By Jafar Abdi

‘Fortnite’ is a battle royale made by Epic Games initially released as a survival game back in July of 2017. Seeing as how expensive the game was and how unoriginal it was, no one was really playing it until 2 months later, on September 26th, 2017, when it was rebranded as a free to play battle royale game. But it didn’t skyrocket immediately to become the game that we all know it as today; its peak came when  Epic Games released its 3rd season in February of 2018.

This was probably the most influence a game had on a generation, there were celebrities like Drake and Travis Scott streaming with the games biggest creators on Twitch like Ninja and Dr. Lupo. The game had reached the top of the mountain. The servers were crashing because there were too many people playing the game. People were wearing clothes with ‘Fortnite’ characters on it, and everyone at school was talking about ‘Fortnite’. It was all ‘Fortnite’ and would be all ‘Fortnite’ for the next year.

The game just kept getting better and there were more players each day, but its downfall would come on August 1st, of 2019, when Epic came out with its 10th season, “Season X”. With the new update it brought lots of new aspects and different items to the game and most of which were not received well by the players. This is when people started complaining about how unbalanced things were, the developers were not listening, and the numbers took a massive nose dive.

For the next couple of years, more and more people stopped playing the game and people thought that would be it. The numbers were still great for a video game but it was nowhere near what it once was.

But then on November 3rd, of 2023, the makers of the game finally listened after so long and they released “Fortnite: Season OG”. This was the highest the numbers of players had ever been, the game was exactly like it was 5 years prior, and the game was flourishing. Everything was back to how it was and people who had long ago stopped playing started up again. It was the biggest comeback a game had made and it was great again.