On: About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid of...

[elabajaba]

Epic is private, Tim Sweeney owns >50%, and their only real rival in the game engine space had recently torpedoed themselves which caused a large amount of gamedevs and even some publishers to swear off Unity.

There was no investor pressure.

[solardev → elabajaba]

Tencent owns 40% of Epic, and Epic lost most of its legal battle against Apple.

[yankput → elabajaba]

Epic is underperforming