Almost 300,000 Fortnite fans vote on state of controversial update in Ninja poll Ninja, Twitch \/ Epic GamesFortnite\u2019s v8.20 update is catching a lot of flak from the game\u2019s player base, including popular Twitch streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, who created a divisive poll on the subject via Twitter \u2013 with a landslide result. Ninja\u2019s poll, created on March 30, asked players if they would rather Epic Games revert the state of Fortnite before its latest v8.20 update or keep the changes, instead. \u201cRegarding the latest Fortnite patch\u2026 revert or don\u2019t revert,\u201d Ninja wrote. \u201cIf you vote don\u2019t, please reply why.\u201d Regarding the latest fortnite patch\u2026 revert or dont revert. If you vote dont please reply why. \u2014 Ninja (@Ninja) March 30, 2019 While many players have bemoaned the update, the votes in favor of reverting the change were nothing short of overwhelming \u2013 over 270,000 users voted to roll back the patch, making up 87% of voters, as opposed to 13% in favor of keeping the update. Read More: How to get Fortnite\u2019s new Lava Legends pack – Arguments for keeping the update were largely related to Fortnite\u2019s long-term sustainability, with some fans arguing that Epic needs to implement big changes in order to keep the game fresh. Don’t Revert: A gaming company and\/or gaming industry can’t evolve if it doesn’t come up with new and innovative ways to play the games it develops to make the player play more to be better than they were\u2026. \u2014 WastefulAdam (@Wastefuladam) March 30, 2019 \u201cA gaming company\u2026 can\u2019t evolve if it doesn\u2019t come up with new and innovative ways to play the game,\u201d one user argued. \u201cIt develops to make the player play more to be better than they were.\u201d Epic Games unrolled their controversial patch on March 27, introducing a brand new poison trap, Ranked Arena mode, and a slew of bug fixes \u2013 as well as removing a popular feature where players would gain 50 health or shield as a reward for every recorded elimination. The removal of this feature, alongside lowering the amount of materials dropped from eliminated players, incited a wave of backlash from the Fortnite community. \u201cOne day game developers will realize that you can\u2019t protect noobs from getting bopped,\u201d TSM\u2019s Daequan said of the issue on Twitter. \u201cYou add ranked, people will smurf. You separate casual and ranked, ppl will just go bot farm in casuals. You try to change game mechanics to save them, you ruin your game.\u201d One day game developers will realize that you can’t protect noobs from getting bopped. You add ranked, people will smurf. You separate casual and ranked, ppl will just go bot farm in casuals. You try to change game mechanics to save them, you ruin your game.:shrug::skin-tone-4:\u2642\ufe0fHistory doesn’t lie! \u2014 Daequan (@TSM_Daequan) March 29, 2019 Ninja himself even branded the game as \u201cboring\u201d following the patch, going on to play UNO with popular Twitch streamers Ben \u2018DrLupo\u2019 Lupo and Tim \u2018TimTheTatMan\u2019 Bertar over playing duos in Fortnite. Commentator and streamer Jack \u2018CouRage\u2019 Dunlop had a similar take on the title, thrashing the changes in a hilarious Tweet where he claimed that he had a nightmare about Epic\u2019s update. Had the worst nightmare ever last night: I was playing Fortnite and they removed the health per kill, materials per kill, and faster farming rates in public games\u2026 I know. Terrifying. I wasn\u2019t able to go back to sleep for a couple hours after waking up. \u2014 Jack \u201cCouRage\u201d Dunlop (@CouRageJD) March 28, 2019 While Epic have yet to speak out on the backlash, they confirmed a new, mini-battle royale mode for the title, although no date for this addition has been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Almost 300,000 Fortnite fans vote on state of controversial update in Ninja poll Ninja, Twitch \/ Epic GamesFortnite\u2019s v8.20 update is catching a lot of flak from the game\u2019s player base, including popular Twitch streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins, who created a divisive poll on the subject via Twitter \u2013 with a landslide result. Ninja\u2019s poll, […]<\/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-76913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76913","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=76913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}