All of you Fortnite naysayers nearly had your want: Rod Ferguson, the previous manufacturing director at Epic Games for Fortnite, says he tried to cancel the game earlier than he left.
Fortnite used to solely have its PvE base-building mode, Save the World, earlier than the battle royale craze hit the trade with PUBG. At that point, Ferguson tells Game Informer that Fortnite “had some challenges” and that the undertaking didn’t meet his customary for one thing the group ought to proceed creating.
Here’s what he mentioned:
“If I stayed at Epic, I would have canceled Fortnite. Absolutely. Before I left, I tried to cancel Fortnite. When it was just Save the World, that was a project that had some challenges. As the director of production at the time, that game would not have passed my bar for something we should have continued to keep going. I’m super happy for their success. That game you love, the worldwide sensation, it would not exist had I stayed at Epic.”
You can watch Game Informer’s interview beneath:
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