I imagine this is a mix of things. UE5 has officially been out for a while, their biggest competitor just offed themselves, Fortnite's UE editor support is out and thus Fortnite probably doesn't need as many devs now with UGC to pick up the slack, etc.
That's still a huge chunk of people though. Wonder if all these financial gambles they've taken are starting to add up.
Epic bought a lot of companies over the last few years and they also rapidly grew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games#Subsidiaries_and_divisions They rapidly grew and bought up all these companies in the last 5 years and are now slimming down these ventures and focusing on what they want to do with them.
I imagine this is a mix of things. UE5 has officially been out for a while, their biggest competitor just offed themselves, Fortnite's UE editor support is out and thus Fortnite probably doesn't need as many devs now with UGC to pick up the slack, etc.
That's still a huge chunk of people though. Wonder if all these financial gambles they've taken are starting to add up.
Epic bought a lot of companies over the last few years and they also rapidly grew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games#Subsidiaries_and_divisions They rapidly grew and bought up all these companies in the last 5 years and are now slimming down these ventures and focusing on what they want to do with them.