LOL - the MOBA market didn't have room for Paragon. It was never really popular, had cheaters on PC, and was a drain on Epic's development team.

Blizzard hasn't even been able to make Heroes of the Storm anywhere near as popular as the other big MOBAs, and they essentially control every genre they enter. It was wise for Epic to bail, and go all out on the battle arena genre while they could.

Paragon just didnt catch on lol. Obviously It just wasnt a game that would financially viable. Not saying its bad, but it didnt have mass appeal.
I woulda dumped paragon too for the highest streamed game on the internet right now...

You guys have no clue. Paragon wasn't given a chance to succeed, the game was announced in 2015, Fortnite was announced in 2011. Epic announced they were shutting Paragon down before the game even got out early access.

Epic themselves admitted to taking resources from Paragon and putting them into Fortnite. They literally said that Paragon and Paragon development suffered due to Fortnite.

Do you know how long it took to get Fortnite to where it is now? Epic announced Fortnite in 2011, it took years for Fortnite to get where it is. There was an alpha in 2014. People thought Fortnite was dropped many times because of how long it took. Epic gave Fortnite a chance to succeed, they iterated on it for years and hired Ten Cent specifically for it. They had People Can Fly working on it for years. They willed it to success over years of iteration and effort.

Disagree if you want, but it's fact that Paragon suffered because of Fortnite. It's a shame.

stop being addicted to cosmetics

I don't mind spending money in Fortnite, though. For one, the game is free. You can earn your v-bucks back and more purchasing a Battle Pass. But the biggest reason for me is that I've already devoted hundreds of hours playing it and fresh cosmetics helps keep it interesting for me. I've spent $60 on games I didn't play for more than an hour. So, what's a few hundred $$$ (About $250 currently between founders and cosmetics) on a game I'll play for well over a thousand hours?

It's a free game, so I have no problem with people buying cosmetics, it actually supports the game (which is FREE). It's when MTs get tacked onto full price games that I start to take issue.

That they are!!!!! I remember in uncharted 4 10$ would get me a few skins and a few taunts whereas in Fortnite they don't even get me ONE cool skin or a cool taunt.

I mean with the popularity that this game has achieved I'm not surprised ppl are buying points for the cosmetics. I'm curious to know how much money epic is making from cosmetics alone.

Fortnite was doing pretty well even before they made a BG mode. I don't know about the MT stuff though, because I never paid attention to that stuff much. I was just browsing the store yesterday seeing what the sales were and it stood out since there were so many of them in the add-ons section.

Epic usually does pretty well with it's games. They have quite a large following. Things like Fortnite didn't really rise up the ranks in comments on console, but since PUBG became some console war thing, it got a new breath in discovery potential, since people keep talking about it. The constant comparisons, along with enough articles saying that it is even better(subjective and I take no stance), means that people were going to try it...particularly since it's F2P.

I haven't seen a good roadmap for the campaign but may search around a little bit. I badly want a different style map for canny valley, was such a huge bummer after being so proud of myself to move on only to realize nothing changes with a new area. Will look into it though, haven't heard the backpack tidbit so I guess I'm out the loop