Too many unanswered questions on answerhub, and no reply from Epic on bug reports

[BrUnO_XaVIeR]

Yes, I was talking about the people learning how to press their first buttons. With zero programming background.
These days there’s only a fraction of them around here in forums, reddit, youtube, etc.

[project.gheist]

@KristofMorva

Well, people usually start somewhere, I for one has started it as a hobby. If someone chooses another engine for hobby, they are more likely to stick to that one when they gain experience, growing the professional community of another engine instead of Unreal, which is clearly a loss for us all. I think we should still try to attract newcomers as much as we can, and value everyone, as we’ll never know who will turn out to be a great asset for our community. Just imagine if @project.gheist had chosen another engine, without his PRs our editor would be a much unwelcoming place to live. Some of those now hobbyist will write the best tutorials, answers and pull requests for an engine in a few years, the only question is, which one. Being selfish, I’d prefer it to be UE4

<3, I should mention that my changes to UE4 are a side project of mine and not my full time job which uses a different game engine.

[MothDoctor]

@project.gheist

<3, I should mention that my changes to UE4 are a side project of mine and not my full time job which uses a different game engine.

You’re positively insane, man!

[BrUnO_XaVIeR]

Interestingly I was reading this today:

‘Fortnite’ Revenues Fall Almost 40% From Last Year, But It’s Still A Cash Cow](‘Fortnite’ Revenues Fall Almost 40% From Last Year, But It’s Still A Cash Cow)

Makes one wonder what Epic is going to do next once the cashcow is dead.
Probably more licensing efforts unrelated to game development… There’s a new goldrush happening on this new “private space exploration” business, game engines like Unreal could be useful there lul

[KristofMorva (Kristóf Morva)]

Makes one wonder what Epic is going to do next once the cashcow is dead.

I guess the recent acquisitions cast some light on the long-term goals of Epic. As you’re probably right, it seems to be unrelated to game development: architecture visualization, virtual production, etc.

[MothDoctor]

Well, they also acquired guys behing Skookum script, paid for LiveCoding license.
Also investing in Epic Online Services and their game’s store - these two things needs to be costly. Sponsored by Fortnite money too…

[savagebeasty]

Makes one wonder what Epic is going to do next once the cashcow is dead.
Probably more licensing efforts unrelated to game development… There’s a new goldrush happening on this new “private space exploration” business, game engines like Unreal could be useful there lul

What they’ve done for the past 20 odd years…look at what the most popular game is at the moment…then copy it

then again if Fortshite is the most popular game of the moment then they might be screwed with that approach now…

[Two-faced]

Epic could shutdown AnswerHub and buy a license to implement their own StackOverflow website for Unreal. These days they can afford it

No way you are serious! To change our pretty gif friendly interface to poor ugly sorted list? Puke!

[BrUnO_XaVIeR]

There’s already that “Auto Chess” thingy being hyped.
Players seem to be flocking into it these days…

Epic with a Paragon revival? “Paragon Auto Chess” ?? :o

[savagebeasty]

How about Paragon Go!

Its an AR game on your phone where it uses sat nav to place loads of Paragon characters around local sex offender/gang warfare/high crime hotspots. Then you have to use your magic balls to entice the various (loads…hundreds…millions…action figures also available at Walmart for $30 each(accessories sold separately)) characters to your Paragon Master dungeon.

[Two-faced]

There’s already that “Auto Chess” thingy being hyped.
Players seem to be flocking into it these days…

Epic with a Paragon revival? “Paragon Auto Chess” ?? :o

Oh ■■■■! It’s the time to cooperate on this and kick off. @Serellan