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Google is ‘crooked’ and a bully, CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games testifies in Play Store trial::Epic alleges that Google has been engaged in illegal price-gouging by collecting commissions ranging from 15% to 30% on in-app digital transactions.

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[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

They brought “console exclusives” to fucking PC gaming and they can fuck off and eat shit for that.

Honest question, why is this bad? I don't understand.

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I think you misunderstand. They didn't bring games that were exclusive to consoles, to PC. They took the idea of exclusives to PC app markets. I.E. paying game studios for exclusive rights to distribute on PC. It's anti competitive and a completely artificial limitation, since obviously, for PC games, the hardware is the same regardless of Steam or Epic app stores. And that violates a long standing core value for many PC gamers as an entirely open market.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Yes that was exactly what I was thinking. Thanks for clearing that up.

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