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Man the thing I hate the most about fortnite is that it killed UT4...
Yup. For some reason some companies seem to think throwing all your eggs in one franchise basket is a great idea. You would think with all the easy money Fortnite is bringing in, you'd diversify your library of games. Angry Birds developers thought they could ride that thing for 20 years. Sanrio is smarter then that. Hello Kitty is their reliable money maker, but they're always trying something new.
I think it was more so that they needed those devs on Fortnite to scale it... Then when they got some breathing room to look at other projects, Quake Champions had already released and flopped ... as has since Halo Infinite and Diabotical (which Epic partially funded) ... AFPS is a genre that isn't getting much love from consumers.
So, I think Fortnite caused the project to get dropped, but it's not the reason it wasn't picked back up. I'd imagine Epic is working on other games, these things just take a while (and they're going to want bigger profits than they expect UT4 could bring in).
I don't think Epic is working on other games. If Fortnite wasn't going to be their only brand, they wouldn't have delisted Unreal and shutdown the master servers.