That feeling when you race to the bottom only to eventually… arrive at the bottom.

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    They’ve been doing pretty much everything wrong except Unreal and that one time they got lucky with a failed-game-turned-BR-giant.

    Imagine having 2 money printing machines and still being unable to come out with anything good.

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        The giant BR is likely Fortnite, the Battle Royale part that is the game most people know wasn’t supposed to be the big deal, what is now Save The World was supposed to be the game and BR was just going to be tacked on.

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          Specifics on the “everything wrong” part. I know about their huge successes with fortnite and unreal, i dont know any specific failures

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            Their reboot of Unreal Tournament failed. And so did their moba named Paragon. Arguably, their Fortnite Save the World also failed. Gears of War Judgement had poor sales for a Gears game though that may have been mostly developed by People Can Fly.

            Generally if we ignore Fortnite and Infinite Blade(a mobile game), their last successful game was Gears 3, from 12 years ago. They basically only have Fortnite, Unreal Engine and the Epic store.

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        They cancelled a bunch of games like Paragon and Unreal tournament to feed the Fortnite machine, abandoned the main Fortnite mode they had already sold and then started funneling money at the epic store.

        The epic store at this point has been such a huge loss, exclusivity deals alone are worth millions and not even those managed to get them a user base.

        A company with Fortnite’s and Unreal’s income should not be struggling to make a profit.