Fortnite's Cycle of Death and Rebirth: A Reflection on the Game's Enduring Popularity

Games go through trends, and sometimes, they can die out if they don't receive enough updates. I recall playing Overwatch in 2016, and at that time, it was my favorite game to play. However, as time went on, and there weren't many new characters or maps released, I got burnt out on the game, and I completely stopped playing it. But five years later, when Overwatch 2 was released, I found myself playing it again, having a lot of fun with it.

However, Fortnite has an edge compared to other games because it's always different from week to week, season to season. Whenever you get a new chapter, the game completely flips, and you get a whole new experience. This advantage makes it difficult for Fortnite to stagnate like some other games do. The reality is that if you don't love every single season of Fortnite, you can simply play something else and come back next season.

This time might be different, though, as we're just one month away from the end of Season 8, which promises to bring a ton of hype with it, including an epic event. But what's truly exciting is that Epic Games has announced Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which will add modding capabilities to the game. This means that streamers, YouTubers, and pros will now have complete free freedom to create whatever they want, without any limitations.

The Unreal Editor has the potential to change the face of Fortnite, making it an even more creative and dynamic experience. We've seen this happen before with games like Minecraft, which had a huge blow-up in 2018 and then fell off, only to have a cultural resurgence. This is exactly what's happening with Fortnite, as we're going to see a resurgence of content creators who will take advantage of the tools provided by the Unreal Editor to create unique content.

The possibilities with the Unreal Editor are endless, and it's truly exciting to think about what kind of creative content we'll see emerge from this. The impact on competitive players is also significant, as they'll be able to create unique strategies and gameplays that will give them an edge over their opponents.

While some might argue that Fortnite has been a little bit repetitive in the past couple of years, I think that 2023 is going to be one of the biggest years for Fortnite ever. With all the possibilities provided by the Unreal Editor, we're going to see a new wave of creativity and innovation emerge from this game, which will keep players engaged and excited.

The fact that Epic Games has decided to go in this direction with the Unreal Editor is a testament to their commitment to making Fortnite the best game it can be. By giving creators free freedom to express themselves, they're empowering them to take Fortnite in new and exciting directions, which will undoubtedly lead to some amazing content being created.

