Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpic
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Today: Lost a court case, climbed a mountain, read hundreds of pages of legal papers, wrote some code. Just as determined as ever to fight on until there is genuine developer and consumer freedom in software, and fair competition in each mobile platform software component.
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Twitter only verifying elites and friends of Twitter employees was wrong. Democratizing verification for $8 was good. Treating everyone the same is principled. What kind of company sells a product but gives it to elites for free? That's just weird thing to do.
@NYGirl5757
@jack
@EpicGames
@FortniteGame
@UnrealEngine
I don’t want to be verified unless the verification process is opened up to everyone on equal terms. Right now it’s a system for doling our favors to friends of Twitter and for using revocation to punish people Twitter doesn’t like.
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Two facts about Apple:
1) Apple is
#3
in the world in game revenue
2) Apple doesn’t make games
Opinion | Apple's image is angelic, but it's actually the devil via
@NBCNewsTHINK
#FreeFortnite
#Apple
#videogames
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The Epic vs Apple trial has now concluded! I won’t be commenting before the verdict is delivered. Thanks to everyone whose efforts made this possible, and to Popeyes for building a fine restaurant next door to the Oakland federal courthouse.
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The Unreal Engine 5 demo on PlayStation 5 was the culmination of years of discussions between Sony and Epic on future graphics and storage architectures.
The Nanite and Lumen tech powering it will be fully supported on both PS5 and Xbox Series X and will be awesome on both.
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@jack
@EpicGames
@FortniteGame
@UnrealEngine
I don’t want to be verified unless the verification process is opened up to everyone on equal terms. Right now it’s a system for doling our favors to friends of Twitter and for using revocation to punish people Twitter doesn’t like.
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The servers right now:
Hey everyone, we encountered an unexpected issue during our maintenance and we need to extend downtime at least 8 additional hours.
We apologize for making everyone wait longer than usual to drop into Chapter 5 Season 2 of Battle Royale. The team is working through this as…
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At the most basic level, we’re fighting for the freedom of people who bought smartphones to install apps from sources of their choosing, the freedom for creators of apps to distribute them as they choose, and the freedom of both groups to do business directly.
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Did Meta just launch a new social media website without a website?
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Epic has paid Apple $6,000,000 as ordered by the court.
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That's it. I've reached the breaking point. I'm switching to Mastodon and moving to Canada and installing Linux and going vegan and buying an electric car (but not a Tesla) and committing myself to our lord and savior Gabe Newell.
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ChatGPT to me seems to weld an English professor’s writing skills to an encyclopedia’s knowledge base and a kindergartener’s reasoning ability, producing impressive and highly polished nonsense. The screen is on - at 8K 120Hz - but nobody’s at the keyboard.
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Doom: A portal into hell has opened up, now kill monsters.
Zoom: A portal into hell has opened up, now hold meetings.
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CONGRESS: Deepfakes are a threat to national security
FORTNITE COMMUNITY:
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Whoa
@FitzyLeaks
is currently ratioing the App Store ad for PUBG Mobile! If he pulls this off, will Apple plead for Fortnite to come back with Epic direct payment intact? Only time will tell.
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Monumental news everyone! Fortnite is now available to play FOR FREE streaming to web browsers on iPhone, iPad, and Android via Xbox Cloud. No subscription required, no 30% Apple tax.
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Epic Games Store will welcome games that make use of blockchain tech provided they follow the relevant laws, disclose their terms, and are age-rated by an appropriate group. Though Epic's not using crypto in our games, we welcome innovation in the areas of technology and finance.
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Apple lied. Apple spent a year telling the world, the court, and the press they’d "welcome Epic’s return to the App Store if they agree to play by the same rules as everyone else". Epic agreed, and now Apple has reneged in another abuse of its monopoly power over a billion users.
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@HYPEX
Sorry folks, the team is working super hard, but the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) has been delayed to late January 2023.
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So I busted out my IBM PC keyboard model M. I wrote ZZT and Unreal Engine 1 on this thing. With apologies to Moore's Law, I gotta say - 1984 was peak keyboard. The code just types out better with these keys.
