The epic store with its giveaways and exclusivity deals is probably burning money.

Wonder how developers working on profitable parts feel about it. I’ve been at an employer who burned their cash on vanity projects and hubris and turned around to people working on the bread and butter profitable parts and said “sorry hard times hit, no bonuses this year, we have to tighten our belts”. It's when I left.

	▲	johnnyanmac 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's pretty much every tech company these days. People wrongly claim they "over hired", but in reality these companies were trying to open up a half dozen new initiatives all at once. I worked at Unity and you'd be surprised what aspects were worked on (publicly, so I can pull it up if interested " that you probably never heard of. Those all shuttered as companies went into maintenance mode. I'm sure Epic has similar reactions. I remember them going pretty hard on cinema and architecture, but those have been quieter over the years.

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frakt0x90 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They explicitly stated this as a reason during their last layoff cycle.

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dylan604 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So I guess they are finding out that running an app store isn't very profitable and dare I say suggests that the percentage Apple charges was not unjustified?

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lazyasciiart 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No percentage will make it profitable when they are giving away the games.

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raincole 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seriously? Are you seriously making this argument?

Are you seriously comparing running a PC app store vs App Store? One is the most open platform and the other has only one (1, uno, sole, single) app store.

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dylan604 5 hours ago | parent [-]

And which one of them are we reading about laying off employees while admitting they are spending more than they are bringing in?

	▲	kevinh 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The one that doesn't have a monopoly on the market.
	▲	johnnyanmac 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Google has had plenty of layoffs by now. I don't think Apple has, but they have been not continuing contracts.