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festies...
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>>561350898Was only that horrible battle mode, normal festival is still fine
Bye 1000 employees>Since it's a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren't related to AI\. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can
>Rocket RacingAfter two years of high-speed competition, Rocket Racing will leave Fortnite along with all UEFN islands built with Rocket Racing templates in October 2026. Starting next week, Rocket Racing Quests will no longer be available, and the current track creation template will be removed from UEFN. There are no further Ranked rewards planned for this season. Nothing changes with your Vehicle Locker and you can still use your customized cars in Fortnite.For developers building car content, in April we’re adding car physics, hazards, and track-building tools (including the Track Spline tool and Speed Boost devices) to the base UEFN toolset. Developers will also be able to build custom racing islands with jumps, boosts, and drifting. Before October, developers will be able to move compatible Rocket Racing content over to standalone UEFN islands.>BallisticBallistic will be removed from Fortnite on April 16, 2026 in the 40.20 release. You can still play and rank up in Ballistic during its final weeks. For developers, first-person shooter tools in UEFN remain available, and FPS creator islands will continue to be supported. In order for developers to build modes like Ballistic, more UEFN features will be required such as custom weapon support, ranked support, and additional matchmaking features.>Festival Battle StageFortnite Festival consists of three music modes: Festival Main Stage (one band with teams of up to 4, playing the "note highway" rhythm game), Festival Jam Stage (social island with casual music emoting), and Festival Battle Stage (a PVP game where 4 teams of 4 players play "note highway" rhythm gameplay competitively).The Battle Stage competitive mode of Festival will go offline on April 16, 2026 with the 40.20 release and Quests will be available until then. Music remains a major part of Fortnite and we'll continue to improve Festival Main Stage and Jam Stage, and the music features that are available everywhere in Fortnite.
>>561350898I HURT MYSELF TODAY
>>561350898:'( no....
Bode was fired btw
EOS SPEEDRUNNING HERE WE GOOOO!wa wa wawawawawawahoo wahoo wahooooo
>>561350898Nobody plays Battle Stage anymoreMain Stage was always where it was at
I said layoffs would happen only just 14 days ago lol.
>https://twitter.com/JonahKettman/status/2031540031140069837lol
>>561350982>>561350898>>561351009They are so damn stupid.
>>561351008Don't delude yourself, if STW released with these modes it would 100% get canned in a year, it's a miracle BS and Rocket Racing survived for this long
>>561350756>>561350713>>561350358sign of good things to come>>561351108i dont think layoffs lead to enshittification, maybe those 1000 people includes the indian UI designer
>>561351009Oh so they aren’t completely killing rocket racing uefn just moving it to the main uefn stuff. I still don’t get why they even split it up
>>561350898>>561350982main stage being removed or just the battle shit?
>should we fire 1000 employees? Or should we stop overpaying shitty creative map makers
>>561351268battle stage is dead content
>>561351268battle stage, desu it should've been jam stage, that one mode with people that brag with rare shit already does the same, forgot the name
I wonder if Ted Timmins got shitcanned
>>561351108Yes anon anyone with more than two brain cells could see they were going to fire people with the whole make vbucks cost more stuff going on
>Battle stageNobody played that
>>561350898WellI guess it's time to finally kill myself
>>561351194I hate new fortnite employees/devs because they don't know what made the game or UI comfy in ch2+, they change things pointlessly to say they did something, and are generally way too smug for how shitty fortnite is these days. in chapter 5 we saw them change the UI to be more like a mobile game and every year has been enshittifying the game more and more, sidekicks, micro-transactions, and now price hikes to really fuck everyone over because fortnite needs more money because god forbid the billion dollar company use their own money for things.
the guy that made sure every battlepass had to have a furhomo skin in it got axed, we are so back
How do layoffs cause the outcome of removing pre-existing modes from a game? Are they too taxing to run or something lol. I assume they're laying off the development teams of those modes.
original post>Listen, Epic's expenses and profits are way above my QA pay grade, but here's what I do know:In order to increase profits you either need to raise income or lower expenses. The quickest way to lower expenses is Layoffs, so I'm at least glad to still be around.>This is coming from someone who buys their own vbucks. I know everything sucks right now, games are $80, consoles are $700, groceries are up, so being charged more is never fun. At least Epic isn't doing this so Tim can afford his 12th yacht.>Maybe this will age horribly, maybe I shouldn't have chimed in, but I at least wanted to throw my 2 cents in, especially with how many companies do layoffs even when games are succeeding, which Epic has mostly managed to avoid.he worked on festival playtesting from what i reading, but please read properly, battle stage is the mode getting canned, regular festival is okay
>last time epic fired this many people the game started having all kinds of bugs pop up
>still going with the Fortnite isn't making enough monex argument while giving out 5090s and PS5s to cheaters each weekwhat the fuck is wrong with them, are they actually trying to kill the game?
>still not killing the brainrot money pit >does a layoff instead Tim is such a fucking retard, I hope the FTC opens your asshole yet again
>>561351140>>561351583>>561351624OHNONONONO
>>561350898>people suggest that Epic is spending too much money becuz price hikes>they start cutting chapter 5 modes instead of UEFN payoutslmfao dude.
>>561351583Lmao that homo worked on the game for yearsWe are so fucked
>>561351502No way you legitimately played any of those modes
>game is in worst condition it has every been in technically>fire 1k employees
>>561351589basically the modes were too expensive to maintain in their eyes to the point they found more viable to remove them rather than keep them around, only epic has the data but it's clear as day battle stage wasn't going to do as good as festival, rocket racing literally got its seasons roadmap cancelled and ballistic was unfinished and with 0 updates for almost what, 9 months?1000 people do seem like a lot for only those 3 modes
>>561351670Also don’t forget paying hundreds of millions to slop maps
>>561351583Epic might be cooking by making attractive skins again and getting rid of the homos in the company.
>>561351583GOOD RIDDANCE SSSSSSSSS
>>561351583pouring one out for the fallen furgodthank you for all the based male skins, king. yiff on in valhalla
>>561351583>>561351053Holy fucking shit are we back? Were all DEI artists who have been keeping the female skins down gone? Are we finally getting breasts and ass for the first time?
Today we’re laying off over 1000 Epic employees. I'm sorry we're here again. The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded. 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. Some of the challenges we're facing are industry-wide challenges: slower growth, weaker spending, and tougher cost economics; current consoles selling less than last generation's; and games competing for time against other increasingly-engaging forms of entertainment. And some of our challenges are unique to Epic. Despite Fortnite remaining one of the most successful games in the world, we’ve had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with every season; we're only in the early stages of returning to mobile and optimizing Fortnite for the world's billions of smartphones; and in being the industry's vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers. Since it's a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren't related to AI. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can. What we now need to do is clear: build awesome Fortnite experiences with fresh seasonal content, gameplay, story, and live events; accelerate developer tools with greater stability and capability as we evolve from Unreal Engine 5 and UEFN to Unreal Engine 6. And we'll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year.(1/2)-Tim
>>561351806perhaps the indian employees were the ones responsible for the game being in such conditions?
How is Lego still making money? Nobody bought the fucking sets
>vbuck price increase>1000+ laid off>battle stage axed>ballistic axed>waste-of-space rocket racing axedol' timmy might finally be caving on his metaverse dreams, lego next probably. makes total sense why they're making STW free to play now just on the slight chance of having SOMETHING players might be interested in other than br and creative red v. blue boxfight sloppathat or he desperately needs more money and development focused towards seeing that disney parks mode completed (dies within 3 weeks of release btw)
>>561351856can't believe the game is actually being raped like this, it's one of my favorites and they keep doing everything in their power to fuck over everyone and everything
>>561351583I thought traumadumping on the internet was a Zavala thing but it turns out every homosexual does that.
>people think le layoffs are a good thing>game is going to just get even worse
>another round of layoffs, that will help pay the bills. creative and FNCS payouts aren't getting touched tho
>>561351771I managed to reach unreal via rocket racing on every season besides that was the only mode where I could use view my cars properly since that whiny bitch clix forced epic to decrease the spawn rate of the cars in BR
>>561352026This isn't our first time being here. Epic survived upheavals in 1990's with the move from 2D to 3D with Unreal 1; in the 2000's building console games with Gears of War; and in 2012 moving to online gaming with Paragon and Fortnite. Each time, we rebuilt our foundations and earned a renewed leadership position.Market conditions today are the most extreme we've seen since those early days, with massive upheaval in the industry accompanied by massive opportunity for the companies that come out as winners on the other side. That's what we're aiming to do for our players, and we aim to bring other like-minded developers in the industry along on the journey to build an increasingly open and vibrant future of entertainment together.At Epic, we pride ourselves in only hiring the industry's best, so it is very painful to part with so many talented people. The folks impacted by the layoffs will receive a severance package that includes at least four months of base pay, with more based on tenure. We’re also extending Epic-paid healthcare coverage.For example, in the U.S., they’ll receive paid coverage for 6 months. We’ll also accelerate their stock options vesting through January 2027 and extend equity exercise options for up to two years.We'll have a company meeting Thursday to talk about the roadmap in more detail.-Timhttps://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/todays-layoffs>>561352067Lego paid for the mode, Epic is obligated to deliver updates, not sure how long the partnership lasts
>>561352026>spend gorillions on creative map payouts>literally killing your company, have to price gouge and lay off a thousand people>OUR FOCUS IS STILL ON UEFN!!!!!!!!!how have none of the employees shot the fuckin place up yet
You accept the L-ayoff because you knew all these years you were just a leech who served coffee.
>>561352149All the employees who got laid off should have been replaced with even earlier iterations of AI 2 years ago lol, these people fucking suck.
Hey Epic Games you god damn retards maybe put skins in the shop that people actually want to buy!!! rare shit, etc. you KNOW how to get people to spend money they say they need money yet still use the same outdated rotating shop
>they finally start focusing on BR>cut all the dogshit modes no one cares about>fire the worthless furry faggotI agree with all of this
>>561351989that already happened but you wouldn't know, you don't play the game lol
>>561351583so like... when is our next malefur skin now?
>>561352149I don't see how getting rid of the DEI hires and removing the modes nobody plays could be a bad thing...
>>561352171>with more based on tenureThey're actually firing long-term employees. Holy kek, this game is fucking done. Timmy wasted so much money for years trying to compete with valve that the whole company is not sustainable now that the game is falling off.
>>561352208Every single one? Really? Something tells me you dont believe that. Especially those that work on the technical side, which is just going to get even buggier now as Timmy shills out more for brainrot maps
SAVE THE WORLD VBUCKS FARMERS KEPT SAVE THE WORLD'S ENGAGEMENT NUMBERS JUST HIGH ENOUGH THAT IT WASNT EVEN ON THE TABLE FOR CANCELLATION, its even stealing the other game models budgets lmao
>>561352306I guess they are still more afraid of the gatekeeping OGtards who threatened them with lawsuits
>>561351009I read Fortnite Festival first and almost punched my screen in rage. It's battle stage so whatever, they absolutely botched the battle mode (no different kinds of debuffs to send out killed it for me, it was basically just regular festival but there's cum on your screen every so often)
>>561352150they should tell this to everyone they laid off "shoulda become a creative maps creator" attach the 722m image next to itkekekekekeke
>>561352375>durr dey firin da dei and cuttin da slop modes!!!>the wording in tim's statement shows theres several long standing employees being axed and they're keeping this creative shityou people are fucking retarded cattle.