As we look forward to 2023, one thing is clear: Fortnite's cycle of death and rebirth might not have an end. With the Unreal Editor providing endless possibilities for creativity and innovation, it's likely that Fortnite will continue to evolve and thrive, even as new seasons and chapters come and go.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enover the last few weeks there have been conversations in the fortnite community that the game is dying is it finally time are all the players leaving are the YouTubers quitting is epic gonna shut down the servers for good this is what we're talking about today so buckle in if you've been watching my content for a while you know that this isn't the first time we talked about fortnite dying it's been talked about quite a bit over the past few years the death of fortnite has been such a running joke that even fortnite added a skin with dead game on the shirt just recently but like I said this time it's a little different and I'm gonna explain why because this might be the last time we talk about fortnite dying so what are people actually saying we had this tweet from Aussie antiques saying people are super burnt out there's a lack of hype right now and they need a big Invitational or tournament to bring people back and he's even talked about fortnite dying so much that he promised that he's not gonna bring it up anymore on stream but not bring down the Vibes of the stream and I completely agree with that if you talk about the game dying so much your own audience will truly believe it and then they will just leave the game and go play or watch someone else you have a direct influence on them it's best not to do that and make it the core focus of your content now we also have Pro players liquid stretch who is saying that the beginning of chapter three proved to him that epic doesn't care about competitive the game is more dead than it ever has been viewership wise a YouTuber Jessica tweeted out saying that he doesn't see fortnite viewership recovering lazy creators wrongly prioritizing orgs and not a single rising star in a year we also have a few more tweets from Manu a12 and Mr top five Manu saying that ornate ever reach that Peak viewership again Mr top five says foreign tubers are almost all out of ideas there's currently nothing new or interesting to do so on both competitive and content creation there is some sentiment that the hype is down the viewership is low and that maybe there's no going back now we hear and see tweets like this all the time if you've been following fortnite for the past five years you know that this has happened quite a bit but there's actually action being taken it's not just words you have Pro players like Benji Mongrel and Metro who have completely left the game and stopped competing and on the YouTube content side you have people like Mr fresh just completely stopping his uploads and you have people like locking in the laser beam who are uploading a lot less and focusing on other big projects that they have going on now Google Trends isn't the best place to go look for how a game is doing but it's not doing terribly well it is on the low side but definitely take that with a grain of salt on Twitch the directory has been pretty stagnant you have a lot of the same faces Nick a30 Ninja tifu myself you haven't really seen a lot of new creators rise in either YouTube or twitch space now definitely keep an eye on Rex we have some big plans with him at Oni but it's still not comparable to what we've seen fortnite do for creators like myself Ninja tifu myth gaining millions of new fans and having all that excitement and hype now it's not like people are expecting that level of hype for creators and rising stars but I feel like it's been virtually none and I think I might know why so is it all over is this the end all the points I mentioned up until now are true but I know that fortnite is far from dead and what we need is some perspective I've been playing the game for five years I've seen all kinds of Trends in the fortnite space and you can look at the facts and data but sometimes you need a little bit more context and you need to zoom out and look at the big picture and this is what everyone is missing first of all fortnite has been dying for four years if you go on YouTube you'll find videos from chapter one calling the game Dead a couple months later they said that Max or the sword killed the game and then Apex Legends killed fortnite and then the pump getting removed killed fortnite again and then chapter 2's new map was bad and that killed it and then Warzone came back and killed build it again and then season six Primal weapons were so bad that fortnite died season 8's corruption was so bad chapter three season two you know not a lot of updates so the fortnite died again fortnite seems to have a lot of lives because it has died a lot of times in the past four years every single season you can look and create a scenario that fortnite is dead after every one of these bad Seasons we get a good one or a whole new chapter and then the cycle starts over again you could always show that the game is dying regardless of how many people are actually playing the game which is still millions and millions of players now here's the thing games they go through trends for example I played OverWatch one in 2016. I was addicted to that game I was playing all the time and then I got burnt out and it didn't get a lot of updates there wasn't a lot of new characters and I just completely left the game now OverWatch 2 recently came out five years later and I'm playing that game a lot on stream and I'm having a lot of fun all it took was a Brand New Perspective some changes a couple new characters and maps and I'm having fun again but it took them five years or fortnite on the other hand has a little bit of an edge compared to other games because fortnite is always different week to week it's different season to season it's very different and then whenever you get a new chapter the game completely flips literally and you get a whole new game fortnite has that Advantage where it is almost immune to having that stagnation the reality with fortnite is you don't have to love every single season if you don't love a season play something else and then come back next season but like I said this time is different we are just one month away from the season being over and there's gonna be a ton of hype on that because the Chrome and the herald will definitely have some sort of end of season event this might be an end of chapter event and as I discussed in other videos and other creators have discussed there's a lot of information on supports that next season is not gonna be chapter three season five it's actually going to be Chapter Four Season one with a brand new map potentially first person mode new weapons pois everything that comes with a new chapter this is gonna get people really hyped but I mean a brand new chapter and a brand new season sometimes it gives people hype for a few months maybe even a couple weeks but long term there's nothing stopping us from another season people aren't a fan of or a map that people don't like or just a chapter that people hate it's inevitable that some people will like it some people won't and we're back to where we started but what's different this time well a lot of you might have guessed we're not only just potentially getting a new chapter we're also potentially getting uefn unreal editor for fortnite there's a lot of speculations about what this was going to be called project burst creative 2.0 but now we know that epic is calling it The unreal editor for those who don't know this is going to be adding modding to fortnite it won't instantly be game changing just like how creative was a little bit slower at first but there is going to be a ton of change that happens because of this and I made a lot of videos talking about this so I'm not going to explain every single detail but streamers YouTubers Pros will now have complete free freedom to create whatever they want now look at Minecraft for example it had a huge blow up and then it completely fell off and then it had a huge cultural Resurgence in 2018 and that's when we saw the rise of some of the newer Minecraft youtubers that are extremely popular in the space right now dude that's the thing about fortnite we've seen fortnite at its peak we've seen what it's capable of doing with this new Unreal editor with the possibilities which by the way are really endless we're gonna see a Resurgence of not just competitive players in fortnite who are you know trying to create unique content but content creators were going to blow up overnight by creating unique content and taking advantage of the tools that we're gonna have to create that while I understand the past couple years of fortnite might have been a little bit confusing for some people a little bit repetitive for others but I think truly that 2023 is going to be