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Stuff that's popular with any demographic - but especially mid teens and younger - gets hated on disproportionately when adults that are disinterested see it 'invading' their spaces.

At least that's my take.

You telling me people don't hate fortnite now?

I played Fortnite when it was a tower defense coop game. It was okay, nothing special. Then PUBG came out and it gained some popularity. Fortnite quickly copied this and went free to play. In a short amount of time, a game I kind of liked became overrun by children that were screaming into the microphone the entire game.

That was when I stopped paying attention to Fortnite at all. AFAIK, the hate never stopped.

Because it was the new thing the kids were doing. Go back 10 years and you'd fine people shitting on Minecraft for similar reasons. Couple that with the fact that Fortnite effectively cartoonified PUBG and became bigger than it and you have a perfect storm. Similar to Counter Strike players who hate on Valorant for being cartoony. I present to you this now legendary copypasta that summarizes things:

valarante child game.... look to cartoon grapfix to make kid player happy like children show.. valarante cartoon world with rainbow unlike counter strike chad with dark corridorr and raelistic gun.. valarante like playhouse. valarant playor run from csgo fear of dark world and realism

It was probably the extreme surge in popularity. Sustaining hate for something so innocuous is difficult long-term, so people lost interest. My son and I started in season 2, and he still plays with his friends. It's a phenomenal social game.

That's my guess anyway.

For me/my group, originally Fortnite was a group PvE game with a legitimate storyline etc. The BR element got tacked on, got crazy popular, and along with loot boxes became the focus of the game to the detriment of the original product.

1. It was F2P so too many kids.

2. I still suck at build mode.

3. The astetics were weird but I got used to it and it makes spotting enemies easier when everyone's a cartoon.

4. I got over Kratos and Xenomorphs dancing. It's funny now.

I didn't begin to "hate" Fortnite until Epic began throwing their dirty money around to aggregate unrelated personalities and sullying their otherwise spotless image. Something about Kratos doing ridiculous dances just rubs me the wrong way, and that's only one example.

Beyond that, my "hate" also stems from Epic as a whole being a scummy business. You could say most large-scale games publishers these days are shady and act in poor faith, and you could argue that Epic is merely a consequence of the times and the environment they've grown out of. However, I won't hold them to a different standard just because of that. Epic, EA, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, et cetera; I recognize all their shitty actions and want nothing to do with any of them anymore.

I dunno. If you don't have comms on and play solo its good for a fun lark now and again.

To be fair, it was overrated. But it was also overhated

Honestly, Fortnite is really not that fun of a game.

It was basically an attempt by epic at turning their zombie survival base building game (hah) into the rage of the moment, PUBG (which wasn't that fun of a game either, I'm still salty I sold my CSGO knife to buy it). The fact that it was free meant that children who wanted to emulate their favorite streamer but couldn't buy PUBG flocked to Fortnite instead, making it "the kid's game".

The gameplay is ultimately filled with gimmicks that while not unfun in themselves, promote unfunny gameplay, in a wheel completed by building (this is why PUBG is less unfun, but also more barren. Building is an element used to fill what PUBG lacks, but choosing building to fill this void further promotes unfunny gameplay).

Too many children.

I'm sure different communities have different reasons for hating Fortnite. I think the primary reason in the communities I run in is that Fortnite used to be a completely different game that was perpetually in development. Then, PUBG popularized the battle royale formula, and Epic sorta just copied that into Fortnite and gave it away for free to essentially steal the audience that PUBG had built.

I don't really play multiplayer games, so I didn't have a dog in the fight. I can understand the hate though. It must be hard to watch the game you love start to bleed players because a massive corporation copies their product, gives it away for free, and makes it up on the back-end by letting players pay to look like popular characters they have emotional attachments to.

I guess the reason it stopped is because it's just hard to sustain hatred for a product for long.

For me, a lot of it came down to the fact that Epic Games more or less dropped Unreal Tournament 4 to focus on what appeared to be a low effort adaptation of PUBG slapped over another game, and in doing so basically ripped the heart out of deathmatch arena shooters, and all we got out of it was a game that didn’t excel at any specific thing beyond appeal to children.

At this point I’m still sour about UT, but Fortnite has gotten enough updating to its technology and graphics that I’m less angry about it pretty much becoming Unreal Engine’s flagship game and more angry about what it represents. The game has always been fine.

It stopped?

Personally, I wasn’t a fan of the art style or the building aspect. I know a lot of people didn’t like the building, and now there is a no build mode for us. As for the art style, I still don’t like it, but whatever.

I dunno. I'm not a fan of Fortnite, simply because I don't play a lot of Battle Royale games at all. But the only "anger" toward it that I feel is the heavy advertising for it on the X Box menus. I get it, they add new skins, whoopdeedoo.

My issue with it is that they really dropped the actual game in favor of the battle royale mode because money wins.

The mic spam

For me personally:

a) I really dislike Multiplayer/PvP only games especially in the BR genre and those loosely in that area. Halo Infinite kinda sits in this for me. Feels like they didn't put as much effort into the single player campaign as much as they did the Multiplayer side. And I've LOVED the Halo series up to this point including 4 and 5.
b) There is of course the whole children aspect. And it's not just singling out Fortnite. I've been into other games in the past that I've had to give up because of a sudden influx of kids. I used to play RecRoom a lot as an example. But it seemed when they started adding 'pancake' support and added a mobile app, it just went downhill FAST. I haven't bothered to go back.
c) It does seem like they are trying way too hard these days to keep it relevant. Every time I turn around I see some new game mode or environment, the latest meme included somehow, some of the more obnoxious content creators shilling for them, etc..

That said, this is all my own personal view on it. Doesn't bother me if others play it or what they think about it. The game just simply isn't for me.

Young people like it? Popular? Oversaturation of posts about things? It must be bad!

Anything popular attracts the contrarians' ire, especially if minorities or children like it.

I heard all the hate and never gave it a shot but one day 3 years ago I watched my kid play it and it looked fun as hell, so i tried it out and it quickly became my favorite game of all time. Still play an hour a day or more

I think it was a combination of it being new at the time and there being a lot of kids playing it. Older teens/young adults often tend to not want to play with young kids. I remember everyone used to complain about, and make fun of kids (aka twelvies) playing COD. I seem to also remember people making fun of Minecraft because it was for kids. As for why it stopped, I think it just got old. The hivemind moved on to hating something else. People grew up a bit, the 12 year olds are now 17? (bloody hell time flies).

I think it was trendy to hate on it, and some people (myself included) really take/took issue with their predatory monetization model. That being said, there's nothing wrong with the game itself & I've actually started playing casually since they added zero-build mode lmao