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Facebook is going to buy Epic Games, mark my words. It would be north of a $60B acquisition even if they purchase them at twice their current valuation. It would be poetic justice because Epic and FB both have a common enemy - Apple.

Facebook does not have a game engine and it is not currently a 3D-first company, and it makes sense that it will need one to underpin all of the content that will need to be made for the metaverse, by creators.

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I tried but I can't be serious about this news. Th company must name : Epic Face :)))))

Facepic?

I don’t know how the m&a works on that deal, but from a product perspective, I think Facebook needs the users and the youngs among them.

Facebook will never be successful onboarding FB users, their graphs and the whole messed up biz model into something of their own.

Epic has the upper hand. I think that company could continue without FB but see no evidence FB or rather Facebook’s new parent company, can build out a metaverse product with brain worm as successful as Fortnite.

Even if FB had churned out successful original gaming ideas it would be a long shot. Fortnite has crushed that hard.

I find it difficult to believe Sweeney will give up Epic's ownership

Facebook could have been Epic Games if they didn't blow up their platform.

From 2013: https://andrewchen.com/why-developers-are-leaving-the-facebo...

Their other two options are to buy Unity, Roblox, or make their own game engine. Or perhaps fork some of the work that's being done over for the Open3D engine?

Anti-competitive laws will probably shoot this down immediately

Roblox might be appropriate for their ambitions too.

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