Thankfully, Fortnite Is Eternally Successful, So They Can Sustain This For A Long Time, Right?

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Thankfully, Fortnite Is Eternally Successful, So They Can Sustain This For A Long Time, Right?

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Epic Games has mastered the art of buying developer loyalty through free games instead of, you know, actually making their platform good. Everyone's thrilled to claim free AAA titles every week, but the second they're asked to actually purchase something? Crickets. Tumbleweeds. The sound of wallets snapping shut.

It's basically the digital equivalent of a grocery store giving out free samples—everyone loves the guy with the toothpick tray, but nobody's buying the frozen lasagna. Epic's entire business model relies on Fortnite whales funding their "charity work" of giving us free games while they desperately try to compete with Steam. Spoiler alert: having a shopping cart feature actually matters.

The irony? We're all complicit. We've got libraries full of Epic games we'll never play, but hey, they were free. Meanwhile, Steam gets our actual money because it has features invented after 2005.

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