one of the biggest years for fortnite ever with all the possibilities that unreal editors bring to the game this is the last time we'll ever be be able to say fortnite is dyingover the last few weeks there have been conversations in the fortnite community that the game is dying is it finally time are all the players leaving are the YouTubers quitting is epic gonna shut down the servers for good this is what we're talking about today so buckle in if you've been watching my content for a while you know that this isn't the first time we talked about fortnite dying it's been talked about quite a bit over the past few years the death of fortnite has been such a running joke that even fortnite added a skin with dead game on the shirt just recently but like I said this time it's a little different and I'm gonna explain why because this might be the last time we talk about fortnite dying so what are people actually saying we had this tweet from Aussie antiques saying people are super burnt out there's a lack of hype right now and they need a big Invitational or tournament to bring people back and he's even talked about fortnite dying so much that he promised that he's not gonna bring it up anymore on stream but not bring down the Vibes of the stream and I completely agree with that if you talk about the game dying so much your own audience will truly believe it and then they will just leave the game and go play or watch someone else you have a direct influence on them it's best not to do that and make it the core focus of your content now we also have Pro players liquid stretch who is saying that the beginning of chapter three proved to him that epic doesn't care about competitive the game is more dead than it ever has been viewership wise a YouTuber Jessica tweeted out saying that he doesn't see fortnite viewership recovering lazy creators wrongly prioritizing orgs and not a single rising star in a year we also have a few more tweets from Manu a12 and Mr top five Manu saying that ornate ever reach that Peak viewership again Mr top five says foreign tubers are almost all out of ideas there's currently nothing new or interesting to do so on both competitive and content creation there is some sentiment that the hype is down the viewership is low and that maybe there's no going back now we hear and see tweets like this all the time if you've been following fortnite for the past five years you know that this has happened quite a bit but there's actually action being taken it's not just words you have Pro players like Benji Mongrel and Metro who have completely left the game and stopped competing and on the YouTube content side you have people like Mr fresh just completely stopping his uploads and you have people like locking in the laser beam who are uploading a lot less and focusing on other big projects that they have going on now Google Trends isn't the best place to go look for how a game is doing but it's not doing terribly well it is on the low side but definitely take that with a grain of salt on Twitch the directory has been pretty stagnant you have a lot of the same faces Nick a30 Ninja tifu myself you haven't really seen a lot of new creators rise in either YouTube or twitch space now definitely keep an eye on Rex we have some big plans with him at Oni but it's still not comparable to what we've seen fortnite do for creators like myself Ninja tifu myth gaining millions of new fans and having all that excitement and hype now it's not like people are expecting that level of hype for creators and rising stars but I feel like it's been virtually none and I think I might know why so is it all over is this the end all the points I mentioned up until now are true but I know that fortnite is far from dead and what we need is some perspective I've been playing the game for five years I've seen all kinds of Trends in the fortnite space and you can look at the facts and data but sometimes you need a little bit more context and you need to zoom out and look at the big picture and this is what everyone is missing first of all fortnite has been dying for four years if you go on YouTube you'll find videos from chapter one calling the game Dead a couple months later they said that Max or the sword killed the game and then Apex Legends killed fortnite and then the pump getting removed killed fortnite again and then chapter 2's new map was bad and that killed it and then Warzone came back and killed build it again and then season six Primal weapons were so bad that fortnite died season 8's corruption was so bad chapter three season two you know not a lot of updates so the fortnite died again fortnite seems to have a lot of lives because it has died a lot of times in the past four years every single season you can look and create a scenario that fortnite is dead after every one of these bad Seasons we get a good one or a whole new chapter and then the cycle starts over again you could always show that the game is dying regardless of how many people are actually playing the game which is still millions and millions of players now here's the thing games they go through trends for example I played OverWatch one in 2016. I was addicted to that game I was playing all the time and then I got burnt out and it didn't get a lot of updates there wasn't a lot of new characters and I just completely left the game now OverWatch 2 recently came out five years later and I'm playing that game a lot on stream and I'm having a lot of fun all it took was a Brand New Perspective some changes a couple new characters and maps and I'm having fun again but it took them five years or fortnite on the other hand has a little bit of an edge compared to other games because fortnite is always different week to week it's different season to season it's very different and then whenever you get a new chapter the game completely flips literally and you get a whole new game fortnite has that Advantage where it is almost immune to having that stagnation the reality with fortnite is you don't have to love every single season if you don't love a season play something else and then come back next season but like I said this time is different we are just one month away from the season being over and there's gonna be a ton of hype on that because the Chrome and the herald will definitely have some sort of end of season event this might be an end of chapter event and as I discussed in other videos and other creators have discussed there's a lot of information on supports that next season is not gonna be chapter three season five it's actually going to be Chapter Four Season one with a brand new map potentially first person mode new weapons pois everything that comes with a new chapter this is gonna get people really hyped but I mean a brand new chapter and a brand new season sometimes it gives people hype for a few months maybe even a couple weeks but long term there's nothing stopping us from another season people aren't a fan of or a map that people don't like or just a chapter that people hate it's inevitable that some people will like it some people won't and we're back to where we started but what's different this time well a lot of you might have guessed we're not only just potentially getting a new chapter we're also potentially getting uefn unreal editor for fortnite there's a lot of speculations about what this was going to be called project burst creative 2.0 but now we know that epic is calling it The unreal editor for those who don't know this is going to be adding modding to fortnite it won't instantly be game changing just like how creative was a little bit slower at first but there is going to be a ton of change that happens because of this and I made a lot of videos talking about this so I'm not going to explain every single detail but streamers YouTubers Pros will now have complete free freedom to create whatever they want now look at Minecraft for example it had a huge blow up and then it completely fell off and then it had a huge cultural Resurgence in 2018 and that's when we saw the rise of some of the newer Minecraft youtubers that are extremely popular in the space right now dude that's the thing about fortnite we've seen fortnite at its peak we've seen what it's capable of doing with this new Unreal editor with the possibilities which by the way are really endless we're gonna see a Resurgence of not just competitive players in fortnite who are you know trying to create unique content but content creators were going to blow up overnight by creating unique content and taking advantage of the tools that we're gonna have to create that while I understand the past couple years of fortnite might have been a little bit confusing for some people a little bit repetitive for others but I think truly that 2023 is going to be one of the biggest years for fortnite ever with all the possibilities that unreal editors bring to the game this is the last time we'll ever be be able to say fortnite is dying\n"