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Media Industry: games

Product: Fortnite

Media Company (developer(s)): Epic Games

The product (Fortnite)

Fortnite is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by the company ‘Epic Games’ and ‘People Can Fly’ Fortnite is set in contemporary Earth, where there is a sudden appearance of a wide storm causes the 98% of the world’s population to disappear, and zombie-like creatures rising to attack the remaining people on earth. ‘Epic Games’ says that Fortnite is a cross between ‘Minecraft’ and ‘Left 4 Dead’. The game was realised on multiple consoles such as PS4, XBOX1 and PC. On July 26^th, 2017, it was announced that Fortnite had sold over 500,000 digital pre-order copies. On august 18, 2017, Epic confirmed that Fortnite has surpassed over 1 million players and the free to play battle royal mode obtained over 10 million players in two weeks.

The media company (Epic Games)

The company known as Epic Games was once known as ‘Potomac computer systems’ from 1991 to 1992 and then went on to being known as ‘Epic MegaGames’ from 1992 to 1999. The company where founded by Tim Sweeney, after his first game ZZT (1991) the company became Epic MegaGames in early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein who is the company’s vice president to date. The moved out from Tim’s parents’ house in Potomac, Maryland to Cary, North Carolina in 1999, which the studio was known simply as Epic Games.

Epic Games developed Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which the used in games such as ‘Gears of War’ and ‘Infinity Blade’ series. In 2014 the engine they made was named the most successful video games engine” by Guinness world records.

Success of company: the company’s game Fortnite had over 10 million players in two weeks  

Key competitors Nintendo, Electronic Aid, Sony Corporation, activation

Departmental structure the department has a fun structure that helps keep the employees relaxed and it also allows them to enjoy their job because the company provides activities.

Who owns the company that made it Product reviews:  the chief executive is Tim Sweeney and Tencent take a 40% stake in the company

Success compared to other companies Large audience / niche audience How the company makes money How the product gets made: Epic Games get money from investors and also what the make off of selling games and in game purchases, Epic Games have a huge audience which their latest game getting millions of purchases the day it was realised. The products are made by people such as game engineers and developers.   

Who makes the product N/A Epic Games, People Can Fly

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Product: Call of Duty WW2

Media Company: Activision 

Success of company: the company have managed to survive for 30 years and have 17 domestic locations and 21 international locations with 4,000+ employees   

Key competitors: Epic Games, Nintendo, EA

Departmental structure the department structure is simulate to the one at Epic Games, which has a relaxed vibe so the employees are able to chill out.    

Who owns the company that made it Product reviews: David Alan, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead.

Success compared to other companies Large audience / niche audience How the company makes money How the product gets made 2.2 billion in 2016. This company has a lot of success compared to other companies because they are able to generate billions of dollars from creating another Call Of Duty

Who makes the product Activation.

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Product:  call of duty black ops 4

Company: Treyarch 

Success of company: treyarch have managed to make over 15 games which have made the company millions of dollars and has kept them in the public eye for many years 

Key competitors: activision , EA, infinity ward and epic games   

Departmental structure:  the department structure is very chilled but they still have to do all the work set for them to do in a time limit, they also have a relaxed and inspirational vibe so they are able to come up with game ideas  

Who owns the company that made it: they are owned by activision  

Product reviews: from the reviews i have read they have praised the creators for creating a game that has grasped their attention and have made them want to play the game non-stop     

Success compared to other companies: this company have had a lot of success from all their games as they have built one of the most well known franchises 'call of duty', they have built a huge fan bass who will buy the game no matter what.    

Large audience / niche audience: call of duty has a huge audience that will buy the game even if it doesn't look very good, they have managed to find a very good niche where they are at the top of the food chain for modern war games.  

How the company makes money:  the company makes money from selling all the games they have made as fast as possible for the highest price to gain enough profit to start making another game.    

How the product gets made:  the product was made using various software such as Maya for the characters 

Who makes the product (names)  treyarch, infinity ward, activision, raven and sledgehammer games made this product.  

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Product: Destiny

Media Company: Bungie, high moon studios

Success of company: destiny 2 was a massive success for Bungie and it made the company a lot of money to put into developing the game and to also create more games  Key competitors: EA, UBISOFT, Activation

Departmental structure: the structure of the company is small compact but is a chilled place to work and it has a lot of activities for the employees to do for example pool tables
Who owns the company that made it Product reviews: Jason Jones, Alex Seropian
Success compared to other companies Large audience / niche audience How the company makes money How the product gets made the company made a lot of money when they started the Halo series which made around $170 million in the space of 24 hours
Who makes the product (names) the people who helped to make Destiny where Bungie, High Moon Studios and Radical Entertainment.  

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