The Cake Is a Lie: Tim Sweeney Discovers Openness

🫧 Open on Bubbles Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series and the Insert Coin gaming arc. Tim Sweeney gave an interview to PC Gamer last week pitching a grand unified theory of gaming he's calling "Team Open." Sounds great. Also sounds familiar. The pitch is that platforms should connect their social graphs, economies should interoperate, and everyone benefits. He says he'd love to work with Valve. He says nobody's going to end up with an absolute monopoly over gaming. He says the industry is in enough p