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- epicgames@lemmy.zip
“We’re spending significantly more than we’re making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded,” the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. “This layoff, together with over $500 million of identified cost savings in contracting, marketing, and closing some open roles puts us in a more stable place.”
Last week, Epic raised the prices of Fortnite’s in-game currency, writing in a blog post that “The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills.”
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fortnite was never going to last forever but this is the company that makes unreal engine we’re talking about. Don’t they get a sweet cut of most AAA titles of the last 20 years?
Could be a larger indicator of how the gaming industry is doing but regardless I would still bet this boils down to executive incompetence/share holder trickery.
Every C suite knows that firings makes line go up
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but for real didn’t they overhire in covid or is this ram prices vs servers problem? the fuck running fortnite costs means?
People getting laid off
Epic games losing money
Wow they are loosing money on Fortnite ?
