Seems like it’s even worse than that
They seem to claim it was all an innocent mistake:
@EpicPublishing We are looking into this and the team will be reaching out to you directly.
Not replying to the dev’s messages and not paying them for 2 years is not an innocent mistake.
Not replying to the dev’s messages and not paying them for 2 years is not an innocent mistake.
Yeah, they only announced to reach out in the future after bad press.
Or you can look at it as for what it is rather than some ulterior motive behind it, the emails may have just not been getting to the right person regardless of fault. They’re only replying now because it’s only just now they heard that something was wrong.
Now on the other hand, I generally find it hard to believe that for a business as large as Epic, nobody would follow up on money that’s just been sitting around for over 2 years.
Why not? Dev’s email might have ended up in the spam list and no one ever saw their emails. Shit happens. All the time.
No, there was absolutely no claim that it was an innocent mistake, I’m not sure why that was written there. It’s just a promise to look into it, no more no less.
That’s because Epic doesn’t have any money
What’re you even talking about??? Epic takes a revenue share of every game made with unreal engine, plus Fortnite runs exclusively on mommy’s credit card and is still insanely huge. Even if the epic games store doesn’t take as big a cut of every sale, they’re held by daddy Tencent who’ll probably kick em some lunch money if they’re actually desperate.
Just because you make a lot of money doesn’t mean you can’t spend it even faster.
This. They’ve been burning money trying to give games away for free to entice people to their platform. It’s quite possible they have a cash flow problem. That they just layed off 900 people definitely supports this idea.
Guessing you didn’t see the recent news about Epic doing a big layoff and shedding properties recently?
Got to love the fact that Hatoful Boyfriend and Fall Guys are made by the same developer. I’m assuming those do not have similar market share. /s
Just waiting for people to come in here and bash the dev for still being on Twitter.