This is a CEO who shares opinions on many things he is truly uninformed on.
You know, if it was anything but Twitter, I could at least have an ounce of sympathy. I remember Tumblr getting a bunch of cheap heat over its active community of furry enthusiasts. Valve cracked down on a bunch of lewd games in their Steam Store, largely out of prudishness. Reddit’s been a notorious hub for revenge porn since forever, and its still been considered draconian to blank-ban the whole site.
But pretty much everyone drew the line at CSAM. Hell, 4chan generally drew the line at CSAM. Sites that had virtually no moderation still managed to swing their tiny hammers at CSAM wherever it cropped up.
Twitter seems to have fully embraced this shit with an enthusiasm that can only be described as satanic. Just really, nakedly, unapologetically evil. Maybe Sweeny just doesn’t get that, and he’s reflexively defending another billionaire from the oppressive hand of Big Government Regulation. Maybe the dude’s just a nounce and thinks CSAM is no big deal. Either way, someone needs to rub his nose in it until he gets the picture.
I oppose CSAM and child abuse.
-Tim Sweeny.
HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO SAY THAT!
Christ on a stick! Weren’t pedo’s like the worse of the worse?! When did they start getting a voice in daily regular discourse!
Son of a bitch!
Not only that, but the side of politics which regularly fantasizes publicly about murdering pedophiles is awful quiet about the fact that the vast majority of offenders come from their ranks.
I kinda wonder.
Sexual abuse is often more about power than about physical gratification.
Child abuse of this nature is pretty universally decried as one of the most heinous crimes.
So after these rich pieces of shit get away with breaking all the other laws on the books, are they going after kids for the thrill of feeling untouchable by any standard of law and morality?
And to further that, I wonder if there’s almost some sort of sick initiation that involves this sort of abuse. Once you’re in “the group”, they can out you for all the sick and illegal shit you’ve been involved with so you can’t turn on anyone else. This also follows tactics commonly used by Russia etc.
Given all the stuff that’s happened and turned out to be projection, what’s the chance there actually was some sort of pizzeria based child-dungeon, but operated by the same people throwing out accusations?
But this guy is being open about it. Apparently being a paedophile isn’t blackmail material for CEOs. Elon does it, the president does it, thousands of people on Twitter do it. Goddamn.
So he’s politicising child abuse material now, and associating it with the political right. He’s not entirely incorrect, but it seems like he needs to think before he opens his idiot mouth.
no, hes saying banning child porn is equivalent to “Censoring” political opponents=right wingers violating TOs.
Check his hard drive. Is he on the lolita flight logs?
Weird how many billionaires are just openly pro paedophia.
Wow. There was just zero reason for him to say anything. Nobody is accusing Fortnite of being unsafe for kids. And he chose to say that. For himself.
“Listen, I’m not saying Fortnite is a haven for pedophiles, but-”
Found the pedo!
He’s even got the glasses…
All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.
You’re an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.
The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.
*only entitlted PC gamers had a reason to care
No entitlement necessary.
People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.
What people don’t welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren’t interfering with games they didn’t own.
What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.
The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.
If his decisions weren’t openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.
1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It’s not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.
2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.
3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.
No one forced the studios to take up Epic’s offer of exclusivity. Nevertheless Sweeney is a cunt.
I swear, the whole outrage over EGS can only be plainly and simply explained as the stupid “no steam no buy”. When a game remains exclusive to this DRM launcher made by an American corporation for 50 years, all is well in the world, but when the game becomes exclusives to that DRM launcher made by that other American corporation for a year, suddenly all hell breaks loose. They’re both the same toxin! Just blind devotion to a company that only did very pro-consumer things like make lootboxes really popular and making it hip and cool to give up ownership of your games.
For the record, the Tim should really just shut up. Or really, any American wealthy CEO for that matter, their grand standing over freeze peach isn’t worth the oxygen required to produce it instead of just… not enabling CSAM like normal platforms do?
The problems with EGS are not about steam loyalty.
Yeah, no. EGS is a piece of shit DRM launcher, just like Valve’s own piece of shit, but it has the Epic logo. Heck, they even have free games and not even that is enough to kill the vitriol, so yeah it’s just “no steam no buy” all over again, or Steam would also be chided for many of the same things - which would be very dandy if it happened, after all, neither of them respect us enough to own our games without having to phone them home first.
I would rather pirate a game than claim it for free on Epic.
How is that Steam loyalty?
My god, the outspoken billionaire pedophile club just keeps growing.
Just can’t fucking help themselves.
… though… that… does makes sense, that you would lack self-inhibition… if you were a pedophile.
Hooray clown world!
Check his hard drives.
This fuckhead as the head of a gaming company, what a fucking joke. This loser has never had fun in his life
Why do people keep quoting this guy? His whole gimmick is saying asshole things to stay in the media. Just stop talking to losers like him and they go away.
I dunno, letting the him stay in the media for saying pedophole comments seems like a reasonable thing to do, least someone might not know what his stance is.
Someone check this man’s hard drive.
