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They give him free dance moves and player skins.

Gotta keep fighting the good fight on the interwebz. It is the GOTG in his fantasy.

Nah, lol.

I just think that if you could somehow quantify the amount of pure joy a video game has brought to an industry or people, if you could hook diodes up to everyone's head and measure the amount of total positive experiences it provides...Fortnite is probably the best game of all time, provided you account for it's time spent on the market.

It's not for everyone clearly, but by every objective measure it really has no equal.

I also find it entertaining to see people who don't jive with a game, attempt to discredit it at every turn. If you're a mature, somewhat intelligent adult, who's interested in where the industry is headed, there's no better way than understanding what makes Fortnite such a phenom. Can you imagine anyone at Sony, MS, EA etc...bringing up Fortnite at a board meeting and saying something like "Fortnite is just for kids everyone. It's only popular because it's free. There's nothing we can learn from it's meteoric rise."

I can't imagine that sentiment is echoing the halls of any relevant game company today.

So GotG? Easily.
 
Nah, lol.

I just think that if you could somehow quantify the amount of pure joy a video game has brought to an industry or people, if you could hook diodes up to everyone's head and measure the amount of total positive experiences it provides...Fortnite is probably the best game of all time, provided you account for it's time spent on the market.

It's not for everyone clearly, but by every objective measure it really has no equal.

I also find it entertaining to see people who don't jive with a game, attempt to discredit it at every turn. If you're a mature, somewhat intelligent adult, who's interested in where the industry is headed, there's no better way than understanding what makes Fortnite such a phenom. Can you imagine anyone at Sony, MS, EA etc...bringing up Fortnite at a board meeting and saying something like "Fortnite is just for kids everyone. It's only popular because it's free. There's nothing we can learn from it's meteoric rise."

I can't imagine that sentiment is echoing the halls of any relevant game company today.

So GotG? Easily.

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Our problem is not with Fortnite itself the game is fine, it’s the way you act like everything the game does is the best thing ever and the game is the best game ever, it’s not. You act like a d bag about it all, but carry one.
 
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Yo dudes...sorry to derail the Fortnite drama thread :), but have a question about Save the World (if any of you folks have it) and more particularly as it pertains to Xbox. So, I usually buy all the games and my son just shares them on my home Xbox. My question is, if I buy Save the World on my account, will my son have access to it? ...or is it Epic account locked?

Thanks ahead of time and if you answer, you can get back to more drama for your mama.
 
Our problem is not with Fortnite itself the game is fine, it’s the way you act like everything the game does is the best thing ever and the game is the best game ever, it’s not. You act like a d bag about it all, but carry one.

It's one of, if not the single greatest games of all time. The honeymoon period is far from over and it's still putting a whollop on RDR2 and Black Ops 4. It's pure magic. Carry one, carry all. That's what I say.
 
I don’t play MP pvp shooters. Last time I tried in Halo 3, and got my ego bruised. But I think fortnite does a lot of things right. No p2w, theme seasons, cosmetic that can be earn playing normally.

Importantly using the profit from it to support UE4 developers and the new exciting game launcher.
 
Epic once again making genuinely interesting design decisions in the Battle Royale space. They added the Infinity Blade this morning to all the regular game modes. There's only one of them every match and it spawns at the same location every time (Polar Heights Castle). It seems to be massively over powered in it's current state so if you get your hands on it, you've increased your chances at getting a VR considerably. Here's the trailer...




It'll get nerfed within the week but I'm loving the extra strategy Epic is throwing into their map. They're giving players real tactical reasons to drop at certain locations. A standard the BR genre will eventually no doubt adopt.
 
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Epic once again making genuinely interesting design decisions in the Battle Royale space. They added the Infinity Blade this morning to all the regular game modes. There's only one of them every match and it spawns at the same location every time (Polar Heights Castle). It seems to be massively over powered in it's current state so if you get your hands on it, you've increased your chances at getting a VR considerably. Here's the trailer...




It'll get nerfed within the week but I'm loving the extra strategy Epic is throwing into their map. They're giving players real tactical reasons to drop at certain locations. A standard the BR genre will eventually no doubt adopt.




yeah, rather not.
 
This probably belongs in the sales thread...



Gaming is going to explode in the next 10 years. As great as Fortnite is, it's leaving so much money on the table. Invest in this industry folks.
 
This probably belongs in the sales thread...



Gaming is going to explode in the next 10 years. As great as Fortnite is, it's leaving so much money on the table. Invest in this industry folks.


That's a weird comparison considering those are all different things than a game... revenue per user, lol. They are comparing fractions of pennies for advertising vs microtransations for a game were kids buys friggin dance emoticons and skins, for-crying-out-loud.

Whatever floats your boat, I guess...
 
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That's a weird comparison considering those are all different things than a game... revenue per user, lol. They are comparing fractions of pennies for advertising vs microtransations for a game were kids buys friggin dance emoticons and skins, for-crying-out-loud.

Whatever floats your boat, I guess...

It's an interesting comparison if you view Fortnite as a social platform rather than a game.

People want to connect as well as show off to one another. We do it on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat...and Fortnite if you really think about it.

It speaks to the wider potential of the medium (gaming) moreso than it does to Fortnite in particular. Social platforms want to wring as much time and money out of users as possible. Gaming is getting more social by the day and it's uniquely positioned to be able to extract dollars better than the more traditional social platforms of today.

What happens in 2, 5, or 10 years when we get a Fortnite that can be played by a wider swath of people? The games appeal is still greater than it's barrier of entry will allow.
 
It's an interesting comparison if you view Fortnite as a social platform rather than a game.

People want to connect as well as show off to one another. We do it on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat...and Fortnite if you really think about it.

It speaks to the wider potential of the medium (gaming) moreso than it does to Fortnite in particular. Social platforms want to wring as much time and money out of users as possible. Gaming is getting more social by the day and it's uniquely positioned to be able to extract dollars better than the more traditional social platforms of today.

What happens in 2, 5, or 10 years when we get a Fortnite that can be played by a wider swath of people? The games appeal is still greater than it's barrier of entry will allow.
You are describing pretty much every multiplayer game, lol.

They'd have to substantially de-gamify a game to achieve what you describe. Playstation home tried this and failed miserably. Maybe it was a bit too ahead of it's time...
 
You are describing pretty much every multiplayer game, lol.

They'd have to substantially de-gamify a game to achieve what you describe. Playstation home tried this and failed miserably. Maybe it was a bit too ahead of it's time...

I would argue there's something in Fortnites DNA (and to a lesser extent Battle Royale) that innately appeals to the human mind more so than other MP games.