Epic Games, the Creator of Fortnite, Banked a $3 Billion Profit in 2018: Report (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:20AM from the growing-rapidly dept.

This year Fortnite became the world's most popular game, growing its parent company, Epic Games' valuation to $15 billion. It also helped the company pile up cash. Epic grossed a $3 billion profit for this year fueled by the continued success of Fortnite, TechCrunch reported Thursday, citing a person with knowledge of the business. From the report: Fortnite, which is free to play but makes money selling digital items, has popularized the battle royale category -- think Lord of the Flies meets Hunger Games -- almost single-handedly, and it has been the standout title for the U.S.-based game publisher. Founded way back in 1991, Epic hasn't given revenue figures for its smash hit -- which has 125 million players -- but this new profit milestone, combined with other pieces of data, gives an idea of the success the company is seeing as a result of a prescient change in strategy made six years ago.

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Re:Anyone else getting sick of all the game stores by GrumpySteen · 2018-12-27 10:34 · Score: 5, Interesting

You do realize that people who pirate the software are downloading cracked copies without the DRM stripped out or disabled, right?
The only people complaining about Denuvo causing problems for them are the people who legitimately bought the games and didn't pirate them, so they're saddled with the intact DRM.