>>561352375>Lexatard spouts retarded bullshitClockwork
>>561352173I've said this before. BR could die, the game could have ten players left, and Epic will still be supprting UEFN slop maps. >>561352026>The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded.maybe stop scamming your playerbase and put something good in the item shop you fucking faggots
>>561350898>>561351009Well I guess that confirms that the TDM mode is replacing Ballistic, I can only imagine they'll re-use the maps for it otherwise what was the fucking point>>561351583This guy was bragging about running the event servers on fucking wifi at a vegan juice bar they deserve being sacked just for that
>>561352373neveryou WILL buy the female skins with crop tops and jiggle physics and be happy
A lot of the tech industry spent a fuck ton of money in 2020/2021 due to covid which had to be clawed back because that was only a temporary boost in consumption. But Fortnite did it later in 2024/2025 for some reason so now it looks like they’re rushing to course correctMost of the anons who were worried about the metaverse were right
The music playing in the Epic office's radio right now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFcQqFVvZgalso thread theme(?)
>>561352026>The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making>spends late 2023/early 2024 pushing the metaverse shit incredibly hard>got so bad the shops were affected because skins HAD to have a lego figure before they could be sold again>just plain ignored BR almost completely>not to mention UEFN entire existence also fucking shit upHe can't be fucking serious.
>>561352345None of the so-called "fixed skins" with "jiggle physics" are anything special. Wake me up when we get skins like this.
>>561352434I am not even saying BP skins. Literally put Snowmando, Rue, and Lars in the shop (shit like that) and they'd prob make 100k in one night in purchases. actually retarded braindead company
>>561352508>>561352510furhomo melty
>>561352567if only they didn't spend just as much of "fuck ton of money" on overpriced AI bs, darth vader was fun for a week, but that is all
>>561352026can you link me the tweet?
>>561352598The new modes did good for a while but 2025 is when people got tired of them and the investment stopped paying off
>>561352712>Epic firing senior members is okay because one gay furry got firedOkay Ranjesh
>>561352712>sure the game has effectively posted its suicide note, but how can I tie this to my culture war?
>>561352026>The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making>Gooners are willing to fund your game ala Kim K skin sales>Timmy panders to wokies instead>Can't fund the gamekwab
>>561352373the squid?bugs?hybrid in like a week? IDK why people think epic's suddenly going to stop selling anthro skins.
>>561351583Tim-sama, I kneel.
it's probably nothing but i want to remind everyone epic was trying to import rocket league into fortnite, I DOUBT ROCKET RACING WILL REVIVE INTO IT, but if TDM does replace ballistic >>561352518 it would make sense for RL to replace RR, what doesn't make sense is that......... RL is already a game outside of fortnite, but then again this is epic games who 1) made Fall guys into a gamemode twice in Fortnite and 2) they bragged early this year that multiple games with unreal engine would be able to be playable in Fortnite>>561352779https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/todays-layoffshttps://x.com/EpicNewsroom/status/2036449915329507436
>we're spending more than we're making so we have to be extremely retarded now
Bode status?
>>561352173You have to remember that Tim is a gen AI faggot so this is to be expected
>>561351583thank god that animalfucker is gone
>>561351989screencapping this in case the female original after the next 2 or so seasons is still the same flat pancake ass we've been getting as of current
Grok fire 1000 of my employees and generate chapter 7 season 3 for Fortnite, make it really epic 4 the win. generate me some funny brainrots while you're at it so i can give you 700 million while crying hoe the game isn't making enough money
>>561353014still employed because tim liked this artwork he did
fortnite be like>we're too incompetent to do anything except scam people and make things worse, plz send us more money
>>561352915>At Epic, we pride ourselves in only hiring the industry's bestw-why would they fire 1000 of those so called industry's best....
>>561351583We won
Have they even at least REDUCED the pay to UEFN creators at all??? Do they need to communicate that? I haven't seen anything about it.
>>561353087I forgot ballistic was even a thing, epic doesn’t really update their non-BR modes
>>561352657As much as I would love to see Rue, the buttblasted Jews wouldn't allow it because MUH FASCISTS
>>561353087they were literally putting unfinished test maps out for ballistic, its not a fucking wonder why nobody cared about it. and its so fucking dishonest for tim to pretend that these modes that they aren't fucking supporting are too much of a money sink compared to SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS to creative slop NOBODY ACTUALLY FUCKING PLAYS SINCE ITS ALL BOTTED
>>561353228no job either lmao
>"help shape the future of ballistic by playing these greyed out boxes and giving us feedback!"
>>561352512this image is very ironic now
>>561350898>OG still standingOGchads win again
ONE THOUSAND EMPLOYEES FIRED ON A TUESDAYDEADFUCKINGCOMPANY
>>561353308there are other shop skins with the shadow org symbol. reddit headcanon should not affect a skin being sold or not
One last >yikesfor the 1000 layed-off employees
>the game's going to shit but the first thing some here focus on are the fucking animal skinsbe serious for a moment. Holy shit man it's a damn miracle save the world survived this mess
>>561351670Previous insider here, yes. They're trying to justify selling to a Saudi 3rd party. Cutting employees is more savings vs paying map creators because 3rd world creative sloppers don't get benefits and shit like that.I moved across the country to work for a video game developer I liked in my formative years, while watching it turn to shit. I can't tell you what's in the pass because I was QA development. I can tell you that a lot of the social justice warriors got shit canned too.I'm traveling back home this week, not going to be able to answer a lot of questions.
>>561351583>>561353228I love happy endings.
The tech industry as a whole (including gaming) is downsizing and adjusting so these layoffs aren’t that surprising. The game is about to be riddled with bugs though so get ready for that.
>>561353561STW going f2p means they’re likely shifting to considering it a core mode
>>561353228I hope he kills himself lol
>>561353589cool, wish i knew before investing a 1000 hours into this game, big tim fucked me in the ass real good with this. fucking christ does everything always have to go to shit
>Ballistic is being removedThat dogshit mode had me in insane stockholm syndrome good riddance
guys I think they fired the guy that announces the weekly festival songs
Honestly I haven’t been a fan of the Roblox approach the last few years and this feels like the first step towards them realizing it may not be that sustainable
>>561353561some faggots can literally ONLY think in a black and white, us v them mindset. they cannot think about this situation any further than "hhehe dev I don't like got shafted"
>>561353561yeah they are obsessed like squibbly. >>561353489you're SPOT ON. AI brainrot maps are a money laundering scheme, nobody is playing this shit also didn't Epic accidentally say they use AI for skins in a dev video once? they invest our money into AI becuz our cash is tims spending spreewould explain the harsh drop in quality lately
>>561353728I can say even without founders I played STW more than I ever day any of the metaverse crap. I really hope they continue the cliffhanger in twine peaks finally.>tfw the PAID mode had more activity than the free modes
>>561353824They are shifting to a first person BR mode instead to compete with warzone once infinity ward inevitably announces warzone 3.0 which removes all your stuff again
Reminder to anonymously report Epic Games to the FTC for anti-consumer practices and fraud>sidekick one time customization>vbucks price hike>micro-transactions in creative (for the kids yknow)https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
>>561353892The mode is getting EoS'd lil bro
>Epic also scrapping their construction plans for new Cary, NC headquarters site (per Business Journal)>had been on hiatus since 2021
Isn't this what we wanted? Less bullshit modes?
>>561354204yes, its just people getting into panic mode
>>561354204>did literally nothing to lower the amount of money to creative slop, the shit thats actually killing the gameshut the fuck up you fucking retard, holy shit. stop trying to spin this as anything but corporation retardation
Oh yeah, it's that time againhttps://files.catbox.moe/o6bbjr.mp4
>>5613542041000 people don't handle 3 nothingburger gamemodes
So it's REALLY over now huh
https://vocaroo.com/16XDAQrdyKR6Pay My BillsBattle Bus up, patch notes dropCheck the shop another flopUsed to buy skins, quick thrillsNow it’s VinderBucks for Tim’s billsOG locker, dusty chillsEpic cooking brand-new dealsTim Sweeney smiling on the hillPress the button, raise the bill(Chorus)They say “the cost of running Fortnite’s gone up a lot”So they’re raising prices just to pay the billsWe drop Tilted, chase cheap thrillsStacking crowns and stormline killsBut every swipe, every refillReally just pays Tim's bills(Verse 2)Item Shop spins, neon baitCollab skins at luxury ratePeely staring, looking illEven bananas cost a billFeels like dinner with a CEOHe orders steak, we split the doughCheck comes out, guess who willPlayers stuck to pay his bill(Chorus)They say “the cost of running Fortnite’s gone up a lot”So they’re raising prices just to pay the billsWe glide over Frenzy FieldsGrinding quests and highlight killsBut the real endgame skillIs swiping cards to pay his bills(Bridge)Storm gets small, shop gets bigEpic running the money rigTim says calm, it’s no big deal“Just raise the price, they’ll pay my bills.”(Final Chorus)They say “the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lotso we’re raising prices to help pay the bills”Sidekick scams, brainrot stealsEpic stacking VinderBucks stillBattle Bus straight to the tillThanks for playing. Pay my bills.
>>561350898So Season 2 was typo? Shutdown instead of Showdown?
1000 employees is 25% of their total workforce, this is a massive impact
>>561354182But.... But... Bu... muh... muh pro vocals and pro drums tho
>>561354324I'm not sure about that. Shit like Legends of Runeterra at it's peak had an entire team. Now it's like a 1-3 person skeleton crew.
>>561354416now they have a good reason to dish out an excuse like "oh you know, we didn't really create or deliver anything new since we're short on staff :^)" the cycle continues
The bright side is that we should hopefully get more attractive and good skins since they can’t just put out ugly shit and have it get covered. Explains the sudden change in CH7S1 looking back
Probably employees from when Blackrock forced corporations to hire to achieve 'diversity' quotas. I'm amazed Epic was one of the last ones to finally fire their own.
Timmy you promised these children Forty the metaverse but all i saw was collaby the cheapskate!
No one ever said that creating the Metaverse would be painless. It's a massive investment and there were always going to be significant sacrifices that would have to be made along the way. The idea is that the end product will be worth the pain we're witnessing in the present day.
>>561354481as small as it was LoR still was a more complete game than any of the 3 they're canning, now i'm not saying like 5 people were handling each, 1000 just feels like a lot for 3 modes that were already in maintenance mode
>>5613542041000 people out means that they are seriously feeling the mishandling of their revenue, they spent a lot of money on lawsuits, comp and morecutting ballistic and rocket racing and specially rocket racing since its the more developed of those two, meant that now they have a mindset of if there's no return for that investment they wont do much, specially considering that they are planning a shit ton of collabsI always knew that fortnite was big enough to only be brought down by fortnite itselfthey honestly dont know how to manage their game
>>561354481Ballistic's dev team has always been around 10 or less people, most of the texture work and more intricate modelling was outsourced too
>>561353892here's your weekly song brohttps://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?si=q3Ogehw7gIlVeRB1
>>561354627>hire people because of identity instead of being talented explains a LOTfrom the bitchy female UI designer (should check if stephanie got fired lmao)no way all 1k people were diversity hires thothis DOESN'T mean epic won't use shitty outsourced modelers still, in fact it prob means the game will get worse in the immediate future.
