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Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp (kotaku.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Pxtl@lemmy.ca to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] 332@feddit.nu 74 points 1 year ago

Yeah, people speculated that this was coming.

Also, why the hell do they own bandcamp, lol.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I dunno, company that sells digital content for young people buys company that sells other digital content for young people. I can see the synergy there. Epic Games Store and Bandcamp aren't that far apart.

[-] elvith@feddit.de 41 points 1 year ago

Wait.... They sell games? I thought, they'd just gift you some every week!

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Lol same my entire Epic library is all the free games I get every Thursday like today.

[-] zecg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And there's like 300 of them. With Steam, I had to buy my way into a Buridan's donkey position where I don't play anything because I have too much. My man Sweeney made me jaded for free.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Think my number at moment high 100's but only way I have been getting games for the last 6 months though.

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wait that's a good point. I hope I get to keep all my free games.

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

A good reason would have been potential "synergies" with Harmonix, which they also own, but I don't recall ever seeing anything about that. Collaboration between the company that sells music and the company that makes music games seems like a no-brainer to me.

[-] Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

They wanted to use it to sell music licences for games and media production and the like. But it never really worked out, so they've sold it to a company that already actually knows how to do that.