Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people
(www.gamingonlinux.com)
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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."
Anyone know what this is referring to?
games competing for time against other increasingly-engaging forms of entertainment.
I'm guessing short form video
Ah that seems like a good guess
Sex?
Increasingly? Does this mean sex 2 is finally coming out? 😳
Man, I haven't even 100% the first one
It's procedurally generated. There is no official end game. All we can do is enjoy the storyline and the combat mechamics.
The matchmaking can be a bit tedious
2 sex 2 furious: Totally Miffed.
It'll be like in Demolition Man.
Oh, I can't wait to use the three steps.
Actually, no, fewer people are having sex these days.
Grasstouching?
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. 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.
I'm sure your mental health is doing a lot better after getting out of Fortnite.
It's hard to consider something a game even when the whole product is built on predatory behaviour and addictive psychology.
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.
They don't care, they will all be "vibe coding" over there, while it sucks for the people who have lost their job, I hope Epic Games suffers.
