Tim Sweeney and Epic execs discuss Epic's metaverse plans, contrasting it with Facebook's “manicured” feed and emphasizing the role of creators
Gene Park / Washington Post : Tweets: @andresegers , @genepark , @genepark , @genepark , @genepark , @launcherwp , @karinagrotz , @genepark , and @minimaxir Tweets: Andr / @andresegers : The internet is broken, but there's no way I trust Epic to fix it https://twitter.com/... Gene Park / @genepark : i want to say that my piece is not comprehensive about the metaverse. a lot of these issues ive alluded to in my piece last year (and often allude to in interviews). the internet is messy, any metaverse will be just as if not worse if this persists https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Gene Park / @genepark : I spent many hours with @TimSweeneyEpic and others in Epic Games about why anyone would want a metaverse, and their vision for it. Tech wants to improve the “meeting.” Epic Games wants to improve the social and play experience. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Gene Park / @genepark : people may question the wisdom of buying “virtual goods,” but our generations are already primed for this as a social practice. i always think of @rebexxxxa's 2018 observation: Millennials already buy expensive lattes just for the gram. why not a skin? https://www.vox.com/... Gene Park / @genepark : Facebook, as the NYT reported in July, is playing catchup with the Internet's new reality of creator economics. The gaming industry has been courting the Internet of creators for some time now. Epic is poised to ride the current creativity wave. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Launcher / @launcherwp : Tim Sweeney thinks Facebook made the Internet worse. “The metaverse isn't going to be that,” he says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @karinagrotz : ‘Fortnite maker’ believes @Facebook and @Google broke the #Internet. This is #Epic's plan to fix it. via @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Gene Park / @genepark : Myspace: it's a meme that the site turned a bunch of kids into armchair HTML coders. Facebook came in and gave us a standardized white scrolling feed, not customizable. I think it's not just nostalgia: people miss that early freedom and creativity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Max Woolf / @minimaxir : Does Tim Sweeney think the metaverse is like those Nintendo Switch commercials where kids go to a rooftop party and play the Switch instead of partying https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...