RIP Fortnite, the end times are here. Thank your creators greed

I've been able to go along with every terrible change, but this just broke the camels back. I stuck through the terrible UI changes, the changes to the emote wheel that nobody asked for, the one-time customization for sidekicks, the pricing on kicks, bundles, and skins that don't come with backblings or anything extra and all of the countless times Epic ignored the backlash and displeasure of their playerbase. This change they're making to the amount of v-bucks you get in EVERY MANNER is what's breaking the camels back. I've been willing to say "Hey, they gotta make their money somehow. Even if some of it seems sleazy." But now it's gone overboard and both me and my girlfriend have already canceled our crew subscriptions. I don't plan on getting the new battlepass or any of the passes either. The thing is, I know me and my girlfriend are far from the only ones with this mentality at this point and this may well be the end of Fortnite. I at least foresee the game suffering the amount of losses that you do not come back from. I already play the game much less as-is due to the bugs that go unfixed and the lack of compelling gameplay content as gameplay is shunned in the name of collabs.

Edit: To the people saying to play without paying, that's what I've already intended to do. However, if this many people play without paying, the game is still going to crash and starve. It's a free to play game that lives off of microtransactions. It's like when Disney recently canceled Jimmy Kimmel and a whole bunch of people boycotted by canceling their Disney subscription as well as their trips to Disney. Disney saw how that worked out for them. They immediately gave Jimmy his show back due to how bad the losses were.The thing is, once a company loses this many consumers and/or their money to this extent, it can be very hard for the company to turn around and make a comeback. The reason is that they already pissed their consumers/playerbase off to the point that they've already given up on the company and no longer want to associate with the company after what the company tried to pull. This is why I said RIP to Fortnite and that I fear it'll suffer losses that it won't fully come back from. I'll be playing without paying, though some aren't even doing that and I don't blame them.

Submitted March 10, 2026 at 11:53PM by zdogg12 https://ift.tt/nvkDld1 https://ift.tt/JmePsnw