Personally I started on a bad foot for Fortnite when Epic shut down Paragon, which was an amazingly promising third-person MOBA and probably the only MOBA I’ve ever legitimately enjoyed, in favor of chasing Fortnite’s cash cow. One day I just log in to find that the servers were shut down, no refunds**, no releasing server software for people to stand up their own, just “nah we decided not to support this game anymore, fuck off nerds”

It’s only really tangentially Fortnite’s fault, if at all, and I already wasn’t going to like Fortnite because I can’t enjoy BR’s. But hearing that Epic suddenly shut down my favorite game they’ve made in order to relocate those resources into the Lootbox Apocalypse populated with preteens, really soured me a lot on the whole idea.

At this point in my life, years later, I’ve seen enough 8 year olds doing Fortnite dances in Walmart to know that I won’t be able to connect with the user base, I already know I don’t enjoy the basic premise of the game, and I’m not going to spend $12 to make my character look like Kratos or Rick Sanchez in a game I can’t stand playing full of people I don’t want to talk to. I’m not their target audience, and you know, that’s okay. I’ve gotten over my anger at Fortnite’s sheer existence and now I’m merely disappointed in it. But I was never going to ride this bandwagon anyway so Epic never had a reason to care about my preferences.

**Actually after some brief investigation it seems that Epic did in fact offer refunds for the game. I’m pretty sure I didn’t get one, but I think that was because I didn’t apply for it in time. Regardless, game go poof and I’d rather have had the game than my money back.