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CTOnews.com October 3, Epic Games's director of distribution strategy, Sergiy Galyonkin, announced that he was leaving the company. In a statement released on Monday, he said it was his last day at Epic.

It is not clear whether his departure is directly related to the massive layoffs at Epic. Last week, the company announced plans to cut about 830 employees, or 16% of its workforce. Announcing his departure, Galyonkin said he was "not quite" in the direction of Epic.

Galyonkin is the founder of Steam Spy, which was launched in 2015 and automatically collects data from Steam users' profiles, then analyzes and generates statistics such as game sales and average game time for each game.

According to Galyonkin's LinkedIn profile, he joined Epic in February 2016 as director of publishing in Eastern Europe, and then became director of distribution strategy in August 2017.

What Galyonkin learned from Steam Spy was used to help develop Steam's competitive Epic Games Store, which was launched in December 2018. Galyonkin said: "these eight years have been the most exciting eight years of my career, and I am very grateful to my former Epic Games colleagues for helping me build Epic 4.0."

We launched Fortnite, which later became one of the self-reinforcing cultural phenomena I wrote a year ago. We have proved that free games that can win without paying can become popular on a large scale.

Today, Epic Games is transforming from a game developer, engine creator, and publisher to a platform, Epic 5.0. I'm not a good fit for this new version of Epic, it needs different types of people. I intend to stay in the gaming industry and hope to be more outspoken.

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