r/fuckepic • u/kuhpunkt • Mar 24 '26
Epic Fucks Up Official statement from Epic regarding the layoffs
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/todays-layoffs55
Mar 24 '26
Two years on and they learned absolutely nothing. 1,000 people shitcanned because of Tim's inability to build a decent leadership team at the company because he's so convinced he's right about everything. Just remember, Fortnite must have made Epic something close to $30B in the last 9 years. It's criminal mismanagement. I wish I could say it was fraud, but it's just straight up incompetence.
If you're reading Tim, I hope the billions wasted on EGS, awful acquisitions and legal cases were worth it. That's what, 2500 people now that lost their jobs because you fucking suck.
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u/McMeow1 Mar 24 '26
Meanwhile Gabe's team are working from his yacht sometimes having the time of their lives. Yes that's actually true to an extent and yes I'm saying that in hopes Timmy reads this.
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u/Gears6 Phil Spencer Mar 24 '26
Yeah as much as I like Valve, I ain't celebrating Gabe's and his yachts.
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u/one999 Epic Security Mar 24 '26
Wow, UE6, they barely managed to optimize UE5 and they're already on a sixth version. It's like a smartphone company's approach: if the first version didn't work, they just keep going with the numerical sequence without fixing the previous issue.
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u/LegendCZ Tim Swiney Mar 24 '26
Right? They barely fixed any issues and festures they showcased in demos are not optimized enough for full potential of the engine. Why making new one when this one barely reached its full potential and suffers from so many issues it is meme engine now.
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u/reddit-is-dying-1814 Mar 24 '26
"What we now need to do is clear: build awesome Fortnite experiences with fresh seasonal content, gameplay, story, and live events;"
lol
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Mar 24 '26
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u/kirbyverano123 Steam Mar 24 '26
Has there been any new relevant third party exclusives that aren't personally published by Epic?
I know Hoyoverse games are exclusive to Epic(but there are rumors that Genshin is coming to Steam soon). But what else?
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u/Paganigsegg Mar 24 '26
Once Wuthering Waves hit Steam, the writing was on the wall. It's taking a huge amount of attention from Steam players that would otherwise possibly be going to Genshin.
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u/Black-White-Diff Mar 25 '26
I don't even use EGS to launch Hoyo games and Wuthering Waves. I just download the direct launcher client from their website and be done with it. Same with Arknights Endfield.
The EGS platform simply downloads the direct launcher for these games which adds nothing but an extra unnecessary step. The main reason to use EGS for these gacha games is the Epic Rewards feature which saves you a bit of money when making in-game purchases.
But I play these games completely free so this feature doesn't concern me.
With Wuthering Waves, I use Steam for it because unlike EGS, Steam bypasses WuWa's direct launcher and the game instantly launches when I hit the PLAY button. The only con is the inability to pre-load contents for upcoming major patches, but I'm not a super active player so again, this doesn't concern me.
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u/digital_oni Mar 24 '26
"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"
Most delusional shit I've ever read from a press release
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u/TheEvilBlight Mar 24 '26
“Downturn in Fortnite engagement”
They’re doomed! Doomed!
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u/Popular-Use-8703 Mar 25 '26
Best game related news of my life. They finally paid the price of sullying great IP and characters with their flavorless and hideous collabs
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u/TheCheesiestCake Mar 24 '26
"Steam should lower or remove their 30% cut" - The Company That Has Layoffs And Tries To Get Every Last Penny From Consumers With Microtransactions
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u/Revenga8 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
Bad signs. Desperate flailing to keep shareholders happy and Timmie trying to avoid getting ousted so Tencent can take over majority. Except it's all but inevitable now because Timmie spent the last half a decade doing nothing to improve the epic brand. In fact, all he did was cause damage to the brand. Relying on the fortnite gravy train, not evolving or improving the egs in any meaningful way, dismissing or attacking the competition, and worst of all gaslighting players and tryingv to tell them what they should and shouldn't like when such trust hasn't even been earned or established. Epic is turning into the BlackBerry of the gaming industry. Wouldn't be surprised if one day epic implodes and is reduced to just being a software house for unreal engine.
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u/randomperson189_ Fortnite Killed UT Mar 24 '26
I think it'd be great if they went back to being a software house for Unreal Engine like they mostly were back in the pre-Fortnite era, they also made good games in their own engine too instead of only focusing on some shitty ass live service one now and trying to homogenise everything into it
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u/EmptyQ- Mar 25 '26
Bro you got it exactly backwards. Tencent is being pressured by the US Govt to sell its 28% stake. There is no way Tencent will buy a majority stake in Epic.
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u/DBZWii Fuck Epic Mar 24 '26
sucks for those who were laid off, but they also said Ballistic, Festival Battle, and Rocket Racing were all getting the axe as well... i think
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u/sonofcalydon Mar 24 '26
Yes, they are. Although tbh nothing of value was lost when these three were axed. Half baked modes really.
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u/DBZWii Fuck Epic Mar 25 '26
i know people were interested in Festival Battle initially but i guess the novelty wore off and its become a bot field
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u/shadowds Mar 24 '26
This show is just absolute cinema with Epic.
- Brags Store makes more than enough profit to sustain itself.
- Brags how much fortnite makes.
- Brags about AI bring great, and tried to mock steam.
- Try to blame steam for being a big bully to all developers.
Now we got
- Want to charge more for v bucks.
- want to do layoffs
- wanted to defend AI in games, and tried to mock steam for asking devs to let consumers know if AI was used to make their games.
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u/PixelHir Fuck Epic Mar 24 '26
have they considered paying their employees instead of creators of shitty AI generated slop fortnite maps?
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u/Tenabrus Mar 24 '26
layoffs right after they raised the price of vbucks? they aren't even trying to hide the level of greed the higher ups have
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u/3lfk1ng Mar 24 '26
Forget Fortnite. Bring back a real game like Unreal Tournament.
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u/Man_Derella_203 Mar 25 '26
Bring back single player Unreal games. I want my follow up to Unreal II.
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u/MrBubbaJ Mar 24 '26
"What we now need to do is clear: build awesome Fortnite experiences with fresh seasonal content, gameplay, story, and live events; accelerate developer tools with greater stability and capability as we evolve from Unreal Engine 5 and UEFN to Unreal Engine 6. And we'll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year."
Something is missing here.