“All good things must come to an end.” The well-known proverb dates back over 600 years, but asFortnitehas yet to reach its three-year anniversary, some are wondering if the battle royale is already coming to a close.
SypherPK, one ofFortnite’s most popular streamers, uploaded a video recently talking about the utter lack of communication from Epic Games and a laundry list of things that are running the game.
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As little as one year ago theFortniteannual revenue was the most in gaming history. In such a small amount of time, things seem to have changed drastically. SyperPK has some ideas as to why.
RecentlyFortnite players used the hashtag #RIPFortniteand got it trending on Twitter, as they are genuinely unhappy with where the game is right now and the lack of communication from Epic.
SypherPK believes that laggy server issues are a huge problem in Fortnite, saying moment to moment gunfights can be a coinflip. Many believe that the more chaotic experiences Epic adds to Fortnite, like thehenchman that caused Ninja to freakout on steam, the worse off the servers become.
Sypher also thinks that controller players are a problem, even asEpic addressed and changed the Legacy Aim Assist in Fortniterecently. Last year’s massive Fortnite World Cup saw an extremely small amount of controller players qualify, even when any Fortnite player was eligible. The mass majority were keyboard and mouse users. He argues that all PC players are moving onto games likeValorantbecause it is a safe space from controller players. It may be closer to the truth that those players are just looking for fresh games to play.
Not long after SypherPK posted his video,Ninja responded with his own thoughts on how Fortnite can gain its popularity back. Both Ninja and SypherPK made the same points about the fun of the game being gone, and gave ideas on howFortnitecould bring back that fun. Sypher thinks that the skill-based matchmaking is hurting the game, making it hard to jump in and simply have fun.
One could argue that the fun element of the game being gone is because some have simply been playing the game for too long. Service-style games cannot keep up with the demands of fans forever. Some players log onto games every day for hours at a time. And with a game like a battle royale, where the nature of the experience is dropping into a battle, looting up, and killing opponents in hopes of obtaining the elusive victory over and over, it may not be a surprise that after two and a half years the player base is no longer feeling joy from the game.
Fortniteis available for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android, iOS, PC, and Mac.
