A new opponent challenged the throne of Fortnite

Call of Duty: Warzone has re-established the achievement that Apex Legends achieved a year ago, but will it maintain the momentum of growth and overthrow Fortnite?

Fortnite and the road to the throne

Originating as a fun zombie survival game that has nothing to do with zombies, Epic Games members are quick to 'catch the trend' of Battle Royale and create a battle Royale mode for their games. about a month after the game came out. The game quickly caught the attention of gamers, especially those who were bored with PUBG - from long and risky and stressful matches or all kinds of bugs and hacks (though actually 'new land' also quickly fell because of widespread hacking).

By constantly updating new content into the game, Epic has maintained its growth trend for a long time and then reached a peak of 78.3 million players in a month in August 2018. . Many figures then continued to prove that Fortnite kicked the PUBG pioneer to become the dominant player in the Battle Royale game market, such as the 250 million players in March 2019, or the 'hole' event. Black 'ending Chapter 1 became the most watched event in the history of Twitch, YouTube and Twitter .

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During the period that Fortnite was crowned, it was not without other games that sought to dominate. Respawn's Apex Legends launched on the occasion of the 2019 Lunar New Year is an example: the game launches silently and guides PR by spending money on the famous streamer to try the game. The quality of the game has helped it quickly reach the milestone of 50 million players after just one month of release, which makes many gamers believe that it will be the replacement Fortnite or at least bugle 'a 9 one 10 'with an Epic game.

However, that did not happen - after a brief peak, Respawn's game began to decline in number of players for various reasons. Respawn said they don't want their employees to work hard to release new content weekly like Epic is doing with Fortnite, and that is one of the reasons why gamers gradually leave Apex Legends after having searched. destroy all that the game has.

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New opponent

Entering the early months of 2020, Fortnite has a challenger called Call of Duty: Warzone. Unlike Apex Legends which is a brand new, strange (because there is an undeniable fact that the Titanfall brand is not enough ''), the new rival of Fortnite branded Call of Duty in its name. . This is one of the best-selling brands in the gaming industry, reflected in the fact that these games have captured seven of the top 10 best-selling games of the last decade, ceding only three positions. for GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Minecraft.

Publisher Activision also proved very confident with its gladiators. Since the game's official launch on March 8, Activision has been continuously updating Warzone player stats on their Twitter accounts. And indeed those numbers are very impressive: Warzone started with 6 million players in the first 24 hours, 15 million after 4 days, 30 million after 10 days, a rapid increase in speed.

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And now, according to what we have just known, a month after the release date, Call of Duty: Warzone has recreated the achievement that Apex Legends made when it debuted in early 2019. Activision now has 50 million players and is proudly published by Activision on its Twitter account. As such, both Apex Legends and Call of Duty: Warzone have outstanding growth compared to Epic's Fortnite.

Call of Duty: Warzone has been successful today thanks in part to the Call of Duty brand, and partly because of its quality. The game retains the high-speed action gameplay typical of the Call of Duty brand, combined with the characteristic stress of Battle Royale and valuable additions such as revival features, exciting Plunder game mode. Giving gamers more purpose for the game instead of just focusing on "head hunting" like other Battle Royale titles.

While new rival Warzone is showing off its muscles, Fortnite has passed its heyday and is slowly going downhill despite still sitting firmly on the throne. According to a recent study, 39% of US teenagers spend time on this game, a deep decline compared to 54% a year earlier. Meanwhile, the number of gamers who spend time on Blackout, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Battle Royale mode increased from 26% to 33%. Because this research was conducted before Call of Duty: Warzone was released, it didn't have a breakdown of Warzone players, but I think many of the 33% of these teens have and will move to Warzone just because simply because Warzone is newer.

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Besides, Warzone also has a big advantage compared to its predecessor Blackout: it is completely free and open to welcome gamers who want to try it but are hesitant about the price of several dozen USD of Black Ops 4. It is unclear how fast Ward Ward wants the new content to be updated, but the first patch of the game has been released quite quickly, and the issues that concern gamers will cause imbalance. games such as the price to call Loadout, the power of the shotgun was quickly adjusted. This is an encouragement and makes gamers feel secure when they see that Infinity Ward will listen and fix the problems of the game quickly.

Thus, Warzone has enough advantages to compete with Epic's Fortnite in a balanced manner, and we will not be surprised if one day, the game replaces Fortnite to become the ruler of the Battle Royale genre. Many well-known streamers and YouTubers have switched to playing Warzone and giving the game good reviews, although some streamers like Shroud say they are 'almost done' with Warzone. If Infinity Ward can prevent the departure of influential people like Shroud with new updates in the future, Call of Duty: Warzone will surely make Fortnite afraid.