While the scope of layoffs has stunned employees, industry analysts have told IGN that cost-reduction within Epic Games was inevitable amid growing external pressures and costly industry battles.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    27
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    24 hours ago

    And then they bitch. All. The time. About it.

    We keep choosing the worst possible choices for the customer but the customers are going somewhere else! Why?!?!

    Gonna need captain big brain over here for why Valve has a monopoly.

    • Archer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      20 hours ago

      Gabe Newell has sat back and watched all his competitors shoot themselves in the foot and decided not to do that

    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      23 hours ago

      To be fair, it sure seems to be a pattern that the most anti-consumer, limited crap usually wins these battles. Look at Apple.

      Maybe it’s Sweeney’s personal unlikeability that makes the difference here.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        21 hours ago

        God she’s just not likeable. I’ll admit that she was great in White Lotus, but it’s because she was seemingly just playing herself! She did a great job at being an unlikable brat!

        We just watched “Anyone but you” as a joke, and man what a shit job she did. Ironically she did really great at the beginning of the movie, by the end it was just a trainwreck. Funny enough, I also dislike Glenn Powell, but that movie made me like him more. It was a shit script and he honestly did a pretty good job with it. While there are many better than him, it does take talent to take a shit script and try to make something of it.

        But I mean, her boobs were nice in it. So I guess that’s enough for Hollywood to say that it was in fact a movie.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            19 hours ago

            LOL no shit, I have two separate threads going on, one about Tim Sweeney here and another in /c/movies about Sydney Sweeney! That is amazing, I did not understand why you posted the image but damn, that was stupid of me. I don’t care it stands, and I stand by my opinion of Sydney!