>>561354615We will get more AI generated slop and butchered skin concepts that anons will eat up happily because minimum boob jiggle
>>561354915please tell me she's gone
>>561354627>oh they're PROBABLY conveniently only the bad kind of employees who is paying you to keep writing this shit out?
they are starting to wake up
>chinese gacha slop everywhere>XBOX leadership coup>entire world (((suddenly))) suing Valve>Nvdia CEO having a melty>Ubisoft Red Storm folded last week>Epic firing 1/4th of their employeesindustry is entering an extinction era isn't it
>>561355032Probably on Sweeneys payroll
>I will never get the (GOLD) drift smoke trail(It's weird how they decided to not keep the ability to unlock it up after the changes to ranked rewards prior to chapter 7. Like, that would've been my only incentive for Unreal during that era.)
>>561354204Less bullshit modes yea, but it still doesn't solve the shitty creative payouts and cash cup cancer that's been on Fortnite's carcass for a while.
It's never been more over
>>561353892Here are you're songs Little Johnhttps://youtu.be/A-UMx1P4Paw?si=VrU_-ta_IoZLlHU2https://youtu.be/Bc9xCCx8fJU?si=Bab1N_pcBq1VQ8-g
>>561354758the metaverse is a failed concept. tim should have seen the writing on the walls. they want modes that are well made, engaging story, and ch2-4 levels of BP skins with effort. they weren't broke pre-ch5 cuz they didn't waste so much of our money on bullshit. THIS IS ALL ON EPIC, PEOPLE SPEND MORE THAN ENOUGH TO KEEP THIS GAME AFLOAT.
>>561355105That’s a good thing. After we should have smaller devs rise up and become the new AAA devs
life comes at you fast
>>561350898>>561350982>>561351009Fortnite 9/11 - 2 The Squeakel
>>561354204how about thex axe the creative dogshit instead
>>561355105They're trying to snuff out GameStop shareholders any way they can
>>561353892https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLopgsgJ_s&list=RDauLopgsgJ_s
i’m all for shitting on the stupid shit epic is doing, but I just saw a tweet saying people should demand Tim Sweeney’s resignation…..Epic is a private company lol, Tim more than likely cannot be forced out by the public. I don’t even know the private company boards work the same or the public ones
>>561354950Ownd him
>>561355194and what exactly was the cool stuff? season is alright but it's not really anything new, ice king gauntlets are a version of doctor dooms while the seven ones are just worse megalofists
>>561355194This is proof that god exists and loves to punish homosexuals for fun.
Shitposting aside is anyone else worried/curious we may be witnessing the final year(s) of Fortnite?
>>561355174Embark couldn’t have risen to being a decently successful studio if the current industry wasn’t such a trash fire
>epics firing long time employees It’s so fucking over
>>561355389God loves all his children, there’s only been one perfect human.
>>561355414Worried about what
I just don't understand how pumping hundreds of millions into brainrot and red vs blue creative map makers will turn the game into Ready Player One eventually. Like even if Tim is determined to make this game become the metaverse no matter what, surely there's a more effective method than that.
How much longer until they sunset Zero Build?
>>561355527You wish buildtard
What a week huh>It's only TuesdayFucking hell
FAGGOT GOT OWNEDJust the other day I said everyone that worked on the rival system should be fired and now this happens, KNEEL TO ME.
>>561355316>spends billions of dollars on bullshit>erm we're poor now pay our bills uwutim is so out of touch I'm seeing people make anti-tim memes again. he needs to lock in and stop gooning to AI on X
TUNG TUNG TUNG SAHUR will save fortnite
>>561355583>>561355194What’s wrong with him other than being a fag?
>>561355414we're in the endgame now, game was buggy as hell even with the extra 1k employees, they continue focusing on and bruteforcing a million collabs while main modes receive minimum effort and creative trash gets 722 million. let's enjoy it while we can lad
Can't wait to see 3 gorillion Disney collabs announced later this week
You guys should join to discuss this on the Gbooncordhttps://discord.gg/FzbSKwBSZF
>>561355662That's it
>>561355512Eh a lot of people spent money here expecting Fortnite to be an actual infinite game, just for it to end one day sooner than expected
the most infuriating thing to me about all of this is they do no effort to put stuff in the shop that the core community obviously wants. just slop. I hate epic. lazy, greedy, awful company.
>>561355631He is a AI fag so people are waking up to his bullshit
>>561355414no worries at all, i like to be part of this
>>561355662he is the reason most of the season releases the past 2 years were shit at launch, he was posting gay faggot pics of him going "hehe im solo launching the season at a coffee shop :3"
>>561355414Imo a changing of the guard is exactly what we need. Timmy's been resting on his laurels for so long that he's lost touch with reality.
I hate that you guys are making fun of him, like come on, he's the best employee at EPIC. (also included this xhitter's comment because why not, look at it.)
>>561355140>they want modes that are well made, engaging story, and ch2-4 levels of BP skins with effortThe Fortnite audience does, yes. But the point of the Metaverse is to attract entirely new, much bigger audiences. Including people that don't even play videogames. I'm talking billions of daily users to the point that Fortnite's current audience looks like that of an obscure indie game by comparison. That's the idea, at least.
>>561355719I'll only join if you gift me Kafka and don't bully me for being a chapterlet
>>561355414Unironically yes, the warning signs have been there since ch5 but now the entire place is lit up and blaring the alarms
But if tim thinks ai is the future why does he need uefn creators and why is he paying them? They will be unnecesary soon
>>561355782I thought the game would go on for another 30 years then go EOS but didn't expect Tim to tank the game immediately because he is terrible with money and bad at managing the game. Donald Mustard...save us...
>>561355708holy guh, pleaseee
>>561355870>guy who actively posted about upcoming features and expressed joy in his work is considered a great employeeits almost like the average person doesn't live in this autistic gooners vs furries bubble you fucking retards do
>>561355842I highly doubt one person is messing up the whole seasons if they aren’t at the top of the company
>>561355953GUH...........
>>561355708Im more interested in that beyblade collab and the doors it could open for other stuff
>>561355573
>Gtroon and pedofags trying to spam since the layoffs announcement are taking attention away from them
>>561350982>>561351583I'M ON MY KNEES PRAYING ONE OF THEM WAS THAT FAGGOT PLAYTESTER DEFENDING THE VBUCK CHANGES SAYING HE'D RATHER HAVE THAT THAN LAYOFFS>>561351624AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>561353561tbf with how much of a mess the game is in i'd focused on skin production too if i just learned the tit jiggle guy got fired
Why not steal the brairot and all these creative slop that are just bots stealing money straight from Epic????
fuck you faggot tim you never put the skins i want in game and you have been scamming the players and making the game worse ever since chapter 5. fuck off the metaverse failed, UEFN is dogshit, the new UI SUCKS, and all we wanted was good fortnite seasons and skins. dumb motherfucker
>>561356101Got some good news for you https://x.com/JonahKettman/status/2036452188113744142
this isn't normal
>>561351583On one hand, this could mean more female furry skinsOn the other hand, we might end up with a deluge of Lupas and "not actually furry" monster girl skins and human women in Hot Topic accessories
APOLOGIZE NOW!!!
>>561356282Shalom
>>561356282anything to pay them billsthis is definitely the worst season launch of all time.fuck you epic games. not very epic of you to go full retard
>>561356236He posted about that gay furry rainbow skin a lot i bet he made it
>vbucks more expensive>killing game modes>laying off nearly a quarter of the company's workforce>still giving handouts to trash like steal the brainrot because muh metaverse despite saying the game is more expensive to run now>retards can only obsess over one longtime employee getting laid off because he was gay and a furry
>WE COULD GET SO MANY GOONER SKINS AND COLLABS NOW!!!!I'm not sure why I expected this place to have an even remotely nuanced take on this
>>561356083I just got here
>>561356307>how it feels being a Donny supporter since Day 1 and knowing he was the real soul of the game who made the most iconic chapters
>>561091559>>561091559>>561091559Three days ago.I won.
>i come to the fortnite general for well thought out and nuanced takesretards
jiggle GODS
This general is unfathomably unintelligent. I can respect not liking the homofur but he clearly was integral to the dev team operation. If they are willing to lay off guys like him then I can’t imagine how shit this game is about to become. We are dark fucking times bros.
>Since it's a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren't related to AI. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can.>To the extent it improves productivityWhat did they mean by this
>>561356627Why was he integral?
Blud realized he isn't special and suits don't care
Anyone paying attention knew this was coming from the moment they made this tweet
>>561356594I would have at least expected rabid drooling over potential collab slop to be more of a reddit thing but they seem more doomer over it than this fucking special ed class of a general is
>>561356627maybe that guy was an annoying retard behind the scenes and made the game worse. we don't know
>>561356627>me use big word>me fail to whiteknight furries subtly>broskill yourself faggot homo
>>561356757based
Hey it’s ok it’s ok You are welcome
>Runs FTP game that makes less money yet can not have to lay off tons of people since they can actually not be retarded with the profits
How much longer will festival last? It's actually fun and helps me level up the BP during shit seasons (which is every season.)
>>561356717is that Stephen Miller? wtf>>561356692I hope he exposes Epic
>>561356307>got out before shit went sideways
this is going to be rough bros, dunno how the fuck they ruined the bp, increased the vbuck costs and fired 1000 employees all before even reducing the creative payouts. main modes barely get updated but that brainrot shit is advertised everywhere i really don't understand it>>561356621I want to have sex with Kafka
- a producer on FestivalReminder guys, you DON'T know the whole story (apologies for the repost)
>>561356692>saar i thought we had something specialIs this dude spiritually indian or something? Why would he think that shit matters at all? Doing extra hours is for literal cucks
>>561356627Squibbly must be fishing with bait like that
>>561357076gay people are super emotional
Do we think Ted timmins is safe?
>>561357076he literally takes it up the ass his brain is mush
>>561356937more like shit went sideways because he left
>fire 1k devs>invest in AI slopI give it like a month before the game starts having fatal bugs and starts showing your fucking IP to other players or some shit.
Most posts on the announcements are ratio'ing them and calling out the sheer bullshit retardation of the uefn payouts and you know damn well timmy has his fingers in his ears while filing another 50k check to the rajesh's running steal the brainrot
I think it's time for Epic to scale back and get a reality check. But they would rather spend millions in UEFN or FNCS handouts, which nobody asked them to do, and then raise the bills on the average player. With any other video game, your money would go back into the game to make it and future content better and maybe fix bugs. With Fortnite it's almost a guarantee your money will be wasted on handouts or any one of Epic's "bills". It's becoming a humiliation ritual to be a supporter of this company. They can't even defend their practices at this point and only have hollow corporate speak as responses.The disdain towards the playerbase has gone to an absurd degree and they are speedrunning the enshittification of their only cash cow. If Fortnite turns it's backs on the players it's only a matter of time before people get fed up and uninstall. Loyalty in gaming has a breaking point and the relationship between company and gamer shouldn't be an abusive one.
