Epic Games finally changing approach to Fortnite updates before big competitions Epic GamesEpic Games is going to be changing its approach to competitive Fortnite and will no longer be releasing brand new content a day before competitions. The developer has published a statement on its official website, reassuring professional players that mistakes of the past will be reconciled during the course of 2019. Epic has recently attracted heavy heavy criticism from the pro community, following the sudden arrival of new features such as the Infinity Blade and X-4 Stormwing attack planes just before the $1 million Winter Royale tournament and \u2013 more recently \u2013 Boom Boxes before From the Australian Open onwards, Epic Games promises to give competitors some time to get used to new content before playing in tournaments, which would be between a few days and a week. \u201cWe value the ability of players to adapt to the game changing over time. We also believe these changes keep Fortnite fresh for everyone including players, competitors and spectators. \u201cHowever, we want to provide reasonable time for you to adjust strategies following large gameplay impacting changes, for example prior to official Fortnite competitions.\u201d The full statement from the Fortnite Team can be found below: Ali \u2018Myth\u2019 Kabbani had previously called for pro players to unionize in order to create a platform of communication between community and developer. \u201cI don\u2019t want to influence Epic\u2019s decisions when it comes to how they want to run or develop their game\u201d Myth explained. \u201cAt the end of the day, I know we don\u2019t have any control over that. I think their lack of communication is daunting, and that\u2019s really all I want to address with this union.\u201d Whether or not his \u2013 and other players\u2019 \u2013 concerns have been fully addressed by this \u2018change\u2019 remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games finally changing approach to Fortnite updates before big competitions Epic GamesEpic Games is going to be changing its approach to competitive Fortnite and will no longer be releasing brand new content a day before competitions. The developer has published a statement on its official website, reassuring professional players that mistakes of the past […]<\/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-72060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72060","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=72060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}