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SESSION DISPATCH - PART 63. FORTNITE PROFITS AT THE BOOST OF SWIFT FORTNITE, ONE OF TWO - THE PROFIT LEDGER IN THREE CUSTODY CLASSES - Wed Nov 11, 2026. Founder directives, verbatim: Nov 11, 2026, about 4:58 PM CT: "Now link to profits made from fortnight game at the boost of swift fortnight" - and about 5:00 PM CT: "Now add the spike in users on fortnight the same timeframe." His spelling stands beside the record's Fortnite, unmerged. Epic Games is private; it files no earnings. Everything known about the game's money arrives in exactly three kinds of paper, and they never fuse. CLASS A - COURT-DISCLOSED, the only profit-grade paper in existence, from Epic v. Apple: Fortnite revenue 2018, 5.48 billion dollars; 2019, 3.71 billion; combined about 9.17 billion, more than 93 percent of Epic's total revenue of 9.849 billion across the same two years. Associated costs about 4.3 billion, leaving gross profit about 5.6 billion across 2018-19. Trial coverage also reports Epic company-wide profit of 5.5 billion across those years - while noting Fortnite's own profit was NEVER SEPARATED from the company's. Both lines carried unmerged; neither is a Fortnite-only net, because that number exists on no paper anywhere. Sweeney testified Epic's 2020 gross revenue was 5.1 billion - company revenue, not Fortnite profit. Platform payouts made by Epic, Jan 2017 to Oct 2020, on court documents: about 237 million to Apple, 246 million to Microsoft, 451 million to Sony. No comparable financials have been published since; the court layer ends at 2019. CLASS B - EPIC'S OWN STATEMENTS: Apr 11, 2022, a 2 billion dollar funding round at a 31.5 billion post-money valuation. Feb 2024, Disney's 1.5 billion dollar stake at a reported valuation of about 22.5 billion, not confirmed by either company, printed at reported weight. Sep 28, 2023, Sweeney's layoff memo, in his words: "For a while now, we've been spending way more money than we earn." Mar 24, 2026, his second memo, over a thousand further layoffs: "the downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making." The custodian's latest word on profit is the opposite sign from the court layer. CLASS C - THIRD-PARTY ESTIMATES, estimate weight, conflicts printed not resolved: SuperData reads 2.4 billion for 2018 and 1.8 billion for 2019, a narrower scope than the court exhibit, and where estimate and exhibit disagree the exhibit governs. Two aggregator year-tables swap the 2021 and 2022 figures between them; neither is adopted. Lifetime estimates of 25 to 30 billion circulate at aggregator weight. Statista-modeled company gross income declines year over year. Fidelity cut its Epic valuation mark about 47 percent in a year, on fund filings of Aug 31, 2026. REVENUE IS NOT PROFIT, PRINTED AT FULL SIZE: every five-to-six-billion-a-year figure for 2020 through 2026 is revenue, most of it estimated. For the current era no profit figure exists at all - and the only custodian statements touching profit's sign, in 2023 and again in 2026, both say spending exceeded earnings. Cory James Steele, Mind Of Monkey Studio (P.L.L.C.), Cory Steele for President (C00949545). The interval is the record. The paper decides.
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