Epic Video games has misplaced a second high-level government in lower than a month, because the director of publishing technique Sergiy Galyonkin has left the corporate.
Galyonkin printed a press release on his Twitter account asserting his departure, the place he thanked chief government officer Tim Sweeney and his colleagues at Epic, recounted launching Fortnite and its impression on the business, earlier than saying that Epic’s present course is one the place he says he’s “not a great match for this new model of Epic.”
Whereas he doesn’t precisely say the phrase “metaverse,” it seems that Galyonkin is instantly referencing the businesses push in the direction of the metaverse as a cause for his departure, significantly by saying Epic is turning into “a platform.”
“Now, Epic Video games is on its method to remodeling from a recreation developer, engine creator, and writer right into a platform – Epic 5.0. I’m not a great match for this new model of Epic; it requires folks of a distinct sort.
I plan to stay within the gaming business. I additionally hope to be extra vocal now that I don’t have to fret concerning the PR division knocking on my DMs.”
Galyonkin’s departure additionally comes simply after Epic laid off greater than 800 folks without delay attributable to it “spending extra money than we earn” in keeping with Tim Sweeney, the place Sweeney even particularly famous Epic’s spending on its metaverse push as a part of the place the cash it may’ve needed to preserve these 800 plus folks went.
As a part of these layoffs, Epic owned Mediatonic, the workforce behind Fall Guys: Final Knockout took an enormous hit, with a lot of the workforce reportedly being let go.
The opposite high-level government to depart Epic in lower than a month was the corporate’s chief inventive officer, Donald Mustard, who retired, somewhat than go away to work elsewhere, like Galyonkin.
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