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Related (maybe)

Fortnite's "Save the World" mode is going free-to-play. https://save-the-world.fortnite.com/en-US/?lang=en-US

Now, if you're like me, this news probably confuses you. Isn't
Fortnite already a free game? Yes... and no. Its battle royale mode is
free, as was its Creative mode. But the "Save the World" mode was
still required payment. As I understand it, the "Save the World" mode
was the original game (sort of an Overwatch clone) that only had
moderate success before the other modes made it the gaming power-house
it is today. In fact, for a while Save-the-World mode was pretty much
abandoned by Epic for a while.

But I guess with Fortnite's popularity --regardless of game-mode--
starting to decline (and Epic's fortunes so heavily dependent on its
success), Epic has to attract new users somehow. "Hey kids, try this
new/old game-mode; it's free now again. Buy some more hats and
character skins, wontcha? Tim Sweeney's expensive lawsuits aren't
gonna pay for themselves!"

Meh. It makes no never-mind for me; I never could get into the game
regardless of mode. It's too oriented toward the tweenie-bopper set
who make up the bulk of its population. But maybe they'll be happy
about the news. Will it drag them back from Roblox, you think?



* the epic announcement
https://save-the-world.fortnite.com/en-US/?lang=en-US


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On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:27:27 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Related (maybe)

Fortnite's "Save the World" mode is going free-to-play. >https://save-the-world.fortnite.com/en-US/?lang=en-US

Now, if you're like me, this news probably confuses you. Isn't
Fortnite already a free game? Yes... and no. Its battle royale mode is
free, as was its Creative mode. But the "Save the World" mode was
still required payment. As I understand it, the "Save the World" mode
was the original game (sort of an Overwatch clone) that only had
moderate success before the other modes made it the gaming power-house
it is today. In fact, for a while Save-the-World mode was pretty much >abandoned by Epic for a while.

But I guess with Fortnite's popularity --regardless of game-mode--
starting to decline (and Epic's fortunes so heavily dependent on its >success), Epic has to attract new users somehow. "Hey kids, try this
new/old game-mode; it's free now again. Buy some more hats and
character skins, wontcha? Tim Sweeney's expensive lawsuits aren't
gonna pay for themselves!"

Meh. It makes no never-mind for me; I never could get into the game >regardless of mode. It's too oriented toward the tweenie-bopper set
who make up the bulk of its population. But maybe they'll be happy
about the news. Will it drag them back from Roblox, you think?

* the epic announcement
https://save-the-world.fortnite.com/en-US/?lang=en-US

I am happy to have completely ignored Fortnite like it was a starving
Victorian child.
--
Zag

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton
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On 3/13/2026 5:11 PM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:27:27 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Related (maybe)

Fortnite's "Save the World" mode is going free-to-play.
https://save-the-world.fortnite.com/en-US/?lang=en-US

Now, if you're like me, this news probably confuses you. Isn't
Fortnite already a free game? Yes... and no. Its battle royale mode is
free, as was its Creative mode. But the "Save the World" mode was
still required payment. As I understand it, the "Save the World" mode
was the original game (sort of an Overwatch clone) that only had
moderate success before the other modes made it the gaming power-house
it is today. In fact, for a while Save-the-World mode was pretty much
abandoned by Epic for a while.

But I guess with Fortnite's popularity --regardless of game-mode--
starting to decline (and Epic's fortunes so heavily dependent on its
success), Epic has to attract new users somehow. "Hey kids, try this
new/old game-mode; it's free now again. Buy some more hats and
character skins, wontcha? Tim Sweeney's expensive lawsuits aren't
gonna pay for themselves!"

Meh. It makes no never-mind for me; I never could get into the game
regardless of mode. It's too oriented toward the tweenie-bopper set
who make up the bulk of its population. But maybe they'll be happy
about the news. Will it drag them back from Roblox, you think?



* the epic announcement
https://save-the-world.fortnite.com/en-US/?lang=en-US

I am happy to have completely ignored Fortnite like it was a starving Victorian child.

You ignored a starving Victorian child for two weeks?
--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:54:11 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 3/13/2026 5:11 PM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:27:27 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Related (maybe)

Fortnite's "Save the World" mode is going free-to-play.
https://save-the-world.fortnite.com/en-US/?lang=en-US

Now, if you're like me, this news probably confuses you. Isn't
Fortnite already a free game? Yes... and no. Its battle royale mode is
free, as was its Creative mode. But the "Save the World" mode was
still required payment. As I understand it, the "Save the World" mode
was the original game (sort of an Overwatch clone) that only had
moderate success before the other modes made it the gaming power-house
it is today. In fact, for a while Save-the-World mode was pretty much
abandoned by Epic for a while.

But I guess with Fortnite's popularity --regardless of game-mode--
starting to decline (and Epic's fortunes so heavily dependent on its
success), Epic has to attract new users somehow. "Hey kids, try this
new/old game-mode; it's free now again. Buy some more hats and
character skins, wontcha? Tim Sweeney's expensive lawsuits aren't
gonna pay for themselves!"

Meh. It makes no never-mind for me; I never could get into the game
regardless of mode. It's too oriented toward the tweenie-bopper set
who make up the bulk of its population. But maybe they'll be happy
about the news. Will it drag them back from Roblox, you think?



* the epic announcement
https://save-the-world.fortnite.com/en-US/?lang=en-US

I am happy to have completely ignored Fortnite like it was a starving
Victorian child.

You ignored a starving Victorian child for two weeks?

Pip PIP! my boys.
--
Zag

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:00:40 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:54:11 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, >Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 3/13/2026 5:11 PM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:27:27 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,

I am happy to have completely ignored Fortnite like it was a starving
Victorian child.

You ignored a starving Victorian child for two weeks?

Pip PIP! my boys.

I mean, it's pretty easy to ignore starving Victorian children.
They've been dead for 100 years. ;-)

#

I haven't /totally/ ignored Fortnite. I had to give it a try at least
once... which I did, years and years ago, back when it started
becoming popular. I only played the free version (whichever that was
back then) and I didn't stay very long. It just didn't have anything
that appealed to me; the cartoony graphics, the too-fast gameplay, the
annoying players. I'm pretty sure the game already had a building mode
by then, which may date it.

From what I understand, "Fortnite" has changed significantly from
then... but I've never had any desire to go back and see how it plays
now. Arena shooters were never my thing. I preferred slower, more
tactical games. Preferably without any foul-mouthed twelve-year olds.


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