Today’s layoffs
www.epicgames.com
This note was sent to Epic employees today.

…in 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 for ourselves and all developers.

Look, at least a little bit of that is true, but fuck right off.

At least it’s a good severance package. They owe their employees at least that much.

  • ampersandrewOPEnglish
    3·
    19 hours ago

    There weren’t all that many more off-the-shelf engines back then, and as that eroded, it all quite visibly gave way to Unreal. Making your own engine during the 7th gen (over 13 years ago now) was very clearly a way to avoid paying Epic for Unreal, because there already wasn’t much competition at that time.