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> Almost every other games developer would love to be in their position on Fortnite

I seriously hope that isn't true because Fortnite is a showcase of nearly everything wrong with modern gaming. It's an ad platform/casino that prays on children and is designed to make them feel like shit by pumping them full of anxiety/FOMO over their various passes, gambling, and vbucks balance. I think the only good thing you can say for Fortnite is that it's not often pay to win (although there have been skins that gave players advantages over others) and it isn't run on child labor like roblox is. If Fortnite is actually losing players that's great news.

I hope that most games developers would be ashamed to release a game like Fortnite and that the ads and predatory casino mechanics are something they'd choose to avoid in their own games.



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