Epic needs "new blood"—a narrative-driven or a fresh multiplayer game. You can't rely on one title for 10+ years and hope the Metaverse will sustain the studio for another decade. It's time to remember your roots as developers. 🎮 #EpicGames#UnrealEngine5#Gaming
Epic Games is becoming overly dependent on Fortnite and Unreal Engine, to the point where they seem to have forgotten that they are, first and foremost, game developers.
Fortnite is a phenomenon, but it’s 10 years old. Its recent pivot to a Roblox-like model is hurting.🧵
In the coming days, employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality folks. An important thing to understand is that Epic never lowered our hiring standards as we grew, and the layoff wasn't a performance-based "rightsizing" as companies call it nowadays. It's a sound bet that anyone with Epic Games on their resume is in the top few percent of their discipline.
In the past, every engine release came with a massive game to silence the critics:
• UE1: Unreal, UT
• UE2: UT2003/04
• UE3: Gears of War, UT3
• UE4: Fortnite, Paragon, Robo Recall
• UE5: NOTHING.
The argument should be: "We built this, it works, now your turn."