For context, they recently increased the prices of the game's cosmetics significantly to, and I quote, "help pay the bills" [1].

Apparently, that wasn't enough, and the billions of dollars in revenue the game makes every year are simply too little to keep the lights on. So now they're laying off over a thousand people and cutting several official gamemodes, so they can continue paying hundreds of millions to the creators of AI slop modes like Steal the Brainrot [2].

It's becoming increasingly clear that Epic Games is a dysfunctional company that simply stumbled onto a golden goose by sheer luck, and now that the goose can't lay eggs any faster to keep the line going up, they're panicking.

[1] https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-v-bucks-price-increas...

[2] https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-developers-will-soon-...