Tim Sweeney Is Now Saying Valve Has “Held Gaming Back For Years

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".

Tim Sweeney Is Claiming That, Despite All Its Good, Valve Has "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 example of it falling flat. The responses to his words were, unsurprisingly, probably not what he'd hoped for.

"Tim, your stupid store doesn't even have user reviews, you're not allowed to talk about this. We like steam and valve bc they respect us, you clearly don't and these petty arguments of yours with people just makes us hate you even more," said MK.

His tweet was also Community Noted. That note reads, "You can use Steam Datagram Relay (and its servers) on any platform as long as your title ships on Steam."

It's clear that the Epic Games Store is losing the battle with Valve, and at this point, Sweeney just comes across as a petulant child. He's reaching Musk-levels of tweeting, and sometimes, it's best just to log off.

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