>>561356692>>561357039>yessss i will make my normal output 150% to impress my boss and not get a raise so now when my boss sees me he expects 200% 24/7 now!!!!the absolute state of wageslaves>>561357186you have no understanding of architecture
>>561351583Oh noooo so who's gonna be the trooncord's boogeyman now????
>>561357249exactly how much of an understanding do I need to see microsoft's simultaneous embrace of AI coding and the subsequent record number of system-breaking bugs
how is this okay? too many people not buying the vbucks packs ig cuz of exact amount feature so OFC they HAD to make it worse. fuck you epicDID YOU KNOW 50 vbucks went from 50 cents to 99 cents thats a 98 percent increase. all to pay timmys bills.
>>561356914Warframe sucks though
>>561355194TOTALFURHOMODEATH
>>561357345>Oh noooo so who's gonna be the trooncord's boogeyman now????discord crybabies on suicide watch and beyond mentally ill>erm the troons hate gayswhat
>>561357423OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
>>561357076He's been with the company for the longest time but I wouldnt expect cattle here to understand anything outside of their manufactured culture war
you think /ourguy/ Clix told Timmy to fire everyone?
>>561357423
>>561357423QUICKLY YOU FOOLS!!! SHOW OF THE COLLAB SLOP SO THE PEOPLE FORGET!!!!!!!!
>>561357410some of you guys are enjoying evan getting fired too much. rent free.
>>561357485bro you aren't all that end your life
Here's a take from a Creative/UEFN creator
>>561356916rocket racing was already put on maintenance mode in chapter 5, ballistic would never work on their 20 tick servers and extremely bloated engine, they never managed to do the festival in creative thing they promised when it launched so that's way too much work to just throw out and they're definitely never stopping licensing songs so why layoff the only people that know what to do with them
>>561357451Trooncord hates gay posters for being too based
>>561357423Is not great but i can work with this, i’ll be buying
>>561357423https://litter.catbox.moe/qf59miclotevu9bp.mp4uhhh distract them from the layoffs with the lola rabbit
>>561352625Why would anyone want that
EVERYBODY GET UP IT'S TIME TO SLAM NOW
>>561357650>>561357540>duck dodger's rocket is his fucking backbling but his alt style is the dumbass space jam jerseyfucking hell I hate the meme reputation this terrible-ass movie has
>>561357574evan aint gonna fuck you fag
Maybe i'm missing something but every live event under that faggot has been a broken mess I don't know why people are gassing him up like he was the only one maintaining the game properly
>>561357423She's perfect. All is forgiven, Epic.
>>561356032do we have confirmation it's an actual fortnite collab and not just rocket league runoff like sonic was?
>>561357423Grim
>>561357423>>561357540Ah cool, Looney Tunes, now I can add to my collection!
>>561357650Why the hell did he not get a Duck Dodgers style?
>>561357540>>561357758Holy fucking disgustingBro built like
>>561357540daffygods won
>>561357650>Fire 1000 people>That's All Folks! spray decrypted right after
>>561356916
>>561357650isn't that daffy emote the harry potter peppermint imps one but without the air blowing out of the ears?
>>561357735Because they're straight, unlike you.
>>561357650WHERE ARE THE FUCKING GLIDERS EPIC
>>561357423>weird jagged edges on the most bizarre shit like her hands and eyes>furry gooners will still buy the shitthere really was no fucking reason these things had to be toon filtered in the first place
>>561357423>>561357540TIM NOW'S NOT THE FUCKING TIME RIGHT NOW
>That's all folks spray is going to be locked to some skin cup They gotta stop doing this dogshit
https://streamable.com/h2y592>how bad can I be? I'm just doin' what comes naturally
>>561358042it's 8 points desu
>we've been struggling to pay bills since 2025>meanwhile in 2025
>>561357958How does it feel to be a porn-addicted gooner with cum sloshing in your cranium to the point where you find caricatures of things resembling women attractive? I'm sure it's not too late for you anyway. Turn your PC off and go outside, it could prove life-changing for you
>>561357650>that's all folksKEK
>>561357574Unemployed posters enjoy people losing their jobs
>>561358146Yeah, that is the bills. Creating the Metaverse isn't cheap.
Is it over for fortnite?
skins ingame
>>561357423Looks like shit, HMoFAbros, we must resist
>>561358154People like you who hate beauty are the real enemy.
>>561356307I never doubted you Donnie. Game lost a lot of soul when he left and its only getting worse .
Told you she was thicc!!!
>>561358064I can't understand streamers buying sidekicks bc "muh tax writeoffs" but that shit is 100% a scam
>>561357423>>561357992so far my first impression is that it's weirdly made like bugs (to be expected kinda) but not as bad... we'll need more angles and animations to verify, still, so far palpable
>>561357812Truth Bomb
if rocket racing is donezo then the plans to revamp it into a disney mode got binned as well. not a huge surprise since sneedstorm exists, but it already did at the time of that leak iirc, i don't know what they were fucking thinking at any point there.god willing the "disney universe" modes they're still working on are going to subsidize the rest of the game HARD.
>every DEI dev fired>all the LBGBTQIOAPBRAAAAP devs that flaunted on twitter about how much they love sucking cock>ballistic the shitty 10 tick CS2 copy is dead>festival battle stage the terrible gamemode that randomizes your songs vs your opponents is deadThis is the best news we've had in literally years, if you don't think so you have no understanding of quality and polish, appreciation either.
>>5613580818 points too many- casual/campfag
>6 vb missions in 1 day>Soon after they fire 1000 peopleSTW bros we be responsible
>>561358254Source
>>561358146I’m fairly certain that epic didn’t actually see a decline in revenue in 2025, what happened is that they expect exponential growth to continue linearly to justify spending more money which is becoming impossible
>>561358254daffy looks the best
>>561358254Lola and Daffy look really good, will be buying
>>561358396https://x.com/FNBRintel/status/2036474972219056610
>>561358335Keep this energy up when the Disney mode siphons money and dev time
>>561358254fuck, lola looks hot
>>561358335assuming all 1000 people fired were dei hires and not replaced by indians and AI. we'll see if the quality of the game improves or not, with the current state of things can you honestly say that Epic is firing people to make the game better and not just to make the game more sloppy and cheap and soulless? Like, if the modelers are shit firing the actual devs isn't going to change much. we'll see
>>561357213It's not even indians, the brainrot devs are from fucking Israel
>>561358476I don't care about what jewish run corporations doLong Live Walt>>561358535Cutting out the infection is a start and will cause some sort of improvements
>>561358335do you appreciate the quality and polish that goes into the creative brainrot slop that gets $700mil+ a yeardo you
Rocket racing has been abandoned for like a year and a half now but I enjoyed playing it a little bit every now and then, that sucks
>Stopped playing and buying items for this game about a year ago>Game fucking dies in the process But I didn't do anything
>>561358572Figures the trad larpers are faggoty jews
I ENJOYED PLAYING BALLISTICTIMMY YOU FUCK
>>561358580epic devs don't work on creative games, the creators of the creative games do, not relevant>>561358661?
How the hell do some of you unironically think the game will suddenly improve when the last time they did layoffs things got fucking worse. You're not thinking straight or at all.
>>561353892Rock Band 3 ended on American PieFortnite Festival ends on mustard
>>561358704>not relevantthey're literally putting the money you spend on the game into botted uefn aislop lol
>defending epics layoffs
>>561358335>Tim is cutting employees instead of cutting slop vs blue and tung tung tung sahur zone wars>GoodAbsolutely Goy'd
I just got into Fortnite like a month ago, I regret not getting into it sooner after everything I've read about how good it used to be and all of these issues plaguing the game now. The V-Buck price increase was bad enough but Epic really must be in the shit if they're also going to fire 1000 employees.
>>561358731I don't want it to improve I want fortnite to crash and burn so certain someone gets the hint
should i play Persona 5 Royal?
>>561358764Just say you're jealous lil bro. If it's so easy to make millions from creative then why haven't you done it? You don't feel like being a millionaire?
>>561358704clapping like a retarded seal that the game laid off like 1k employees and cut some completely non-taxing side modes while it keeps giving hundreds of millions out to creative maps with literally no returns is the same as fucking idiots that clap when the government slashes trillions for public help programs and doesn't touch a fucking dime of that israel moneyyou're just a fucking moron no matter how much you bitch about niggers and fags as a cope, this is not a good or healthy move for the game at all
>>561358824White collar jobs are all fucked, it's just a when now
>>561358880>>561358764you know these posters supports the right of israel to exist
>>561358875Disingenuous posters should be killed on sight
>>561358081I know, but it's still annoying and tedious. Not to mention I never got the power ranger sprays or D20 emoticon because the servers shit the bed and uncounted my points back when those ran
>>561358572you don't care about vbucks prices increasing? excuse me? do you even play this game.
>>561358824It isn’t just epic unfortunately
>>561358850If you like JRPGs surePersona 5 is a good game just a bit overrated
>>561357853You are lying and you know it
RR and Rr status twitter profiles have been taken down
>>561358936>one post literally comparing the creative money to israel negativelythrow in the towel already
Kek im genuinely positive it's the (former) epic faggot employee crying ITT trying to gain sympathyKek what a bitch All faggots must be shot on site
>>561358850Huge Persona Fan Excited to Play It for First Time
>>561358731>Kill comp >Kill UEFN money >Just make the game fun That's all you need, not trying to chase the Metaverse dragon and do frivolous lawsuits, swallow your pride and put the game on steam. Sexo with Lennox before the game goes EoS
>>561358959If you’re a founder you don’t really have to care
>>561359029I got my rue loadout next to my cute Wendell loadout :3c
>Be broke like Epic
>>561358969yeah i'm a fan of them just never played persona or smt so thought i'd ask while fortnite is going up in flames>>561359068not a fan just think Makoto is hot and i like jrpgs
Hope he kills himself too
>>561359236go play, good game
Don't mind me just slopping away while everything else burns to the ground
>>561357732>This will never be me
how the fuck can anyone defend epic games at this point is beyond me, they've had a terrible year or few years and are quickly tumbling down due to mis-management. >sidekick scams>brainrot slop, microtransactions>evil vbucks price hike and BP vbucks removaljust admit that fortnite fell off. don't give epic your money if you can help it, they are a spiritually demonic company right now
where is her rival?
>>561359162BasedSieg Heil
I wonder if they will end the weekly free game program.
I didn't like Rocket Racing very much so I'm not too bothered by it getting axed.Ballistic is slightly sad because I think it had potential, but it was irreversibly fucked as soon as they made it ranked only. They had no idea how to solve kids abandoning matches and not knowing how to play and they gave up on it almost instantly. The first-person TDM mode will be a good enough replacement if they don't completely fuck it up.Battle Stage is kinda sad because I played it so much, but it wasn't fun and I only played it to do Festival quests back when you had to actually play Festival to progress its pass. I think most rhythm game players are content with competing on the leaderboards instead of actually playing multiplayer. I feel like Festival is probably going to die too though unless they revamp it.
