While the scope of layoffs has stunned employees, industry analysts have told IGN that cost-reduction within Epic Games was inevitable amid growing external pressures and costly industry battles.

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    4 hours ago

    We need to go back to the days where video games come to an end. All this live service forever game bullshit is a cancer for the industry, and just incentivizes overt monetization

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      1 hour ago

      i hate this statement, there are currently 543,275,322,871 games. i think fortnite is the only live service game i plau. (recent games i played )

      alan wake 2

      baldurs gate 3

      cyberpunk

      doom dark ages

      (i am not going to go on and on, but thosenwere some very popular games.)