Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce
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The company behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine is also reported to be selling off Bandcamp
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Yeah, people speculated that this was coming.

Also, why the hell do they own bandcamp, lol.

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A good reason would have been potential “synergies” with Harmonix, which they also own, but I don’t recall ever seeing anything about that. Collaboration between the company that sells music and the company that makes music games seems like a no-brainer to me.

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I dunno, company that sells digital content for young people buys company that sells other digital content for young people. I can see the synergy there. Epic Games Store and Bandcamp aren’t that far apart.

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Wait… They sell games? I thought, they’d just gift you some every week!

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Wait that’s a good point. I hope I get to keep all my free games.

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Lol same my entire Epic library is all the free games I get every Thursday like today.

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They wanted to use it to sell music licences for games and media production and the like. But it never really worked out, so they’ve sold it to a company that already actually knows how to do that.

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