They're trying. They have 216 open jobs, and the article says they pay the most in the industry. Other than slowing down content updates, which gamers hate, what else should they be doing?
OK. Gamers would complain about it for sure, just like they do here in the Battlefield and Apex Legends topics. DICE (BF) is a union shop, and I've never once seen anyone here say, "It's true the content drops are really slow, but I'm glad the devs have a great work/life balance thanks to being unionized so I don't mind." Not once.
This Polygon piece said they have 1,000 employees. Another Polygon piece 3 years ago said they had 250 employees.
Fortnite in it's current state doesn't need anymore big updates that change the meta. In fact most players want to go back to the previous meta with health regen on kills and fast farming. If there is to updates every week it only needs to address the small problems like weapon balancing and glitches. They don't need to immediately throw out an update the next day to fix something caused by an update from just a day ago. There's better planning for this stuff, but the senior management at Epic feels like they want to throw as much at the wall and whatever doesn't work has to be quickly dealt with.
They can still offer weekly updates but they just don't have to be so drastic/massive. They don't need to introduce new weapons, items, vehicles and gameplay systems every week. A lot of Fortnite players hate the "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" style badly balanced & thought out updates that constantly throw the meta out of whack and ruin game balance until Epic gets the balance right after 2-3+ weeks of patches or remove them altogether because they just don't fit the meta. Maybe they don't have to release new skins & microtransaction content at such an insane pace. They already have a gazillion skins at this point that a vast majority of players haven't had the chance to get, they could just recycle those more instead of the constant stream of new content. They don't need to introduce new game modes constantly. Recycle those that they have already instead of pushing new shit like Air Royale all the time. Release new modes when they have been able to do them in a more reasonable timeframe/work hours. They could make a bit fewer changes to the map on a weekly basis. Do all of these and the pressure to overwork would certainly diminish. Perhaps still not quite to regular 40 hour weeks but maybe people would never have to work 100 hour weeks.
2012 was 7 years ago. They have billions in profits.
For future consideration, when someone posts facts and you post an opinion you call a fact, that actually makes you the one that's wrong, not the other person. They went from $825M valuation to $15BN because of Fortnite, not from Unreal Engine or Bulletstorm Remaster or Paragon or whatever.
You said that Epic doesn't have billions. This isn't correct.
You're saying I'm objectively wrong because of a straw man you made up. It doesn't work that way. You also clearly do not have the faintest idea how valuations work. Or did you think Bulletstorm Remaster was the real reason for their jump in valuation?
You said "It helps when your company is making billions year in year out and so deadlines are irrelevant."
My comment was about Valve. I'm not humoring you any more by following down your rabbit hole of straw men and lies.
Oh, I know it was. And, as mentioned, it applies to Epic as well.
I said that Epic makes billions, in response to you claiming that because Valve makes billions, they don't need to care about deadlines. By your initial wording, Epic should *also* not need to care about deadlines, because they too make billions - an objective fact.
It's literally that easy... you post on an enthusiasm forum. You don't think a couple of the people here could make the game better?
It's literally not that easy. For one thing, they've always been hiring, and they over over 200 open job postings currently. For another, consider me skeptical that some of the people here could make the #1 game in the world better than the trained professionals who have been shipping games at Epic since before many of the posters here were even born.
