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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That, and Gabe's hotdog stand has spent decades building customer trust by generally acting decently towards its customers, right after it invented the concept of the hotdog stand.

Making the core of your business model revolve around whining about your competitors doesn't work so great when your main competitor is already significantly better than you are.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

Not to mention the gabe stand made the hot dogs at all accessible for some nerds. Hotdogs were really hard to eat for the penguins.