{"id":1192960,"date":"2023-10-16T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192960"},"modified":"2023-10-16T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T20:01:06","slug":"epic-games-messy-bandcamp-sale-ends-with-mass-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192960","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games&#039; Messy Bandcamp Sale Ends With Mass Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/6c3216414f25eb9fa3b990a90c0164d6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic is healing,\u201d the late musician Prince <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/09\/09\/the-book-of-prince\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">once said<\/a>. Bandcamp co-founder Ethan Diamond <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/08\/19\/903547253\/a-tale-of-two-ecosystems-on-bandcamp-spotify-and-the-wide-open-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told NPR in 2020<\/a> that the point of the independent digital music platform he was building was to bring that power of healing to everyone. Many current Bandcamp employees are going to need it. Epic Games, which acquired Bandcamp\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/epic-games-bandcamp-layoffs-songtradr-fortnite-music-1850931222\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Kotaku &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/epic-games-bandcamp-layoffs-songtradr-fortnite-music-1850931222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epic Games&#8217; Messy Bandcamp Sale Ends With Mass Layoffs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMusic is healing,\u201d the late musician Prince once said. Bandcamp co-founder Ethan Diamond told NPR in 2020 that the point of the independent digital music platform he was building was to bring that power of healing to everyone. Many current &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,110],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-1192960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-kotaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}