Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Fortnite has broken their all-time concurrent player record of 11.6M, surging over 14M for Remix The Finale ft Juice WRLD
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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/
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LectureMaster
Gold Member
Good! Not because like I'll ever play the game, but it means I can keep getting freebies in Epic Store. Tim milks gen z and then give me goodies, that's a good deal.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
When someone wonders why every publisher keeps trying to make live service games, this is why. To get even a quarter of this success.
ANIMAL1975
Member
And they're all an Xbox.
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MarV0
Member
The amount of effort that goes into Fortnite seasons is immense. They all want the reward without putting in serious time and effort.
Time warp to 2011 NeoGaf reaction to the game
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Fortnite VGA 2011 Trailer (Epic's New IP) - [Epic: Like Minecraft, More Info]
Trailer | Youtube Mirror Screenshots So, here's a rundown of what we know about this game at the moment: It combines survival horror (?) with tower defense like strategic gameplay Build a fortress during the day by destroying other structures and scavenging parts, defend it and shoot...
NuclearDiarrhea
Member
I fucking hate this game and the people that play it.
Polygonal_Sprite
Gold Member
No one sees these types of phenomenon coming. Fortnite is now up there with Pong, Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros, DOOM, Quake, Pokemon Red & Blue, Half-Life, Gran Turismo, FFVII, Tomb Raider, Halo, Guitar Hero, Wii Sports, The Sims, Minecraft, Angry Birds and Pokemon Go as one of the most important games ever made in terms of mass market mindshare.
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Sentenza
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Puscifer
Member
It's really not a mystery.
lifa-cobex
Member
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
In your (and everyone else's defense), this game(post launch) used to be just another BR game with a quirk(building). Epic did a lot of work to change it to what it is today.
Not that mysterious. It's turned into a platform for brands and celebrities to engage with users, and pop culture moments are leaned into really heavily. Those brands/celebrities are happy to reach a massive audience of young people, and those people are happy to stay up to date with whatever pop culture trend is currently highlighted on the platform. Some of them feel left out if they're not in on the latest "thing", so they engage a lot.
It helps that the core gameplay of the BR game has remained solid since they launched it.
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
Love fortnite so much, all you souls fan boys are missing out on the pure dopamine hits of a victory royale and doing some flossing
3liteDragon
Member
nice, hope the event is available to replay. OG chapter 1 next week gonna do numbers
Sentenza
Member
Funnily enough at its original launch it used to be a single player/co-op survival/builder. And it bombed pretty hard.
They managed to completely turn its fortune around when they decided at the last minute to salvage it turning it into the poor man's PUBG...
Poor man's PUBG that on the other hand ended up massively surpassing the popularity of the original despise all its shortcomings (horrendous aesthetic and art style, hideous UI, poor mechanics, poor netcode, etc).
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Zathalus
Member
Yeah the BR mode was the last gasp of a dying game. Funny how it worked out.
DeVeAn
Member
Let’s play some Zero Build I’ll be Slim Shady you can be Goku!
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
Half of that is subjective, but yeah. The original idea would have made a great mobile game, in hindsight. But they pivoted well, and had the foresight to turn it into something more that just another BR.
Sentenza
Member
Bit of a side note, but while my interest in videogames is something that I rarely bring up at work, from time to time the topic of games came up with some of the kids who train in our boxing gym. Especially since a couple of them are already aware I play some.
I kid you not, somehow most of them while hearing about games being mentioned immediately ask me if I play Fortnite. No, it's not even correct to say that they ask... They hear "videogames" and they start talking almost under the assumption that if you are into this stuff you must play Fortnite by default.
They always seem surprised or mildly disappointed when I answer that I'm familiar with it but I don't like it so I don't play it.
I kid you not, somehow most of them while hearing about games being mentioned immediately ask me if I play Fortnite. No, it's not even correct to say that they ask... They hear "videogames" and they start talking almost under the assumption that if you are into this stuff you must play Fortnite by default.
They always seem surprised or mildly disappointed when I answer that I'm familiar with it but I don't like it so I don't play it.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Wow. I didn’t know fortnte users were still going up!
Sentenza
Member
This is across all platforms, though.
Plus, keep in mind that Fortnite, exactly like Riot with League of Legend (another game that ALLEGEDLY is bigger than the entire Steam userbase by itself), doesn't have a live counter visible for everyone, so frankly speaking they can claim whatever they want and you'll have to just take their word for it.
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bender
What time is it?
To be fair, you could levy most of those complaints about PUBG as well.
Fortnite is an amazing success story and you have to tip your hat for the development team being agile enough to pivot away from what was certain failure.
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
Yeah that's crazy. But he's also had like 3 or 4 posthumous albums. The last one came out yesterday with a cover designed by Takashi Murakami. Soundcloud gave us a lot of trash rappers. But some gems came out of it.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
It’s a fun game that keeps evolving. They set it up for success with its lack photorealism as well.
I don’t play it often but every once in a while I download it to fuck around. Have spent $0 on it lol
I don’t play it often but every once in a while I download it to fuck around. Have spent $0 on it lol
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Sheesh. All that for a PUBG ripoff.
The_Observer
Member
If I was younger with more free time I would be sad that this is such a huge thing and where the industry is going. But I’m glad, less games for me to spend money and time on.
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Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
There's more variety in games today than ever before.
This is the closest thing to the "metaverse" everyone had a hard on for a few years ago. I assume they're working on this, but all it needs now is just a 'walk about' mode. Sell plots of land, sell parts to build a house, decorations, etc. The moment the main form of participation is no longer shooty shooty bang bang, they might as well get a money printing press installed at Epic HQ.
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Kabelly
Member
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.
The character designs for the IP are some of their best designs in general.
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Red-Dead-Ocelot
Gold Member
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.
Radical_3d
Member
Probably due to dat Pro patch UuU
Brock2621
Member
I’m 40yrs old and haven’t played it in 6-7 years but my two boys are now 9 and 13 and they were both on flipping out. I asked them if any of their friends were on and they opened up their “friends” tab over and prob no less then two dozen of their friends from school were all playing. I cannot believe they’ve managed to bridge so many age groups to retain relevance 
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Hawk The Slayer
Member
While I’m not a big fan of Fortnite and don’t like it enough to play it alone or with strangers. It was still kinda fun when I used to play this with my friends and mess around in the game. Like how they put in work for custom events like Galactus, Thanos Infinity Gaunlet, and especially that cool Kaiju vs robot fight. Way more interesting and cooler compared to PugG and H1z1which I also used to play.
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Bombolone
Gold Member
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)