Ninja slams influencers complaining about Epic Games: \u201cNo one is forcing you to play\u201d Twitch: NinjaTwitch streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has criticized how other Fortnite Battle Royale influencers are behaving, as they continue to protest the direction Epic Games is taking. Why are people criticizing Epic Games? Many prominent members of the Fortnite community, including entertainers and professional players, have recently censured Epic Games for the way they are handling their game. Many of these complaints can be traced back to March\u2019s v8.20 update, and Epic\u2019s reluctance to add a FOV slider to Fortnite Battle Royale. These complaints were magnified on April 26, when Epic announced their latest \u2018Competitive Update\u2019, which received overwhelmingly negative feedback from many notable community members. However, Ninja has since hit out at many of these influencers, suggesting that the way in which they are criticizing Epic is hollow. 600Ninja criticizes complaining streamers and YouTubers On April 26, while streaming Arena mode in preparation for the Fortnite World Cup, Ninja was discussing the recent backlash over Epic Games\u2019 \u2018Competitive Update\u2019. He appeared to suggest that influencers who are overtly critical of Fortnite\u2019s recent decisions should stop playing the game, as that would make more of a statement to Epic, rather than continuing to play the game but saying negative things about it. \u201cNo one\u2019s forcing anyone to play this game,\u201d explained Ninja. \u201cNo one\u2019s forcing anyone to stream this game. Guess what? Everyone makes their living off it. They\u2019re gonna continue to stream, upload YouTube videos, tweet out clips, compete in tournaments. If you really feel so strongly about it, stop playing.\u201d Ninja went on to suggest that the way these influencers are affecting their audiences is also negative: \u201cInstead what happens is everyone uses their audiences that they have, on Twitter and social media and Twitch, and they\u2019re doing what they\u2019re doing right now; complaining so much and bringing all of their audience to think the exact same thing.\u201d In spite of the negativity that has surrounded their game for a while, the latest updates from Epic suggest they have no intention of changing the direction in which they are taking. Whatever happens next, it is clear Ninja thinks more of a statement would be made if people were to simply boycott the game for a while, rather than spread negativity throughout their audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja slams influencers complaining about Epic Games: \u201cNo one is forcing you to play\u201d Twitch: NinjaTwitch streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has criticized how other Fortnite Battle Royale influencers are behaving, as they continue to protest the direction Epic Games is taking. Why are people criticizing Epic Games? Many prominent members of the Fortnite community, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}