If Sweeney wanted to sell Epic he wouldn’t continue the legal battles with Apple, the storefront fight with Valve and he wouldn’t be laying off people to try and stay afloat. If you’re planning to sell you’re going to make the company look as strong as it has never looked before. You’d drop the moneysink lawsuit with Apple, the storefront fight with Steam and you’d stack the Fortnite calendar to have the highest engagement it has ever had and you’d be promoting the living shit out of Unreal engine (Either through some insane new feature or by announcing a new engine) and you’d release Alan Wake 2 on Steam to make the publishing side also look good. And just to be sure you’d throw out some potential new game ideas to show that you haven’t forgotten being a game dev. In short you’d have to show consistently good revenue and really great growth potential. If you want to good example how that looks like look at Bungie getting sold to Sony.
Nothing Sweeney is doing is indicating he’s planning on cashing out. If there’s going to be a sale it’s going to be out of desperation and I doubt Epic is in that dire of a state.
If Sweeney wanted to sell Epic he wouldn’t continue the legal battles with Apple, the storefront fight with Valve and he wouldn’t be laying off people to try and stay afloat. If you’re planning to sell you’re going to make the company look as strong as it has never looked before. You’d drop the moneysink lawsuit with Apple, the storefront fight with Steam and you’d stack the Fortnite calendar to have the highest engagement it has ever had and you’d be promoting the living shit out of Unreal engine (Either through some insane new feature or by announcing a new engine) and you’d release Alan Wake 2 on Steam to make the publishing side also look good. And just to be sure you’d throw out some potential new game ideas to show that you haven’t forgotten being a game dev. In short you’d have to show consistently good revenue and really great growth potential. If you want to good example how that looks like look at Bungie getting sold to Sony.
Nothing Sweeney is doing is indicating he’s planning on cashing out. If there’s going to be a sale it’s going to be out of desperation and I doubt Epic is in that dire of a state.