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[Draugoth]

Epic Games' Fortnite has once again set a new record for peak live players, with over 6.6 million players engaging in all its modes. The game achieved an amazing 2.3 million+ players in the Lego Fortnite mode alone.

This impressive milestone marks the highest peak of players since public reporting of numbers began in March 2023, excluding the unprecedented turnout of 11.6 million+ during a special event day. This is possible thanks to the addition of new game modes within the Fortnite universe, including Lego Fortnite and Rocket Racing.

Lego Fortnite is a survival sandbox game that has captured players' imaginations with its unique blend of Lego Minifig character versions, material collection, building, and monster battles. Rocket Racing is a spin-off from the popular Rocket League, this racing game allows players to indulge in high-speed action with cross-game support for car-related cosmetics.

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[jayj]

Makes you wonder how long this game will remain an online gaming phenomenon, people are bound to move on to something else eventually. Could it be peaking, or growing still?

 

[MirageMew2]

LEGO is legit. The other shit not so much but they've got free skin challenges attached to them (Racing and Festival).

LEGO I see legitimately eating BR's lunch.

 

[acm2000]

Makes you wonder how long this game will remain an online gaming phenomenon, people are bound to move on to something else eventually. Could it be peaking, or growing still?

it has constantly evolved, it can stay relevant for many years to come.

 

[jayj]

it has constantly evolved, it can stay relevant for many years to come.

Yeah, but then again just about most live-service games are focused on constantly evolving. I guess you could say they do a better job than most at giving fans a new way to experience the game periodically, but I think a lot of it's popularity has been centered around a generation of kids who are only getting older.

 

[Meicyn]

Been goofing off with it. The battle royale mode has never appealed to me, but there's other stuff to do. The volume of content you can play at no cost is wild.

 

[NickFire]

Makes you wonder how long this game will remain an online gaming phenomenon, people are bound to move on to something else eventually. Could it be peaking, or growing still?

They just set another record so yeah, it'll continue as a phenom for a while.

 

[LordCBH]

I actually downloaded this fucking game to play the Lego game earlier today. The Lego game is fucking fun as hell.

 

[SCB3]

I've not played Fortnite now for a good 2 years or so, no real reason other than being sick of BR's and decided to give this a go with my Son, its really really good, its like a Lego version of Valhiem and a lot more in depth than I was expecting, very playable and time went really quickly, I can see why its so popular

 

[Doom85]

Honestly, never gave a shit about Fortnite, but this trailer definitely sold me on the LEGO mode:



And apparently it's confirmed to be a permanent mode (you can even download LEGO Fortnite by itself on the PSN store, probably the other stores as well), so I can save it for when I have more time to check it out. Looks really fun.

 

[Bernoulli]

This is isn't a record, for the eminem event there was 13 Millions when I launched 30 minutes before the event

 

[Diddy X]

They added extra game genres to fortnite so you don't need to go nowhere else if you feel like playing something different.

 

[Hugare]

LEGO Fortnite will be huge with time.

Played some of it with my gf and 4h went by in a second. Its really good. A mix of survival game like The Forrest + Animal Crossing.

If they keep adding to it just like they do with BR, I see it becoming bigger than BR

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

This is isn't a record, for the eminem event there was 13 Millions when I launched 30 minutes before the event

Highest non event record.

 

[BlackTron]

Uh yeah this thread is me. Not a fortnite person but I caved for the Lego mode and installed it the other day. Haven't played yet but glad to hear you guys think its good and I didn't waste my HD space

 

[poppabk]

Lego mode is pretty great. It's pretty much a direct rip off of minecraft but whatever.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

How long til Minecraft goes f2p now? Lego Fortnite has got to be massively eating into their playerbase, and if it is a legit good game I don't see why that would ever change.

 

[Kilau]

LEGO mode was very disappointing. It's okay for what it is but it isn't a Minecraft replacement.

 

[March Climber]

Makes you wonder how long this game will remain an online gaming phenomenon, people are bound to move on to something else eventually. Could it be peaking, or growing still?

It's growing. It is becoming more of a platform title like Roblox. Expect more games with wildly different playstyles to start appearing over the next few years.

 

[Mr.ODST]

Fortnite 100% is now a gaming platform rather than just a game now