Daily Fortnite Podcast 2707 - Epic Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees
Daily Fortnite
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. I'm going to be |
| 0:04.0 | I'm going to be Welcome back to another episode of Daily Fortnite, your daily podcast about Fortnite. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm your host, Mikey, aka Mike Daddy, aka Magnificant Mikey, and Epic has laid off over 1,000 employees. |
| 0:43.2 | I am recording this on Tuesday, March 24th, and it was announced that Epic laid off over 1,000 employees today. |
| 0:56.4 | You're hearing this on Wednesday. |
| 1:00.1 | But, yeah, they have laid off over 1,000 employees, |
| 1:04.1 | and they put out a statement. |
| 1:05.9 | So I'm going to go ahead and read that, |
| 1:07.9 | and then we'll get into more of the details |
| 1:09.8 | about what this means |
| 1:11.8 | going forward this note was sent to epic employees today today we're laying off over |
| 1:20.3 | 1,000 epic employees i'm sorry we're here again the downturn in fortnight engagement that |
| 1:26.1 | started in 2025 means we're spending |
| 1:28.9 | significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded. |
| 1:34.9 | This layoff together with over $500 million of identified cost savings in contracting, |
| 1:41.8 | marketing, and closing some open roles puts us in a more stable |
| 1:46.2 | place. Some of the challenges we're facing are industry-wide challenges, slower growth, |
| 1:53.5 | weaker spending, and tougher cost economics. Current consoles selling less than last generations and games competing for time against |
| 2:03.7 | other increasingly engaging forms of entertainment and some of our challenges are unique to |
| 2:10.3 | epic despite fortnight remaining one of the most successful games in the world we've had challenges |
| 2:15.8 | delivering consistent fortnight magic with every season we're only in the world, we've had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with |
| 2:17.9 | every season. We're only in the early stages of returning to mobile and optimizing Fortnite |
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