Epic games, makers of Fortnite, raise $1.25B

Re:Epic games, makers of Fortnite, raise $1.25B by chiph on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:11PM (#18313060)

The Fortnite section at my nearby Halloween store had empty shelves - they had pretty much sold out. I expect it's popularity to be ephemeral, much like "Angry Birds" was, but if you've got the hot game, you need to run with it as far and as fast as you can.

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Re:Epic games, makers of Fortnite, raise $1.25B by screye on Saturday October 27, 2018 @07:55PM (#18318352)

Fortnite is even more so susceptible to sudden death.

Genres like RTS, MOBA, Space Warfare, RPGs bring gamers that do not care for trends.

The shooter genre however, is very trend focussed. Users jump to the next shiny thing ever few months and even the best games (battlefield 4) have much shorter shelf lives than in other genres.

Thank fully I don't quite a another trend setting free-to-play game in the release pipeline in the near future. Fortnite has survived RDR2 and Spiderman, so they have that going for them.

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Re:Epic games, makers of Fortnite, raise $1.25B by Rainymood on Saturday October 27, 2018 @06:05AM (#18315112)

isnt fornite free to play?

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Re:Epic games, makers of Fortnite, raise $1.25B by chiph on Saturday October 27, 2018 @12:18PM (#18316377)

It's all about the merchandising. Or "Moichandising" if you're a short gold dude in a robe.

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Re:Epic games, makers of Fortnite, raise $1.25B by Voyiatzis on Saturday October 27, 2018 @02:21PM (#18316963)

Clearly, you do not have any kids addicted to this game. My two nieces and a nephew, are costing me ~$100.00/week in in-app purchases. This has been going on for a little over a year now.

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Re:Epic games, makers of Fortnite, raise $1.25B by skinnymuch on Sunday October 28, 2018 @06:57AM (#18320095)

Isn’t that not good to let them spend that much money? $30+ a week per kid seems like quite a bit of money to be spent.

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