Fortnite is a free to play battle royale game that experienced a massive growth in players around late 2017 to now, and it continues to grow. In August of 2018, Fortnite was recorded as having nearly 80 million players. The growth and demographic can be compared to that of Minecraft, which experienced a similar expansion around 2012.

They both offered something special, with Minecraft having an open world and Fortnite being accessible to everyone. If Fortnite follows the same trend as Minecraft did, that could mean bad news         in a few years.

Freshman Anna Huang thinks it will experience a decline in growth due to the oversaturation of content.

“Most games tend to die, like Minecraft for example,” Huang said. “People play so much that they’re gonna start getting bored of it because of the amount of content there is.”

Freshman Ryan Tran also thinks that Fortnite will experience a shrink in its player base within the next few years. He said that he thinks a new game might replace its role. Given the fast advancement of games in terms of what’s available and what’s possible, this outcome is possible.

“In a few years, I think it’s going to die… maybe a new game will take its place,” Tran said.

Rendall Choy, the adviser of the eSports Club, also thought Fortnite would experience a decline in its player growth. He explained that Fortnite was repetitive and the only thing that would change were the skins. He said that Fortnite would need to find a way to make the game more competitive if they wanted to retain their players within the next few years.

“It’s like the same old thing except for different skins… they’re going to keep generating new skins; the newest skins are the NFL skins. But they’re going to have to find a way to make it more competitive,” Choy said.