He did not "take one for the team".
Epic Games is owned by the owner of Unreal Engine, which is used by a huge amount of games.
Sweeney makes roughly 5.1-9 BILLION. With a B.
Based on Net Worth, if Tim Sweeney were to use his ENTIRE estimated net worth of $5.1 billion (the lower Forbes estimate from March 2026) to pay employees an annual salary of $125,000, he could fund 40,800 employees for one year BY HIMSELF.
Let's assume that the devs made 125k each (obvi variables), to keep all 1000 at that rate is $125m, leaving Sweeney, at the low estimate, an annual worth of $4.9 Billion.

That's assuming his stock package doesn't pop as a result of retaining that talent, mind you.

These are the folks that made him this profit. As literal as you can possibly take it. What is offered is NOT commeasurate nor is it "oh how nice", it's bare minimum for locking the talent that made you a pop culture behemoth behind restrictive NDAs and taking away their security in an economic crisis.

You need to save $500 million? SELL SOME SHARES AND PROTECT YOUR STAFF.

Defending this person who chuckled that they can fight Apple bc infinite money and had enough to buy hundreds of thousands of forest in NC for conservation while his dev team is left in the cold and the rest have to fear when it's their turn is insanely nasty work. You can't honestly defend that if you have empathy.[/quote[

Why does Twitter make you click "more"? they know how lonmg these stupid things can be


Fuck Sweeney