The man at the forefront of the Epic Games Store exclusivity row has just suggested a critic is a ‘drama queen’ in rhyming couplets.
Set your cringe shields to maximum, because you’re about to see (well, read) a middle age businessman take part in a Twitter rap battle with an upset fan.
We’ll leave it you to decide how well he did, but he certainly put in the effort and his detractors do seem to have been quite impressed – or at least surprised that he did it.
The original post from the disgruntled gamer has some fruity language, so maybe don’t say any of this out loud if you’re at work…
Battle Rap! Let’s go! They call me Timinem.
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) September 10, 2019
Can you even code?
If not, hit the road!— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) September 10, 2019
I knew a hundred people like you in junior high
Now they all work at Best BuyYou might have gone out with the prom queen
But now on Twitter you’re just a drama queen— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) September 10, 2019
You laugh at my hair or what I wear
But at a keyboard let me tell you how you’ll fareNow it’s the nerds
Who rule your worldsIf you can’t code
it’s time to hit the road!— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) September 10, 2019
i may be old
but you rap oldyou keep talking about school
cause that’s the last time you were coollet me tell you bub
i met better coders in my mama’s garden club— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) September 10, 2019
Sweeny is the CEO of Fortnite maker Epic Games and became public enemy number one amongst some PC gamers when the company started signing up games as exclusives and taking them away from Steam.
He became the public face of an Internet hate campaign when he started defending the company’s actions, before realising quite how seriously some people were taking the issue.
After some of the hateful rhetoric thrown at tiny indie games like Ooblets it’s nice to see the argument reduce to something more light-hearted.
But you can only hope that he doesn’t end up trying to perform any of this in a video.
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