I agree with most of the points here.
I’m especially wondering, now that there are quite a lot of successful UE4 games like Ark and especially PUBG, Epic has made a huge amount of money with UE4 from all those 5%. Paragon also was a success I think. Fortnite too.
3 years ago, they didn’t have that money. There they still had to live from the old UE3 money. Where is all that new money going? Shouldn’t that money enable Epic to have 2 or 3 times as much staff as they had 3 years ago? Shouldn’t everything accelerate quickly with so much new money flowing into Epic? More engine programmers, more support staff, more everything?
That didn’t seem to happen unfortunately, and I really wonder why. I wish Epic would be more of an Elon-Musk-kind-of-company that would be growing at 50-100% every year (in terms of employees), and I thought the financials would actually allow that due to so many successful UE4 games being released now. Wikipedia still says Epic has 250 employees (maybe 400 now?) vs Unity Technologies with 1500 employees, and Unity isn’t even working on any games. How should Epic keep its lead with such a huge difference in number of employees? I want Epic to be successful of course, especially since I don’t plan to ever switch engines from UE4 to anything else.
