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They added: "20 Million Players! We just passed 20 million players across all of Fortnite since launch! Thanks to everyone who keeps making the community and the game awesome!". This means that a total of 20 million people have downloaded and booted the game up since it became available in September.
To put things into perspective, less than a month ago Fortnite had passed since the standalone Battle Royale mode launched. A couple of days before hitting the 10 million mark, the game celebrated a peak number of .
Some server trouble was recently caused by the sheer number of people trying to get into the game's lobby. The servers buckled under the pressure of on Sunday, 29 October, 2017.
Fortnite's Battle Royale mode is, of course, free to play and doesn't make any money for Epic games, but the game does have a paid defensive shooter mode, which is hitching a ride on the popularity train. Shoot shoot.
is available for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One and features cross-platform play between the PlayStation 4 and PC versions.
The battle royale genre that cropped up with the likes of in 2016 and in early 2017 is showing no signs of stopping. Both games were in part overseen by Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, whom we all know as the creative director at the PUBG Corporation. PUBG will be available on Xbox One on 12 December.
