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I mean... You could make a knock-off Fortnite with Minecraft level graphics, make the cosmetics unlocked by just playing, and give it away for free. That would probably be enough to topple Fortnite. It just also would net you exactly 0 profit.
Maybe. But you'd need servers. And that would cost a lot of money for something aiming to be that scale.
You do what games used to do: provide the server software to every player so they can run their own. This also means the game can never die.
I mean that's literally just Minecraft hunger games at this point.
The reason Fortnite is popular isn't it's outstanding gameplay, it's a network effect coupled with the sillyness of the various IPs interacting. People play Fortnite because their friends play Fortnite.
You seem like you might know, why’s it called fortnight?
Because the game was originally a pve zombie defence game, where the objective was to build a fort to survive many zombie waves during the night.
Right when it came out, PUBG became really popular (most popular game on steam, twitch etc) and they pivoted HARD into being the first free to play battle royale. At the time, it was transparently an attempt to cash in on the BR hype, and it worked because PUBG was 50 entire dollars and Fortnite was free.
This is why it's called "fortnite: battle royale". The old Fortnite has been all but abandoned, and is (was) called "save the world".
They abandoned two fun projects to push this drivel out too.. They not only abandoned the original fortnight, which was actually fairly fun, but their 3rd person shooter moba Paragon, which to this day is the only moba i ever really enjoyed.
Don't forget the unreal tournament remake they were working on at the time too.
Doesn't this already exist? I could have swore one of the open source Minecraft clones had a battle royale mod.
There are definitely free battle royale games out there though I don't know of their cosmetic unlocks situation.