Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people

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Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people - Lemmy.zip

Lemmy

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’m sure your mental health is doing a lot better after getting out of Fortnite.