bandcamp acquired by epic games?!

[species8472]

what the hell is this

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/

[Extralife]

10 minutes ago, species8472 said:

what the hell is this

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/

Was only a matter of time. Heartened to hear their model will stay the same…but we will see, won’t we?

[YangYing]

[ignatius]

i want cross promo of my releases in fortnite. bring on the cringe dances to my modular farts

[species8472]

best we can hope is for things to stay the same I guess.
 

i doubt any actual good will come out of this. 

[chronical]

lolwut?

[psn]

Hmmmm

[Squee]

4 minutes ago, species8472 said:

best we can hope is for things to stay the same I guess.

Epic is rumored to be super chill to work with and have no interest in intervening with people's businesses - even the ones they acquire. I bet it's a way for them to make sure Bandcamp stays around and grows bigger in service of both their users and artists. Epic has been all for giving the majority of their income to the creators of skins, models, and other assets sold on their marketplace.

[DavieAddison]

6 minutes ago, Squee said:

Epic is rumored to be super chill to work with and have no interest in intervening with people's businesses - even the ones they acquire. I bet it's a way for them to make sure Bandcamp stays around and grows bigger in service of both their users and artists. Epic has been all for giving the majority of their income to the creators of skins, models, and other assets sold on their marketplace.

After years of stealing dances without paying people

[thefxbip]

ah what the hell

 

 

[cern]

SOULSEEK FOR LIFE 

[Herr Jan]

I hope this at least means when you click a bandcamp link on your phone, it takes you to the app instead of the in-browser bandcamp app. And be able to make playlists. And I hope Squee is right too. 

So, a lot of hoping.

3 minutes ago, cern said:

SOULSEEK FOR LIFE 

BAN FOR LIFE 

[thefxbip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

seems like these guys half-own Epic Games lol

so much for indie music

RIP bandcamp spirit

Fuck this

i am so fucking disgusted at this sell out

Edited March 2, 2022 by thefxbip

[Squee]

2 minutes ago, thefxbip said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

seems like these guys half-own Epic Games lol

so much for indie music

RIP bandcamp spirit

Fuck this

i am disgusted at this sell out

Wow, hahaha. Jesus Christ, calm down. Damn.

[thefxbip]

Calm down? this is basically like bandcamp being bought by Spotify or Disney.

This is quite fucking shitty.

Edited March 2, 2022 by thefxbip

[BobDobalina]

Late-stage capitalism works in mysterious ways

[chim]

Great, looking forward to the new era of 35% artist's share.

[cern]

Just now, chim said:

Great, looking forward to the new era of 35% artist's share.

You mean the 3.5% artist's share era 

[zero]

I am so behind the times on the video game front, not sure what bad things will happen exactly because of epic. 

the main thing that stood out to me on the blog statement, was a slight hint of BS coming from the bolded part:

Quote

I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

hints of web 3.0, which means crypto world is coming for bandcamp?

if NFTs start popping up on bandcamp, then yes, the end is nigh...

[sidewinder]

Hoping this brings some nice platform improvements. I don't need it to turn into a streaming platform or anything, but there are lots of improvements that could be made on the site and app. 

[thefxbip]

Sample clearance enforcement might become a thing on bandcamp too?

Was quite free till now. Worried about that as well.

Edited March 2, 2022 by thefxbip

[Joyrex]

17 minutes ago, cern said:

You mean the 3.5% artist's share era 

Ahem - 00003.5% share

[ARPA]

Don't worry nothing will change! 


this sucks.

[kuniklo]

Fuck

[ignatius]

52 minutes ago, thefxbip said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

seems like these guys half-own Epic Games lol

so much for indie music

RIP bandcamp spirit

Fuck this

i am so fucking disgusted at this sell out

Does this mean bandcamp artists will be famous in china? Absolutely. Yes. 1 billion Chinese people will buy my nft fart jar music.