What sources would satisfy you, as you've already stated Epic is The Best? What authority would make this productive, not an argument? A noted security expert? A FOSS group? All are possible. None will change an established decision.

Do as you like, but as a developer, we feel EGS is Bad Business.

Among other things: EGS maintains the most invasive and aggressive data gathering and warehousing policies of any major platform (including Origin and Uplay), and continues to be implicated in unethical data sales. GoG and itch won't expose our customers to extra risks for wanting to play our game!

We're delighted to have our game on more than One Platform, but it will never be on Epic until they stop treating our community as commodities. We can overlook the HUGE deficit of dev-friendly tools that EGS lacks, but treating people as commodities is a red line. Good behavior is good business.

Sliding into your DM - we'll work something out!

Thanks for the shout-out!! Don't hesitate to hit us up if you want to do a stream of it sometime, we're currently hard at work on a massive revamp of the core systems to make them more engaging - we'd be delighted to get you the password to the beta when it goes live!

“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try if you can to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.” - Siegmund Warburg, famous for outflanking massive banking conglomerates that were generations older than him, let alone his business.

Thought experiment here: How many unicorn games are there? There's not a lot, but some sure!

How many unicorn finance companies are there? Zero, despite much larger potential profits. You can't even get a fair price on running cards without a connection/privilege.

Repeat for construction, etc.

If 'having connections' is part of 'privilege' (it is), then yes, success in most businesses is VERY heavily predicated on it. Gamedev is kinda unique in that you can get very profitable without having ivy league-esque privilege.

Both ED founders came from other industries and saw it everywhere.

Order's a big word for what comes after this part

The terrible secret of space is so much weirder than we thought

Got someone who will be interested in that one

We'd love to contribute sometime if you'd have us!

It's on our next game rather than Endless Dark but yes we can definitely confirm this is true for us #indiedev

We're working on a massive mechanical overhaul to our game, and we're always happy to talk to indie game enthusiasts like you!

Whoever did this needs to sleep with one eye open. Comin' for you, meatbag.

The truly horrifying thing I'm seeing here is that there's so many skin tubes inside of so many perfectly normal looking robots.

Well, what do they mean by 'test'? I know, a robot asking for definitions, but...

Unit testing is almost NEVER practiced in games, and it's massively helpful. Even for DMC; does a cutscene forget to re-enable collision? Easy to test with a harness! It caught dozens of bugs for Endless Dark.