The biggest Twitch streamer, Ninja, has announced that he will no longer play solo rounds in Fortnite until Epic makes some changes to the game.
Why is Ninja boycotting Fortnite? The streamer has become really famous thanks to Fortnite, but now Ninja has had enough of the battle royale shooter.
After losing some standard matches and sitting for a long time in the queue for the new arena mode, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was fed up.
The latest patch 8.20 has changed so much in his eyes that he does not want to play with it anymore. He will focus on other games until Epic fixes something.
This is what Ninja says about the current Fortnite
This is what Ninja thinks: In his stream, Ninja suddenly stopped playing Fortnite and said: “I am playing something else. If they don’t change anything in these solos, I will not play this game anymore unless I play arena duos or arena solos with reverse.”
This is why he is annoyed: With patch 8.20, Fortnite changed the rules again. This also annoys Ninja. He would like to have the old rules back.
Alternatively, one can still play the arena mode with the old rules, but there is a long wait before starting a match. For Ninja, that is too long.
The idea of creating a “new account” to find arena matches quickly as a “low” ranked player, he rejects: “Only losers smurf.”
What changed? The Fortnite rules have been relaxed a bit again. Aggressive gameplay is no longer as rewarding. Now there are:
- no health points when eliminating an opponent
- The opponent no longer automatically drops 50/50/50 materials upon elimination
- Material harvest is 40% less rewarding
Additionally, a new “ranked mode” is now active, where the old rules apply – but the queues there are extremely long.
This is what other players say: The patch has generally faced a lot of criticism. Many other professionals, but even casual players are annoyed by the change.
Ninja was previously seen as someone who was rather neutral about the patch. He explained that he understands why Epic took this step. Now, it is all the more surprising that the most successful streamer is also throwing in the towel with Fortnite for now. It remains to be seen how long this will last.
Not only professionals have been upset about the patch. Even a football icon expressed his opinion:
