Fortnite Hits 8.3 Million (Or 0.1% of Human Population) Concurrent Players (gamasutra.com) 91
Epic Games' Fortnite has reached 8.3 million concurrent players worldwide (or about 0.1 percent of the human population) after finally making its debut in South Korea earlier this month. From a report: Because Internet cafes still play a large role in Asian countries, VG247 reports that players were encouraged to play Fortnite at PC bang cafes to complete special challenges, which were created in order to launch the Battle Royale mode in South Korea. After Fortnite's Battle Royale mode launched in South Korea this week, Epic Games Korea CEO Sung Chul Park stated in an interview that the game now has 8.3 million concurrent players worldwide. A spokesperson from Epic confirmed the numbers to VG247 as well.
Is Fortnite fun? (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm an old-school Quake1/2/3, UT2004, player. Honestly once "realistic" games like Counterstrike starting getting popular that's when I stopped playing FPS games because it was just boring. I would probably like Team Fortress-like games (Orange Box) but have been turned off in general on the gaming market for a long time due to the dumbing-down (ie. no physical skill) that consoles have caused.
What's fun about Fortnite? Would I like it?
Re: Is Fortnite fun? (Score:2, Insightful)
It's for kids......and now Asians.
It's boring.
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I could either be an emotional stunted adult who enjoys video games or a well rounded adult who goes outside, socializes, and ends up in a broken marriage where I lose half of everything I own. I'll take emotionally stunted for $1000 Alex.
Re: Is Fortnite fun? (Score:1)
Found the red pill incel!
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Then you aren't involuntarily celibate, are you?
Re: Is Fortnite fun? (Score:3, Informative)
Only thing more childish than an adult playing video games is an adult that gets excited watching a "professional" athlete play sports.
Re: Is Fortnite fun? (Score:2)
Not realy, it is a form of entertainment, ok some games are probably childish, bur so are quite a few movies not made esp for children, so to lable a whole category of entertainment as childish might be painting with to broad stroaks.
Re: Is Fortnite fun? (Score:2)
If I had a mod point I would give you one ha. But it's Thanksgiving in the States which means football so that is a tad too sensitive for many :-)
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Re:Is Fortnite fun? (Score:4, Insightful)
What's fun about Fortnite?
Not much. You'll spend more time waiting around and downloading updates than you will playing the game.
When you play it? Meh. I totally failed to see what the fuss was about.
Would I like it?
If UT2004 was the absolute best thing you ever did in your life then you might enjoy it.
I didn't.
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I played fortnite a few times. It's a lot of walking.
This too.
You'll spend 50% (or more) of the "game" just running through fields, trying to get to where the action is. When you arrive you'll instantly be shot and become a spectator for the rest of the time.
Maybe if you've played 1000 games before you'll know the right places to drop in but I had no desire to find out.
Surely I can't be the only one who doesn't "get" what the fuss is about. Anybody? Bueller...?
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Surely I can't be the only one who doesn't "get" what the fuss is about. Anybody? Bueller...?
I'm not a fortnite fan, but games like this are so much more fun with a group. You drop in duo or quads and build. You have voice chat to keep the long runs entertaining and you have friends able to get you back up if you die. I actually enjoy myself some solo PUBG, couldn't get into fortnite. Of course, I only play a game or 2 of PUBG per week, so I'm not their target market.
Re: Is Fortnite fun? (Score:2)
I still play wow classic on illegal servers and unreal tournament 1999 on steam lol
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I still play wow classic on illegal servers and unreal tournament 1999 on steam lol
You should check out Project 1999 [project1999.com]. Everquest as it was back in the day.
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Well Fortnite got a couple of things right.
1) Its free and no pay to win.
2) The game runs in a lot of different hardware: nintendo switch, ps4, xbox, iphone, android and pc
3) the game is easy to understand and accessible. But it might be difficult to master due to the construction mechanics.
4) The way they make money is ok. Everyday the put a bunch of new skins for a lot of money. You have a season pass for 10$ that you can recover in game currency and buy the next one or skins.
5) it attracts kids, parents,
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> What's fun about Fortnite? Would I like it?
Depends -- there are TWO modes of the game:
* PvP: Fortnite - Battle Royale (BR)
* PvE: Fornite - Save the World (STW)
Both are basically grind-shooters. You kill things over and over ad nauseam to get loot.
Most people are playing BR with only a few playing STW. Save the World is fun with friends and in early access at the moment -- will eventually go Free-to-Play soonish.
Noclip has an excellent documentary on PUBG [youtube.com] on how BR came about.
Epic saw the cash cow tha
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I do not know why the fuck your question was modded down.
When I'm running mod, I don't vote questions up or down.
It's just a goddam question. The down-mod happens to me, too, when I ask questions..
I came here to ask the very same question, but I read the answers you got, so thank you for that.
There are others who are going to be interested in this question.
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If you're a classic twitch shooter player, it probably wouldn't be fun for you.
It's much more a positioning-based game than a reaction/aiming game. You can get by with pretty bad aim *if* you're good at being in the most advantageous position at the right time (including building things while moving - top-level Fortnite players move nothing like normal FPS because they'll construct staircases and gangways as they run on them). It's also much slower-paced, with long periods of downtime between combat, and a
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Did you try OverWatch?
