Instead, it is meant to be an expression of sensitivity to the things dealing with players (via Engadget ). Of course, this wouldn't be the first time the recent US turmoil has affected the gaming industry. Because of them, several presentations were postponed, including Night City Wire, during which we are to see the new gameplay from Cyberpunk 2077. In addition, GTA Online and Red Dead Online, i.e. network modules of popular Rockstar studio productions, have been temporarily disabled, and due to the lack of a clear position by Valve regarding the riots, some developers have decided to withdraw their productions from the Steam platform.
Epic Games announced that the paid co-op mode in Fortnite - Save the World - is leaving Early Access today. Thus, this patch will also get rid of the creative and Fortnite battle royale skins.
Epic Games has announced that the co-op paid Fortnite mode - Save the World - will leave Early Access today, in which it has been for almost three years. Thus, with it, the early access patches will also get rid of the creative and battle royale modes, even though technically they have long since left it. Developers noted, however, that with the official premiere, Save the World will not be available for free, as planned, but will remain in the pay-to-play model. In addition, we got to know the developers' plans for the further development of this model. The biggest novelty in Saving the World is the so-called Expeditions.
During their availability, completing various challenges will earn experience points, which will directly affect the difficulty level of the game and the value of the rewards. More details on this topic will be published closer to the release date of the Expeditions (this has yet to be announced). The Save the World season schedule will also change. Previously, stories and events will now rotate, regardless of the battle royale mode. Apparently, there will also be novelties such as storylines and heroes, but they will appear much less frequently from now on (the first, in pirate climates, are available from today). Last but not least, it's also worth mentioning that the person packs who paid for the Save the World story campaign have been upgraded for free.
Fortnite player victim of swatting. A young professional under attack
Swatting is a method of extremely perfidious and illegal making life difficult for streamers (and not only them) popular in the USA. Cody Clix Conrad, who is a professional Fortnite player despite his young age, had such an accident on his stream.
Clix, as usual, played Fortnite broadcasting his actions on Twitch. Suddenly his comment is heard about interrupting the game for a moment because the police have entered his house. I've been battered, wait, I have to go.
Attacking the police on innocent citizens for a joke or in the name of revenge for such a trivial reason as losing in an online game, or even as a method of eliminating a player in a joint game, unfortunately, despite high penalties, a phenomenon that still occurs in the USA. It's not just Fortnite players that are at risk, and it's not even just streamers.
Professional Fortnite player condemned swatting
Cody Conrad, who dealt with swatting during the game in Birdie Skin Fortnite, also commented on this form of illegal hunting for players on his Twitter. He found swatting a disgusting practice.
According to Kotaku, everything went to the bones. The young Fortnite competitor was lucky. Unfortunately, with other manifestations of this punishable behavior, there were minor or major unplanned events. Even as tragic as those related to the recent court verdict. This year, the US judiciary imposed a penalty in a case in which an innocent man was killed by swatting.
Fortnite earns less is a decline in micropayments across the industry, not just Epic Games
Micropayments in reverse? This is too big a statement, but you can see that the boom for the highest revenues due to optional payments in games (free, but also payable for each copy of a given title) is behind us. Profits are still substantial but falling.
PC and consoles without micropayment increases
2019 is not as kind as 2018 for microtransactions. Or at least that's what a study by super data research shows. Consoles generate less profit, and computers are very similar, there are no increases. The sums are still huge, respectively 1.4 and 6.5 billion US dollars.
Mobile games generate even more money every year, but many players do not take this market into account, limiting real players only to PCs and consoles. They suggest that smartphones are also played by people who are not fully interested in this form of fun, or at least that would be the case if it were not for phones. We do not judge such a tendency, but the fact is that typical smartphone players usually reach for simple productions and do not spend time on large platforms.
Players are slowly cutting additional fees?
The reasons for the decrease in interest are the fact that we focus on a smaller number of games in which we spend money, as well as the negative attitude of journalists and industry commentators and the players themselves due to various scandals related to micropayments.
And how is Fortnite itself ? 8 percent of users spend additional funds on it, this is the first place to the company with a share of 8 percent. for Call of Duty: Balck Ops 4. Next comes GTA V (6 percent), Minecraft (5 percent), and NBA 2K20 (4 percent). Apart from the above-mentioned titles, the indicators are already very fragmented.
Fortnite. Are you 13 years old and still playing? Youtuber Dr. Disrespect suggests… mental problems
Fortnite is one of the biggest hits of recent years - and contrary to appearances, it reigns not only among young people. Even so, YouTuber Dr. Disrespect believes that anyone over the age of 13 who devotes time to Epic Games' shooter has problems.
It should be added, however, that Dr. Disrespect spoke these words right after the defeat in ... Fortnite. So we can guess that it was the result of anger caused by not winning. Who of us has never wanted to throw a pad or wished the opponent (and the game's developers) the worst when something went wrong?