Tim Sweeney Quotes

I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.

The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

Games have become a social phenomenon.

The awesome thing about 'Fortnite' is it's brought a huge volume of digital commerce to Epic.

The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.

It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.

People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

[W]e spend three billion hours a week playing online games.

It's not as if I've never been awkward myself. I'm a big gamer, so I've had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people's houses.

People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.

I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It's overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it's still different. It's all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.

One of the reasons the games business has become more popular and more broadly appealing is that it's gone from this very solitary experience to this very social experience.

Games like 'Fortnite' are way more fun to play with your real-world friends, and they're so accessible that anybody can play.

Machine Zone is redefining the face of social mobile MMO games.

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

I've played pretty much every single-player RPG there is, has been, ever will be. But as far as the MMOs go, especially with the voice chat, it becomes like hanging out with your friends in a chat channel, and you're playing at the same time. So it becomes a lot more social than people would probably think.

The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.

In many ways 'Fortnite' is like a social network. People are just in the game with strangers; they're playing with friends and using 'Fortnite' as a foundation to communicate.

A lot of times, when we travel, a lot of people on the road have the Switch going. We will all connect on the Switch and play the games against each other. It's obviously the healthier alternative than partying, but it's great.