>>561359448probably not since all they have to do is pay pennies to an indie dev to have a new title there
>>561359279Oh so he IS cancerYeah it's a PARTY NOW lmao
>>561358959>>561359019I'm a founder none of this affects me, this is a net benefit to fire all the dei hires
what the hell is going on
Next live event is going to be like Ch3's I just know it
>>561359448half of the "games" are coins in runescape or something
>>561359467god forbid they touch that UEFN or FNCS handout money. -_- they cut corners on the BP. GOD FORBID THEY EVER PUT ANYTHING GOOD IN THE GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKING SHOP GOD I HATE EPIC SALKJUDFASHLKSDJHAS
Reminder that the finals is having a massive new update for season 10 in 2 dayshttps://www.reachthefinals.com/
>>561358335>Every DE-Stopped reading right there
>>561359029You know.I wouldn't mind to be a dirty jew if my executioner looked like this.
>>561359361I just need 10 more levels but i’ve only done 1 rebirth, what’s the best weapon to use?
>>561358318It makes you wonder what will happen to the Cars collab that was "leaked" to resume development recently. Will it be scrapped again or will it only include McQueen (Mater and a race track was previously leaked years ago)Also here's something, apparently when the season launched, there was a way to play an unfinished Star Wars track but it seems to have been patched:https://x.com/i/status/2035191903809900806
I've always been frustrated that Rocket Racing had "Rocket" in its name instead of Fortnite when the other two modes it came with were called LEGO Fortnite and Fortnite Festival. It meant it didn't fit and it didn't make sense anyway since it's a Fortnite mode and not a Rocket League mode. So yeah I'm glad it's being shutdown if you wanna know the truth about it.
>>561359467Festival itself probably just would enter in legacy mode, because there was money involved with the passes.
>>561359695I mean COME ON, the real jew is billionaire CEO Tim not the fucking devs. do your victory lap cuz a furry got fired meanwhile the game is literally dying. fuck off
>>561355414It probably wont ever actually die, but become a zombie like Team Fortress 2 is.
>Decrypted lola a day early to try and distract the negative pr
>>561350898I actually almost freaked out when I saw Festival thereAnyways I'm not surprises because Battle Stage never really took off
>>561359598I just fully unlocked her :)
I feel bad now for those autistic rocket racists that actually play that mode
I doubt Festival will die, its like the only metaverse mode people still play
>>561359598Faggots are losing jobs. Can only be a net positive.
>>561359749Harbinger smg
>>561359598/pol/ boomers cortisol levels are spiking because employed people lost their jobs
>>561359407I think the most frustrating part is that a lot of this was avoidable but Tim Sweeneys insatiable ego continues to drive Fortnite into the ground and no one can stop him
>>561359070and stop trying to chase the hardcore military shooter tactical super serious gameplay and lean more into wacky bullshit insanity like ch2 and ch3do like TF2 and give us 24/7 tilted where it's 32v32 drop-in/drop-out team deathmatch just constantly going
>>561360041There's a decent sized playerbase for ballistic gone now too
>>561360104yeah so you are saying sweeney fired all the dei hires... riiiight....based on the fact that? one guy who got fired was gay...alright..
>>561360104Zavala hated that
They're going to reverse the vbucks change to get good PR again after the layoffs and this was probably the entire reason they even did the change in the first place.
But why remove the modes entirely? They can't just keep them up?
>>5613595981,000+ epic employees got replaced by indians and this is a good thing because one (1) of them was a fag
>>561359019retard the creator of stb is LITERALLY israeli you stupid fuckgod I'm so fucking tired of you culture war faggots laughing at retards being thrown off a cliff not realizing you're right behind them
>>561360451Devs still have to oversee the modes. Better to repurpose what they are working on.
>>561360451They took rumble away for no reason, so they just seem to like doing that
>>561358254Reminder that rabbits are in heat 24/365
outside of this general, nobody sees the layoffs as a good thing
im being genuinely 100% serious no cap 67 frfr honest to god who the fuck plays UEFN maps.what the fuck is there even to do on UEFN maps.is there anything even remotely interesting or unique on custom maps that aren't just stolen roblox games or 1v1 box battle simulators?is there anything that even remotely is deserving of being paid 70% of Epic Games total earnings?
I'm betting on a Fortnite Renascence Era, unironically.
>>561352026I'm sure spending all that money putting collabs/celebrities in your game was worth it.
>>561360573fuck off anax
>>561360484Israelis are based and I'm tired of pretending they aren't. Also I don't give a shit about the uss liberty, it was a literal spy ship
i'm gonna take a nap
>>561360573What do you expect from contrarian central
>>561360573The ones happy for layoffs are israeli agents and should be ignored
>>561360594If dev focus goes into only BR then sure
>561360649not even getting a (you) out of me faggot, try harder next time you lazy fuck
Could this be the end of Fortnite?!GOD, i hope sohttps://youtu.be/tsD4im7K3wg?si=80Yf9Ztk2DXeZxbe
>>561360361Tbf the second guy looked mexican and >>561357412 header image is him in a sea of blacks and only posts stuff like picrel, rap shit and black sports (not joking)
>>561360779You're muslim
>>561360573This is why a orbiting tranny filled discord was a bad idea.
>kills the DCEU>kills epicWhat will the rock kill next?
People are gonna be really pissed when they drop the Brainrot skins
No shekels were added to your account schmoolie. Try harder
>>561360779>Guys you don't understand, all these pedophiles, leftists, furries, faggots, diversity hires, and trannies (all the same group) who got fired...you see....they actually are really important to Fortnite, and the game will totally die without them
Posting in a Mossad agent threadZohan collab when?
>>561360893Disney
>>561360594Only after they drastically cut their uefn payments, give up on metaverse slop and put their resources back into BR
>>561360893both the dceu and fortnite were in hard death spirals before the pebble came along, he's just the grim reaper who makes sure you can't recover
>>561360479they are likely doing this. this is epic we are talking about. they wouldn't cut people to actually make the game better lmfao
>>561360967Proof all 1000 people are this?
>>561361129They're game developers
>>561361082Tf? It's not like they were executed lmfao
>>561360594if sweeney is part of the layoffs sure, thats unironically the only way these would be a good thing
They needed to start shamelessly copying popular game concepts already Kill Rocket Racing and make Fortnite KartEnd Ballistic and make Call of FortniteThey don't seem to realize the fact that they have all these collabs gives them a huge edge over the competition
>>561360954On social media sure but I'd bet money they'll be the best selling collab skins of the year and it likely won't even be close. There are untold millions upon millions of kids waiting with their mom's credit cards to buy absolutely everything brainrot related.
>>561360593its the same slop from 2020 with a new coat of paint on it. UEFN will never compete with VRCHAT or GMOD as far as a fun experience because they don't allow player model customization as it goes against their business model of selling skins.
>the yikesfag that mocked female skins is doing damage control for an epic fag>another fag is calling other people jobless... while being hereLike pottery, but yea layoffs in general are bad fuck Epic and the bald fuck
Im noticing no ai images are being spammed while the pro-layoffs posting is going on. Smells like curry to me
While not Fortnite, it's somewhat Epic related.It could be possible that AQUIRIS (owned by EPIC) was effected by the layoffs in some way (just my theory) as Horizon Chase 1 & Turbo are being delisted soon (HC 2 will still be available).Should note that AQUIRIS supposedly worked on Rocket Racing but I don't know where the source of that info came from.
>>561360593nothing they're 99.99% unplayable garbage with the only map i liked being the one where you fight a big snake boss with others. rest is just red vs blue, reskinned tycoons, copypasted parkours and brainrot shit
>>561361230I doubt it. It'll take a lot to dethrone Kim K who stays in Best Selling every day she's in the shop.
>>561360967surely the AI and indians who tims pays a fourth of the previous employees salaries will save the game.
fast thread today huh
>>561360893He's like Persona 5 for shitty gatcha games>>561361082>Sincerely, Epic's Lapdog>P.S.: Use my creator code on your next purchase
>>561360885do sumn bout it
at this point why doesn't epic have a plain ass request form for skins and jam tracks you want? let people directly ask for things they would actually like to see and buy. cut out the middleman. just actually fucking ask us what we want instead of playing hot and cold with surveys asking our interest in twitter trends.
>>561360967Calm down Ranjeet, Tim will review your application soon
Thank God the layoffs are happening, hopefully we can get some AI cuisine after the years of human slop coming out of these pathetic dogs.
>>561361129Proof one of them isnt like that?
>>561358254Lola makes me feel funny
the only reason to give a fuck about the layoffs is how shit the game will be for a bit so they finally let me finish my fucking s6 battle pass
>>561361509Gguhhh
>>561361441wonder what happened
>>561361509Good morning Trooni
>>561361516Your mom lol
>>561361262>every poster who uses a reaction image is the same person
>>561361402It won't even be close. The brainrot characters are popular with kids on a scale unseen since peak pokemania. It might make you cringe to hear it but it's a fact Jack.
>muh gaming industrythe same industry that bought 5 million RE9 copies in a week, 2m pokemon, 2m of that astroturfed crimsom desert crap? yeah people just don't play games anymoreepic laid off 800 people not long ago and now another 1000, they probably still have at least 800 in there, why the fuck did they EVER need that many people, source 2 isn't the same as unreal but valve is pretty much in the same boat of running a store developing games and an engine and they have 250 EMPLOYEES TOTAL ACROSS ALL THOSE PROJECTS>>561360573it's not a good thing because it's obvious the game is getting even worse after them, but two of the people laid off were acting cocky about vbucks last week so
What kind of psychopath thinks saying everyone fired was "le enemy" is a good psyop tactic?
>>561361416>>561361486Damn they really did fire trannies huh? Mad about a tool made by whites and for whites, replacing them for something superior?
>>561361262the yikesfag is anax/xxfurgodxx/coolfox lol
>>561361753saar do be to posting yes
He's still at againhttps://litter.catbox.moe/tkghiavank8hd4p3.mp4Also bonus meme:https://litter.catbox.moe/cpdj9yp2g6qxrwag.mp4
>>561361242or because uefn and by that extension fortnite never attracted that player basepeople play fortnite for only two modes, battle royale/shooters, and stwfortnite was never going to compete with roblox let alone be a metaverse platform in the first place, for the life of me I can't fathom why that retard timmy thought it would
It's funny how the only people celebrating are the subhuman third-worlder children in /fng/, as if Tim isn't just planning of giving all of those jobs to Indians or AIAnyways, this was descrypted you bozo fuckwits
What's the state of Lego? I remember reading about updates to it but haven't heard anything about it recently Battle Royale and Festival seem to be the only modes getting any significant changes and Festivals is just cosmetic
>>561361743It works on boomers so they think it works here
>>561361806You weren't supposed to point that out.
If bugs wasn't such a pussy daffy could beat him up 1v1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbOlbEz0X3I
so about that TDM mode…
>>561361990>>561357650
>>561361990>descryptedlolit also already got posted retard-kun >>561357650
Well guys, it's over. Fortnite is fucking dead.the writing is on the walls, you'd have to be a corpo cocksucking retard to think anything good will happen anytime soon. It's been fun shitposting with you guys.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFWXpYJKaI
Zogbots are working overtime today lol for that promised 1500 dollars
Can't wait for trading
>>561362045They had Ballistic labeled as a Mode Test the whole time. The result were in that there wasn't much interest in itThey'll probably do the same with TDM
>>561361982>The (enemy) hates AI. Are you an (enemy)?This level of propaganda is insulting.
