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> Epic is absolutely SWIMMING in money thanks to what was essentially a weekend project by two of their engineers. Are you talking about Fortnite in general, o
by Splines 9y ago
> Epic is absolutely SWIMMING in money thanks to what was essentially a weekend project by two of their engineers.
Are you talking about Fortnite in general, or the Battle Royale mode?
The weird thing is that my impression is that Fortnite was talked about for awhile as this Horde-mode construction game, sort of like minecraft meets L4D. Then the BR F2P mode was added and the whole thing blew up.
- k__ 9y agoWell, pivot while you can...
- elldoubleyew 9y agoI always felt bad for the devs of the actual Fortnite game. Its clear lots of time and resources were poured into what was actually a pretty good horde style survival/crafting game, then the little BR offshoot came along and now whenever someone says "Fortnite" I just assume they mean BR because no one actually plays the survival game. I guess they can't complain about the success but it would have to feel at least a little bit demoralizing.
- unsigner 9y agoPretty fleshed-out, pretty feature-rich, pretty long developed - but not pretty good. If it was pretty good we would be talking about the fort construction mode in PUBG now.
- k__ 9y agolol, serendipity. As far as I know the regular mode is not free to play. I only tried it because it was a free alternative to PUBG
- eridius 9y agoThe regular mode will be F2P, it's just currently in the "founder's pack" stage of F2P games.
- Maxious 9y agoSame with Warcraft 3 and DOTA right?
- k__ 9y agoWasn't Dota a mod? Like, the guy who made it had the intention to make this game (with the help of WC3)
- mdeg 9y agoCustom map technically, although the WC3 map editor let you write custom code so the line is kind of blurry.
- k__ 9y agoSure. I just had the impression DOTA was made by some guy who wanted to make something like DOTA and Fortnite was made by some people who wanted to make some mix of L4D and Minecraft, but pivoted to doing something like PUBG instead.
- ckocagil 9y ago>Then the BR (F2P) mode was added and the whole thing blew up. Summary of video games in the last 5 years.
- sushid 9y ago5 years? PUBG is probably the first massively successful battle royale game and it's not been 2 years yet. H1Z1/Rust/etc are all a continuous survivalist game and other games were mostly mods. I'm personally excited to see where Activision or EA take the genre (Blizzard too but I don't see that happening anytime soon).