Disney doesn't exactly have the best rep when it comes to partaking in gaming. They've built studios just to shut em down, not to mention just how much of an over the shoulder nuisance they are. If Epic wants to see Unreal Engine be dismantled and lose its hold on the industry then by all means. Also say goodbye to Fortnite because they will definitely kill it off with all the horrible decisions they'll force onto Epic.

I'll take worst ideas ever conceived for 500, Alex!

I wouldn’t want them to start injecting their agendas and politics in an already charged / filled environment . If they had a track record of offering quality over politics it wouldn’t have bothered me much . But knowing they could buy any big dev out of the blue is kinda scary .

Nah. Might as well as throw other big corporations while we’re at it. Why not Apple? Why not Netflix? Why not ATT?

The implications of this would be earth shattering for the games industry.

UE5 has replaced pretty much all engines at this point and even custom in house engines have largely disappeared in favour of UE5 imagine if Disney come in and pull a Unity move to change per download and that's just scratching the surface

I want to see a day where Disney no longer exists.

Uhm...no ,they should not

My Spidey sense is tingling.

Have you seen how badly they've messed up all the IPs they own? I don't think they need to buy anymore.

I don’t care about Fortnite but I don’t want Disney neat any more video game companies

I do not support this acquisition. Disney has already tried running a gaming division and they shut down Disney Interactive in 2016. Nothing good will come from them buying Epic games as much of the industry relies on Epic games as they are now.

Disney buys up Epic they will just shut them down after a while. Disney shut down LucasArts their motto is just license the character out and have someone like say EA make a game around lets say Mickey Mouse. Epic is better off on their own.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

yep. they confirmed early that the crude humor the games are famous for is leaving to be more inclusive for the woke. and the rumors about the new online could make or break them.

$100 game incoming, or the most likely scenario is they will just follow Nintendo going for $80 for the base game

Can't believe anyone thinks it'll be over 70. They want as many people on it as they can to sell shark cards. The only way that happens is if they have a $100 deluxe edition with 3 days early access. Which would probably be smart for them because it'd fly off the shelves