Epic Games‘ director of publishing technique, Sergiy Galyonkin, is leaving the corporate.
In an announcement launched on Monday, Galyonkin mentioned at this time is his final day on the Fortnite maker.
It’s unclear if his departure is immediately associated to widespread job cuts at Epic. Last week, the corporate introduced plans to lay off round 830 staff, or 16% of its complete workforce.
Announcing his departure, Galyonkin mentioned he was “not a very good match” for the place Epic is headed as an organization.
Galyonkin is the creator of Steam Spy, a web site which launched in 2015 that robotically gathers knowledge from Steam person profiles earlier than analysing its and producing statistics like approximate sport gross sales and common playtime per sport.
He joined Epic in February 2016 as head of publishing for Eastern Europe, earlier than taking over his present position in August 2017, based on his LinkedIn profile.
Galyonkin’s learnings from Steam Spy have been used to assist develop Epic’s Steam competitor, Epic Games Store, which launched in December 2018.
“Today is formally my final day at Epic Games,” Galyonkin mentioned. “These eight years have been a few of the most enjoyable in my profession, and I’m deeply grateful to my former Epic Games colleagues and Tim Sweeney for permitting me to assist construct Epic 4.0.
“I’m additionally immensely grateful for the beneficiant $144M donation Epic Games despatched to varied charities to assist Ukraine within the early days of the Russian invasion of 2022. At that point, Epic Games was forward of some G7 nations in offering help. It means the world to me, and whereas I wasn’t at all times well mannered throughout these discussions, I’ll perpetually be grateful.
“We launched Fortnite, which later grew to become a type of self-reinforcing cultural phenomena I wrote about only a 12 months prior. We proved that free-to-play with out pay-to-win can work at scale. We challenged the established order in sport distribution with the 88/12 income share.
“Now, Epic Games is on its option to reworking from a sport developer, engine creator, and writer right into a platform – Epic 5.0. I’m not a very good match for this new model of Epic; it requires folks of a distinct form. I plan to stay within the gaming trade. I additionally hope to be extra vocal now that I don’t have to fret concerning the PR division knocking on my DMs.
“Again, thanks to everybody I labored with at Epic Games – it was an unimaginable journey, and I’ll at all times cherish it.”
