For the last few days, Tim Sweeney has shown his whole ass trying to beef with Steam. Despite getting no rise from the Valve-owned platform, he's bemoaned that it still has generative AI disclosures and even "vibecoded" a new version of Epic Games' Launcher just to stick it to Gabe. Unfortunately for Sweeney, the vibecoded version of the launcher was a hot mess.
Despite nobody taking his deranged ranting for anything more than what it is, Sweeney has continued, today claiming that Valve has actually "held gaming back for years".
Sweeney's latest bizarre tweet came after Epic Games' former principal animation engineer, Kiaran Ritchie, bemoaned the fact that Steam takes a ~30 percent cut from developers, regardless of their size. After someone pointed out the support Steamworks offers to Ritchie, who claimed nobody would pay close to 30 percent for it, Sweeney chimed in.
"Exactly this. Valve has held gaming back for years by locking developers’ PC games into Steamworks’ social walled garden where players can’t talk to other players on iOS, Android, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, or even other PC stores," Epic's founder and CEO said.
It's another example of Sweeney trying to stick the knife in, and another...
