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[Sgt. Pinback]

Fortnite is fun. I get that people hate it because annoying little kids love it, but the no build mode is great to kill a couple of hours on. It's not as sweaty as Warzone or PUBG, and you can kind of just wander about hunting for guns and getting into skirmishes with randoms. It's pretty good.

 

[Jinxed]

Thanks to the event including Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Ice Spice and finally the homage to Juice Wrld.



Rerun is at 8pm eastern time tonight. Here's the even for anyone interested:



No wonder a lot of developers wanted to be the new Fortnite.

 

[Hookshot]

So this is only a record for a "concert" and a previous event with Galactus in 2020 had more players?

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Shit music and shit game. Makes sense.

 

[Jinxed]

Well fuck, didn't see other thread. Sorry

 

[Jinxed]

Here's a good video to explain the almost death of fortnite to a complete success. And who would've thought, Tencent kind of saved it (maybe)

 

[Synless]

I'm not hating because it's popular, but honestly… I don't get the appeal, I just don't.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

A sign of the times.

 

[Goalus]

To put this insane CCU number into context, there are currently 9.1 million Steam users playing games across the entire platform - https://steamdb.info/charts/

So that means the Epic Games Store just overtook Steam in terms of concurrent users?

 

[Generic]

The success of this game is a real mystery to me.

It's just a great game.

 

[bitbydeath]

I don't play fortnite or follow it, but even i tuned in today. That was so well done. Wish more games did events like this.

Was this your first Fortnite event?
They're always of Epic proportions.

The game itself is bigger than any ever, they can do more in a single season than any other game can do in a year, COD included.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Who? I get it I'm in my 40s but damn when will the youth stop liking this trash game and trash music?

 

[rm082e]

My son is 12. He's been playing for 4 years off and on. Inexplicably, he got back into the game last month and completed the battle pass. He was telling me all week hiw excited he was for the new season and this event thing. He set his alarm and got up early to get online and queue with friends. My wife said he had a hard time getting to sleep last night because he was so excited. He's been in his room all day playing with his friends, shouting and laughing.

I don't get Fortnite, but I do get being an excited kid and having fun, so I'm happy for him.

Meanwhile, I'm playing Sekiro...

 

[Shadowstar39]

I do kind of hate it too.
It means a huge chunk of people are ok with 1 game.(which is fine)
Different publishers/developers are stuck in trying to fight for their time. Means more attempts/failures to have what Fortnite has. If Fortnite didn't exist what would that mean for games, genres, output and direction of this industry.
(at the end of the day trivial what ifs)

If it didn't exist, I bet halo, resistance, Killzone, socom, warhawk, old school battlefield, etc... Would all still exist and have single and multiplayer. But no instead we have this shit slipped into cod. Weed skins, mtx and ho Manage skins. Plus shit music where the youth idolozes mumble rappers and shitty ass pop. I miss the 80s and 90s where doom, quake, and rock/metal reigned supreme.

 

[Buggy Loop]

How many Concords is that?

a lot

 

[poodaddy]

What the fuck is Juice World?

 

[Hestar69]

Fortnite is fun. I get that people hate it because annoying little kids love it, but the no build mode is great to kill a couple of hours on. It's not as sweaty as Warzone or PUBG, and you can kind of just wander about hunting for guns and getting into skirmishes with randoms. It's pretty good.

I would like to get into some of your lobbies,mines always sweat ppl these last few seasons.but yeah,it's fun when you get into normal lobbies.

 

[Shadowstar39]

UT died for this shit

Dont remind me. Was my got to shooter back in the early 2000s. Both ut99 and 2004 rocked. I loved those maps and the fast paced arena with announcer. So infuriating that we have nothing like this today. Sure I can go play with bots, but it's not the same. Quake 3/live is too many ultra skilled players, it's like going on counter strike, lol yeah not going to happen.

Unreal 3 sucked ass though. Bunch of gear of war looking bulky characters. I did like the hover boards though, (I am remembering that right?).

We don't even get battlefield/warhawk style or socom, shit we don't get 3rd person cover shooters either. If it wasn't for stalker 2, this Gen would suck for single player fps and multiplayer is all battle royal bs so I don't touch it.

I wouldn't mind fortnite of I knew other games like unreal tournament were still being made.

 

[Generic]

I love seeing GAF boomers seething at Fortnite.

It's usually single-player-only gamers who hate the fact the most successful game of all time is multiplayer

 

[Sgt. Pinback]

I would like to get into some of your lobbies,mines always sweat ppl these last few seasons.but yeah,it's fun when you get into normal lobbies.

