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The success of a single game can often be attributed to luck or chance. Fortnite is largely derivative of other games/concepts, and it happened to come along at precisely the right moment. Before battle royales there were MOBAs, and LoL took the crown. Before that, MMOs were the most popular money-making genre, and Blizzard won out with WoW. So to answer your question: "flavor of the year" games come and go, there were several before Fortnite, and there will be several after. Only if Epic can produce more hits of that same magnitude might I consider them "smart business people." Right now it's unclear if they'll even retain Fortnite's success for the long term.I wasn't talking about their overall strategy though, just that they're smart business people. It doesn't matter if it's just one game, they took a decent enough game and made it immensely successful, and even though I don't like them as a company and such, I'm not going to deny that they've made some really good business decisions that got them there, and this is not from the perspective of a gamer. If it's so easy, why can't other companies come close to Fortnite?
"A fool and his money are soon parted" is as true as it has ever been. Though in Epic's case it's mostly money taken from the parents of said fools.Also as gamers we have a plethora of opinions and views of many companies and their practices and decisions. But when it comes to reality and sales, the situation is quite hilariously the opposite.
We blame Activision, EA, Ubisoft, etc, but yet the top selling games are always from them lmao.
I'm not putting my trust in Epic either, but as business goes, it's undeniable that they've made very good decisions to get to where they are now, amongst huge competition as well.