Про метаверсы и прочее, позиция от эпиков. То, что говорит дядька Суини, оно весьма адекватно. И вот у кого-кого, дак у них есть возможность выйти на следующий уровень абстракции при текущих MAU.

Особенно хороший абзац в самом конце, он как раз про нас:

> What does that future look like?

TS: I guess back to the web analogy. Unreal Engine is a foundation for this. You have a scripting language, which is Verse, and right now, that’s not available in Unreal Engine. Verse will come to Unreal Engine in the future. A large part of this project is the programming APIs that developers use to write code that interacts with the world. We’re putting a lot of effort into defining Fortnite APIs — things that are very Fortnite gameplay specific. Boogie Bombs are not a general metaverse feature — they’re just Fortnite. But separating out the stuff that is actually general metaverse functionality dealing with scenes and objects and moving around and having a physics simulation. There’s the metaverse layer, which we’re both building internally and will be offering up as an open standard in the future. And then there’s the Fortnite scripting layer. And then intention is that things written for the metaverse layer will be generally workable inside Unreal in any standalone game.

So when we get to that point, which is a few years down the road, then the only task of moving from Fortnite to a completely standalone game is eliminating the references to Fortnite-isms and removing Fortnite-specific content that is our IP. Every asset on the Fab marketplace is generally available for anyone to use anywhere, and the default is that it’s going to be there for the future of everything.

SP: Fortnite will be rewritten into this abstracted layer. By the time it runs 100 percent on that abstracted layer, you can kind of declare UE6 at that point.

TS: At the end of the process, Fortnite is just another bundle of Verse code and content like any user can build themselves. Right now, it’s a whole lot of complicated stuff that’s entangled with the Unreal Engine, but over time, that will be separated out.

SP: It’s open heart surgery. You can see we did a movement to UE5 underneath everybody; chapters continued, seasons continued, but underneath, the engine swapped to the new version. That gives us hope that open heart surgery is not a bad thing in this case. We just have to be very careful with the patient as we do it.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23652928/tim-sweeney-interview-epic-games-fortnite-metaverse