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@JoeyEstradaaaa1
@AdamThierer
Travis Scott is welcome in Fortnite. I’m just not in the loop on item shop rotations so I don’t know what’s coming when, or what specific agreements with celebrities and brands affect the timing of those decisions.
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The story so far: In 1970, Intel invented the microprocessor. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Seeing Apple and Google in the top of the game revenue charts, making tens of billion of dollars every year, is disgusting. THEY DON’T MAKE GAMES! They just place an unwanted and useless toll both in front of games made by others.
Here's a quick look at the top 10 ranking for 2021, as per Microsoft's internal documents.
(Note that Xbox is ahead of Nintendo by revenue)
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IGN says Epic is “Weaponizing Fortnite Fans”. But the armament being offered is simply an idea: That the maker of a smartphone does not have the right to dictate the terms of our lives and our businesses.
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Let’s try searching for Netflix on the App Store. Whoops, Netflix isn’t the top result, because Apple sold top result to TikTok. At least all the text is super readable - except the low contrast white-on-blue-white “Ad” label.
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While waiting for Apple to
#FreeFortnite
on iOS and Mac, here’s another awesome battle royale game powered by Unreal Engine!
A new era of
@PUBGMOBILE
is coming, featuring an overhaul of the Erangel map and a bold new look.
Check out the exclusive sneak peek here.
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Twitter ProTip: Spring clean your followers list by saying what you really think!
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People in this
#BlockTheBlue
pressure campaign are losers and goons. They're the cool kids from junior high who worked to exclude we nerds from cool kid events, plus the losers who joined in to gain cred. The elite-only verification system sucked, been criticizing it since 2018.
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The DMA went through its first major challenge with Apple banning Epic Games Sweden from competing with the App Store, and the DMA just had its first major victory. Following a swift inquiry by the European Commission, Apple notified the Commission and Epic that it would relent…
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I apologize for writing a complicated program.
I didn't have time to write a simple one.
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Victory over Google! After 4 weeks of detailed court testimony, the California jury found against the Google Play monopoly on all counts. The Court’s work on remedies will start in January. Thanks for everyone’s support and faith! Free Fortnite!
Epic v Google antitrust trial begins Monday morning. See y’all on the other side!
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There isn't a Fortnite cryptocurrency. The Twitter accounts promoting such a thing are a scam. Epic's lawyers are on it. Also, shame on the cryptocurrency marketplaces that enable this kind of thing.
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Amazing move by Valve! A handheld PC/console hybrid running the SteamOS fork of Arch Linux, and it’s an open platform where users are free to install software or their choosing - including Windows and other stores.
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Apple's statement is misleading. You can read my email in Apple's filing, which is publicly available. I specifically said in Epic's request to the Apple execs, "We hope that Apple will also make these options equally available to all iOS developers..."
Apple has fired back at Epic Games in a new legal filing saying that Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney asked for a special deal
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@CherrishChoerry
@calibrono
@TCatspider
@jasonschreier
@TFUE
Yes, absolutely. That will never happen on my watch as the founder, CEO, and controlling shareholder.
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@TCatspider
@jasonschreier
Epic supports the rights of Fortnite players and creators to speak about politics and human rights.
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The metaverse is dead! Let's organize an online wake so that we 600,000,000 monthly active users in Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, Sandbox, and VRChat can mourn its passing together in real-time 3D.
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Thanks to everyone who is speaking up against Apple blocking Epic from competing with their App Store.
On PC, we’ve served over 270,000,000 customers, so the victims of Apple’s competition bans include hundreds of millions of future customers on iOS who are deprived of better…
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The early days of Apple played a profound role in shaping my life and views on computing. Every Apple ][+ booted up to the BASIC programming language, and everyone was free to create and share software, and to grow businesses on their own volition.
