Tim Sweeney: commitment

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…Yeah, it’s exciting to see that investing in a long-term future, sort of taking the risk of doing the research and defining the next chapter of Epic. So using the successes of the day to invest into the successes of tomorrow, that might look very different, completely different. And part of that is investing in the developments, the research and the innovation in the Unreal Engine. That’s right. We’re a company that can start working on a project knowing that we won’t reach fruition or make any money from it at all for three years, four years, five years. We’re totally okay with that. And that’s the cycle that’s fueled our growth over time. It’s constantly investing in the future and being a serious company that’s doing serious R&D side by side with shipping and maintaining products and earning money from them. So can you speak to, I mean there’s several directions here. So one of them, sort of the future evolution of this idea of the metaverse, so potentially creating communities. So Fortnite is this incredible, huge community of humans interacting, but your vision is to go outside of just one game. So what is the kinds of standards that you’re thinking about building such that people can sort of have an identity and almost travel between games and that kind of thing?…

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