{"id":77772,"date":"2025-01-28T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/when-will-fortnite-save-the-world-be-free-to-play-epic-games-announce-significant-delay-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:07:01","slug":"when-will-fortnite-save-the-world-be-free-to-play-epic-games-announce-significant-delay-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/when-will-fortnite-save-the-world-be-free-to-play-epic-games-announce-significant-delay-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"When will Fortnite Save the World be free-to-play? Epic Games announce significant delay &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When will Fortnite Save the World be free-to-play? Epic Games announce significant delay Epic Games, the developers of Fortnite, have confirmed that the \u2018Save the World\u2019 version of the game will become free-to-play in 2018, but they are committed to making it happen in the future. Anyone hoping for the previously announced switch to a free-to-play model before 2019 will have been left disappointed by Epic\u2019s most recent \u2018Save the World State of Development\u2019 blog post, but it certainly looks like we won\u2019t be waiting for too much longer. \u201cWe decided to move the free-to-play launch of Save the World out of this year. We\u2019re working on a broad set of features, reworks, and backend system scaling we believe are needed to go free-to-play,\u201d the developers state. They went on to explain that they are taking their time in building a free-to-play model because they want to get it right: \u201cSave the World has grown consistently since our launch in July 2017 and Fortnite overall has experienced unprecedented growth. Scaling up for the legions of player heroes who will be joining the fight is key to providing an excellent experience. This applies to all of our players, old and new, so we\u2019re taking the time to get this right.\u201d Read More: Data miners reveal more details about Fortnite\u2019s Leaky Lake event and the mysterious portal &#8211; Save the World is a co-op player versus environment (PVE) survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players can collect resources, build forts, construct weapons and more. While Fortnite Battle Royale is the title that most people think of when discussing Fortnite, Save the World was actually the original mode, released in July of 2017, and costs around \u00a335 in the UK and $40 in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will Fortnite Save the World be free-to-play? Epic Games announce significant delay Epic Games, the developers of Fortnite, have confirmed that the \u2018Save the World\u2019 version of the game will become free-to-play in 2018, but they are committed to making it happen in the future. Anyone hoping for the previously announced switch to a [&hellip;]<\/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-77772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77772","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=77772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}