Reminds me of the 00s when every tabletop game got ported to the d20 system (so, ported to be d&d compatible, kinda). It's a sign of the times when a monopoly starts absorbing everything else. Magic The Gathering just had a massively successful Final Fantasy set this past summer despite there being a full separate Final Fantasy trading card game.

Strongly doubt that these games will be entirely unplayable outside of Fortnite. Will eat hat if wrong.

Fortnite is a massive platform now, not one game with a few modes. They have car racing, the actual fortnite game, Lego survival crafting, all kinds of stuff. It's why the download is 100+GB and every patch is like 50gb.

Prolly a new Fortnite game mode and cutting off the original games?

on that note, but at a bit of a tanget: apparently SuperTuxKart has football mode now

I haven't checked it out yet, but it apparently came out in the fairly recent 1.5 patch - and it looks pretty similar, might scratch the same itch. Dunno how active the playerbase is.

Yeah basically new game modes. Rocket Racing is an arcade racer, Fortnite Festival is a rock band like rhythm game, both are entirely independent from battle royale but still integrated into fortnite eco system with skins and characters going between them. This is the metaverse vision that Sweeney never stops talking about coming to fruition.

It wasn't even originally a battle royale game. Before that was a co-op base defense/survival game with resource collection and building elements. Kind of a limited, kid friendly 7 days to die.

Fortnite is like roblox now, it has tons of user generated games inside of it (created using the fornite edition of unreal editor) and multiple epic created games

It was crippled years ago. Guess they want to end it's misery.

The thing is, you never paid for a "game" in the first place. You paid for a license with a whole boatload of conditions.

The thing that needs to be fixed is not refunds, but what "buying" something digital means in the first place.

same thing happened to me for TF2: the game became free, but the game as released was no longer available... I'm looking forward to TF2 classic mod release. Apparently can already play it with the source sdk, but I haven't found time to try that yet 😅

Maybe people will do something similar for rocket league... 🤞

The game itself hasn’t changed at all since Epic acquisition. The only significant changes they have made are making it free and removing trading which don’t affect gameplay.

I haven't played rocket league since before they acquired it, what have they done to it?

As someone who loved Nosgoth, Rocket League was the sads for me.

People think I'm crazy to not claim free games from Epic. I don't, and won't even have an account on that cursed platform.

RL on steam is getting updates but only for the windows client. The Linux & mac client is an old version that only works offline. I found this out the other day when I installed rocket league on steam to try out since I haven't played it in a long time

I play RL through Steam, it's still getting all of the updates.

Devs most likely disagree, but ultimately its not up to them. The company will do anything to further exploit the massive user base of fortnite because its one of the few behemoths they have that rake in money. They hope a lot of new people will see and play it and maybe spend some money. In the end its just the final avenue to go to milk these games of whatever left they will offer. They may get a big boost in players for the first month, then im sure it dies back down again.

All I wanna know is if these launchers will be the only way into the games or if the existing games will still work. I have played fall guys since its release, so if it's taken away in this way, I'll be a bit pissed off. I'll never use fortnite.

I mean normal people would just download a fortnite launcher and not think the world is ending, it's really only us opinionated nerds who care about these things.

I mean Fortnite is more a game engine than a game itself. It's far more comparable to Roblox than anything else

More like remaking them inside Fortnite.