Why was Epic even interested in Bandcamp in the first place??
This fucking blows. Start downloading all your music you’ve bought, you soon won’t be able to own anything online anymore.
Since I discovered bandcamp in 2017, I always downloaded all the music I bought
I loved Bancamp because you could download CD-quality FLAC. Yeah, I can stream my music there but I want to load it up to my personal media server and just have it in the best reasonable quality possible (I know there’s better than CD quality).
I feel like back in March 2022 Epic did not really anticipate market conditions to continue to worsen. Big miscalculation on their part.
Why wouldn’t you plan for the worst?
I really don’t understand how on one hand all of these CEOs and investor types are geniuses and just built different but on the other hand they’re hiring people and firing people because they couldn’t predict the line on graph doesn’t always go up.
If I had to guess, it’s because of money. There was more incentive at the time to grow fast and try to maximize profit than to limit growth and potential profits in case of a market downturn. Tim slightly explains what happened.
I’m so fucking tired, you guys.
Stop reading the news and spend some time in your local community. It’s the best way I’ve found to shake that feeling of dread and exhaustion
Man, I wish Bandcamp would catch a break already, I actually like (liked?) the platform. I like supporting artists I like and I like supporting platforms that sell DRM-free music. If Bandcamp goes away and no other DRM-free alternative comes up, it’s back to piracy for me.
I’m really surprised by the number of people who doesn’t already have all their music locally
I mean before epic games purchased it. It simply sound natural to me to have local versions of your music no matter what
Fuck you Epic for many reasons, but for this one in particular