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Facebook is going to buy Epic Games, mark my words. It would be north of a $60B acquisition even if they purchase them at twice their current valuation. It woul

Facebook is going to buy Epic Games, mark my words. It would be north of a $60B acquisition even if they purchase them at twice their current valuation. It would be poetic justice because Epic and FB both have a common enemy - Apple. Facebook does not have a game engine and it is not currently a 3D-first company, and it makes sense that it will need one to underpin all of the content that will need to be made for the metaverse, by creators.

astlouis44 5y ago
Their other two options are to buy Unity, Roblox, or make their own game engine. Or perhaps fork some of the work that's being done over for the Open3D engine?
bredren 5y ago
I don’t know how the m&a works on that deal, but from a product perspective, I think Facebook needs the users and the youngs among them. Facebook will never be successful onboarding FB users, their graphs and the whole messed up biz model into something of their own. Epic has the upper hand. I think that company could continue without FB but see no evidence FB or rather Facebook’s new parent company, can build out a metaverse product with brain worm as successful as Fortnite. Even if FB had churned out successful original gaming ideas it would be a long shot. Fortnite has crushed that hard.
rmykhajliw 5y ago
I tried but I can't be serious about this news. Th company must name : Epic Face :)))))
- kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
  Facepic?
Sahbak 5y ago
I find it difficult to believe Sweeney will give up Epic's ownership
altdataseller 5y ago
Anti-competitive laws will probably shoot this down immediately
kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
Roblox might be appropriate for their ambitions too.
Kye 5y ago
Facebook could have been Epic Games if they didn't blow up their platform. From 2013: https://andrewchen.com/why-developers-are-leaving-the-facebook-platform/ https://andrewchen.com/why-developers-are-leaving-the-facebo...

astlouis44 5y ago

Their other two options are to buy Unity, Roblox, or make their own game engine. Or perhaps fork some of the work that's being done over for the Open3D engine?

bredren 5y ago

I don’t know how the m&a works on that deal, but from a product perspective, I think Facebook needs the users and the youngs among them. Facebook will never be successful onboarding FB users, their graphs and the whole messed up biz model into something of their own. Epic has the upper hand. I think that company could continue without FB but see no evidence FB or rather Facebook’s new parent company, can build out a metaverse product with brain worm as successful as Fortnite. Even if FB had churned out successful original gaming ideas it would be a long shot. Fortnite has crushed that hard.

rmykhajliw 5y ago

I tried but I can't be serious about this news. Th company must name : Epic Face :)))))

kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
Facepic?

Sahbak 5y ago

I find it difficult to believe Sweeney will give up Epic's ownership

altdataseller 5y ago

Anti-competitive laws will probably shoot this down immediately

kwertyoowiyop 5y ago

Roblox might be appropriate for their ambitions too.

Kye 5y ago

Facebook could have been Epic Games if they didn't blow up their platform. From 2013: https://andrewchen.com/why-developers-are-leaving-the-facebook-platform/ https://andrewchen.com/why-developers-are-leaving-the-facebo...