Maybe I'm just so shit at the game that I only get matched with people who are shit, or shitter, than me. I'm okay with that.

 

[Gallard]

As someone who doesn't play Fortnite, how does this event work?

It's a digital concert? Are you still shooting eachother in a battle royale while Juice World is playing? Or is there no shooting, and you just enjoy the vibes?

 

[digital_ghost]

I have never been more wrong about the success of a game.

Same here. I said Concord wouldn't sell. Turns out it sold 3 copies. How wrong I was.

 

[Generic]

As someone who doesn't play Fortnite, how does this event work?

It's a digital concert? Are you still shooting eachother in a battle royale while Juice World is playing? Or is there no shooting, and you just enjoy the vibes?

It's a separated map. No combat, just the digital concert.

 

[mitch1971]

How many Concords is that?

I'd work it out but my calculators display is ony 12 digits long.

 

[SlimySnake]

Every generation has a bad game that they love. Our generation had cod. Theirs is fortnite.

TBH, i felt the same way about mario growing up in the 90s. i was like wtf is this trash and why does everyone love it. i was a contra and streets of rage guy myself and just never understood the popularity of a fucking plumber jumping around. 35 years on, and watching Astrobot get goty nominations, nothing has changed.

 

[Party McHardy]

I haven't really played all year, but the new season looks nice and the winter fest freebies will keep me engaged over the holidays. See you all in zero build!

 

[MiguelItUp]

Fortnite is a great video game. I don't get the hate. I dont play it because i dont want to get sucked in to the microtransaction hole, but the no build mode is genuinely very fun. The open world is fun to explore and just fuck around in.

The character designs for the IP are some of their best designs in general.

It's easy for people to hate on Fortnite for various reasons. I was definitely one of those people until they introduced Zero Build—I never cared for the building mechanics. But after giving it a shot, it didn't take long to understand how and why the game became so successful.

It's a free to play game with the most impressive roadmap I've ever seen. The sheer amount of content that evolves dramatically with each season keeps it feeling fresh. Add in new battle passes, store items, and major IP collaborations, and it all starts to make sense. On top of that, they've introduced the LEGO survival game, their racing game, and content akin to Rock Band—all for free. It's incredible. And when you factor in the user created content, it's even crazier.

It's easy to associate it with kids and zoomers, but it's clear they're also targeting older generations. They consistently include classic IPs that younger audiences might not even recognize, like Evil Dead, Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Indiana Jones, Terminator 2, Robocop, and a lot more.

I'll never forgive Epic for burying Unreal Tournament. Especially the way they did it. But I do appreciate them adding Zero Build to Fortnite, lol.

 

[Generic]

Ah yes

 

[Jinxed]

Every generation has a bad game that they love. Our generation had cod. Theirs is fortnite.

Except Fortnite is not a bad game. You might hate it or dislike it but it's not a bad game. I never cared for it, never understood what it was all about until I actually gave it a chance and play with my son. Now we have our ritual every evening after all of his schoolwork and daily routine is done to play an hour together with his friends and to be honest, the game is a ton of fun.

 

[GloveSlap]

I've played my fair share of Fort Nite, but it's been a bit. It feels like the popularity of the game peaked a few years ago, but i guess that's not true.

 

[Deerock71]

I glanced at my 12 year old waiting in line for 30 minutes to get in. Pretty wild.

 

[Jinxed]

I glanced at my 12 year old waiting in line for 30 minutes to get in. Pretty wild.

Just like watching ourselves waiting in line to get into World of Warcraft 20 years ago lol

 

[Hestar69]

Maybe I'm just so shit at the game that I only get matched with people who are shit, or shitter, than me. I'm okay with that.

Im trash I think it's my one of my friends hes pretty good lol

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

The fad that became the goat.

 

[Cakeboxer]

This game is a reality check for everybody who thinks only their precious 300m AAA single player experiences are true games. Loving it.

 

[Loomy]

If it didn't exist, I bet halo, resistance, Killzone, socom, warhawk, old school battlefield, etc... Would all still exist and have single and multiplayer. But no instead we have this shit slipped into cod. Weed skins, mtx and ho Manage skins. Plus shit music where the youth idolozes mumble rappers and shitty ass pop. I miss the 80s and 90s where doom, quake, and rock/metal reigned supreme.

