I don’t care as a gamer. Fortnite is a free game and you can have all the fun anyone can have for free. Yes, they sell virtual currency, it’s used to buy cosmetic items of pop culture references. Like I seriously thought about dropping ~$45 for the Kpop Demon Hunters pack. But I didn’t. I like KPDH but I really don’t play Fortnite much. Enough to keep it on my Xbox, but not nearly enough to spend real money on it.
I do care as a game industry watcher/commentator (of no real note; I’m not some blogger you’ve heard of, just some random asshole on forums/Lemmy) because Fortnite is, from this point of view, a demo of the Unreal Engine. And if they’re using AI slop in it, it just makes Unreal look bad and that sucks, because it’s a great engine, from a gamer perspective at least. I don’t like Fortnite because of the memes and the pop culture references (though they are fun), I like it because I played Unreal Tournament (the first one) when it was new, and playing Fortnite, it’s a lot of the same motions. The game moves exactly how I expect it to, and I value that. No, it’s not like Unreal Tournament or Deus Ex, but it’s the same feel. I love how it plays, and it’s absolutely gorgeous to look at.
I don’t care as a gamer. Fortnite is a free game and you can have all the fun anyone can have for free. Yes, they sell virtual currency, it’s used to buy cosmetic items of pop culture references. Like I seriously thought about dropping ~$45 for the Kpop Demon Hunters pack. But I didn’t. I like KPDH but I really don’t play Fortnite much. Enough to keep it on my Xbox, but not nearly enough to spend real money on it.
I do care as a game industry watcher/commentator (of no real note; I’m not some blogger you’ve heard of, just some random asshole on forums/Lemmy) because Fortnite is, from this point of view, a demo of the Unreal Engine. And if they’re using AI slop in it, it just makes Unreal look bad and that sucks, because it’s a great engine, from a gamer perspective at least. I don’t like Fortnite because of the memes and the pop culture references (though they are fun), I like it because I played Unreal Tournament (the first one) when it was new, and playing Fortnite, it’s a lot of the same motions. The game moves exactly how I expect it to, and I value that. No, it’s not like Unreal Tournament or Deus Ex, but it’s the same feel. I love how it plays, and it’s absolutely gorgeous to look at.