Thank you Fortnite for inventing DLC
I'm still not getting it... are you getting paid by epic?
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.
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
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.
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...
You are describing pretty much every multiplayer game, lol.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 still need help.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.
Soon, it will cure cancer and end world hunger.Fortnite now created social media and multiplayer gaming.....
Games have officially gone mainstream.
They went mainstream long ago
There's really no single point in which gaming went mainstream. It's all a series of little bumps along the path to relavency.
Fortnite is simply the biggest bump along that path.