Fortnite Hits 8.3 Million (Or 0.1% of Human Population) Concurrent Players (gamasutra.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday November 22, 2018 @09:15AM from the growing-popularity dept.

Epic Games' Fortnite has reached 8.3 million concurrent players worldwide (or about 0.1 percent of the human population) after finally making its debut in South Korea earlier this month. From a report: Because Internet cafes still play a large role in Asian countries, VG247 reports that players were encouraged to play Fortnite at PC bang cafes to complete special challenges, which were created in order to launch the Battle Royale mode in South Korea. After Fortnite's Battle Royale mode launched in South Korea this week, Epic Games Korea CEO Sung Chul Park stated in an interview that the game now has 8.3 million concurrent players worldwide. A spokesperson from Epic confirmed the numbers to VG247 as well.

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Is Fortnite fun? by Anonymous Coward · 2018-11-22 09:27 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm an old-school Quake1/2/3, UT2004, player. Honestly once "realistic" games like Counterstrike starting getting popular that's when I stopped playing FPS games because it was just boring. I would probably like Team Fortress-like games (Orange Box) but have been turned off in general on the gaming market for a long time due to the dumbing-down (ie. no physical skill) that consoles have caused.
What's fun about Fortnite? Would I like it?