GamingBotEpic Games just laid off over 1,000 people
RamenJunkieSweeney 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.
UnderpantsWeevilStop 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.
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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
Anyone know what this is referring to?
games competing for time against other increasingly-engaging forms of entertainment.
Increasingly? Does this mean sex 2 is finally coming out? 😳
It’s procedurally generated. There is no official end game. All we can do is enjoy the storyline and the combat mechamics.
I’ve picked up a couple of spin off expansion packs, they’re a lot of hard work, but often good fun and rewarding.
2 sex 2 furious: Totally Miffed.
paraphrandActually, no, fewer people are having sex these days.
You’re obviously not gaming right if you think sex is better
Ah that seems like a good guess
ShaggySnacksSince 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.”
The lockdown effect is over. Nothing to do with AI.