What an utter dick.
I do have to give him a mole of credit for at least advocateing their quality. But tbh they should just have together into their own studio.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people
Submitted 2 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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FluorideMind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
oh, so he did it for the corporations? nice
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And not a single one of those resumes will be from someone that has any loyalty to EPIC. Those employees won’t give a shit about the company that pays them, just that they get paid.
So EPIC will continue to lose money by paying top dollar for the most unmotivated of employees. The ones who will collect a check to let management make all the creative decisions, and then leave once that inevitably leads to a dumpster fire. Rinse & repeat with the next place that’ll pay more.
Jokes on the EPIC CEO for being so myopic he doesn’t seem to understand the reality of this situation. That he’s about to pay top dollar for the worst employees imaginable: they ones who won’t shake the boat when its clearly already on its way to being capsized.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What are you talking about? EPIC is the one who fired these employees, not the one who is going to receive their resumes. These will be other companies.
Binturong@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Do the shareholders know? I mean actually though, are they watching? How do these CEOs not get removed for annihilating company futures based on speculative bubbles? Microslop is having the exact same issue with their guy… Can they just not see it somehow? How are they being bamboozled?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mass Hirings and Firings are all smoke and mirrors for the shareholders. You do a mass hirings to put on the appearance of growth and you do mass firings to put on the appearance of cuttings costs. None of it’s real and the shareholders don’t seem to care.
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tencent does not care.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
ding ding ding
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember back when this AI Slop jock jagoff was making great games? Feels like an eternity ago.
addie@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Unreal and Unreal Tournament, sure. I feel like all of their many sequels saw a continuous decline in quality, but the originals were great games. Can’t deny that Gears of War has been influential. Epic Pinball and One Must Fall 2097 were good for a laugh for ten minutes, but I can’t help but feel that they’ll have aged badly.
Seems crazy to think that Jill of the Jungle, which is an awful game, is what lined their pockets enough to develop the Unreal engine, and they were riding on the success of that all the way up to Fortnite.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For some reason, I feel disgusted by his smug attitude.
omarfw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As you should be.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Ugh, he’s not epic.
Shouldn’t it be Epics?
lemmyng@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah, Lil’ Timmy, your former employees are about to see a “stream of blood”.
darkmogool@feddit.org 2 months ago
Yeah… I’m so happy I never made an accout…
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
A little irrelevant but I saw a reel saying Tim saves Amazon forests with his own money. Apparently he has bought a lot of land there only for the sole purpose of saving Amazon. Can anyone fact check this?
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Apparently he bought it so he can steal endangered animals and make them fight in a “death arena” in his back garden. Please don’t fact check this, just accept it is true.
MBech@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Wouldn’t be the first time though.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Tim Sweeney: Tiger King, Season 3.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know about the Amazon, but he does own huge amounts of land in North Carolina which he has protected and/or donated to conservation schemes.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Is it that thing where people get paid for not cutting the forest down?
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You could?
But I guess I will.
I can’t find any good source for him having bought Amazon forest. However he seems to be buying and donating wooded land in the Appalachians.
treehugger.com/fortnite-founder-sweeney-invests-m…
www.citizen-times.com/story/news/…/93443704/
thegamer.com/fortnite-creator-epic-founder-time-s…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/129589611.cms
appalachian.org/sahc-south-yellow-mountain-preser…
In that last one he is being thanked for a particularly large land donation.