Fortnite is back – Fans breathe News

A black hole. That was Fortnite left from the video game. More than a Million people witnessed on Sunday live, ended up as the post-apocalyptic island, to the player at the beginning of a round and tried then to kill each other, missiles and a comet had been destroyed. For two days nobody could play, on the home page, the talk was of a "technical Problem". All Fortnite-Accounts of manufacturers Epic, whether on social networks such as Twitter and Streaming sites like Twitch, were cleared. Nothing was more.

250 million people worldwide have downloaded the free Version of the game, Fortnite is a pop culture phenomenon that goes far beyond the virtual world: A victory in the Online Version of Battle Royale (100 players will land by parachute on the island, you gather resources, to race in front of a storm and eliminate each other – the last Survivor will win) is what used to be on a place of a victory against the guys from the other district. Young people, full of the dances from the game to run on the Playground, on Halloween many children as Fortnite will be disguised characters.

The excitement about the unavailability of the Server was large, even by billionaire Elon Musk turned itself off now unites. Initially there had been the rumor that Musk bought the game and deleted, so that young people go to get away from the Computer and the console and also in the real world, otherwise the existence of humanity in danger, because no-one for the Kiss would be interested. "Had to be made," wrote Musk, with a wink on Twitter: "pretty Please."

Epic generated a Profit of three billion dollars

There are people who take video games hold in General for a harbinger to the end of the evening country, Horst Seehofer, for example, after the attack of the hall of the Minister of the interior, urged: "We need to the gaming scene more and more visible."

Epic has generated in the past year due to the success of Fortnite a Profit of three billion dollars, the private company is now rated 15 billion dollars. It would have been foolish to quit the game after the tenth season, just like that. There were already numerous references on a continuation of: A numerical code around the black hole led, for example, in the case of Google Maps to a dance of crayfish – a note on one of the most popular dances in the game. Who entered on his Controller, the so-called "Konami Code" (up, up, down, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start button), which featured a Mini-game, a Pizza, some burgers, had to do a tribute to popular elements.

It is, quite simply: Epic put the players on the withdrawal.

Epic should have developed the game to make the people addictive

This is, of course, a response to the class action lawsuit is brought in Canada against the company: The law firm Calex Légal expanded the suit to the parents of two children, ten and 15 years old, the class-action lawsuit. Epic should have designed the game to be aware of with the aim to make people addicted. Therefore, the company should have put a warning, like on cigarette packs.

It is certainly a reaction to the fact that numerous players had criticised the Changes in the tenth season heavily and the growth stagnated, many gamers demanded a restart with a changed island, a revamped Gameplay and a return to the roots: less frills, more fun. The musician Taylor Swift had advertised two years ago, a new Album by acknowledged all of the Accounts on social media without a warning empty. This worked, alone the Video for the first Single saw on the first day of the publication of 43.2 million people.

Epic rail now with this Event, the End was to pursue a similar strategy. It is a various die-hard Marketing move, however, was also risky. There are now many games with Battle Royale mode, Daddler not have to accept the withdrawal, can be easily changed, would have been Epic presents too long a black hole. In addition, the company even put itself under massive pressure.

Now, Epic Games has launched on Tuesday in the Game and some of the Changes brought in like 20min.ch writes. A new Map, a new Layout, a new Battle Pass, and new Skins – Battle-Royale-Game "Fortnite" will show in the new Trailer are a variety of Changes to the game. Season 11 remains, instead, Epic Games hits a new Chapter: Chapter 2, season 1, the Update is immediately live.