Hah. We were annoyed when EA Origin came out, mostly because of the “2nd icon” thing. But we got over it because it really wasn’t that big a thing and many of us realized that Steam having some real competition was very much a good thing.
I’m not sure anyone ever even complained about uPlay (now Ubisoft Connect). Few…

Because the House can impeach (though not remove) without the Senate...and because the Senate has blocked all of the relief the House already passed and sent to Mitch's desk up to this point. So until after the 20th this is the best they are going to he able to accomplish. 

You should delete your account over this truly horrendous take.

People died, guy... and we’re pretty lucky that it wasn’t significantly more people.

I think it’s a good general rule that if the game isn’t multiplayer, there’s no reason to care what anyone else thinks or how they act. If the game interests you, play it. If it doesn’t interest you, don’t play it. How other people act shouldn’t really factor, unless it’s a multiplayer game where interacting with them…

The problem is selective placement of your lens.

Except I’m not arguing for restricting choice for everyone. That’s the fundamental problem with how people are arguing about this. The iPhone is not a market. It is simply one part of a market.

I just don’t consider that a valid complaint, because it’s fundamental to the product.

Im tired of Nintendo being opposite of Sony, Microsoft, and PC. 

Just throwing it out there: they account for about 8% of the sales.

I don’t totally disagree with you. But my problem with Epic’s argument is that it ends up with a vague and arbitrary decision from the courts. Nobody is making the argument that Apple can’t charge something for app sales or transactions that go through its storefront. What Epic is saying that Apple’s current 30% is…

I do not want the end of walled gardens. The amount of malware filled fortnite scams when Epic were trying to distribute Fortnite outside of the Google Play store, the increase in cheaters, the just, general level of nonsense that would happen, crippling a pretty damn secure platform.

This quote from Apple’s brief says it all:

The argument here basically gets down to: “We love the very strong relationship Apple has built with its loyal customers, and when we profit by that we want to keep every penny for ourselves. While it’s true that we pay the exact same 30% tax to console makers, we’ve decided to be selectively upset about that; when…

At times like this, all I can remember is when the cunts at Epic stole other peoples’ popular dances and used them in their game without compensating or even asking permission of the original creators. I even saw one of those dances used in a web ad for Fortnight only days ago.

You can say Epic sucks without being Pro-Apple. That Epic chose a target people dislike doesn’t change the fact that they’re doing some scumbag things. I have a lot of issues with Epic and they have a history of some scumbag maneuvers. Hell, the way they’ve handled their game store alone could lead to a 5 page rant.

So Epic wants to use Apple to expand their reach, but doesn’t want to actually compensate Apple for it.

Ugh. I just went from “not really caring because Fortnite is dumb, but thinking it’d be interesting if Epic won against Apple” to “hoping Epic suffocates from having its head so far up its own ass.”

I don’t see how anyone could see this as Apple being in the wrong?

Nah, I don’t think he harbors any such delusions. He knows exactly what he’s doing, he just wants to spin it to make Epic look like the altruistic underdog. He did (and continues to do) the exact same thing with EGS. The problem is that a lot of people take his claims at face value with little to no critical thought.…