I wonder if their new headquarters will ever get built. It was supposed to be completed uhh...this year, but AFAIK they haven't even started construction. I did some Googling and the most recent thing I could find was from 6 months ago where they were still arguing with the city of Cary about zoning.
Guess the cheque from Epic Games finally run out if PC gamer is posting headline like this
PC Gamer chose violence.
I wonder if their new headquarters will ever get built. It was supposed to be completed uhh...this year, but AFAIK they haven't even started construction. I did some Googling and the most recent thing I could find was from 6 months ago where they were still arguing with the city of Cary about zoning.
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After hundreds of layoffs and Fortnite player numbers being at all time highs (alongside a V-Bucks price increase), Epic still isn't profitable.
Funny thing is their biggest success the past several months has been Reload which is simply a variant of the main mode. Heck if not for that mode, their player numbers would be nearly flat YoY which says more about the dismal state of their metaverse than anything else.
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I still think, that for the kind of payments one does on phone apps (mostly) being so low (a few bucks) people won't bother going to another site and enter their payment information (this is one of the hardest things to get people to do on online sales). The rest of things, we'll see how they shake up (and how google, like apple, will try to skirt as much as possible).
The fucking irony of Epic getting a judge to say that another company cannot do this is mindblowing.
I believe it means that (for example) Amazon's app store will carry google apps like gmail, maps and such. Basically that Google can't withhold its apps from rival app stores.
Most of the remedies are reasonable, but the one where Google must allow the entire Play Store catalogue to be accessible on third party stores (and is opt-in by default) is, pardon my French, batshit insane.
Google giving the illusion of being an open platform while simultaneously locking down competition was their downfall. That and destroying evidence before the trial probably didn't help.
Uh, this seems kind of a technical nightmare.
Whoops.
I remember that the game launched on steam, and like a week later it was already discounted. That makes me think to this day, that something didn't work as expected.
Rocking Racing won't be getting any more official updates and is basically dead.
