(Image credit: Left: Looking Glass. Right: Bloomberg Via Getty Images)

On May 24, 2000, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney shared a public statement (the specific platform or venue eludes me) on the closure of Looking Glass Studios, a canonical PC gaming institution and originator of the immersive sim genre ( maybe don't call it that, though ). The statement was resurfaced by immsim enthusiast account Sinnoware on Twitter, and Sweeney has since responded.

Here's Sweeney's original statement from 2000 in full:

"This isn't a sad day, it's an economically realistic day. Looking Glass spent lots of money making innovative games that never sold well.

"A really cool guy I know who used to work at Looking Glass had some insight into this: The company slogan may well have been 'By MIT Grads, For MIT Grads'. Think about that.…