{"id":17976,"date":"2019-07-01T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=17976"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:04:06","slug":"tim-sweeney-defends-epic-exclusives-g2a-advertising-worries-and-andrew-wilson-blames-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/01\/tim-sweeney-defends-epic-exclusives-g2a-advertising-worries-and-andrew-wilson-blames-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Sweeney defends Epic Exclusives, G2A Advertising Worries, and Andrew Wilson Blames Gamers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AGg7mgWO5cs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight! For this week we have Tim Sweeney defending the Epic Games decision to engage in paid distribution exclusives, G2A advertisements on Google are overriding indie video game developers on search rankings, and the EA CEO Andrew Wilson blames Gamers over the launch failure of Anthem in tandem with Bioware doing the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight! For this week we have Tim Sweeney defending the Epic Games decision to engage in paid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[636,29,31],"tags":[647,648,644,417,638],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/maxresdefault-4-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18609,"url":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/24\/epic-exclusive-rates-valve-lawsuit-anthem-roadmap-abandoned\/","url_meta":{"origin":17976,"position":0},"title":"Epic Exclusive Rates, Valve Lawsuit, Anthem Roadmap Abandoned!","author":"DiRT","date":"September 24, 2019","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jEvgGRXYqwY Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight! 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