Before Fortnite went BR, Resistance & Killzone were already done. SOCOM and Warhawk/Starhawk were super extra dead due to Lightbox and Zipper closing, Halo was walking dead with Halo 5, and the developers of Battlefield had "no idea why players liked Bad Company 2", leading to the franchise being on life support.

People idolized rock and pop stars in the 80s/90s and there was shitty rock music alongside the good ones just like there's shitty rap music alongside the good ones today. And you're talking about weed skins as if weed wasn't huge in the 80s/90s to distract people from the US crack epidemic of the <checks notes> 80s and 90s lol.

 

[Xtib81]

It's just a great game.

Undeniably, but such a success is crazy. Good for them.

 

[SweetTooth]

When someone wonders why every publisher keeps trying to make live service games, this is why. To get even a quarter of this success.

Nah, they do this out of pure evilness/s

 

[Killjoy-NL]

It's just a great game.

This.

If dinosaurs would've been able to write a diary documenting their final days, it would probably read like this thread.

 

[Little Chicken]

From flop to PUBG rip-off to bigger than Steam. Amazing.

 

[Danny22]

Fortnite could get so much more popular if Tim can get it on mobile. That's where the real F2p audience is and the room for growth. That is something Microsoft would wish for, a game played by a billion people.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

So that means the Epic Games Store just overtook Steam in terms of concurrent users?

No, because Fortnite is available on more platforms than just Epic Games Store, and most of the Fortnite player-base is on console.

 

[ManaByte]

Fortnite could get so much more popular if Tim can get it on mobile. That's where the real F2p audience is and the room for growth. That is something Microsoft would wish for, a game played by a billion people.

It is on mobile. You can play it natively on Android and through streaming on iOS. It has a full mobile interface.

 

[PeteBull]

Even tho im in my 40s and minecraft/battleroyale/moba genre not even once(i saw streams, and i dont live under a rock so i can still talk about those games with younglings i respect fortnite, my true only gripe with it is- by being so succesfull it spawned so many terrible copycats, and they will keep on spawning even if most of previous ones bombed hard(looking at u concord,fairgame$ and marathon )

 

[Davevil]

It's just a great game.

 

[BigLee74]

Dont remind me. Was my got to shooter back in the early 2000s. Both ut99 and 2004 rocked. I loved those maps and the fast paced arena with announcer. So infuriating that we have nothing like this today. Sure I can go play with bots, but it's not the same. Quake 3/live is too many ultra skilled players, it's like going on counter strike, lol yeah not going to happen.

Unreal 3 sucked ass though. Bunch of gear of war looking bulky characters. I did like the hover boards though, (I am remembering that right?)..

I am one of the few that didn't mind UT 2007/3. It lost a lot of charm moving away from the quirky characters and colourful maps, but as a stand alone game it was still decent.

Had really good flak, shock and bio guns too, with cool effects.

I stuck with it for a good few years before moving back to UT2004.

One of my favourite memories is of my son - probably about 4 at the time - whispering to me 'enemy dark walker approaching' as his mum entered the room

 

[Danny22]

It is on mobile. You can play it natively on Android and through streaming on iOS. It has a full mobile interface.

I know it has a mobile port obviously. But it's not on playstore or ios store which is where the casual audience is. So it needs to be there to reach that major audience was my point.

 

[ManaByte]

I know it has a mobile port obviously. But it's not on playstore or ios store which is where the casual audience is. So it needs to be there to reach that major audience was my point.

I don't think people who actually play Fornite have any problem finding the Android version, especially since they do such a good job of pushing it in-game already.

IIRC Fortnite is the #1 streamed game through Xbox on iOS due to them not requiring a GP sub to use it to stream Fortnite.

And it's not Epic's fault it's not on the Google Play Store or the App Store. It's Apple and Google for banning them. Sure, Epic was stupid for circumventing the 30% cut, but a permanent ban to the biggest game on the world is completely idiotic on the part of Apple and Google.

 

[RJMacready73]

I fucking hate this game and the people that play it.

What's my son ever done to you!?

 

[Mattyp]

Every generation has a bad game that they love. Our generation had cod. Theirs is fortnite.

TBH, i felt the same way about mario growing up in the 90s. i was like wtf is this trash and why does everyone love it. i was a contra and streets of rage guy myself and just never understood the popularity of a fucking plumber jumping around. 35 years on, and watching Astrobot get goty nominations, nothing has changed.

CoDs still there, would be interesting to see concurrent max for CoD when 15 million Xbox players jumped in and probably nearly 15 million on PlayStation as well the first week.

Nothing comes close to these two games.