>>561361990Quote one single post "celebrating", idiot.
>>561361296You just had to say something>>561361509
wanna bet they kill brick life next instead of fixing the fucking retarded matchmaking that puts you in servers that are about to shut down?
>>561362257Just means I called it and now it's lashing out for being spotted
>>561361753>made by whites>and for whitesJews aren't white and Indians especially aren't
>>561362261brick life already died when they let sidekicks run in there with no change at all to their looks completely killing the aesthetic
Doomposting is such a beast these daysI think these layoffs will translate into more focus on BR which is what we want in the long run.
>>561359426Right here.
Well anyway, I'm going to take a nap. Wake me up when Nikacado's asshole shows up.
>>561362405lol
>>561362405bloated slop company finally honing in a bitsee if they can make something of it
yfw lola has jiggle?
Also reminder this shit is happening in every industry.The "good times" of super enormous teams are fucking over.
>>561362218the guys cheering because the fag got fired
>Layoff 1000 fucking people>less skins>less content>less gameplay changes>less updates>less testing>less polish>shittier servers>shittier performance>worse skins>worse gameplay>worse seasonsHow the fuck is this a good thing again?
>>561362416Ella wonShe won
What if they laid off 1,000 people in fear of one of them being the next Adira?
>>561361982https://arch.b4k.dev/_/search/boards/v.vg/image/38uVtrcgWkpy5LeILJoL6w/
>>561362212I agree that trans, disabled, and LGBT people are the enemies, and thus you shouldn't be supporting their common viewpoints>>561362383Well it sure is a good thing that AI will be replacing poopskin jeets and to fight heavily against kikes that push Anti-AI narratives to try and garner regulations so only they can have access to it, instead of the goyim then since thankfully it'll primarily be benefiting White Men and East Asian Men.
>>561362416Wonder how many Ella lovers are out there, hiding.
>>561362405epic is a spiritually evil company thinking they will put money back into the game is ridiculous when they literally just fired 1000 employees and did a bunch of scams. they want quick ez money, putting good skins in the shop is even too much effort they just wanna scam us because we're cattle goyim and our opinions don't matter. another trillion to UEFN brainrot slop
>>561362607More brainrot slop sir :)
>>561359661if you wanted to share something to get people to try finals, you should've included the vid by Kelski orhttps://youtu.be/wtubUGD2M-4
OLD PASSES?
>>561358254Lola's default looks kinda bad
What do (YOU) guys think?
>>561362398if they don't give a fuck about the aesthetic anymore can they let me use my BR vehicles in it? i wanna run over kids in my lambo.
>>561362773oh my god the other mr.beast cock gobbler is still here
>>561362679You don't hate ai pajeets enough you really don't
>>561362679Thanks for posting the highlight reel of victories against Anti-AI tranny freaks! It's good to see them lose, and their allies like Indians and Kikes also take a hard L.
>>561362782No old passesNo crew storeNo stw skin rerunsNo rare skins in shopjust suffering and scams
>>561362607You’re making huge assumptions about who exactly was laid off. Epic has 100s of projects and tons of people working on different things not directly related to Fortnite or BR. Tim clearly states they’re trimming the fat and focusing on Fortnite’s development moving forward. BR becomes the main focus moving forward. I’m sure they only cut who they felt they could replace. I’m sure Evan furhomo is more replaceable than everyone thinks he is. Still not defending Tim Sweeney as he’s clearly the sole reason all of this is happening
>>561362850problem? rent free in your head
stop feeding it
>>561362821Everyone is just going to use the Space Jam style anyway
>>561362961>trimming the fat You can't deny that the timing of this is absolutely terrible, right? PR wise. lmfao
>>561362850grim
One way or another the discourse about AI will be hilarious 5 years from now.
I wish layoffs were my biggest worry today
...............
>>561362667What if one of them go out like the one schizo shill who posted a bunch of fake leaks to go against the "leaker kabal" expect this time... It's REAL
The mental gymnastics the jews and indians in here will go through for the next few months will be something to behold.
>>561362839>SAC limitbased>remove UEFN payoutsbased>stop making new modes that die in a weekbased>reutrn old battle passesomega basedGenuinely Epic is retarded and they're speedrunning bankruptcy by scamming their audience and blowing their wad on stupid shit like brainrot and celebrity cameos instead of making the game fun
>>561362839- SAC codes should only he given to creators who cross a reasonable threshold. Giving them out like candy is silly and unsustainable - The same should apply to UEFN. Island's needs to draw in a certain amount of players to qualify for pay - Yes this. Lable everything LTM and upgrade it to main mode if it is popular enough - No retards need to shut up about this already- I guess?
jeet can't read and is using kojima saying he doesn't know if AI is a good thing as an argument in favor of it
>>561358254they look somewhat better than the renders
Have you seen the World?We are in for at least another bad decade economically talking.
>>561362850Am I missing something?
>>561363145>No regrets, though it's been terribly costlythis is such a funny sentence from tim
>>561362679kek
>>561363116It was a good ending, you're just a coping shipfaggot
>>561362839>return old battlepassesIt's funny cause everyone thinks people want visitor and calamity but really they want Spider Man and Darth Vader.
HAHAHAHAHAYou know exactly who is replacing the fired employees don’t you?I’ll give you a hint, H1Bs will be involvedHope you enjoyed the update btw, just hired the rock, payed out another 50k to steal a brainrot and payed WB millions for more slop!More Disney on the way btw haha I love the metaverse!
>>561362839Realistically they need to fix creative map search tools before fucking paying anybody, no one can find anything good or worth playing besides the current fotw slop. Oh, and to actually incentivize well made good maps instead of shitty flat color copy-paste poop from a butt tycoon garbage. I've seen multiple of these fucking maps where you claim a tower, get a car, then drive around a giant circle with money bags with a box you shoot for money and they're the exact same goddamn layout and template every single time why are you paying for these Tim are you fucking stupid
>>561354204Yes only retards are crying about this
>>561362842I will always remember you, random ass lego car
>>561351583why do people blame him for the skins when he wasn’t even in charge of that?
Tranny freak thinks Kojima is Anti-AI when he says>“I think there isn’t any point in saying ‘We shouldn’t use AI’ or ‘AI is useless.’ We can’t go back. Smartphones were the same.”Is he Anti-Smartphone too? LOL I guess it makes sense this retard wants job security for jeets so they don't get replaced by AI's.
>>561363454I want Zoey and her candy ass
>>561363201the issue with uefn is playtime pay, if brainrot didn't have playtime pay they'd get barely anything out of it because 99% of the time there's isn't that many people in there, it's only during botted events, and who can say if those players actually spent anything in the game, SAC codes at least require you to buy something before they pay themif some parent let their kid spend 60 dollars for a random brainrot then by all means get scammed even if it shouldn't have been implemented in my opinion, but you can't go back now
>>561363529>none of the battle pass emotes have lego versionslego is next on the chopping block
>>561363454I don't give a fuck about Spider-man and Darth Vader. I want Meow Skulls, Lennox Rose and the other cute girl skins.
>stw update also happens to be when fortnite is absolutely going to shitkek my sides
>>561363268Happy knowing he's scanning every post to get mad at. India is so funny it should get nuked
>>561361753guh!>>561360779bro is so mindfucked after supporting jews his entire life he's using jew worship as an insultSAD!~
>>561363336We're at a major inflection pointLots of "If' that if they go a certain way would be extremely prosperous to the WestIf Venezuela turns into a cooperative country, its a massive economic boostIf the Cuban communist regime falls and the people take it back, it'll be huge And if Iran's terror regime is obliterated and we get a more cooperative leader then, it'll be hugeYou can hate the personal character of the President all you want but admire that he took massive risks for the tremendous benefit of the world and the West.
>>561363627this isn't true, the battle pass UI is just bugged to not always show them. go check your locker, they have lego versions.
>>561363579Yeah and your a minority thats why Epic makes copes instead of giving people what they want, how many times do we have to go over this
Gaming industry is in a grave state. Your dev options are basically trans whites or Indians. No in between.
>Trading removed from Rocket League because of the merger with Fortnite ala Rocket Racing>Rocket Racing is now killSooo can they bring it back now or what
>>561351583HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>561363350I got a mrbeast skin, post without hiding my name maybe once a month, and apparently that's enough to be hated just as much as the other mrbeast poster. That appears to be the case.
>>561363627memba fall guys x fortnite i memba
>>561363697Bro if those third worldies were any good they wouldn't need Amerigolems to fix their problems. Ew
i just want to have fun playing video games
>>561351583creator of replay mode btw, those celebrating this are retards
>>561363116Asa bwo we won?
>>561363705nigga looks like a foreskin covered penis
Your boats leaking, need some help?
>>561363932>>561357812
I can't contribute to this discussion because I don't have the right ishowspeed reaction gifs for it :(
>>561364007EPIC IS WINNING STEAM IS DYING
>>561363901You can. None of this matters it’s just terminally online people getting upset over things they can’t control. Fortnite will still function as normal.
>>561364007he keeps winning
>>561363932Nah anyone could have done thatHe was a faggot that contributed to the shitty culture of slop skins we have now.
>>561359279Oh now i’m glad this furfaggot got firedFucking homos ruin everything
>>561363823You broke some unwritten rules of /fng/Never use male skinYou get double Disapproval points from the fact that its a male Icon skin"Using a male skin? Obviously you want to fuck that dude"It also doesn't help that it's MrBeast whom has a poster here who wants to blow him already
Epic, wanna know how to make money again?1.STOP PAYING THE UEFN creators money2.Make skins sexy, thigh,ass,tits jiggle and people will slave paypig for them (this applies to male skins too)3.Collab freeze, chill with spending money on that for a while. The GoT collab was notneeded at all4.???????5.Profit
gameplay of the skins
>>561364208he was one of the main coders and debuggers retard
>>561363529How the fuck is this gonna work? Brick Life only? I can barely keep my custom lego vehicles stable and intact in Odyssey
Don't really know who this is but expect emotes to change in some way.
>>561363537Because people here are genuinely low IQ and need someone to be angry at and blame all their sexual frustration at.
>>561363454It's almost like Fortnite players are fucking stupid
>>561364007actiblizz, ubisoft and EA all came crawling back eventually. how long do you think it'll be until fortnite releases on steam?you think they'll start slow by sheepishly releasing alan wake 2 or are they just gonna dump it all at once?
>>561364335Sucks to skip on lolas thin waist and big ass
>>561364352>make your main coder and debugger a retarded faggot that people are calling a creepYeah this shit was doomed from minute one
>>561364335>Bugs bunnyyyy, where aaaare you??
>>561363454...i want visitor.
>>561364401didn't they buy that company with an AI that translated videos to rig animations? they're just going to rip tiktoks directly now that's it
>>561364485>some obsessed incels from /vg/>"people"enjoy your dead dogshit game but hey at least epic can payout another 500 million to save the brainrot
>furry homo gets laid off>/fng/ considers this a huge win/fng/ is healing
I think I speak for everyone who isn't a suck up retard when I say Tim Sweeney should neck himself
>>561363454I need Helsie and Haylee Skye
>v-buck price increase>1000 employees laid offExactly HOW MUCH in debt is Timmy from all these collabs?
