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The CEO of Fortnite has noticed that network effects exist and is using this to advertise Unreal Engine 6 instead of releasing a new Unreal Tournament.

After observing that migrating a group of people from one piece of friendslop to another tends to result in losing a chunk of them, he claims that el Seis will allow users playing one game to voice chat with a group playing another, and encourage their pals to try new games, ignoring that Discord, Mumble, FaceTime, Teams, and the AT&T SB3014 already do that without requiring the cooperation of game developers or three livers' worth of RAM.

Sweeney also allegedly believes that being able to transfer rare items from one game to another will incentivize people to try out new games, because obviously the reason I'm not skipping work to play Forza Horizon 6 is because I can't have my Field-Tested M4A1S Flashback in the bed of my truck or set my driver as noted sugar mommy Ning "Rock and/or Roll" Guang. This is only natural in the wake of Ubisoft Quartz's titanic success.

Teh S3chz0rz, however, has a unique mechanism to avoid riding Walmart's coattails by reusing the blockchain. You see, UE6 targets the FVM, or Fortnite Virtual Machine, so interoperability between Unreal Engine games is guaranteed, as they will all simply be developed as battle royales with special bots. Naturally, Epic's plan is to use Fortnite as a proof of concept, allowing your John Wick skin to become a special outfit for EVE in Stellar Blade, a feature that dozens of gamers have been clamoring for.

This is an extremely exciting time for video games, as cheap RAM and GPUs paired with a renaissance in development and project management methodologies have left games and the hardware needed to play them cheaper, faster, and better than ever, and the economic and social innovations accompanying Eins Acht Sieben's release (expected Real Soon Now, 2029) will no doubt push the gaming community even further down the path towards game affordability, narrative complexity, and goodwill among men.

Now, please excuse me while I go grind for the new Dasha skin.

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