Is Fortnite Really Hurting the Games Industry?

@steadjonat you probably play lol and look up info on it. youtube (and google as a whole) will track the sites you visit and serve you ads based on your interest. if you never look up fortnite or info on it (specifically pages dedicated to fortnite, not a news update), then it won't get put in your customized ad "experience"

@OniZonda ive never once as far as im aware looked up league of legends multiplayer games are generally not my thing

@Tmoore2011 I'm really upset I don't like battle royale because it decreases the amount of games coming out I enjoy :/

@Tmoore2011 it depends on the game. it's actually not that chaotic in pubg, but it kicks off when it some action does happen. it's 15 mins of running and looting, and a 1 min firefight (if you're like me and suck at the game mode)

@OniZonda i do suck at those types of games

@BetOnMookie Alternatively they saw an article, thought it was interesting since it's about one of the biggest games out right now, and decided to report on it since that's sort of what they do. No idea why you came to the conclusion that obviously they hate the game when I don't believe they ever expressed that opinion within the video.

@BetOnMookie pretty sure fortnite is the cause of the anti-fortnite vibe. Everyone that plays a battle royale game talks about playing pubg. I hear 100x more talk of pubg on the RT podcast than I do on the AH podcast. In most of the videos I watch (since I watch mostly AH), they never talk about fortnite or pubg unless someone mentions it, and AH usually says something along the lines of "I don't like the building aspect" which is 97% of the reason anyone gives for hating it. And this news video is about how consoles are a zero-sum market when it comes to where people are spending money. Sure there might have been some people who joined to play fortnite, however most people are coming from existing games (somewhat older, sure. but fortnite has had a BR mode for at least 8 months, so it's not new either). Which means they're not spending time or money on those games anymore. If the trend continues, new games will suffer too. And the game's legacy won't be the good you see in it, it'll be what others start taking from it. Mobile, free to play, loot boxes, and battle royale will be fortnite's legacies, not the way the dev's handle it. It's almost like you forget that money talks and the market is taking notes on what's successful about a game.