I think I speak for everyone here when I say Joni is the cutest fortnite girl
>>561364659It really is hilarious the amount of faggots here acting like this news is a good thing and not that this shit is about to go from bad to worseHow utterly cucked can you possibly be
FurBros eating good, we NEED Sylvester the Cat's sexy ass next
>>561364767
>>561364287it's always nice to have a skin that makes some random schizo go fuming, extra valueif anything I feel bad for the guy that was waiting for a mrbeast skin and its been almost 2 years since his last appearence
>>561358064have you ulpoaded it somewhere?I'd like to give you credit if possible when I'll reupload it over socials
I know we are in a serious situation right now but unrelated, but you are getting the Huntr/x meal next Tuesday, right?
>>561364719i know doing a game of thrones collab this long after it ended is cringe and all that, but can we stop pretending collabs are costing them the bulk of their money? they're MAKING most of the money. epic isn't going to disney and WB and begging THEM for the privilege of putting 10 year old washed up pop culture into fortnite. they're asking epic to do it.
>>561364352Who cares? The UI went to shit, bugs kept staying in while exploits and things that benefited players got patched in seconds >>561359279He was apart of that, the faggot can get fucked, im sure him being that high up he also was influential to how the skins looked too. And we see how the preferential treatment is on full display>>561351989I understand he was good at his job. Plenty people are. Whatever else he brought to that company during his time only brought about this current situation, faggot made his own bed by being apart of the cabal that catered to faggots and fursonas.
>>561350982>>561351009that brown kid and muscle mommy both just became uber og
>>561364925My mickeydees closed due to black teens trashing the place, so no
>"No, AI isn't the reason 1000 employees are being laid off">Majority of the layoffs are coders or other shit timmy's been bragging about AI replacing for months nowYep, it's cooked
>>561362839Still so fucking crazy they had a whole fall guys basketball mode for ????? reasons and killed it after a few weeks
we should all kill ourselves
>>561364373I would assume it works just like the cars in BR but in Lego formAs for modes, I would 100% say brick life, not sure about everything else
>>561365113Considering all the bugs we have right now these 1000 code monkeys are all shit at what they do anyway
>>561358254I'm definitely buying both for sure
>>561364007Getting players isn’t the problem it’s that Tim and who ever his yes men do are fucking retarded. Like why the fuck do they keep testing shit putting millions into mode then jus kill them off
>>561365363Yeah, but chances are things will only get worse with AI vibe coding and yes-manning at the helm
AIgods... I kneel...
>>561365321YOU DONT WANT AI CONCEPT ART???
>>561365321Tim is the most incompetent piece of shit out there, isn't he? Fucker whinges about Steam taking too much out of developers' wallets and then he does THIS shit.
Here's one for us Rocket cucks in the roomI'm surprised there was a community manager knowing how little communication we get here in RL-land.Also I'm hearing the big man himself, Devin Conners, was affected as well but can't confirm on that yet.
I will always find it funny how many corpo cocksuckers Epic has
>>561365736Well yeah. He's projecting all of his internal contrarianism onto Gaben expecting him to eventually validate said contrarianism
how hard was harmonix/festival hit by the layoffs?
>Rocket Racing, which could have been salvaged if anyone with a brain was in charge, was shelved.>Ballistic, which was an awful idea to begin with, was shelved.>Festival auxillary modes, like Battle/Party, was shelved. It's a good start.
>>561364287or don't care what retarded schizos on /fng/ think lmaooo
>Warner bros comes back to Fortnite >Game goes to absolute shitWhat is it with this companyAlso quit your job timmy
>>561358254>Daffy has a bigger ass than Chun-Li, Kaiju Kafka and the waifu sweat skins>Lola's coloring is based on shitty WB Store merch and Baby Looney TunesWhat does WB mean by this?
>>561358254GUHHHHH MMM DADDY DUCK
vbucks price hikes? GNARLYlayoffs? that's GNARLYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1sThfaFkx8
>>561358254Lola's really cute, and Daffy's absolute dumpy WILL be eliciting post-ironic guhposting
>>561365562>ch7s2Shit>ch6s3Meh good artsyle>Simpsons MapOkay thats based. Really liked that map.>kept Dojas body but hid her tits Booooo bitch be gone
>>561365958>no song announcement todayIdk man I wanna believe but it's looking grim
>>561365736Tim Sweeney has tried for so long to make people see him as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg when in reality he was already like those 2 people, a money hungry pedophile loser.
So tim's master plan for the future of this game is to fire as many employees as possible and have everything be dogshit squirted out by AI to maximise funnelling money into cash cups, giveaways and uefn slopmaps?
>>561366149Doja could have had a Chun body with cleavage and that skin still would have sucked, both the styles looked like utter shit
How old is Timmy? Could it be possible he has dementia or some other mind-impairing condition? Huntington's?
daffy and lola look good, I wish they could fix bugs
>>561366397he's come down with a case of FuckingRetarded syndrome
>>561366397It’s actually even worse. He’s highly autistic.
>>561364007FUCK YOU GABEN YOU OLD FARTUGH*fires legal team so I can FIGHT YOU personally*
Today we’re laying off over 1000 Epic employees. I'm sorry we're here again. The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded. 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. Some of the challenges we're facing are industry-wide challenges: slower growth, weaker spending, and tougher cost economics; current consoles selling less than last generation's; and games competing for time against other increasingly-engaging forms of entertainment. And some of our challenges are unique to Epic. Despite Fortnite remaining one of the most successful games in the world, we’ve had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with every season; we're only in the early stages of returning to mobile and optimizing Fortnite for the world's billions of smartphones; and in being the industry's vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers.1/2
>>561364503>not writing it as bugsthfake ass secondary
>>561366645No amount of autism could warrant this much self destructive myopic-term "investiture" and absurdly inflated-yet-paper-thin ego
>>561366812 Since it's a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren't related to AI. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can. What we now need to do is clear: build awesome Fortnite experiences with fresh seasonal content, gameplay, story, and live events; accelerate developer tools with greater stability and capability as we evolve from Unreal Engine 5 and UEFN to Unreal Engine 6. And we'll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year.This isn't our first time being here. Epic survived upheavals in 1990's with the move from 2D to 3D with Unreal 1; in the 2000's building console games with Gears of War; and in 2012 moving to online gaming with Paragon and Fortnite. Each time, we rebuilt our foundations and earned a renewed leadership position.Market conditions today are the most extreme we've seen since those early days, with massive upheaval in the industry accompanied by massive opportunity for the companies that come out as winners on the other side. That's what we're aiming to do for our players, and we aim to bring other like-minded developers in the industry along on the journey to build an increasingly open and vibrant future of entertainment together.At Epic, we pride ourselves in only hiring the industry's best, so it is very painful to part with so many talented people. The folks impacted by the layoffs will receive a severance package that includes at least four months of base pay, with more based on tenure. We’re also extending Epic-paid healthcare coverage.For example, in the U.S., they’ll receive paid coverage for 6 months. We’ll also accelerate their stock options vesting through January 2027 and extend equity exercise options for up to two years.We'll have a company meeting Thursday to talk about the roadmap in more detail.-Tim
>Spent millions of dollars on garbage nobody wants (UEFN creator slop) instead of good content for the MAIN GAME>Be surprised you're not winning as much moneyAnd even then, this is fucking retarded. These retards make BILLIONSB I L L I O N S of dollars everywhere, how fucking retarded and greedy can corpos get? What the fuck do you even do with that amount of money at some point?
>>561365363>acting like replacing the good coders slowly with H1Bs and AI wasn't degrading the code over the past 2 yearsretard
Tim sweeney is a bald retard
>>561366812>>561366954I'm sure Tim releasing 100 more games for free on epic games store will really help with this
>>561366993>What the fuck do you even do with that amount of money at some point?Sit on it??????????
>Clix and NickEh30 caused so much harm to Epic that they had to layoff 1000 people.Lol. Oh I'm laffin.
>>561366672Let's work out a Gordon Freeman skin for your grossing product service.
>festival getting fully shelved is now a possibility>even more so than it was beforeFesties... I'm scared...
>>561367205Pick up the shotgun and put on the gimpsuit, sweety
>>561367205since the music pass is hard coded into crew I think it'll stick around for a minute. >tim sweeney trying to find someone to manage epic's finances be likehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MqpgkW6Suk
>>561366330Ultimately the final say lies with the collaborator we saw them cuck to Loserfruit and hand her a huge ass and Kim K and add cleavage, it's a shame we got a Doja Collab during her uggo run when she wanted people to take her "serious" as an artist instead of her Planet Her days
UEFN killed fortnite
I forgot how much fun Rocket League was. If only they actually fixed the bugs that have been in the game for 4 months, pretty sure it was even longer at that. Fuck Epic Games with Satan's pike. When the entire game goes EoS I won't miss it.
>>561367205if festival gets shelved they better refund all purchases of jam tracks (they won't)
Here's some QRTs regarding /ourguy/, Evan>FNCS caster>youtuber, part of the "Small FN YouTube kabal" with the likes of Klarqe, Clen, LOOTSTATION, & Scyan>random shitter>UEFN creator
I don't think sunk cost can save me now
>create a shitty map that minimizes creative effort and maximizes gains>get paid for it by epic themselves>cause a real person to lose their jobPsshh... Nothin personnel kid
>punishing their employees for bad executive decisions lol
>>561367481furgods...hold me...i'm scared...
>Community Manager>Janitor>Pet caretaker>Chef
>>561367205Go buy DJMax Respect, it's on sale for $10
So... now what?
>>561367205Not the biggest loss
>>561367495I played WoW for like 20 years, so I know a thing or two about being duped into playing slop by a corporation.what other games do you guys play?
>>561367737>anime girl front and centerI'll stick to clone hero for free thanks
>>561367824Kenobreen hated that
Ivan
>>561357423bugs gooney
>>561367481>"A lot of things could start breaking">"Soon"The game was falling apart at the seams all through chapter 6 this isn't anything new
>>561367205I thought it was just the battle mode that was being removed?
>>561367824I mean, it seems so for the Guitar Hero/Rock Band community
>>561367936Don't even know who's that fag
bruni
>>561368058Nah, they could move to Clone Hero, like all the normal people have.Wel already go the best things amyways, those being Migu and Gorillaz. Anything else would be just filler
>>561368063You should
>>561367481Kek imagine if fortnite actually gets better and they fix the horrible emote wheel and UI locker bullshit lmao would instantly make this unregrettable.
There is this webm roaming /pol/ about employees spending hours in the workplace cafeteria for hours and doing nothing, the layoffs remind me of this. See if someone can find it.
They got what they fucking deserved
A reminder for us Rocketfags and tradingfags
Tim Sweeney on his way to fucking speedrun the tanking of Epic Gameshttps://youtu.be/flcnIVDCnFA
>>561367481>Evan is like Fortnite's internal backbonemore like getting his internal back blown out
Fortnite will shutdown in 2028screenshot this
they could have just not vbucks price hikes and put toy story and breaking bad in the item shop already -_-epic so retarded
>>561365321>google her name to see what kinda art she was doing>nothing, only a post on linkedin about #latinxworkers
Remember we have a marvel season next too
>>561368797WE DONT CARE
>>561368797>they are starting to expose epic nowoooh this is gettin good! spill the tea sis
>>561368704It is quite perplexing they didn’t change the vbuck model and axe a bunch of employees at different times. Really bad PR for the game the last few months.
