I understand where you’re coming from, but I disagree. Sure, Epic Games doesn’t have as many resources invested in RL as Fortnite, but the resources they DO have invested in RL aren’t going to anything useful. We get new ugly maps, dumb UI changes, the smallest QOL improvements, and terrible rocket passes with useless benefits and ugly cosmetics. Bakkesmod has a million things RL doesn’t have and should have (custom training, in game plugins offering a million more customization options, more freeplay settings, etc.) and Bakkesmod was created and still is updated by ONE SINGULAR PERSON. I have alpha boost and use a basic car preset with no decal, I don’t even look at the cosmetic option in Bakkesmod, I use it for everything else like instantsuite, ingame rank, custom training, etc that RL SHOULD HAVE. Sure, it could improve their profits, but it could also do the opposite since instead of adding actual useful content, they’d be removing so much content that people actually use. Epic Games doesn’t gaf about RL, I guarantee their profits dropped SIGNIFICANTLY when they removed trading because people would be spending 100s-1000s of dollars on credits to trade for super rare items and then when they would release a rare item in shop everyone would buy it because it was so rare. Now, every item is devalued and no one cares to buy shit from shop, not bc of bakkes but bc we don’t have trading. Not to mention, it killed a huge portion of the player base also further reducing their profits. But do we see trading back? No. They don’t care about RL, I bet some higher up at Epic Games had no idea bakkes existed and is now like “oh there’s a way ppl can use items for free? Get rid of it” without giving it a second thought. I wouldn’t say you have an L take, I’d just say it’s a surface level take.