Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’

Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by MattRix on Friday January 11, 2019 @12:09AM (#18881157)

Anyone who calls Fortnite a clone of PUBG hasn't played Fortnite.

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by bopbop on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:16AM (#18881972)

To be fair, it was the PUBG developers themselves who called Fortnite a clone:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/09/22/pubg-deve...

And also Epic themselves stated Fortnite was their "own version" of "Battle Royale games like PUBG"

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/09/12/fortnite-battle-r...

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by superkuh on Friday January 11, 2019 @10:42AM (#18884245)

I bought and played Fornite, the actual game, during it's beta for a long time. The battle royale version of it that people now call Fornite only came out much later.

I've played Fornite. I've played Fornite BR (at release). They were obviously a clone. What is Fornite now is something drastically different.

Anyone who doesn't call Fornite a clone of PUBG obviously only started playing Fornite BR and Fornite BR alone much later.

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by oth001 on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:20AM (#18881989)

The most popular mode of Fortnite is basically PUBG+building mechanic (Minecraft).

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