> Articles like this fall into one of two categories: either paid promotion by the author, or the author's unwitting corroboration of Epic's marketing with this

> Articles like this fall into one of two categories: either paid promotion by the author, or the author's unwitting corroboration of Epic's marketing with this game. > It's designed from it's core to have as much mass appeal as possible and the barrier to entry is downloading Epic's launcher, so naturally it's popularity is off the charts. There's ten gazillion cynical, manipulative free-to-play games out there. None of them blew up like Fortnite. When it first launched, the gaming press was genuinely excited about it. It was the first really polished, professional entry in the (effectively) brand-new battle royale genre, finally pulling away from the jankiness and generic brown "realistic military" look of PUBG and its mod predecessors. The game has become inextricable from the social phenomenon, at this point. It was mostly luck and good timing that pushed into into mega-success territory. But it was never bad or even mediocre. Edit: Basically I'm saying that it's pretty silly to assume that just because you don't like something, anyone who does like it must be either an idiot or a shill.