Fortnite Is Good For Gaming, EA Says

Epic's hugely popular battle royale game Fortnite is good for gaming because, with its low barrier to entry--it's free--and its mass appeal, it may help bring more people into gaming overall. That's according to Electronic Arts, whose executives recently commented on the phenomenon during an earnings call.

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

If EA says that, it must be bad for gaming than.

[princejb134]

you know EA wants nothing more than to be succesful with microtransactions *loot boxes cough cough*

[rainslacker]

Even if it was the best thing in gaming, EA would want a piece of the pie, and somehow screw it up to make it into something that leads to being the worst thing in gaming.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

The worst thing about fortnite is all the copycats it inspires.

[-Foxtrot]

Only time EA thinks something is good is when it's bad

[UltraNova]

Fortnite is straight out of the MT paradise, its money printing machine why wouldn't EA like it...

[playnice]

The difference btw Fortnite and EA is one game is free vs the other will cost you 60 $ yet they both expect to make the same profits in micro transactions... Fortnite ought to spank EA's greedy butt.

[Zeref]

It's the most popular game on the planet, it sells consoles and PCs. More Consoles/PCs means more gamers. More gamers means more money being spent in the industry. Therefore Fortnite is good for the industry.

Also Fortnite has cosmetic only MT's, so I really don't see why the hate?

[lociefer]

They just wanna copy it and print money, thats why it's good for them

[Bandit50]

Fark EA

[Spurg]

It's bad for gaming.
Fortnite premise isn't even battle royale anymore. I work in a school and I can tell you that the amount of kids that play this game just because the whole world is on it. It's not even about getting victory royale it's more about the social aspects of it.

Kids have spent hundreds of their parents money on skins and emotes and I see them in school imitating the emotes instead of talking about how many victories they have. You must be wondering why this is a bad thing. Just like loot boxes this game encourages spending money on meaningless cosmetics. They would rather spend the cost of a full priced game on cosmetics rather than buying full games.

One of the main culprits are the battle pass. This causes kids to get addicted to the game and is quite harmful to them. When you buy the battle pass you are invertedly setting yourself up to be hooked on this game everyday. Because you spent so much money on the battle pass you have to log in everyday to make sure you finish off those challenges. This means spending a couple of matches a 20mins times many ever many games need to achieve that challange. The main objective to grind to get the seasons main cosmetics like the john wick costumes and the best part of it all, for the average gamer it only happens towards the ends of the season and as soon as that finishes, the grinds continues for the next season.
This when the game doesn't become a game anymore and more like a job. This only encourages publishers like EA to create games that subpar, free and riddled with cosmetics and capitalise on a trend(which isn't far from the loot box controversy) that is only hurting this industry.

It's a shame that kids nowadays don't appreciate a good single player game. I remember trying to convinced students to buy God of war and he replied to me...'does it have mutiplayer'....I just walk away.

[UltraNova]

If we need to convince the youth to buy a game like GOW and they would even touch it if it has no MP then gaming is doomed.

[Kosic]

But again this is all player choice. You don't have to buy emotes and outfits. No one has locked your content behind such a route.

Fortnite is a skilled based game, it becomes better as you advance your reactions. Your building speeds etc. You could not spend a single penny and get thousands of hours out of that game without it gating your progress via timely manors like most free 2 play games. Or sell you gear that gives you such an advantage.

If you want to buy the outfits that's your choice. If you want the emotes again. It's your choice..

For the kids seeing it as a social aspect. That's what online gaming is. If they rather speak about the dance moves etc, that's this generation of kids. Take 5 minutes on Instagram and see what stupid joke is the current meme. Some of these new memes I don't even understand or begin to understand. Yet they have millions of likes and shares... It's a new age we are starting.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

So it's bad then, Thanks EA

[Relientk77]

Greedy EA likes microtransactions

What else is new

[Sarcasmist1]

EA says ...lol

[AnubisG]

That is how we know that it isn't good for gaming. The devil himself said it is good, so it isn't.

[Benoski]

By good for gaming, you mean it's a great platform to utilise when it comes to microtransactions.

EA, have a middle finger from me.

[knickstr]

Only because they see it as the best way to make money with minimum effort.

[AK91]

I actually like the agree that Fortnite is good for gaming (GaaS done right) but EA certainly isn't

[F0XHOUND]

TBH, Fortnite has a fantastic free to play model and I think its awesome. Download and play for free, free challenges = rewards for free, this season gives emotes, gliders and other cool effects. The battle pass is cheap, and lasts 1 season, s like 2 1/2 months. Skins are purely cosmetic, so no pay to win. Emotes and other shit like that its purely for fun. Sure, the game isn't the best but seriously you cant fault the games model. I'd love to see more games be this accessible that are better games overall. EA have the ability to deliver something special if they just tried and stopped being so greedy and narrow minded they have some insane IP strength, they just need to find the free model Epic have and we will have something awesome. Battlefront as accessible as Fortnite would be great imo!

[SixFragz]

Of course it's good to EA. It involves MT's, their favorite thing ever.

[Dragonscale]

"it'll help to bring more people into gaming overall", yeah more people to fleece lol.

[Gatsu]

It's not good.... People play this instead of experiencing other amazing games with memorable stories.