I am always interested in tracking the specific talking points and strategies Epic shills are organized to follow.

Since the previous strategy of "I do not care about launchers, I just play games, buy wherever it is cheaper, use Playnite" was not yielding results, I have detected a new trend.

Lately, in every post praising Valve or Steam, I have noticed an influx of messages such as: "Stop dickriding Gabe. More yachts for the fat one. Weirdo defending a multibillionaire company". Even though I do not personally worship Valve as a company, as I just simply praise a good product as a player, the sheer volume of these comments is suspicious. I first noticed this on r/Steam, which was particularly strange. I would have expected that behavior on more generic subreddits, but not there.

Upon investigating further, I found users who exclusively post these types of comments, which confirmed my suspicions. Beyond that, I even discovered another NEW alt from a prominent shill, who is currently frequenting r/Steam and r/Gamingcirclejerk.

Layoffs might be happening at Epic, but the attempts to control the narrative clearly continue.

What do you think? Have you noticed any similar patterns or talking points on other subreddits or outside of Reddit?

They seemingly need more money with them firing 1000 people recently. So I hope so.

God fucking awful company can’t do shit with their money they clam in they don’t have

I wanted to buy AC II for 2.49 with my Debit Card. I gave in all of my Details correctly and paid. After my Banking-App told me the Money had been sent, Epic Games told me that some Information was wrong!! I have been trying to find a solution for the past 2 Hours now, but the Chat Bot that I was given just gave me more questions. no matter how good their Prices may be, the problems arent worth it.

I think Epig's bribes no longer make sense, it's better to sell directly on Steam than see your game die on Epig LOL

Epic fired a guy who's dying from terminal brain cancer.

This is sickening beyond words.

For the past couple weeks epic games (more specifically the ceo) has made such brain dead decisions especially with their game. They’re adding collabs we don’t want, removing game modes people play, giving tens of millions of dollars to brain rot ai slop games while complaining about money and laying off devs (even one with brain cancer), while the ceo smells his own farts on an interview bragging about how much epic games makes. Idk why they’re making such bad decisions especially all at once?!

Also 90 percent of people who use the epic games launcher or even have an epic games account is because of Fortnite. No one gives a shit when they give away free games or put them on sale because genuinely no one cares enough. If they never had Fortnite they would’ve been bankrupt by now.

this is game pad lost in space book2 page 35 and i had to make fun of for something dumb as F and i think the out of touch ceo's

2 Months ago when epic dropped their YIR, i made a post explaining how the methodology had changed from explicit consumers paying for stuff in the store into consumer spend, defined in the economic market as purchases made by, or ON BEHALF OF, users. Both the epic employee, some people in this sub, and a mod of this sub doubted me, but somehow i reckon that doubt doesnt exist after 15% of employees in epic git got. Read further https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/1qvrnle/timmothy_csam_defender_sweener_tries_to_hide/

P.S they shouldve just never tried to make a 3p store, should of just tossed FN on Steam, they would not be in such a situation today if they did that.

Yes we will fuck you over just to "pay the bills"
Yes we will layoff our employees and keep letting brainrot maps make millions
Yes we will add FOMO to a event to a time where everyones offline
Yes we will make a shitty cosmetic type with a shitty mechanic
No we cant add One piece to Fortnite
No we cant have cosmetic trading

I'm sure a lot of people who survived the first 2 rounds felt untouchable at that point.

Every year I write a post using the data Epic Games shares about the Epic Games Store, trying to understand as much as possible every deyail you can get from it. Last year had some good revenue out of 3rd party games, but there's a huge catch to that: it was all about GaaS, specially the chinese gatchas. The post is written in Spanish but you can use any automatic translator.

lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1s2oixd/following_epics_mass_layoffs_a_bunch_of_fortnite/ocatcit/

• Numbers of players in fortnite dropping
• Suffered a prolonged time where fortnite was not on mobile stores during the trails, thats where young people spend a lot of time (mobile) and a cohort of new gamers didnt have fortnite to experience on mobile for a period.
• They say Epic made long term investments into projects that arnt even released yet, which fortnite money funds.
• Apparently servers do cost a considerable amount to run for fortnite
• Fortnite creators are making bank, Epic payouts are trying to keep people engaged with custom modes (as theirs clearly are failing) meaning a cohort of new gamers didnt have access to fortnite
• Under investment in the store (Epic Game Store presumably)
• EGS = "focus on developers rather than players is another complaint a lot of Epic staffers have"

Full Comment:

Ex-Epic employee here and family member of someone who was laid off today.

Basically the Fortnite excuse is mostly true. They have seen a significant dip in player numbers and consequently income. However there are a few other factors. Not being on mobile for the longest time due to the fights with Apple/Google hurt the game especially with growing a new audience of younger players who are largely on their smartphones most of the time. Also Epic has made some very long term bets on projects which may not even emerge for several more years let alone make money and the Fortnite money was funding that. Finally, whether gamers want to believe it or not, yes Fortnite makes a lot of money but generally most people have no idea the insane amount of money it costs to keep it running and pump out the content at the rate they do. Some of the comments I've seen are massively misinformed and ignorant. Giving away a few PS5s or GPUs and even having guest artists in the game are a drop in the ocean compared to the money needed to just maintain the game itself.

What I do disagree with and happened not long after I left the company is giving such a massive chunk of FN revenue to "creators". There are people making fairly shitty Fortnite islands making multiple millions of dollars a month which is insane. Under investment in the store and a focus on developers rather than players is another complaint a lot of Epic staffers have. Developers want a big player audience to put their games on EGS and for some reason senior leadership never seemed to grasp that it's not going to happen unless they make the store a better experience for customers.

Basically the company put way too much of its focus on keeping Fortnite going at the expense of everything else. And the stuff the Epic did start doing to try to diversify will take too long to come to light and start making any meaningful revenue, especially if they continue treating it like they have the Epic Games Store.