Epic expanded its portfolio once more, announcing today that it has bought Harmonix. While Harmonix is rather quiet in recent years, the company is a recent household name, developing several early guitar hero titles before finally moving and creating stone ribbons and dance franchises. Now it will join Epic Games, and while it will still work with music, it looks like the Rock Revival Spirit is not on the current card.
Epic buy harmonix in the game for metaverse
While Harmonix and Epic keep some details close to the chest for now, there are some important details disclosed today. In a blog post on its website, Harmonix said that it would “work with epic to once again challenge hope because we brought our unique brand music playing experience to Metaphevers, and we could not be more enthusiastic.”
It’s a little blurred, but Harmonix becomes a little clearer then in a short FAQ about the acquisition. The company said that would work for “making music and gameplay trips for Fortnite.” Again, it doesn’t give much more, but it looks like we can look forward to the touch of Harmonix music in Fortnite at some point in the future.
It seems to buy the entire development studio only to contribute to fortnite is excessive exercise, so epic may have a broader plan for Harmonix then at the end of the road. For now, however, it seems like the company will be assigned to make fortnite a little more musical, and it is not always a bad thing given by Harmonix history.
What does this mean for steam, rock bands, and fusers
Epic acquisitions like this always come with many questions given epic battles that are ongoing for market share of steam, and fortunately, we have some answers on that front. In the same FAQ, Harmonix said that it would continue the plan for Rock Band DLC, Seasons rock band rivals, and fuser programs, so nothing has changed in that matter.
The studio also said that the game will remain on steam after the acquisition, which is indeed good news. Epic is not above acquiring studios and removing their games from steam in the game to grow the Epic Games Store userbase – in fact, only when he acquired the PSYonix rocket league developer. After the acquisition was over, Rocket League disappeared from steam and registered at the Epic Games Store as a free title to play, even though everyone who already had a game through Steam could continue to play through the platform.
If you hope that epic financial support has the potential to mean that Harmonix will send rock band instruments back to production, unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have happened. Harmonix said there were no current plans to make more instruments of rock bands, which have surged in prices in recent months. If you want to take a rock band again, it looks like you just need to keep an eye on the deal on a used instrument or shell out for the expensive ones listed on eBay.
So, for now, we don’t know what epic is in the mind for Harmonix, but hopefully, more specifically will come round the corner immediately. We will notify you when the two companies share more about this acquisition, so stay here.
