Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney: Cross-game virtual economies are key to new game success
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Nicole Carpenter
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues that for new games to succeed in a market dominated by massive titles like Fortnite, Roblox, and PUBG Mobile, developers must connect their games' virtual economies to those of other games. He cites Metcalfe's Law — where a network's value grows with its user base — as a key challenge for newcomers. Sweeney believes cross-game economic interoperability could reinvigorate the market and give new titles a fighting chance against established platforms with captive audiences.
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· 2 pulledThe only way that we can hope for new games coming into the market to be able to succeed when there's so much Metcalfe's Law at play and so many captive audiences in the really big games—you know, Fortnite, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, and a few other really huge ones—it's got to be that those games get momentum by connecting to the economies in other games.
I think that can really reinvigorate the market.
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