Fortnite is Becoming Roblox, Whether Players Like it or Not

More features are coming to the Creative side of the game, to bring the Fortnite Roblox resemblance even more into focus! Soon, players will see ads for modes on the home screen and creators will sell in-game items.

The big topic with Fortnite right now is the game’s ill-health. The sick man of live service, or at least it’s been proclaimed as that. The Fortnite player count is still larger than the vast majority of games, but Fortnite doesn’t want to be a game anymore. It wants to be a platform. The Fortnite Roblox transformation has seen the game change in some big ways, and it’s getting worse.

As the Fortnite player count drops again, this time below half a million, Epic has announced a ton of new features for the platform side of the game. It’s features few people asked for, but will help to make the game even more like Roblox. This is what’s changing with Creative to further the Fortnite Roblox transformation:

Fortnite Roblox Transformation Further by More Features

A bunch of new features are coming to Creative to flesh out the platform aspects. Specifically, players will be able to start spending money directly within games in Fortnite Creative. Just what everyone wanted. Steal the Brainrot and Fortnite XP maps to be able to ask you to hand over cash to play the same few recycled gameplay mechanics.

The big development with Creative is going to mean players can pay for things directly in islands. The new process will allow players to sell items directly inside the map. It’ll open up a new way to earn money out of maps in Fortnite Creative. And of course, more ways for players to spend money.

The creator of a map will get half of the V-Bucks that are spend in their islands. Starting next year, they’ll get 100% of the value spent there. That’s after platform fees depending on where your players are buying V-Bucks.

What kind of items are going to be for sale? It isn’t really clear. This is often a mechanic which opens it up to make entirely play to win experience. At least in Roblox that’s often what paid items are for. Since this is bringing the Battle Royale more in line with that game, we can probably expect something similar. This kind of thing is probably going to get more common with the Fortnite Roblox transformation effecting the whole ecosystem.

As well as this new way to earn money, Epic is changing up how they pay out map creators too. For those looking to earn money out of making maps, Epic has a way to charge for that now too.

Fortnite Discovery is Going Pay to Win

Anyone making maps with the hope of striking it rich with a huge Fortnite Creative player base might have to advertise. Fortnite Discovery has never been a particularly good way of finding a map to play. It tends to just through up random stuff that isn’t much fun to play. Now, creators can pay to make it to your home screen.

Epic is introducing a sponsored row in the Discover screen. So, looking for Battle Royale now might mean scrolling through a row of ads before you find the actual game. These kinds of changes are probably going to make the frustration factor that greets you when you log in to try and play a specific mode, quite a bit worse. The Fortnite Roblox transformation hasn’t been popular. Having to get through so much spam to find the actual Fortnite game is already a source of annoyance, without ads in the way.

Epic will be using the money from the sponsored row to increase pay outs to map creators. So taking from map creators to give more to the stand out map creators.

Creator Communities Coming

If you follow any particular creator in the Fortnite Creative ecosystem, you’ll now be able to engage with them. Creator Communities are coming. A place where players can share different updates about how their maps are progressing and figure out what their players want to see.

Will Any of this Help Fortnite?

These new announcements provide ways for players to earn more money making Fortnite maps, and a way to charge more money to create Fortnite maps. But can any of it help the current problems with Fortnite?

Probably not. Despite a mode’s breakout success, most of the frustration with Fortnite lately has been around the core modes. Most of the player base still prefers normal Fortnite instead of the community side of things. Giving more ways to charge players to exist in Creative maps isn’t likely to turn around the decline. In general, the Fortnite Roblox shift seems to have had a negative effect on Battle Royale.

In terms of the actual player count, it probably won’t get much better until Chapter 7 or the mini season. In the meantime, the Fortnite payer count is continuing to drop. When fewer people play Battle Royale fewer people play Fortnite. The game is losing more players than the platform-approach is gaining. And at the moment, Fortnite updates just aren’t moving the needle anymore. Let’s see if making Creative maps pay to win and puts ads for Tycoon maps all over the homepage fixes it.