Fortnite Hits Record 78.3 Million Players in August - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 September 2018 / 3,611 Views
Epic Game revealed Fortnite hit a new record in August with more than 78.3 million unique players. This is the highest number of players since the game launched.
The figure includes all versions of the game, which is available on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows PC, iOS, and Android.
Thanks GamesIndustry.
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Bet I still count when I logged in when it first went Free to play but never played a game. Remember, total players doesn't mean current players.
Never played it, never will.
This game is boring af.. Don't see why the giant draw in it.
Contrary to what people believe this game is surprisingly deep gameplaywise and i'm glad that new ideas in gaming can still be commercially successful.
Beast mode. Personally losing interest the last few months. The building takes away from it imo and makes it too easy not to die. People will build a sky scraper in 20 seconds and will do so if it means they get the higher ground. I'd rather just cut out the building bs and may the best man win. Looking forward to seeing what Battlefield can pull off.
Not bad at all. Will be interesting to see how much of a difference all the other battle royale competitors (CoD, Battlefield, etc) will make starting next month.
That's a beast
trash game
You sound like every other edge lord that hates games because they're popular. Have you even tried it?
yeah sure im an edge lord because i do not like the most overrated game of all time made for children played by normies and twitch sheep pfff
GTAV was streamed by everyone and played by kids too. Is that a trash game? Tell me more about how enlightened and wise you are.
you need some kleenex, snowflake?
Having a certain amount of monthly users is not the same as downloads. for Runescape, a lot of those accounts are secondary accounts. I’m pretty sure Fortnite has reached over 200m registered accounts. So that would overtake Runescape and WoW.
Yeah idk where I got over 200m from.
EIther way, having over 50% of registered accounts play the game after all this time and it’s still growing is extremely impressive. Epic definitely did right with this game.
Fortnite numbers are undeniably very impressive, and will surely be reaching the 100M milestone at the beginning of next year.
But still you cannot rank it with Gta V, Minecraft or WoW (even if it's a subscription system, it does count as a paid game). Comparison is only valid with free to play games, such as Angry Birds, Candy Crush Saga, Tetris and others. These games were able to reach several hundreds of millions of players "easily" and surely others
will do/already did , the same.
While for paid games, only Minecraft achieved the 100M, and maybe no other games will ever break the barrier.
