Epic Games: A Battle Royale With Consumers | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0	Fortnite, the worldwide online sensation, a wild 60 person experience where you can try your best to be half Bob the Builder, half Rambo.
0:14.1	You have a great time laughing with friends at just how ridiculous one game could be, but
0:18.6	there's a problem.
0:20.2	Epic Games has divided the computer gamer base by opening a store to compete with Valve Steam.
0:25.6	Is Epic Games ethical and how have years of business decisions impacted you?
0:30.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Corporate Casket. I'm the
0:34.2	aluminati and today we're going to be taking a deep dive into Epic Games
0:37.3	and their business practices. This company pioneered an entirely new style of gaming with Fortnite that has enjoyed five years of relevancy.
0:51.0	Just to let you know, much of the episode will reference the world popular game.
0:55.3	Streamers average over 100,000 viewers on any given day. That's not spanned out throughout a day.
1:00.8	I mean moment by moment. If you go to
1:03.4	twitch right now and browse the fortnight category, chances are you'll see it has a
1:06.6	hundred thousand plus viewers. What they've achieved over at EPIC is
1:10.7	gargantuan. Part of what spurred their rise to success
1:14.5	is their relationship with Tencent,
1:16.2	a massive Chinese-based media company.
1:18.6	A couple years ago, we featured Tencent in an episode,
1:20.9	and I highly encourage you to check it out especially if you've never
1:23.2	heard of them. To summarize, Tencent is involved to some degree with so many
1:27.3	gaming companies that their fingerprints are literally everywhere. So naturally
1:31.1	when Epic Games has shares owned by Tencent, accusations flew that the company was a shady company now.
1:37.0	So let's take a closer look and find out if it's true. Epic Games started out as Potomac Computer Systems, or PCS, founded by Tim Sweeney in 1992.
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