Let me make a disclaimer, I don't if it is true as CEO speech truthfulness seems to be made by ai.

But once I saw the interview with the guy from epic or someone big there, I don't remember and they said the money for developers was from marketing campaigns which makes sense to me. They said that they wanted to make a better experience so the developers themselves would try to help being people to the platform but that never happened.

It seems that the technology behind the epic store is, epically broken, pun intended. I've read somewhere that they tried to decouple chunks of the store and restart but the thing was so poorly done that it would be more expensive than just let it fade away and at some point they had a new epic store 2 created from scratch but to develop it to the end would be too expensive.

As a swe myself, maybe they were trying to scale to steam level before being steam? I don't know.

My last experience trying to use epic was trying to buy a game. But being greeted by a store login, then a loader of a store then a initial store that tried very hard to sell me call of duty and EA stuff. I found whatever I was trying to buy but I couldn't due to some bug in the payment.

And never again. Not for any particular reason. I just didn't spend more time there.

And now, with these layoffs what are they going to do? Are they revoke all the licenses for the games they gave and sold?