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I'm an old-school Quake1/2/3, UT2004, player. Honestly once "realistic" games like Counterstrike starting getting popular that's when I stopped playing FPS games because it was just boring.
Did you ever play Tactical Ops for UT? God damn that was great. And it was totally based on realistic ballistics, and one or two hits would kill you, especially given hits to unarmored areas. The rounds were fast enough to stay entertaining.
I would probably like Team Fortress-like games (Orange Box) but have been turned off in general on the gaming market for a long time due to the dumbing-down (ie. no physical skill) that consoles have caused.
Most people are still playing FPSes on PCs. Try a few.
Bread and circusses (Score:4, Insightful)
Keep the cluless masses well fed and entertained, and you shall rule the Earth.
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/. have all these "funny", "insightful", "troll" markers. They should add "pretentious".
Proud to be in the 99.9% ! (Score:3, Insightful)
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Got onboarded by friends a few months ago; spent a couple of months lovehating the PVE, and it'll probably be uninstalled whenever I need hard drive space. The in-game community is terrible, there are some deep design flaws, and while I was playing PVE continued to get buggier and more aggravating while every patch contained a huge list of fixes and skins for Battle Royale (PVP) with next to nothing for Save the World (PVE). BR got next day fixes for critical issues while key StW class abilities had been
That's a lot of great reasons! (Score:3)
That sure is a lot of great reasons for not playing Fortnite! Well reasoned and considered.
My reason for not playing Fortnite is - I absolutely suck at Fortnite. After several evenings here and there trying out some rounds, on both a Mac and a console, I came to the conclusion that I just do not mesh well with Fortnite. I can play a lot of other FPS shooters really well, but just can't do well at Fortnite.
I guess I could spend months trying to slowly improve, but I came to the conclusion - to what end?
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You are not the target, minors are and the game is designed around manipulating their juvenile egos in order to buy virtual stuff, to feed those juvenile egos, which will be subject to torment for failure to pay up and keep up with 'teh' cool stuff. For older gamers, yep, boring repetitious game play, for younger players feeding juvenile egos, mummy I need more money and beliefs about what they are manipulated into accepting, the pretend significant accomplishments, reinforced with purposefully fed peer pre
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Q) How do you spot a non-Fortnite player at a party?
A) Don't worry they'll tell you.
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You're easily pleased.
WTF is Fortnight? (Score:4, Insightful)
Ok. I just watched some kind of video [youtube.com] that the webpage this game is about sent me to. It looked like some weird anime/furry/brony crossover. The only thing missing was some lube and weirdly shaped dildos.
And 8.something million people play this?
Did the freaks take over the circus while I wasn't looking?
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I just watched the same video and I have absolutely no idea what type of game it even is.
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It's basically a microtransaction fashion store for virtual items.
Re:WTF is Fortnight? (Score:5, Funny)
Did the freaks take over the circus while I wasn't looking?
I don't know but there've been tornados in Boston, NGO's apparently want to give our kids sex changes and Biff Tannen is president (as predicted... twice).
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By asking this you must be well past your mid-life crisis...
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I liked TF2 for a while for its humor and the graphical style but when it became more a game about fashion and wearing the coolest hat to the tutu and your straightjacket, I kinda lost interest.
Seems this is the same, only that they started with the fashion show before the game had a chance to be good first.
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WTF Is Fortnite?
An overt declaration that you have been living in such a deep hole that you missed the 10+ articles we've run on Fortnite here on Slashdot in the past 6 months.
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It's actually a quite interesting concept once you get past the silly skins and other random crap they sell and which don't really affect the game at all.
Fortnight is a battle royale shooter game with up to 100 players. Everyone starts on an equal footing with minimal equipment and has to scavenge stuff from the map. They can build stuff too. The play area keeps shrinking to force people together so you don't get ridiculously protracted games where everyone is holed up in forts.
It's a nice variation on the
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I heard. And didn't believe it, I honestly asked "How the fuck did he get elected, who was he running against, Cthulhu?"
And everyone nodded.
Not impressed (Score:5, Insightful)
There are probably over ten times that many players on Pornhub right now, and half of them are searching for "stepmother + kitchen".
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> There are probably over ten times that many players on Pornhub right now, and half of them are searching for "stepmother + kitchen".
If you want an honest comparison, the bots you send out to seek stuff on your behalf don't count.
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There are probably over ten times that many players on Pornhub right now, and half of them are searching for "stepmother + kitchen".
I bet you a very small subset of those people are enjoying a multiplayer experience.
Sucks for me (Score:2)
I suppose there is still a bit of a renaissance for CRPGs right now. Lots of solid dungeon crawlers and Bal
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Downloading multi-gig patches that contain nothing but BR skins and StW bugs sucks ass when 99.95% of your game time is spent in StW.
I went back to Guild Wars 2, a game with actively maintained PVE that doesn't get worse with every update (technically speaking; there are those who'd complain about class balance and modifiers but after Fortnite, "the visual effects for my abilities actually draw" and "the community isn't constantly scamming me while waiting for me to do their quests for them" are HUGE plusse
I'm happy for Epic's success (Score:1)
I think of them as the "good guys" in game dev and publishing, which is rare considering they are American. Just look at EA and Zenimax etc. to see what I mean. So, best of luck with the franchise, Epic.