Epic Games Grossed $3 Billion Profit in 2018 – Report

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Epic Games’ Fortnite has been one of the biggest successes of 2018, affecting the gaming industry as a whole. It’s successful on both consoles and mobiles, hitting 200 million registered users as of November 27th. What is the overall profit that the developer has accrued now that the year is coming to a close?

According to a knowledgeable source that spoke to TechCrunch, Epic grossed $3 billion in profit for 2018. Though Epic Games hasn’t officially commented on the figure, it did start off the year on a big note. Regarding Fortnite at the time, lead systems designer Eric Williamson said, “Some people are saying we could be the biggest and best-played game [full stop] in the western world.”

Even with the holidays still on-going, Epic Games has remained committed to updating Fortnite. Along with new events, it also revamped the map in Battle Royale to be fully encompassed in snow. That’s not including the new content that arrived with Season 7, Creative Mode or The Block which hosts community creations for all Battle Royale players to see.

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MazePosted:

Nik Epic Games founder coded the game in his mothers basement that I read and now he's a rich person living the dream. Game is fun to play but it can get really annoying at times. I'm happy for the business honestly. They've keep updating the games updating us as players what they updated which notes to reach on their website.


Want to make it more impressive? After fortnite: save the world was released, it only took TWO MONTHS for them to create and release Battle Royale and they have been constantly tuning it, updating it, and getting the community involved in the making ever since.

9ntyPosted:

Epic Games founder coded the game in his mothers basement that I read and now he's a rich person living the dream. Game is fun to play but it can get really annoying at times. I'm happy for the business honestly. They've keep updating the games updating us as players what they updated which notes to reach on their website.

SilkyPosted:

This was expected tbh, the biggest game of the year imo and still will be hugely popular going into 2019.

XeCookiePosted:

That's mad. I expected a lot but Jesus. Grate to them although I'm not a fan that's impressive.

junoPosted:

This is crazy the game did so much this year!

MazePosted:

I get people hating on Fortnite for various reasons, you're allowed to have your own opinion, but you can't knock how amazing of a year fortnite has had and what they have done for gaming as a whole. I consider this to be the first game to take over the world tbh and I don't even play anymore.

ArkaniPosted:

My friend texted me before about this, honestly it's insane / cool to see a F2P game make that much. Time to see what happens in 2019 now lol.