fortnite battle royale mode came out in 2017.
fortnite battle royale mode came out in 2017.
when did fortnite battle royale mode come out?
in 2017
by july 2017, "fortnite" was finally in a state for public play. epic launched the title through a paid early access then, with a full free-to-play release expected in 2018. following on the popularity of "playerunknown's battlegrounds", a battle royale game released earlier in 2017, epic developed a variant of "fortnite" called "fortnite battle royale", which was released in september 2017 as a free-to-play title across computer, console, and mobile platforms. "fortnite battle royale" quickly gained an audience, amassing over 125 million players by may 2018 with estimates of having earned over by july 2018 through microtransactions, including its battle pass system. epic games, which had been valued at around at the time of tencent's acquisition, was estimated to be worth in july 2018 due to "fortnite battle royale", and expected to surpass by the end of 2018 with projected growth of the game. player count continued to expand when epic broke new ground by convincing sony to change its stance on cross-platform play allowing players on any device to compete with each other in "fortnite battle royale". "fortnite" has drawn nearly 250 million players as of march 2019.
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epic games had released "fortnite", a cooperative survival game, into early access near the release of "battlegrounds". epic saw the potential to create their own battle royale mode, and by september 2017, released the free-to-play "fortnite battle royale" which combined some of the survival elements and mechanics from the main "fortnite" game with the battle royale gameplay concept. the game saw similar player counts as "battlegrounds", with twenty million unique players reported by epic games by november 2017. bluehole expressed concern at this move, less due to being a clone of "battlegrounds", but more so that they had been working with epic games for technical support of the unreal engine in "battlegrounds", and thus they were worried that "fortnite" may be able to include planned features to their battle royale mode before they could release those in "battlegrounds". "battleground" developer, pubg corporation, filed a lawsuit against epic in south korea in january 2018 claiming "fortnite battle royale" infringements on "battlegrounds" copyrights. market observers predicted that there would be little likelihood of bluehole winning the case, as it would be difficult to establish the originality of "pubg" in court due to the battle royale game genre, which includes both "pubg" and "fortnite battle royale", being derived from the japanese film "battle royale". by the end of june 2018, the lawsuit had been closed by pubg, under undisclosed reasons.
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