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| Will Epic Games Lead the New Internet Era? |
| 2022-12-15 |
| [ZeroHedge] Long before Mark Zuckerberg’s rebranded Facebook, this company has been musing about the notion of metaverse. Similar to how Amazon was associated with a bookstore in 1999, Epic Games is currently known as a gaming company because of the success of Fortnite. However, is it truly a gaming company? Let’s dive into the perspectives of one of the most promising players of the Metaverse and Web3 race. ALL SET TO STORM THE METAVERSE While some just shake the air with the word “Metaverse”, others have been paving their way to it for years and are now far ahead. Epic Games is best known for creating the wildly popular game Fortnite, as well as the Unreal Engine, a real-time 3D creation tool. But this is only the tip of Epic’s iceberg. HOW THEY MAKE MONEY: - Games. Epic’s ultra-popular game Fortnite has over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. In 2021 Fortnite generated $5.8B in revenue through in-app purchases. It is estimated that Fortnite currently brings 85-90% of the company's total revenue. - Unreal Engine. This toolbox lets people create interactive things that feel real, even though they're just on a screen. Originally invented to create characters and landscapes for games, Unreal Engine is widely used across industries. Have you seen the new Star Wars series, Mandalorian? West World, Love Death + Robots, Ford vs Ferrari, Harry Potter? Then you’ve seen Unreal Engine’s work. Porsche, Volvo and Rivian all use Unreal Engine to help increase safety and test automated functions. Zaha Hadid Architects incorporated this tech throughout its design process. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Lost an embarrassing amount of time to a hopeless addiction to the UTII demo. Still pop out the occasional "Gawdlike!" or "Killing spree!" |
| Posted by: Solomon Bourbon5424 2022-12-15 23:41 |
| #3 Epic offers free games alot, so along with steam, who are also evil, I shamelessly use them to get free games. Unless they have a massive sale through, I prefer to buy new games directly. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-12-15 22:56 |
| #2 Unreal Tournament was a fav of mine. "Head shot!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-12-15 10:05 |
| #1 Epic is the new Google - "Don't care if we are evil". When they muscled into the game vending market, they adopted tactics that adversely impacted gamers in order to get a larger market share. Considering how they treated existing vendors, publishers and gamers, I wouldn't trust them any more than I trust (or use) Google. As for Fortnite, I don't play online games. I play games to get away from the a$$holes of the world so why would I want to surround myself with them? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-12-15 09:13 |