The internet feels increasingly broken. News sites are paywalled or account walled, Reddit is nag walled, Google search spams ads and SEO to the point of uselessness, and now Twitter is account walled. Web browsing feels horrible now.
Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpic
Epic Games founder and CEO. Doesn’t know when Attack on Titan is returning to the Fortnite item shop.
Joined August 2013
- Before Fortnite and before PUBG, the original Battle Royale was a Japanese movie -Before Squid Game, before The Hunger Games... cult director Kinji Fukasaku caused a sensation with his dystopian bloodbath BATTLE ROYALE.
00:00 - In rocketry, this is a rare event that might happen once or twice in an engineer's career. The great thing about being a game developer is that you can experience similar things every day just in the normal course of writing and debugging your code.
- After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration. Beware of the scummy monopoly campaign to vilify competition law as they rip off consumers and crush competitors.
- A random comment from Hacker News that captures the dystopian state of the online world all too accurately.
- We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week. Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax. Apple’s 15-30% junk fees are now just as dead here in the United States of America as they are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. Unlawful here, unlawful there. 4 years 4 months 17 days.
- Today, Apple said Epic is seeking a special deal, but that's not true. We're fighting for open platforms and policy changes equally benefiting all developers. And it'll be a hell of a fight!Here Apple speaks of a level playing field. To me, this means: All iOS developers are free to process payments directly, all users are free to install software from any source. In this endeavor, Epic won’t seek nor accept a special deal just for ourselves. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
- Total game changer for people who live or adventure outside of cities and towns. And, it's space rather than a bunch of cell towers, so soon the whole world will have coverage.
- Next year on iOS!
