100% the Fortnite / Epic Games store / Unreal Engine loop really can’t be discounted. Just yesterday I bought a Ghost Recon game and download UE5 (which I’ve been meaning to test out) in one session just because they were both so easily accessible in the Epic games store.

@@JohnCooganPlus Yeah! I really hope they make another Unreal Tournament - so many great memories from the one from late 90's. I saw on your portfolio page that you are into 3D modelling too. Guess you have seen the news on Epic Games purchasing ArtStation and becoming a Mega Grant for Blender! Good time to be in that space. Have fun on Ghost Recon man ;)

I guess it wasn’t that big of a thing in July 2021 and only recently had a huge breakthrough with the new unreal update

8:48 other industries were implied here

It has not much to do with the video

@@thomashubbard6513 bit late on replying to this but Unreal engine was being heavily used by movies and Car advertising companies back in 2019 because of its capabilities. Till this date it’s being used more and more.

bro said epic engine 💀its called Unreal Engine

That’s great to hear. Exactly what I’m going for!

Same here, wanted to explain my friend how insane solar winds and how insane emps were. Thank you for your content

Started off as a game modder got into iphone repair then i.t. cause my dad got sick and had to work quickly now i am in a cal state life is ok. I wish i could afford to go to UCI. Thank god for GNU octave i am learning dsp and embed hardware by building synthesizers and distortion pedals as well nas embedded hardware

@@JohnCooganPlus I second this! Very well put together. No extra, no bullsh*t and always on point. I have watched several videos already and I found your channel just this morning. Greetings from Finland!

I know, right? I just found his channel, don't know anything about tech, crypto, start-ups nor gaming... but after watching 6 of his videos I wanna start getting more into all that stuff! Hahaha

How

what are you doing with it that can produce an income? i'm keen to do the same if possible

How do you make a living using unreal?

@@vShiinz doing projects for architects and a company in my city. Just indie freelance stuff. I actually got hired by a company I worked for.

@@spiralviper8158 doing projects for architects and a company in my city. Just indie freelance stuff. I actually got hired by a company I worked for.

For sure. Passion for cutting edge technology almost always pays off. If you just work at the frontier for decades, you will eventually have an impact.

and also above average income with wide connection parents

@@vijaz5559 (excuses, excuse but..) and also an amazing headsart. Jesus, mans spawned with max INT and LCK and has been rolling crits ever since.

@@JohnCooganPlus hope I can someday do something from the front as well. Wish me luck guys.

@E i didn't discredit anyone or thinking most people will be successful. Its just the truth that most successful people, has help and a better headstart than most

Glad to have you on board. The growth has been really good already, very excited to keep improving even more this year.

@@JohnCooganPlus and humble too :D

I first know about epic games and unreal engine from infinity blade on ipad (forgot is it ipad 1 or 2). That game was so immersive that I'm willing to rank down batman begins on ps2 that day.

Noiiiice, I saw what you did there

@@ozonehephzibah6949 They should host a Tournament

That’s amazing to hear! Thank you for the comment.

My pleasure

Glad to hear you’re enjoying them. Such an important lesson here: just take your time and things will eventually come together. Especially true if you’re in an emerging industry.

true

And Fortnite isn't greedy?! The battle pass is pretty predatory. The design is deliberately unsatisfying without payment.

@@Dtyn8 The battle pass is really generous because you only have to buy it once and you get it forever if you just use the in game currency it gives you to buy the next one.

@@AbsoluteAvarice This explains it better than I could; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrZ4g7GYrs_MgmQ.html I don't know enough about the game to write more clearly, but there are 100% better monetisation models than the shady "games as a service" stuff going on in Fortnite.

@@Dtyn8 bro u can play the whole game without needing to purchase a thing and plus u get free skins in winterfest

Of course!

Hi! Welcome to the party!

@@JohnCooganPlus 180k subs later…

I haven’t seen that video! Will need to check it out.

Link pleze ?

Hahah, I’m a big gamer. My next video actually ties into gaming as well, even though it’s about an e-commerce company lol. There’s always a gaming angle if you look hard enough.

@@JohnCooganPlus ah! Makes sense! I'm totally getting those vibes, which explains why I'm resonating with your content. Keep it up!!

Welcome aboard!

Love to hear that!

Love hearing that. The view count will catch up with the content eventually.

I’m actively trying to learn Unreal Engine 5 now. I think it’s going to be a really important technology.

Thanks Prakash!

Welcome!

There is actually a reason why they stopped developing save the world, a few of the main people that made it passed tragically and they just don't feel like tis right to branch off from the vision of those people, they actually got added as in game survivors too.

@@Evandyral In world business, especially at those levels, you hire somebody else and you keep going. It happens to every major production and they don’t kill the game because lot of money are involved, so it’s just an excuse. At least they could give some money back, and not legendary survivors when after 3 years you already have full team with mithic/leggendary. Big big scam

they didn't promise anything that wasn't given out, i know because a also paid full price and received all that was stated, sure after a while, but was later compensated with 8000 vbucks and the metal team leader pack for free on top (which they never had to do) not to mention the amount of vbucks iv'e earned over the years making it easily worth the investment, so i honestly to god cant see how in any way that its a scam, what really killed the game was the lack of traction as opposed to its highly popular br counterpart, which led to a reasonable decrease in production towards the game as it is a waste of time and energy towards a unappreciated product. (This is just my opinion)

@@cultofsquidward4100 zoom zoom zooooom

@@cultofsquidward4100 I think we played two different games, and I explain you why: 1) When I bought the game I paid 200 euro, there was also a digital copy that I knew I could give to a friend or brother one day. Well after a certain period and after they got all the money, they decided to switch that with some vbucks you could spend in game (don’t know why you all love vbucks when in STW they only purpose to use them it was for survivors and for me and other people it was completely useless since at that point our team were already maximize). If I knew they were going to do that, obviously I’ve never spent 200 euro to start to play a game. My “investment”, like other people too, was for the extra digital copy and not the vbucks. 2) Since the game was in early access they promised to finished the story in a certain period that at the end has been delayed because BR started to be their main goal. Not fair. Just imagine you go to a restaurant, you order a pizza, the owner ask you to pay before you eat it and tell you that will arrive in 10 minutes, then you wait for more than 1 month, you ask where’s your pizza, the owner will answer that they had to work to open a new restaurant with the money they got from all the customers, and then they give you a potato because of the delay. This is how exactly we felt. My list can continue, who played the game knows, but I don’t want to make a longer comment than already is. If you think all of this is normal, I just immagine you are new to the gaming business, but for lot of people this just sounded a huge scam, especially the fact that they kept the game in “early access” for lot of years as an excuse to not to finish the game. If you are happy to pay for a game now and play when you get old, I think that’s why is so perfect for you. But please don’t support this kind of games or that’s what we all get in the future (look all p2w games and empty games that AAA production are recently creating… pure s***). Just think about it please.