Typically companies raise massive amounts of VC when they want to expand even faster, even if they are already making a healthy profit.
why would he do that? he might be a big proponent of open-ecosystems, but this would be a waste of resources
He's pretty obsessively anti-Windows, not just a proponent of open ecosystems.
I don't think they need it yet but they are probably working on it already(you know, just basic stuff, so they can easily switch to that later on).
To be fair, their engine is almost an industry standard. PUBG uses it. It is like if BMWs used Porche engines, if your shit is so good that your rivals use it, you doing something right
One hit wonder? They've had 1 of the most successful franchises in gaming last generation and one of the most beloved FPS franchises the generation before that.
right but UE3 was even more widely used last gen and they didnt raise anywhere close to $1.25 billions in investments. these bandwagon investors are only jumping on because of the success of fortnite.
A f2p game that updates far quicker than any other game and has entered a partnership with NERF is pretty significant. They are definitely visionaries in making a business model work. They are also the industry leader in development engines.
Fortnite is why they're getting all this money, and while they have brilliantly handled that project post launch, I don't see any reason to see EPIC as this machine capable of churning out repeated billion dollar ideas.
It kind of was. They took many years to make it, launched it to paltry sales and interest, and then they decided to perfectly pivot to create a PUBG variant and it blew up.
Well Fortnite is also one of the biggest cultural phenomena of this decade so of course, investors want to get on now that's hot.
It sorta did, just not for people that have been in the thick of it. This is an enthusiast forum after all. ;)
I kind of disagree. Look at the rocket event and dozens of other real-time moments and events unfolding in front of everyone currently in-server. I literally can't think of any other interactive gaming experience like that.
I've been playing StW since before BR came out and I still like it... cool concept and art style. Weapons and base building are great and the biomes and map creation are also awesome. Just needs badly to be finished quite frankly.
To be fair, fewer and fewer AAA studios are using the Unreal engine and instead using in house engines. Probably just the publishers not wanting to share money with Epic.
If BR didn't exist we don't what they could have done to Save The World. As of now that mode has like less than 10 people working on it but if it had the entire team it could have turned out different.
The BR mode didn't exist when they shipped the original game to stores, so the entire team did work on it.
One would think so. What the hell else would they need with so much cash? It's not just fortnight. UE4 is doing great too.
But had they kept working on it the game would have probably turned our differently. BR mode is getting major game changing updates while STW is getting minimal updates.
