This opens up future plans for some Rocket League vehicles to come to other Epic games over time, supporting cross-game ownership.
The Meataverse. The shitshow which lead to 900 people being laid off. "Everything EPIC" needs to get under one huge umbrella for this.
Next step will be that you can buy a skin in one game shop and getting it in multiple games, so a pumpkin skin in Fortnite turns automatically into a car skin for Rocket League but costs three times what it costs now, because "You will get sooo much more!!!" All to make you stay inside the EPIC game world, because the next new game that comes out you can use all these crazy skins in from the start and why would you want the game on Game Pass or Steam where your skins won't work? FOMO meats sunken cost fallacy.
Everything and I mean EVERYTHING Epic does from now on is done for the Epic Metaverse, nothing else will count, not the people working for Epic, not the gaming communities.
The good thing is: It has already started to ruin them and it will continue to ruin them and it will ruin Epic until the CEO has to go and he owns half of the company, so I doubt it is going to happen soon. Look at what this same idea does to "X" or Facebook and in the end there can only be one Metaverse if that idea would work, but it won't.
Tim Sweeney's "apology" for laying off 900 people: "I was spending to much on the Metaverse" - first sentences. "I am going to spent more on the Metaverse anyway!" - last sentences.
The Meataverse. The shitshow which lead to 900 people being laid off. "Everything EPIC" needs to get under one huge umbrella for this.
Next step will be that you can buy a skin in one game shop and getting it in multiple games, so a pumpkin skin in Fortnite turns automatically into a car skin for Rocket League but costs three times what it costs now, because "You will get sooo much more!!!" All to make you stay inside the EPIC game world, because the next new game that comes out you can use all these crazy skins in from the start and why would you want the game on Game Pass or Steam where your skins won't work? FOMO meats sunken cost fallacy.
Everything and I mean EVERYTHING Epic does from now on is done for the Epic Metaverse, nothing else will count, not the people working for Epic, not the gaming communities.
The good thing is: It has already started to ruin them and it will continue to ruin them and it will ruin Epic until the CEO has to go and he owns half of the company, so I doubt it is going to happen soon. Look at what this same idea does to "X" or Facebook and in the end there can only be one Metaverse if that idea would work, but it won't.
Tim Sweeney's "apology" for laying off 900 people: "I was spending to much on the Metaverse" - first sentences. "I am going to spent more on the Metaverse anyway!" - last sentences.
Source: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/layoffs-at-epic