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Sorry y’all I was young and this coordinate system stuff was confusing
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Apple filed a peel
Apple files appeal in Epic Games case, potentially delaying App Store changes for years
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Apple leadership faces some massive decisions in the coming weeks as the contradictions between their stated principles and the intended and actual consequences of their present policies are reckoned with: the app store monopoly, the digital goods payments monopoly, the tax, the…
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The Epic Games Store is coming to the Windows Store! Microsoft is again leading the industry forward with Windows, now an open platform with an open store.
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Fortnite will return to the iOS App Store when and where Epic can offer in-app payment in fair competition with Apple in-app payment, passing along the savings to consumers.
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The key difference is that Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Activision make games. Making games is hard, risky, and requires investment. It’s much more profitable to just put up a toll both in front of the creative work of others, which is Apple’s “innovation” here.
Analysis: Apple's operating profits from games in FY 2019 totaled $8.5B, $2B more than the combined profits of Sony, Activision, Nintendo, and Microsoft (
@timkhiggins
/ Wall Street Journal)
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Epic Games Store launched in 2018 with an 88% / 12% revenue split. Now developers can also choose a new option: launch your PC game on EGS first for 6 months for a 100% / 0% revenue split. Devs earn more money, Epic reaches new customers, everyone wins.
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Apple is coming for money transfer and funding apps like Damus, Patreon, Venmo, maybe PayPal and Stripe. If digital goods may be somehow involved in the transfer, now they want 30%. If Apple can tax this, they can tax digital banking, payroll, and anything else.
Damus will be removed from the app store in 14 days, apple says zaps are not allowed on their platform because they *could* be used by content creators to sell digital content. This is right before we’re about to give our talk at the oslo freedom forum on how decentralized social…
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This is an example of the greatness of the American justice system. A billion dollar company challenges a trillion dollar company over complex antitrust practices, and a jury of 9 citizens hears the testimony and renders a verdict. And here it is in writing!
New filing: "Epic v. Google (Play antitrust)"
Doc
#606
: JURY VERDICT. (lrc, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/11/2023) (Entered: 12/11/2023)
PDF:
#CL17443962
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Life’s short so challenge the world’s most powerful tech company and fly a pirate flag above your headquarters.
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A prerequisite for artificial general intelligence is the ability of AI to Map All The Things: taxonomies of objects; structures of languages; systems of philosophy and law; flows of causes and effects; and mathematical, logical, and scientific knowledge.
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Apple didn’t build a videogame business. They built a toll booth in front of developers’ creative work and called it innovation.
Tim Cook quietly turned Apple into a superpower in the videogame business. Now he’s fighting rivals in a multiplayer universe.
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Life's short. Hold a concert on a London rooftop without a permit and ignore the cops when they show up to arrest you.
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Today’s ruling isn't a win for developers or for consumers. Epic is fighting for fair competition among in-app payment methods and app stores for a billion consumers.
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Putting the Fortnite into PUBG!
Go Apple marketing team!
PUBG MOBILE’s Royale Pass 18 is here.
The new season brings the new Royale Pass 18—complete with exclusive rewards including outfits, vehicle skins, emotes, and more!
Get it on
@PUBGMOBILE
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Happy birthday to the new year, which turns 0 years old today!
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Elon Musk is going to Mars
and here I am debugging race conditions in single-threaded JavaScript code
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Blocking Fortnite wasn’t enough. Now they done Fishstick dirty. Say it ain’t so, Apple Photos!
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Great news for Android owners tomorrow! Sadly this is another great gaming experience Apple is blocking from iPhone and iPad.
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Late last night, Apple informed Epic that Fortnite will be blacklisted from the Apple ecosystem until the exhaustion of all court appeals, which could be as long as a 5-year process.
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Do the thing!
The world was built by people who did the thing. While not all who tried doing the thing succeeded, all successful thing doers tried.
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We make games and to make our games we made an engine and we share that engine with everyone else so we can all make games.
And that's how Unreal Engine came to be.
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Apple's plan to thwart Europe's new Digital Markets Act law is a devious new instance of Malicious Compliance.
They are forcing developers to choose between App Store exclusivity and the store terms, which will be illegal under DMA, or accept a new also-illegal anticompetitive
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The foundations of the technology world were built by makers, not takers. The Internet, the Mach kernel, the Linux kernel, the web. The other guys showed up later and used them to build paywalls around other peoples’ work. Their day of reckoning is coming.
