In Fortnite: Battle Royale, many fans fear major changes to the game right before important tournaments. Developer Epic wants to handle this better in the future and troll its pro gamers less with big updates.
What is the problem with Fortnite and the pros? In Fortnite, two fundamental opinions have clashed for a long time.
On one side are the pros, who make money with Fortnite and train hard for it. Especially in highly lucrative tournaments, a lot of time and effort goes into preparation. These professional players find it important to utilize their hard-earned skills profitably in the game.
On the other side is developer Epic, which wants to create a lively, fun, and exciting game. Therefore, the developers constantly integrate new elements into the game and change it significantly at times. This is how turrets, planes, and extremely powerful super-swords made their way into the game.
These two opinions become a problem, especially when Epic releases an update with fundamental changes shortly before an important tournament.
Epic takes a step back and wants to take more consideration
For some time now, pros have been complaining that Epic is making things unnecessarily difficult for them. The now-removed super sword caused a lot of chaos in a tournament and caught many pros completely off guard.
The pro gamers sharply criticized this. They demanded, “Epic, please stop throwing such heavy obstacles in our way! Please do not release such updates on the day of a major tournament!”
This is how Epic wants to improve in 2019: So far, Epic has not cared much about the complaints. They want a fun game, and changes are part of that.
Now, however, the developers have released a statement regarding the status of the competitive game. They seem to want to better address the needs of the pros in the future.
They want to continue to have an exciting game with weekly changes that players constantly need to adapt to. However, they also want to take consideration and provide an appropriate timeframe before major tournaments, in which players can prepare for the new gameplay.
This timeframe should be at least a few days, possibly even a whole week. This is supposed to be the case already at the upcoming Australian Open, where only the core Battle Royale modes will be included. In the future, they want to better synchronize updates and tournaments without suspending weekly changes.
