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At some point your new ventures compete with your old successes.

What would you and others have payed for a Unreal Tournament monthly subscription? Not much I assume.

If you are a land lord you want the home-owner slice to shrink and the renter slice to grow. Gross, right?

I was interested in their Verse programming language, but it's future looks grimmer now.

Perhaps then just make it available for someone else to set up and run their own servers. Maybe they did. It's what I would do.

Why is it’s future looking grimmer?

Probably because of https://www.epicgames.com/site/de/news/layoffs-at-epic

Seems like a weak argument to me. Is that it?

I didn't see any specifics that obviously bear on Verse development.

Yeah, quite the opposite, I see this in the official announcement: "We aren't cutting any core businesses, and are continuing to invest in games with Fortnite first-party development, the Fortnite creator ecosystem and economy, Rocket League and Fall Guys; and services for developers including Unreal Engine for games and enterprise, Epic Games Store, Epic Games Publishing, Epic Online Services, Kids Web Services, MetaHuman, Twin Motion, Quixel Mega Scans, Capturing Reality, ArtStation, Sketchfab and Fab."

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