• 332@feddit.nu
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, people speculated that this was coming.

    Also, why the hell do they own bandcamp, lol.

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      1 year ago

      I dunno, company that sells digital content for young people buys company that sells other digital content for young people. I can see the synergy there. Epic Games Store and Bandcamp aren’t that far apart.

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        1 year ago

        Wait… They sell games? I thought, they’d just gift you some every week!

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            1 year ago

            And there’s like 300 of them. With Steam, I had to buy my way into a Buridan’s donkey position where I don’t play anything because I have too much. My man Sweeney made me jaded for free.

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              Think my number at moment high 100’s but only way I have been getting games for the last 6 months though.

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      A good reason would have been potential “synergies” with Harmonix, which they also own, but I don’t recall ever seeing anything about that. Collaboration between the company that sells music and the company that makes music games seems like a no-brainer to me.

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      1 year ago

      Also, why the hell do they own bandcamp, lol.

      Because a gaming company with a successful battle royale is like a mule with a spinning wheel or something.

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      They wanted to use it to sell music licences for games and media production and the like. But it never really worked out, so they’ve sold it to a company that already actually knows how to do that.