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		zem 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite us... my completely uninformed speculation is that they didn't want to just build a clean, simple store that got out of your way, they wanted to throw in some sort of rent extraction or user control at every step.

fidotron 26 days ago [–]

Right, to apparently every MBA wielding PM they are actually primarily user ID systems which allow you to buy things (including whole games).

And doing this requires including a near complete web browser with piles of added hooks, obviously.

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