Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people

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• RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sweeney said it’s due to the "downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we’re spending significantly more than we’re making,

  As someone who used to play a lot of Fortnite, I basically stopped because theybrefused to fix all of the glaring problems with the game. I am sure dumping devs will help with that.

  • Matchmaking is complete ass.
  • Just add the ability to play vs bots with no humans
  • Stop trying to optimize experience gains for fucking making me have to play 20 hours a weeknto unlock the battlepass I already bought within the 3 month window. Seriously, fucking stop, I have other things to do in life too.
  • Constantly raising prices on everything. Its digital, supply is infinite, charge like $5 max and I would buy 100x more. As is, I buy nothing, because $25+ skins and $8 Jam tracks are a rip off.

  The main one is the third one though. They don’t respect my time, I stop playing. The shit matchmaking would be solved by the second point.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Stop trying to optimize experience gains for fucking making me have to play 20 hours a weeknto unlock the battlepass I already bought within the 3 month window. Seriously, fucking stop, I have other things to do in life too.

    The worst part about all these games. It’s like your weed guy blowing up your phone telling you its time to smoke another J. Only a group of sales guys coked off their asses could have come up with this as a marketing gimmick.

    I have no interest in playing against hackers or no lifes who run everything with Potato mode graphics and swest skins who play 24x7 and have 2000 crown wins by day 2.

    The truly crazy part about this group is that it is increasingly just bots. Like, not even proper “professional gamers” anymore. Just scripts running on a server built by a madman.

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  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m sure your mental health is doing a lot better after getting out of Fortnite.

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  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Honestly the skin prices is what confuses me the most. I don’t get how a company can remain in business with these prices. Welp… guess they can’t?
    And the worst part of it all is that even if Epic closed doors tomorrow, the damage is done. I’ve seen $20 skins in a bunch of games now. Paid games even. These absolute fucks normalized this shit, and now the poor devs get to reap the rewards of fucking consumers up the ass.

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    • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The best comparison I have is Second Life, which I have played pretty regularly for 20 years now. I will impulse buy so much digital cosmetic shit when it cost the equivilant of $1. I think Indid the math once because its easy to pull your fransaction history there, and I have spent like 4-5x what I spent on Fortnite, and thats including the passes in Fortnite because they tend to be an excellent value compared to everhthing else bringing everything in it down to that “$1 range”

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Since it’s a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren’t related to AI. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can.

  Narrator “It was about AI.”

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Anyone know what this is referring to?

  games competing for time against other increasingly-engaging forms of entertainment.

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  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sex?

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Increasingly? Does this mean sex 2 is finally coming out? 😳

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    • Pappabosley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re obviously not gaming right if you think sex is better

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    • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Grasstouching?

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Actually, no, fewer people are having sex these days.

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  • kn33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m guessing short form video

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah that seems like a good guess

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• Bieren@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  20% of their workforce.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The lockdown effect is over. Nothing to do with AI.

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• CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Expedition 1,033 for GoTY

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