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Epic's Layoffs Should Be Blamed On A Quixotic Pursuit Of The Metaverse (www.forbes.com)
submitted 2 years ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Epic has rocked the video game industry by laying off 16% of its workforce, nearly 900 people. While layoffs and studio closures and game cancellations are all too common in the industry, this was worse than usual, given the context in which they took place.

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Someone set out with the goal of using the word 'Quixotic' in their article today

[–] braiseit420@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're really tilting at windmills with that one, eh?

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

It is truly a Giant undertaking

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I, too am on a Quixotic quest to use that word wherever possible.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Plus it’s a little more Captain Ahab that Don Quixote

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a shame, Sweeney was involved with some good games back in the early days, and Unreal engine and the Unreal Tournament games were great. But I think he's better off being a programmer, you can't treat the real business world like program code.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Sweeney was involved with some good games back in the early days

Digital Extremes also did, since UT'99 I believe. And they are still okay. Their current f2p game feels better than UT3 ever did, if not for it's own problems.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because of Metaverse? Wow, that's just sad.

Of course, I've got an Epic account specifically for the weekly giveaways, and have spent no money of my own (because fuck paying for DRM if I don't have to). So I guess I'm also part of their problem? Meh.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

The CEO (or another manager) mentioned that the free games are paid by what would otherwise be their marketing budget so I don't think you need to consider yourself part of the problem.

You should also check this out:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

[–] GFY@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Of course

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I assumed it was corporate greed, but Meta is basically the same thing so that scans.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Paywall

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Or. Frequently, just the reader mode in Firefox.