Maybe after they fail Apple can buy Fortnite and now it’ll be an Apple exclusive.
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Epic Games Lays Off Over 800 Employees as Apple Legal Battle Drags On
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Not really sure why the CEO is still in his position if he's "spending way more money than we're making" at this point. Epic Games raked in BILLIONS in the early days of Fortnite and his hubris has absolutely destroyed that success. I agree with him that 30% is a steep fee to pay for App Store revenues, but I just don't know if mobile & Mac sales were really worth all that. At this point, people are losing their jobs just because he's a stubborn Ox.
He won his original fight to some extent… now instead of relaunching it on Apple… his ego got in the way causing massive layoffs.
The employees are paying for the smug attitude of the ceo. Epic made a boatload of money for 30%. Seems like a great deal…especially now that layoffs are happening.
I feel really bad for the regular rank-and-file employees who are losing their jobs because of Tim Sweeney's extremely poor decision-making skills. 
I’d hope not. Fortnite is pretty aggressively monetized (you could even go as far as calling it predatory, and be pretty well justified), and the whole battle royale genre seems to be a genre that only works (or, could only be profitable) using a freemium model (in part because of the ongoing content updates that drive continued engagement). I don’t think you could get it to work in the Apple Arcade model, and the last thing we need is Apple getting info freemium games directly.
This headline is implying that there’s a correlation between the legal battle and the layoffs, and we don’t know that to be the case.
Yeah, as the African proverb goes:
'When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. '
While these two's lawyers tussle over egos and the largest amount of $$$$ real people get their lives destroyed.
'When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. '
While these two's lawyers tussle over egos and the largest amount of $$$$ real people get their lives destroyed.
Let’s not forget the DOJ on behalf of the FTC forcing Epic to pay 500m for Epic and Sweeney on their proven fraudulent, deceitful and sneaky tactics etc they used mostly on kids to get their money.
Yeah could be, I would assume many employees jump ship elsewhere once CEO and the senior management started to make poor decisions to be honest.
Apple should hire all of them for their Games team.
Why are you framing that its do to Apple?
It’s due to their massive failure launching and running their online PC “app” store. They have lost hundreds of millions of dollars on it
It’s due to their massive failure launching and running their online PC “app” store. They have lost hundreds of millions of dollars on it
Now, do the rest. Shut it down and go away.
I know, it's not their fault. I've been there before, so I can relate.
This won't stop people from trying to tie and blame the layoffs on the Epic vs Apple case though.
I mean, it was just reported yesterday that Activision Blizzard is laying off some people, and last month BioWare laid off a bunch of employees while Volition laid off people and shut down their studio.
Electronic Arts laid off 6% of employees earlier this year, as did Take Two Interactive.
Then there were the lay offs over at Deviation Games (Sony Playstation studio), Relic Entertainment, and Unity Software over the summer on top of those at Microsoft's Xbox game studios at the start of this year.
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Apple should stop taking a cut from everything an app does for the user. Epic should be allowed to sell skins without Apple's cut. Apple's cut should come only from the original app and subscriptions. If Apple continues to take a cut for every little thing an app offers it will be hounded for monopolist behaviours, especially if market share goes up.
5000% true. I do not understand Epic's endgame here, but I feel terribly for the affected employees.
Ultimately, Sweeney got cocky based on economic conditions at the time and was quick to waste money. Also, Fortnite was popular and riding high at the time but like all things popularity wanes. Fortnite isn't hot right now so the money is drying up. Sweeney wasn't practicing healthy financial best practices and now we are starting to see signs of Epic's downfall. I see them getting bought out in 5 years or less.
And how many jobs could be saved if it came back on the Apple App Store? The CEOs should be the 1st ones to lose their jobs for this stupidity.
I think Unreal Engine going away would put gaming as a whole years and years back until something else could replace it.