I don't want to add to doomerism but game devs should know this about Tim Sweeney.
Reposted from
Karl Bode
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks the Tesla protests are being covertly funded by George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and Tesla competitors using shady proxy orgs
they can't fathom that the backlash to this burning clownshow could be at all genuine
they can't fathom that the backlash to this burning clownshow could be at all genuine
Comments
Schafer's still cool, right?
but in the end it was just another get rich scheme.
shocked_pikachu.jpg
He has been huffing what Elon has been selling for a while now.
So yea, there's also that
when epic bought rocket league I sent in a refund request on steam saying "he's going to break this game on my system" and he already had such a history of it that they approved the request in advance 💀
i finally caved and got Alan Wake 2 on EGS yesterday (it was on over 50% discount) and now i feel UNCLEAN
See the last few paragraphs. Just my personal experience with the guy, but yeah, it’s generally far more surprising to find out that the CEO of a successful company *isn’t* a complete sociopath. (at best)
I think Gabe has this "good guy" veneer mostly due to the fortunate accident that his (Steam's) incentives have largely aligned, so far, with most of the public's. They want to sell a lot of games, so they're incentivized to be a good store. That's it.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=valve+gambling+
but most of these guys are """centrists"""
He's also a billionaire with a fleet of yachts
He is not your friend