4 ms·

But could Epic afford it? Their largest hit is Fortnite, and will it be relevant (and bring them tons of money) in several years, if nobody will be able to play

by galkk 6y ago

But could Epic afford it? Their largest hit is Fortnite, and will it be relevant (and bring them tons of money) in several years, if nobody will be able to play it?

gpm 6y ago
As I understand the market - Mobile is a tiny portion of fortnite - Unreal engine is the long term money maker not fortnite - The 40% owner (tencent) has lots of financial motivation to support this outside of Epic's potential profit, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were willing to pay the company off to make this lawsuit happen
gostsamo 6y ago
Well, besides what the other commenter says, Fortnite was dropping in popularity according to Apple. And I'm sure that both Apple and Epic can spare a billion for lawyers.
judge2020 6y ago
Fortnite is still doing good[0], but it'll probably settle at 10-20 million monthly active players, if it hasn't done so already. Reminder that it got popular at the end of 2017. 0: They don't release numbers, but it's always consistently on the first page of Twitch game viewership https://www.twitch.tv/directory?sort=VIEWER_COUNT https://www.twitch.tv/directory?sort=VIEWER_COUNT
nmfisher 6y ago
1) Epic is gobsmackingly cashed up. Fortnite brought in almost $2 billion in revenue last year, and they raised almost $2 billion in equity this year. If anyone is positioned to have a drawn-out legal fight with Apple, it's Epic. 2) Epic's endgame isn't Fortnite, it's the Epic Games Store. Tim Sweeney is a smart businessman, he knows that Fortnite's shelf-life is limited. He's seen Steam make an order of magnitude more money for Valve than its games. EGS would not only diversify Epic away from Fortnite, it would bring in far, far more revenue (not to mention tying up nicely with licensing the Unreal Engine to developers). 3) With EGS on the App/Play Stores, Epic would be positioned to capture literally billions of revenue. The potential reward is so large, it's worth throwing almost everything you have into the Apple/Google lawsuit.
viktorcode 6y ago
They can bail out at any time.

by galkk 6y ago

But could Epic afford it? Their largest hit is Fortnite, and will it be relevant (and bring them tons of money) in several years, if nobody will be able to play it?

gpm 6y ago

As I understand the market - Mobile is a tiny portion of fortnite - Unreal engine is the long term money maker not fortnite - The 40% owner (tencent) has lots of financial motivation to support this outside of Epic's potential profit, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were willing to pay the company off to make this lawsuit happen

gostsamo 6y ago

Well, besides what the other commenter says, Fortnite was dropping in popularity according to Apple. And I'm sure that both Apple and Epic can spare a billion for lawyers.

judge2020 6y ago

Fortnite is still doing good[0], but it'll probably settle at 10-20 million monthly active players, if it hasn't done so already. Reminder that it got popular at the end of 2017. 0: They don't release numbers, but it's always consistently on the first page of Twitch game viewership https://www.twitch.tv/directory?sort=VIEWER_COUNT https://www.twitch.tv/directory?sort=VIEWER_COUNT

nmfisher 6y ago

1) Epic is gobsmackingly cashed up. Fortnite brought in almost $2 billion in revenue last year, and they raised almost $2 billion in equity this year. If anyone is positioned to have a drawn-out legal fight with Apple, it's Epic. 2) Epic's endgame isn't Fortnite, it's the Epic Games Store. Tim Sweeney is a smart businessman, he knows that Fortnite's shelf-life is limited. He's seen Steam make an order of magnitude more money for Valve than its games. EGS would not only diversify Epic away from Fortnite, it would bring in far, far more revenue (not to mention tying up nicely with licensing the Unreal Engine to developers). 3) With EGS on the App/Play Stores, Epic would be positioned to capture literally billions of revenue. The potential reward is so large, it's worth throwing almost everything you have into the Apple/Google lawsuit.

viktorcode 6y ago

They can bail out at any time.