News Epic Games Store

Epic Games Pins ‘Fortnite’ Comeback on Disney Partnership

The company is pinning a resurgence on games it’s been developing with Walt Disney Co., which agreed to invest $1.5 billion in Epic two years ago. Epic is on track to launch the first game in its new Disney partnership in November, according to four current and former employees. It will be a shooting game along the lines of Embark Studios’ hit Arc Raiders, but with Disney characters battling enemies until they can reach an extraction point, according to the people. So far, internal reviewers have expressed concerns that the game mechanics are not very original, but some of the employees are optimistic that Epic will get it right by the launch date.

The Disney deal will reap at least two more games, the people said. Early versions of the second title received middling internal reviews, according to two of the people. Resources for the third game were reallocated to the first two after reports that Disney was disappointed by Epic’s release timeline.
Click to expand...

Putting your eggs in the Disney basket and hoping it will save you is also a major choice. They constantly collaborated with Disney and its IPs, sure maybe not Mickey and the gang, but I really doubt they can attract much more of the Disney audience who were not attracted by all the other collabs over the years.

And who the heck wants a Disney Extraction shooter? I swear, Epic sees what is popular and copies it without understanding why its popular. It worked out extremely well for FN, but I do not think they really understand how or why it did there some days, or at least, the leadership/executive level does not...
 
  • Like
Reactions: fearthedawn, Ge0force, lashman and 3 others

Epic Games Pins ‘Fortnite’ Comeback on Disney Partnership​


The company is pinning a resurgence on games it’s been developing with Walt Disney Co., which agreed to invest $1.5 billion in Epic two years ago. Epic is on track to launch the first game in its new Disney partnership in November, according to four current and former employees. It will be a shooting game along the lines of Embark Studios’ hit Arc Raiders, but with Disney characters battling enemies until they can reach an extraction point, according to the people. So far, internal reviewers have expressed concerns that the game mechanics are not very original, but some of the employees are optimistic that Epic will get it right by the launch date.
Click to expand...
Resources for the third game were reallocated to the first two after reports that Disney was disappointed by Epic’s release timeline.
Click to expand...
Epic routinely released products in what some employees called “Version 0.5,” the people said, suggesting they were only half ready.
Click to expand...
Users would frequently log onto the store for Epic’s free game promotions before bouncing back to Steam, said two former employees with knowledge of store operations. Epic said it’s reinvesting in and improving the store and looks forward to when it launches across all platforms.
Click to expand...
Last year, the Epic Games Store attracted a record 78 million monthly active users on PCs, and player spending on non-Epic games reached $400 million, according to the company. That was “lower than our growth expectations at launch,” according to Markman, but the company is “committed to making improvements to the store and to the economic opportunity for developers to grow it further.” The company’s store for mobile users has 50 million installs, according to Epic — half of what the company had hoped to achieve by the end of 2024. Apple’s “scare screens and barriers” made it “intentionally hard for players to download an alternative app store in the [European Union],” Markman said. Today, the store’s scale is “in line with our expectations,” but expansion will depend on Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems opening up, she said.
Click to expand...
Two developers said Epic routinely mass-deleted the company’s backlog of bug reports despite them not being resolved.
Click to expand...
Sweeney, who is also deeply involved in day-to-day operations, was known to change his priorities quickly, which sometimes left employees scrambling to deliver products on time, or in a polished state.
Click to expand...

E: not fast enough
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ge0force, lashman, Arc and 1 other person
Pinning your company on a Disney extraction shooter sounds like the most Epic thing possible. The article mentions that feedback has been average and that the game is unoriginal.

They're nothing but a bunch of trend chasers and have been like that their entire existence. They got lucky once with battle royale taking off due to PUBG running like ass and its weird console release and I don't know if lightning can strike twice.
 
  • This!
Reactions: Nebulys, Ge0force, lashman and 1 other person
Someone brought up a good point about it being a Star Wars extraction shooter. It could also be Marvel, Alien, Predator, or Aliens vs Predator (vs Humans).

There was an extraction shooter called Level Zero Extraction that came out previously that had the concept of multiple humans roaming around and collecting loot while trying to evade AI controlled aliens and 2 human controlled aliens that had unlimited lives. I could see an extraction game with humans vs 1 xenomorph vs 2 predators or something
 
Either she got let go for doing a terrible job firing notable senior devs and having a PR blunder with the terminally ill person, or she got a golden parachute for doing a job well done.
 
  • Like
Reactions: lashman
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom