Disney invests $1.5bn in Epic Games and announces major Fortnite partnership
Disney invests $1.5bn in Epic Games and announces major Fortnite partnership
The Walt Disney Company has invested $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, and has announced plans for…
Disney in Fortnite, that sounds right. :D You can say about Fortnite what you want, I'm still jealous about the content, support and update they get.
It's a tale of two halves, literally.
(edit: crash course for the uninitiated: Fortnite was a great game, until it launched it's Battle Royale mode - Fortnite then effectively became this game mode, whereas the base game was left to die as Save The World.)
It's a mode that people paid money for, and Epic treat it as a second rate game even though without it, there wouldn't even be this behemoth that Fortnite has become.
Epic have come a long way from Epic MegaGames, and it isn't always a fairytale story I suppose.
Epic have come a long way from Epic MegaGames, and it isn't always a fairytale story I suppose.
Someone here on Lemmy highlighted that quite nicely when Valve dropped their Half Life documentary. Valve embraces their past. They cherish it. They still maintain their old games to honor their success.
Epic on the other hand completely wiped old Unreal titles from the relevant stores and don't give a fuck about supporting any of them. Which is a shame. Also I admire the tech behind of modern Unreal engines, so there are still geniuses at work who are likely passionate. Too bad they essentially only ride the Fortnite train outside their engine development.
Just in response to your edit, Fortnite was interesting on release but was likely never going to see vast popularity. The release of BR was really the only reason sales picked up, and at that point it makes sense to focus on the mode that’s vastly more popular.
I get that it sucks, but if it wasn’t for the pivot to BR full time, STW would likely still be where it is now, only in a dying game.
I'm still jealous about the content, support and update they get
I know what you mean. I play rocket league and they sidelined our devs from working on updates for a whole year (without communication) which left the community thinking it was a UE5 sequel in the works... and then it turned out they were just making a kart style racing game to add to fortnite.
In the mean time, smurfs and bugs are rampant and they've started removing game modes and other features like item trading. -_-
But hey, at least I can make my car look like the mandalorian... if I pay for it.
similar things for fall guys
I don't even know which specific part MT went on to do. All I know is Epic decided to nuke nearly 3/4 of our levels because they couldn't fix playstation bugs or something (proceeds to fire 3/4 of mediatonic, including the guy who made the acclaimed promotional renders) and then canceled seasons. at least they're still working on creative and cosmetics
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Fuck you, Palworld, here comes Donald Duck with a shotgun.
If they aren't already, Apple has got to start feeling akward...
Time for Star Wars season.
Oh no…… Smite should have been in that vid as well