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Fortnite passes 7 million players. Adds 6 million players in less than 2 months
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Huge Succeeded
Banned
Damn.
Bring on the waaaaaave
If the next Ghost Recon doesn't have BR then we're in the twilight zone
Bring on the waaaaaave
If the next Ghost Recon doesn't have BR then we're in the twilight zone
Nice. Epic deserves the success and Bluehole deserves the L for the stupid anticonsumer deal with "good guy spencer" Microsoft.
Hopefully it utterly destroys PUBG's potential base on console.
And I prefer PUBG but I'd rather see more consumer friendly companies succeed and Epic has been very good these last years to boot.
Hopefully it utterly destroys PUBG's potential base on console.
And I prefer PUBG but I'd rather see more consumer friendly companies succeed and Epic has been very good these last years to boot.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
SmoothRunningGun
Member
So being a copycat is what wins. Note taken. They still have made 0 dollars on these people, in fact it's costing them money.
I think it's the other way around from the gameplay perspective.
hellishimp
Member
Was there ever a game that could add 6 million players in less than 2 months? That's crazy! Initially the game received a lukewarm reception, but after that new update, it seems that it got the second breath it needed.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Battle Royale has been a lot of fun. Good for them. However shameless that mode may seem is kinda negated by the insane strategies people have been employing with the building mechanics. At one point, we were in the house in Loot Lake, but we started building upwards and literally making a bridge all throughout the sky to stay alive. It was amazing.
Demoskinos
Member
The building stuff is fucking slick. The way you can throw up a wall and then edit it on the fly to add doors or windows or change the shapes of roofs or stairs. I think Fortnite is malleable enough of a thing to be sort of a platform of various modes and game types.
Can't justify buying it right now got Mario+Wolfenstein at the end of the month right now but I'm very much interested in throwing some money at them for this game.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Just because good guy Microsoft is the paladin of peace and harmony and crossplay nowadays it doesn't mean they always were.
Shameless cloners who cloned a clone of a book/movie so shameless the original creator could win any legal battle would he care. Hilarious.
If you think Bluehole or PlayerUnknown hold any remote right to consider this whole thing theirs you're highly delusional.
Also they deserve success because of their efforts with Unreal Engine, Unreal Tournament, Paragon and Fortnite. But you don't know any of that you're only here to defend your horse anyways as if you could win anything from that.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
It'll go F2P next year.
ghostwritingduck
Member
Ive been playing it. The fact that BR was free and you dont need to pay for PS plus makes it a no brained download. The game is good enough that Ive played it multiple times on multiple nights. Im curious to how they are going to monetize this.
Ploid 3.0
Member
There's a chance Paragon may come to Xbox, but for now while in beta it's just PC and PS4 out of convenience. Weekly or less updates, Sony gave Epic the keys to do what they want when it comes to patches it seems. Hot fixes too.
https://gamingbolt.com/epic-games-explains-why-paragon-is-not-coming-to-the-xbox-one
Sounds just like PUBG on Xbox, which is also going to be on PS4 eventually.
old manatee
Banned
We'll see how many stick around. I bounced right off of the Battle Royale mode. It's just shallow and boring coming off of PUBG.
2blackcats
Member
Sorry for asking what is probably really obvious.
But do the people who buy it now get any benefit over people who wait for it to become free to play other than getting to play it early?
Ploid 3.0
Member
Yeah, could be, though I wonder if the Epic Paragon person on GAF could comment on it. They talk with the community a lot, they may have even answered if sony locked it down. They just had a live Q&A a few minutes ago, next time I'll see if I can get that answered.
Oh come on, all multiplayer shooter modes get copied relentlessly.
scoobs
Member
Thats how it always goes in the games industry. Rarely does a truly original idea succeed and dominate their own genre.
You don't have any information whatsoever about the alledged moneyhat Sony did with Paragon. If you think Sony is giving Epic money to keep an unproven experimental beta MOBA that's not even relevant out of Xbox then you need to get a better grasp of the industry.
Something tells me Microsoft, a company in a desperate push for their exclusive-lacking console division paying Bluehole to keep the game exclusive, and trying to extend it, is infinitely more probable than Sony wasting money on a Paragon exclusive 1 year into its life cycle.
And I never said Epic deserved the success because they're "good guys" as in praising their decision to make BR multiplatform, I was referring to the quality of their latest games.
Try reading.
What?! That's it I'm going to get a USB keyboard after work today. I already have a gaming mouse.
It's best to not take his posts seriously.
Here's his 'level headed' response from yesterday to the news that Destiny 1 content that Sony/Acti and Bungie locked up for years was finally on Xbox.
Notice no moaning about it being 'anti consumer'.
You also have 0 information on the deal MS has with bluehole. You can't tell me you "something tells me" as you don't know just as I don't know about Sony's deal with Epic. Though Sony did give Epic stage time for paragon to end a conference.
Either way we can agree to disagree on this clearly.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Searching for info on a possible Sony Epic exclusive deal, I just had my mind blown when someone asked for Sony characters in Paragon since it seems like there's a deal.
They might rabbit, they might.
Paragon and Unreal 3 on PS3 also have keyboard and mouse support.
Kratos.
Grux.
Krux.
They might rabbit, they might.
Paragon and Unreal 3 on PS3 also have keyboard and mouse support.
Ahhh this makes more sense, I'll just ignore him in here now.
I did
Yes, it has full up KBAM support on PS4. Just plug in the keyboard and mouse and the UI switches.
The only problem I've seen is that there is in fact a mouse cursor on the lobby/menus, but.. you can't see it on PS4. So you kind of have to find it by seeing what get highlighted when you move the mouse. I assume that's a bug, but you can ready up by just hitting 'P'.
You can also remap the keyboard in the settings.
You're both so up your own you can't even realise that's an obvious jab at "#4theplayers" Sony and the embarrassing shills who worship Shuhei Yoshida.
Shocking but you can critizice two opposing companies. I bet you're feeling pretty clever now.
Having proper reading comprehension and not assuming helps.
Imp the Dimp
Member
This game has really good, fluid movement. I was honestly shocked by how smoothly everything steers, because I'm so used to PUBG's clunky movement lol. Both games are really great takes on the genre and complement one another very well.
Fortnite continues to be a massive success adding 6 million players since the last updated numbers we received. It had been at 1 million players on August 18th.
Being the first Battle Royale type game on consoles has to be a major contributor to this. Epic must be thrilled at these results
So... wait. The game that was announced ages ago as some kind of world building game is now a pubg in comic graphics?
Because they accepted.
Lightning_Roller
Banned
Oh yeah. Especially with Epic being determined to continuing updating Fortnite Battle Royale. So yeah, PUBG will be juuuuuuuusssst fine.
For someone who had the time and will to stalk other user's post history you could've gone just a bit further. Or did you but ignored it anyways because of your narrative?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=249298662&postcount=170
You can stop trying really. These attempts at exposing are just laughably misguided and kinda embarrassing.
You think a game as big as PUBG would have any problem whatsoever coming to consoles?
Just fucking please.
A deal of timed exclusivity, the type of deals Spencer himself scoffed at only a few months ago, so yeah *God Forbid* they pull a shit decsion like this.
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