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Yes, Apple really is coming for the web too. They’re hijacking web traffic to publishers and directing it to their own app. And this is the core problem: a big part of Apple’s growth comes not from creating things, but from building paywalls in front of the work of others.
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Apple has outlawed the metaverse.
The principle they state, taken literally, would rule out all cross-platform ecosystems and games with user created modes: not just XCloud, Stadia, and GeForce NOW, but also Fortnite, Minecraft, and Roblox.
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines
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Epic is wholeheartedly supporting NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service with Fortnite and with Epic Games Store titles that choose to participate (including exclusives), and we’ll be improving the integration over time.
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The Supreme Court denied both sides’ appeals of the Epic v. Apple antitrust case. The court battle to open iOS to competing stores and payments is lost in the United States. A sad outcome for all developers.
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15 years after this photo, he released the first version of Ethereum, the foundation of a trillion dollar digital economy.
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Shoplifting??! C'mon Apple, your start was with the Apple ][, an open platform that booted up to a BASIC programming language prompt. Freedom to create and install software is fundamental to general computing devices. And you're reduced to calling us "shoplifters"?
Apple compares Epic Games to shoplifters in bizarre lawsuit response
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Congratulations to Microsoft on a well-deserved honor. From Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer to Satya Nadella, they have a 50-year track record of supporting and empowering developers to do great work, while respecting developer and user freedom. A sharp contrast to Apple and Google.
BREAKING: Microsoft has overtaken Apple as the world's most valuable company
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Apple believes you should have a choice! Just not about payments. Nor stores. Nor a choice to play Fortnite. Nor a choice for developers to distribute apps directly. Apple thinks those choices should be Apple’s alone.
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Big news! Apple no longer requires use of their in-app purchase system for purchases of digital goods.
To determine whether you, as an independent developer, are eligible to benefit from this rule change, just check your company name. If it’s “Amazon”, you’re eligible!
Just got the "ad free" subscription of Prime Video in the iOS app and paid with my credit card directly to Amazon. I didn't see an option to pay with the App Store's in-app purchase, neither did I see a "scare screen."
Digital content? Yes. Can other apps do this? 🫠
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Every time someone complains that your software project is late, remember that the ASCII character set was in development for 3800 years, starting with the Canaanites.
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Fortnite creators are doing astonishing things with Unreal Editor for Fortnite, including lots of stuff we didn’t think possible with the current Verse APIs. Now’s the time to get started, even if you choose to start small.
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Here’s a good rule on code correctness. All code you haven’t tested is wrong. All code you have tested is also wrong, but appears to work by coincidence. And code you’ve proven correct does the wrong thing, correctly.
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In game development, the first 90% of a project is a lot easier than the second 90%.
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To support multiplayer games built by partners, Easy Anti-Cheat is coming to Linux and Steam Deck. The EAC team has been working on the underlying effort for quite some time. Thanks to Valve for supporting the project!
One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux
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Wow!
Big PC gaming news. Microsoft is shaking up the world of PC gaming by cutting the 30% fee it usually takes on PC games to just 12%. It's a bid to compete with Steam and entice game developers to the Windows store. Full details here:
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Participated in the
#FreeFortnite
cup. 12 matches, 3 eliminations, 30 points. Am I the only one competing as Jellie?
All of your friends. Fabulous prizes. And one bad apple. We’re droppin the
#FreeFortnite
Cup on August 23.
Check out our blog for full info:
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Another argument against supporting
#FreeFortnite
is "this is just a billion dollar company fighting a trillion dollar company about money". But the fight isn't over Epic wanting a special deal, it's about the basic freedoms of all consumers and developers.
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@Florian4Gamers
We’ll compete, and we’ll also put Fortnite on any serious store that gives all developers an awesome deal. Steam, Microsoft, OneStore, anyone: give all developers an awesome deal and we’ll support you. The end of these ridiculous 30% fees is near.
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