Comment on [Discussion] Ranking the highest-grossing video games
Auth@lemmy.world 4 days agoFortnite is the master of brand based collabs. They aren’t afraid of mixing their ip with others or changing their game. They will change the map by adding a giant travis scott concert in the middle, or put a peter griffin character in game. A lot of other games are scared to add new things or put things unrelated into their games. I dont understand why people love having giant corporations shoved into their games but they do.
nyctre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s part of it and it’s probably part of the staying power, sure. But I’m pretty sure it exploded before it started doing that. Iirc, quite soon after release, Ninja became one of the most popular streamers on twitch, breaking records and stuff and he even did a stream with Drake which at the time was the biggest stream ever. People were speculating even then that maybe epic paid Drake, but well… could just as easily have been just Drake being Drake.
As for why it got popular in the first place… I think it’s just being at the right time in the right place. There was Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, PUBG and probably a few other smaller ones. They were all quite popular and then Fortnite came along and made it more accessible and arguably more fun and stuff as well. A few of my friends used to try pretty much all the popular games, especially shooters. And besides CS, Fortnite was definitely the one that kept them engaged the longest. That’s just anecdotal, but well… if it worked on us, it’s probably worked on many.