Fortnite is the most influential and revolutionary game of the past few years
We already see the sneers and the shield raises, but many of the biggest upheavals in recent years are a direct consequence of what happens in this battle royale. But not only: thanks to it Epic Games is changing communication and marketing within video games in a way so radical as to be surprising.
And then everything was born from a clone of PUBG. Legend has it that the Battle Royale mode was born from the love they felt for the game of Bluehole in Epic Games. A similarity that did not last long: after a few weeks the rhythm of the updates and the fantasy that Epic Games had been able to instill in his game were a unicum unthinkable until then.
In Fortnite every week there is something different, new, fun. Meanwhile in Destiny the same missions were endlessly replayed and in PUBG it was necessary to deal with countless bugs. Within a few weeks, Epic Games' game arrived on all platforms, freely. Everyone can play with everyone, no matter if you have the game on your phone, PC, Xbox or Switch. Even Sony, in order not to risk losing the train, had to open the PSN to the stunted cross-play.
all is accessible, potentially, without spending a penny. An economic model , aggressive, able to make obsolete in a single blow, season pass, microtransactions, and even the cover price. Suffice it to say that even Activision and Electronic Arts, the two companies are notoriously more sensitive to the topic, have had to radically change the economic model of their games (in addition to publish two battle royale piuttusto similar in substance as CoD: Warzone and Apex: Legends ) to try to curb the success of Fortnite. In spite of this Fortnite ago to make such Epic Games money . A lot of money.
With that money, the company of Tim Sweeney has tried to put on Steam by its monopoly on the PC, giving away games, right and left, but especially forcing the Valve to return to build the capabilities for your store and maybe to put in doubt its economic model.
The same money will be used to Epic to make it less expensive for developers to license the Unreal Engine and publish games directly to studies of the likes of Remedy (Control), genDesign (The Last Guardian) and Playdead (Limbo).
Or for you to offer its players with free concerts by some of the artists most popular of the moment as a Marshmello and Travis Scott, but in the near future, the vision of films like Inception or Batman Begins. Elements of virtual reality and the metaverse that the various Second Life or PlayStation Home have never even gone close by realize how to reach the media and rendering stage. With all due respect to Irene Grandi and his experiment of 2007.
All this is without considering the black hole at the end of Season 1 , a found communication was exceptional, from the global and able to capture the attention of the general public as only a few other moments in the history of video games have been able to do.
If these things, join the rise of characters such as Ninja, Bugha, or our Pow3r understand what Epic Games is a phenomenon that is impossible to deny the merits. Like it or not like it is the game which has influences, and will influence the future of the world of video games. He put in the knee, the Italian network during the first few days of the lockdown, is that of the ballets schemes, but is also the engine that gives Epic Games the opportunity to give us games, challenge Steam and Google Store, and to create and provide a graphics engine powerful and avangardia.
What other game can boast all of these results? Let's talk about it .
