Tim Sweeney talked about the Unreal Engine 4 and the future of game development. Here's what he had to say.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney promised to continue his fight against Apple. He also said he'd put Fortnite on Steam if it lowered the 30% fee.
Apple has a right to not allow Fortnite on its store and platform. Epic intentionally broke a contract, and publicly gloated about said infraction.
Unless I'm missing something, but what gives epic the right to host their game wherever they want and dictate the cut that storefronts charge for this service? Without these storefronts they wouldn't make any money.
But I've not been following all these cases closely so correct me if I'm wrong.
“Epic CEO: Apple Is Next after Google; We'll Put Fortnite on Any Store (Even Steam) Without 30% Fee“
These companies that allow your games on their store are bringing you million upon million of users so they should get some cut, possibly 15% or even 10% would be acceptable.
Yay another overly rich company suing another overly rich company. Bet when they win all these cases, that your still spending the same amount of money on your skins and whatever other bs they sell on fortnite. These guys aren't looking out for the consumers interest only their own.
By chance if they do the opposite of what I said I'll eat it, but this is the same publisher that couldn't even bother to bring a aaa title to physical release. Fking j offs
After laying off numerous employees, Tim Sweeney, the company’s founder and CEO, sent an email about the situation. The 52-year-old businessman clarified why the layoffs happened and even shed some light on the future of Fortnite.
Good on them doing this at least.
“we’re offering a severance package that includes six months base pay and in the US/Canada/Brazil six months of Epic-paid healthcare. We’re offering to accelerate people’s stock option vesting schedule through the end of 2024 and are giving two additional years from today to exercise the options. In the US we’re also offering to vest any unearned profit sharing from their 401k. And we’ll provide benefits including career transition services and visa support where we can.”
Epic makes way too much money to have to lay people off of the spent that money smartly. Tim wasted money on exclusives for their store when it could have gone to paychecks for people.
Epic put all their eggs in one basket with fortnite, they should have continued with the development of unreal tournament and got that game going as an arena shooter that's free to play with a huge cosmetic cash shop.
But your CEO knows what their doing.... laying off people so the board doesn't see exactly how much you stuck. The usual playbook.
A new South Korea law forces Google and Apple to allow developers to implement alternative payment methods in their apps to Tim Sweeney's delight.
Wait another year and a half ..... I see it hard for Unreal engine 4, especially for new engines that are in circulation.
This isn't true, Knack is using UE4.
the most impressive nextgen engine. PERIOD
Didn't some Chinese company buy like half of Epic's shares? This company will never be the same...all of the talent left. Maybe they didn't agree with this new vision of the company.
This is just the beginning of next gen! I'm not disappointed in any way, I'm just gonna enjoy earlier next gen games like KH3 and FFXV(I'm sorry I'm a Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy fan-who can sometimes go on full fanboy mode) and look forward to the games later like FFXV-2 FFXVI and KH4 and all that stuff. UE4 looks great! I just love to see graphics advance, as well as gameplay!