Facebook, Google ‘profit from doing customers harm,’ says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney

LAS VEGAS — The platform wars need to end, and players must be able to connect with each other easier, said Epic Games CEO and founder Tim Sweeney. Otherwise, the 20s of the 21st century would be a “lost decade.”

Sweeney gave the keynote at the DICE Summit Wednesday, a talk that was pitched as a discussion of the future of the games industry. He took the opportunity to air his concerns about closed platforms — not just in gaming, but across the Internet.