Epic's Layoffs Should Be Blamed On A Quixotic Pursuit Of The Metaverse

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨stopthatgirl7@kbin.social⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/09/29/epics-layoffs-should-be-blamed-on-a-quixotic-pursuit-of-the-metaverse/

Epic has rocked the video game industry by laying off 16% of its workforce, nearly 900 people. While layoffs and studio closures and game cancellations are all too common in the industry, this was worse than usual, given the context in which they took place.

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Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Someone set out with the goal of using the word ‘Quixotic’ in their article today

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- braiseit420@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They’re really tilting at windmills with that one, eh?
  
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  - bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It is truly a Giant undertaking
    
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- deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I, too am on a Quixotic quest to use that word wherever possible.
  
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- scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Plus it’s a little more Captain Ahab that Don Quixote
  
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dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s a shame, Sweeney was involved with some good games back in the early days, and Unreal engine and the Unreal Tournament games were great. But I think he’s better off being a programmer, you can’t treat the real business world like program code.

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- andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Sweeney was involved with some good games back in the early days
  
  Digital Extremes also did, since UT’99 I believe. And they are still okay. Their current f2p game feels better than UT3 ever did, if not for it’s own problems.
  
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TallonMetroid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because of Metaverse? Wow, that’s just sad.

Of course, I’ve got an Epic account specifically for the weekly giveaways, and have spent no money of my own (because fuck paying for DRM if I don’t have to). So I guess I’m also part of their problem? Meh.

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- Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The CEO (or another manager) mentioned that the free games are paid by what would otherwise be their marketing budget so I don’t think you need to consider yourself part of the problem.
  
  You should also check this out:
  
  www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
  
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- GFY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Of course
  
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FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I assumed it was corporate greed, but Meta is basically the same thing so that scans.

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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Paywall

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- demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  here, three paywall busters
  
  12ft.io
  
  demo.thisischip.com
  
  archive.ph
  
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  - ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Or. Frequently, just the reader mode in Firefox.
    
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