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Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post) (www.epicgames.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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...in being the industry's vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers.

Look, at least a little bit of that is true, but fuck right off.

At least it's a good severance package. They owe their employees at least that much.

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[–] 22 points 7 months ago (5 children)

How about they stop fucking milking Fortnite and makes something else…

Eh... Epic isn't really a game development company anymore, Fortnite just happened to pop off before Unreal Engine became the defacto engine for large scale games and CGI in television/movies. They're gonna keep working on Fortnite but it's clear their focus is UE6 - I doubt they're going to make another game ever again.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Unreal was the defacto engine for large scale games long before Fortnite.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It was pretty popular, but there was way more competition in the PS2/PS3 era, and some studios still made their own engine.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Especially the ID Tech engine. It was neck and neck with Unreal for popularity before Bethesda bought them and they stopped selling it to third parties.

    The partial death of the ID Tech engine was what cemented Unreal as the leader

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago*

    There weren't all that many more off-the-shelf engines back then, and as that eroded, it all quite visibly gave way to Unreal. Making your own engine during the 7th gen (over 13 years ago now) was very clearly a way to avoid paying Epic for Unreal, because there already wasn't much competition at that time.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    It's kind of wild but Fortnite makes (or made?) way more money than UE royalties, like magnitudes more. UE is a boon to the industry to be sure, but somehow 5% of games' revenue simply isn't the same as insane people spending money on stupid skins and dances.

    Now is UE was used for 20 games as big as Fortnite, they'd be fine but most AAA companies won't use UE if they expect a huge haul, with a few exceptions of course.

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