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Epic Games' plans for Unreal Engine 6 are dividing developers - UE 5 will be unified with Unreal Editor for Fornite (www.creativebloq.com)

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[–] restingboredface 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I know fortnite is a behemoth in gaming and makes about 10 billion gazillion dollars, but it seems like they are putting all their eggs in that basket without any plans for afterward. Every game falls out of style, and fortnite will too eventually. Maybe they're thinking about this internally but it just seems like they are putting themselves in a corner if they don't adequately support UE for non-fortnite use cases.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They see Epic Game Store as constant revitalization, together with free game: the idea is, indie developers come to EGS to have their recognition (like among us, rocket league, lethal company and many other had); once in the EGS will bombard the customs with fortnite deals... in some cases even cloning successful indie game mechanics in fortnite (it did happen with among us). Basically they want to brute force the indie gaming industry in fortnite: the "metaverse" money they all see in roblox (Facebook, google etc.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welcome to American corporate status quo. Short term profits are all that matters. Evidence of unsustainable patterns are ignored because the shareholders demand it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The line must go up.

BLOOD FOR THE LINE GOD!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is better for Fortnite falling out of favour

Now they don’t need two teams working on two engines so when it does fail you aren’t fragmented

But I don’t see the reason for UE6 atm