Author: Rachel Kaser / Source: The Next Web
Battle royale game Fortnite is down, meaning millions of gamers are in need of an outlet. Many of them have elected to switch to Radical Heights, a similarly colorful, free game, bringing unexpected attention to the company behind it.
Fortnite is currently one of, if not the most popular game on the planet.
At last count (by Epic Games’ stats), the highest number of concurrent players in the game was 3.4 million, and 45 million players overall.Epic Games officials last night announced they were taking Fortnite offline for emergency maintenance, and it was down for roughly 14 hours by my count.
We’re bringing the servers offline for emergency maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience. We currently have no ETA on when servers will be back up. Stay updated with our status page here: https://t.co/3y0X6buriO
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame)
So what are millions of gamers to do when their game suddenly goes down?
They could head across the aisle to the other popular battle royale game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but that game comes with a $30 entrance fee. If you’re used to Fortnite‘s free-to-play model, you’re not likely to drop $30 just to distract yourself until the servers come back online. That’s simple economics.
So bored gamers were looking for an alternative to scratch the itch, and it seems…
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