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Epic Games president Mike Capps retiring

by Andrew Yoon, Dec 04, 2012 2:07pm PST

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Epic Games president Mike Capps has announced his retirement, continuing a streak of high-profile departures from the studio responsible for the Unreal engine and the Gears of War franchise. Production director Rod Fergusson left in August to join BioShock Infinite developer Irrational Games, while Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski left two months ago to begin his "next stage of his career."

Capps is ending a ten year run at Epic, transitioning into "an advisory role" while remaining on the Epic board of directors.

Speaking on the company's official website (via Polygon), he says that he currently plans on being "a stay at home dad for a while," and may get into teaching, creative writing, and spend more time with charities. His sentiments seem to echo those of the BioWare's co-founders, who both retired from the industry in September.

While some may view the exodus from Epic Games as a sign of things to come, Capps points out that he is "truly excited about our future games and Unreal Engine 4."

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Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Epic Games president Mike Capps retiring.

Epic Games president Mike Capps has announced his retirement, continuing a streak of high-profile departures from the studio responsible for the...

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  Just when I was wondering what the hell Epic's direction was going to be... Rein ends up running the show... : the archvile
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    Epic has an extremely clear and simple direction. Follow the money. id sort of lost their way, but it... : Wombat Woo
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      It was clearly Doom3. Quake3 was an awesome mp game, and the engine completely dominated. Doom3 came out,... : cptincognito
      
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      What happened is id not only went from MP to SP with Doom 3, John also went an entirely different direction with the lighting for Doom 3 vs every other engine (global lighting, I believe?) and id decided to pretty much kill off their engine support and focus on their own game instead of making idtech a major supported engine with good tools. They also focused on the PC just as the current generation was in development.
      
      Epic went exactly the opposite direction. They decided to focus on making a well supported engine and focused on support for it. Additionally they focused heavily on console investment and multi-platform support.
      
      tl;dr: Epic found the perfect business model for this generation of development and knocked it out of the park.
      
      Dec 05, 2012 5:30am PST
      
      What happened is id not only went from MP to SP with Doom 3, John also went an entirely different directi : LoioshDwaggie
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