Apparently only cheap indian labor remains working in Fortnite and the art and environment department of Fortnite is set to be fully replaced with AI, and of course Epic will keep working with creative creators to ensure they will get full monetary support from Fortnite
>>561368867One must imagine the cute poodle happy
>>561352150Should've been an israeli map thief goy lmao
>>561368867Truthnuke alert. I would buy her on sight. Especially so if she looked like that.
>>561367142can I get a qrd? I haven't been paying attention to this shit lately?
>>561368867Never ever
>>561368221Why should i?>>561368867Hope she comes out before Epic dies
>>561351583>>561353228Did that fat cow bitch of a woman he defended get fired too?
>>561369083he's implying that because clix and people like nick eh 30 turning BR into a sweaty compfest that people are not playing. there's that COD guy on the dev time (if he's still hired) who was making the game more gunslop than usual. there are a lot of other reasons why people would be turned off by fortnite rn tho besides the sweatiness of it but that is a factor for sure. my casual gamer friends aren't grinding rivalries thats for sure
Uh oh
>>561369423ok so what did he do?
>>561369385oh that sounds awful
>>561369385it is true that BR playtime has gone down in 2025 by like 30%, many factors for this. epics trying to get that back. but doing stuff like scams is going to really turn off the main core community they were trying to build for years. its sad how far they fallen just since like the simpsons season wtf is going on bts at epic
>>561368058Oh, fuck off. I've seen enough lore hero episodes to know that none of them gave a fuck about Festival or battle stage. Good memories nice, but there's a reason nobody played it.
>>561355414>fire everyone that actually makes the game function>don’t touch any of the redundant management Epic needs a complete corporate restructuring to actually be a functional company and we all know that isn’t happening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssnw2GA657s
>>561369083Not them but epic flew out a bunch of compfags and streamers to give them suggestions or changes they could add and most of the gameplay changes like the shit with shockwaves and basically everything they changed with ranked rewards they had some hand in if not directly responsible for
>>561369681Maybe the world isn't ready for sexually charged rabbits
>>561369768Listening to compfags is the quickest way to kill your game. Look at what happened with Meet your Match in TF2 if you ever need a perfect example
>>561367481They sound very biased and I have no way of knowing if what they're saying is objective truth, so I will choose not to believe that he was the "internal backbone" of the game.
>>561369693
>>561368797Tim should layoff people more. What benefit is this?
>>561369654This. All these faggot rhythm game content creators never played festival. They just stick to playing clone hero TTFAF 400% speed and if a song/chart is any easier than that it's garbage.I've seen random people playing festival on fucking TikTok live who give more of a shit about the mode than these fags.
>>561369768Another game I play started doing this shit and it fucking sucksPeople who make money from making 'content' about these games have completely different incentives from normal people
Don't think I've ever seen a company self-sabotage themselves this badly for seemingly no reason
>>561277235Hope they didn't fire her.I'd recognize that body shape, that's 100% latina.
reminder that after the vbucks price increase (and removing bp vbucks)they gave creators 3x earnings to get them to shut upand it workedwhat the actual fuck
>>561367481>The game ran because of himI doubt this claim since Fortnite from 2017 and now still runs like ass. Remember how hurdling was vaulted at the launch of Chapter 4 and it didn't returned until Chapter 5? I do.
>>561370295>no reason at allHey man, Google and Apple aren’t going to sue themselves for $800 million. Someone has to do it.
>All these seething tranniesPathetic, really.AI will take over and we will get less gay shit in the game.It's a new dawn. A new era.
>>561370295TRUSTTHEPLAN
>>561369898They were the "internal backbone" likely just out of being there the longest and the only one there that could use shit like picrel and avoided being replaced by Jeetgpt till now
>>561369521he was involved in the decision for the battle stage debuff to look like jizz all over your notes
As we approach #750, let's end the thread with are good ol' friend ThisIsCaulk and his two cents on the matter
>>561370801I hate his pfp so much
>>561370489Shut the fuck up Timmy you fat bald yandere retard
>>561370801>Continues spending money on Fortnite lol
>>561370635Evan was the key to all of this
>>561370635Where is a cs guy who can confirm whether this actually makes a difference or not. Is it too big of a deal to get into a new job with code you didn't write. Isn't all cs pretty much that.
>>561370635I like how all these Twitter accounts are acting like he’s the sole dev they had.
>>561370910shitnas make people think he's le blue hair shitty arcane girl
I feel bad for all of the epic devs fired even the retards. but I do wonder, how will this impact the future of fortnite skins now that Evan isn't there? people earlier were saying he was responsible for all the furry skins (i doubt).
springfieldbros
>>561365090cinder's alt style is one of the sexiest skins in the game (for sickos like me)
Yeah festies, it's light's out for us
remember when tim said this?
>>561370910all grim adventures fags are mentally ill, no one normal looks back on a disgusting morbid show like that with good feelings, same with ren and stimpy faggot boomers
>>561370635Would be very retarded by everyone involved, Evan included, to use a system that depends on the know-how of literally a single person without teaching anyone else how to use it. So retarded, in fact, that I don't believe in this possible "extreme amount of issues" coming from the mouths of emotional Xitter users.
I love how all these retards tweeting about the layoffs keep ending their tweets saying "what the hell is wrong with the industry?"its because theres too many fucking employees, epic is overemployed
>>561371445>but I do wonder, how will this impact the future of fortnite skins now that Evan isn't there? The will outsource it like they have been doing since 2011. They did a GDC about it.https://youtu.be/M5OqT0rRv_k?si=svaKemk0LrxdvOQM
I'm enjoying seeing epic games get whats coming to them on X and this spicy tea. wishing all these devs the best. fortnite is cooked. fuck you tim
>>561370635If he's REALLY that important he'll get rehired
>>561370967He stopped afaik with ch7's reveal
>>561371471>she was behind lawless and wrecked>the simpsons map which was fun even if ugly>responsible for making that fun demon hunters modeWow so they fired a decent worker, guess all that money into israel is worth it huh timmy
>>561370635if he really was the only one and the stuff he did is important then he'll be back which pretty much means he's set for life since he's the one with all the knowledge and epic can't afford to fire him then
>>561360573i dont think most anons like the layoffs, its just an opportunity for ragebait and anons like ragebait more than anything.layoffs are always done by the finance guys, and the finance guys always preserve themselves at the cost of designers and other creative fields. fortnite will become more boring than ever, they won't fix the engagement issue, and the finance guys will suck the company dry before selling the game to a PE fund or a chinese data harvester.
>>561371879Um... About that....>>561092419
>>561371686yep. i've been noticing a downgrade in skin quality for a while now.
>>561371519Legitimately how has none of his employees shot him yet?>>561372094He looks like skinny LTG? What the fuck, why's he larping as a white art kid.
>>561371879He bought the fucking PEAK bundle lol. Granted, he bought it with V-bucks prior to the prior to the price increase but he still bought it. His entire channel is him paypigging in Fortnite.
>>561352798Only Odyssey and Festival as base modes had people stick around. Lego Brick Life was a failure to launch, Jam Stage has always been downright nothing besides people fucking around or getting quests and idle XP done, Ballistic was dead in the cradle after they fucked up so hard they removed non-ranked and then everyone realized it only had one map, Rocket Racing always sucked, etc. Nearly the entirety of their ideas of player engagement through their non-BR modes failed almost right out of the gate, especially in trying to compete with other games for the same genres.
>>561372046I worked at a place that did something stupid like that once. They wanted to get rid of me despite me being the only person working on a business process that our clients paid for. They ended up reinstating me before my 30 days were up.
>>561372046You're forgetting something, Tim is a retard who thinks he's responsible for everything in his game's success. >>561372470Did you quit?
>>561372272They get severance packages.
>>561372094Peak is like $5 atm and they didn't translate the friendslop gremlins that well
>>561372701This one >>561368797 already severed his package.
>>561372784saw a post saying how the game costs like 3x less than the skin bundle
>>561372796lol
>>561351583Keep flushing out these actis off companies. Their era ended. Even talks like a fag.
>>561351009>Rocket Racing leaves in October>So we're shutting the quests down next week, no xp grinding for youFuck off. "This" is the reason they're putting down Rocket Racing? What a fucking joke of a company.
>>561372796
>>561373058>>561373058>>561373058
>>561372583Nah the job market sucks so I stayed but I halfassed my work from that day on since I figured they'd get rid of me later on which they did.
>>561363454I just want Piper Pace.
>>561373117Job?If it's what I think it is, what school did you go to?I'm going to college for CS, but it's not a top school, it's a mediocre state school. I'm concerned about landing a job related to programming. Maybe I'm online too much
>>561367569you forgot:>lives in Israelchecks out
>>561358262Will do. All I need is Wolfie, Cate, Meowskulls, and Kimiko.
>>561358254I'm just thrown off by the eyes.
speculation: during round 1 of layoffs in 2023 they actually wanted to lay off twice as many people, but a compromise was made between directors because it happened at a time when so many new modes were freshly released.the directors left enough employees to keep the new modes running but not enough to actively develop them, so they withered away, and now they can point to low engagement and lack of shipped features to fully kill off the teams.
>>561373365I went to a mediocre state school too, I just happened to luck into that job and then it turned to shit as the company grew. The job market is so this that I figure firing off a ton of resumes is probably not going to be how I land another job, I'm probably going to try the nepo route.
>>561368797I love seeing DEI hires not survive the end of the woke era.
>>561370801Reminder that iTalk was on a boycott but broke it with Peak.
Let's kill Fujimoto
>>561374323wrong thread but yeah
>>561368867I never cared about this bitch and I think she's overrated.
>>561369693>go make dinner, dear, I'm with our daughter...
>>561374275My mom is a clerk for a hospital but she can only recommend. I've made small projects, but at least it's nice to see school doesn't matter much such that you know what you're doing (even if I'm a beginner still)
>>561369693Wolfie mom and dad
>>561375205Experience definitely beats qualifications for entry level roles, the hard part is proving your experience and skipping all the stupid resume spamming and mutli-round interview humiliation rituals
>>561376573What did you do to secure an internship?On my GitHub, all I have are small video game coding mods.
>>561360840sad state when all the muslim iranian leaders were 100x whiter than you
>got a intuit turbotax fortnite ad on youtube
>>561376854I found a startup that was hiringstartups can be a real shitshow depending on their funding so it's a gamble going that route
>>561377845was this in your jobfairs or did you apply cold
>>561378390they put out an ad with some autistic requirements and I applied anywayI don't plan on doing that shit again with the way things are now
I wonder if there's any chance they'll add Rocket Racing to Rocket League. At least this makes it less likely that they'll try to shove RL and Fall Guys into Fortnite. We really don't need more bloat.
>>561381334I believe they would to basically make the game mode again because rocket league is still on unreal engine 3
>>561367481https://youtu.be/kPIdRJlzERo
>>561359279Notice how he says "Winter break" instead of Christmas holidays.
