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Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week 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.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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"

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a really unfair comparison imo. Second Life is all about expressing yourself. And you're not buying Linden Labs approved corpo collaboration bullshit feat. DJ Music. You're buying stuff someone else made, and they get paid for that. You build a character that is a digital representation of your inner self.
In Fortnite you buy a skin which is just the current hot flavor of the month. But also: It's a action game. The goal is to shoot other people, meaning that you obviously do not spend any significant amount of time looking at yourself. And when you look at others, you do not admire their skin, you use your neurons for tracking them.
But also also: Every skin is the same. So when you come across Hatsune Miku, it will always be the same one. These skins aren't a representation of you, they only signal that you like whatever media they were collaborating with at the time and had $20 lying around you didn't need.

Naww give me Second Life all day any day.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

I will agree with that. Its just the best comparison I can personally make for buying digital assets. But while my total Fortnite spend is like, maybe $200, my SL spend is probably $1000+ at this point.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 21 points 1 week 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."

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone know what this is referring to?

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

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sex?

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man, I haven't even 100% the first one

[–] zatanas@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's procedurally generated. There is no official end game. All we can do is enjoy the storyline and the combat mechamics.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

The matchmaking can be a bit tedious

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I've picked up a couple of spin off expansion packs, they're a lot of hard work, but often good fun and rewarding.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It'll be like in Demolition Man.

Oh, I can't wait to use the three shrlls.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

2 sex 2 furious: Totally Miffed.

[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Grasstouching?

[–] Pappabosley@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm guessing short form video

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Ah that seems like a good guess

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Expedition 1,033 for GoTY

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

20% of their workforce.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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