.
IDK why, he has plenty of money lol
Greed
And his fear of inadequacy, of course.
Ah there’s the Tim Sweeney we know! Balance has been restored
