Epic Games laid off over 800 people a year ago, following what CEO Tim Sweeney confessed was an "unrealistic" period of…

I love how even the author has no idea what they’re talking about because it’s just a soup of buzzwords.

  • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    14 hours ago

    share vision of a metaverse spanning “Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite”

    They’ll erode the popularity of all three with this shit. You have a hen that lays golden eggs? We have one too! Let’s smash them at the speed of sound and hope it results in a megachicken that lays eggs double in size.

  • sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    45·
    2 days ago

    The metaverse of children stealing their parents’ credit cards for in app purchases.

  • SkyNTPEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    Am I the only one tired by all these franchises constantly rehashed to death?

    • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      Nobody is brave enough to spend 8 years and 400 million dollars developing a new IP that may crash.

      • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        You know what I liked? That Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie with Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law, where Arthur is raised as a street orphan thug who kind of creates his own little criminal empire.

  • ulkesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    2 days ago

    I long for the day when CEOs and companies get their heads out of their asses and stop pushing this “metaverse” nonsense.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      The idea is to get people into your walled garden and then milk them for everything it’s worth. Roblox does a good job gaming wise… kids spend hours playing many different games but never leave Roblox. So the hunt for the solution that can improve on this, is on. If you can get people to order their groceries from within your walled garden and take a cut… you’re golden.

      • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        If you can get people to order their groceries from within your walled garden and take a cut… you’re golden.

        That’s what Amazon tried with Alexa, and they still can’t figure out how to make it profitable.

        • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          For sure… but this is like chasing the dream. And in china they have an everything app… so … they keep pooring billions into these bottemless pits.

          Edit: I also think most people don’t trust corporations to get them the best deal. So if you ask Amazon to get you product X … they will fuck you on price.

  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    3 days ago

    OP bashed the author/article, but it seems to be a fair synopsis of the Verge article its based on.

    This was a cool line from the original article:

    The upcoming “persistent universe” Epic is building with Disney is an example of the vision. “We announced that we’re working with Disney to build a Disney ecosystem that’s theirs, but it fully interoperates with the Fortnite ecosystem,”