bandcamp acquired by epic games?!

what the hell is this

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

  On 3/2/2022 at 6:28 PM, 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?

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

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

i doubt any actual good will come out of this. 

lolwut?

Hmmmm

  On 3/2/2022 at 6:44 PM, 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.

  On 3/2/2022 at 6:48 PM, 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

ah what the hell

SOULSEEK FOR LIFE 

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.

  On 3/2/2022 at 7:04 PM, cern said:

SOULSEEK FOR LIFE 

BAN FOR LIFE 

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

  On 3/2/2022 at 7:11 PM, 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

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

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

This is quite fucking shitty.

Late-stage capitalism works in mysterious ways

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

  On 3/2/2022 at 7:33 PM, chim said:

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

You mean the 3.5% artist's share era 

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:

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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...

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. 

Sample clearance enforcement might become a thing on bandcamp too?

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

  On 3/2/2022 at 7:35 PM, cern said:

You mean the 3.5% artist's share era 

Ahem - 00003.5% share

Don't worry nothing will change! 


this sucks.

Fuck

  On 3/2/2022 at 7:11 PM, 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

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