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Enad Global 7 and Vague Promises of a New EverQuest Title... Maybe in 2028?

Put down 2028 as the next date for a possible new EverQuest MMORPG title. EverQuest – Since 1999 Though maybe don’t write that in indelible ink, as even in yesterday’s Capital Markets Day presentation in Stockholm, EG7 Acting CEO Ji Ham said that he probably should have made that date blurry on the slide because it is way out in the future… there were several “ifs” in his statements… but they…

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Wow, do you know how long it’s been since I accessed my Sony Online Entertainment account? SOE isn’t a thing anymore. DAYBREAK GAMES was really cool about recovering my old Station Account and letting me set up a new password. Sorry, SWG and Matrix online, still dead. BUT if you don’t mind private servers, SWG LEgends would love to have you I’m sure, I keep hearing great things about them!

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What Happened To Dr Disrespect

In online streaming and gaming, few names are as recognizable or polarizing as DrDisrespect. Herschel “Guy” Beahm IV, the man behind the iconic mustache, mullet, and sunglasses, has crafted a character larger than life, with a dramatic and eventful career trajectory. This retrospective delves into the rise, fall, and continued presence of DrDisrespect in the streaming universe. If you like these…

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Where H1Z1 started to really lose me was with resource harvesting. H1Z1 is a stingy game that only grudgingly awards effort, because its chief concession toward realism is that building anything in a world stripped-bare by disaster is incredibly difficult. What's difficult is making progress beyond bare survival. There's no shortage of food in the world, especially around towns and in deserted highway gas stations. It's quite easy, in fact, to just keep on going. Yet survival itself isn't that hard in H1Z1. Avoiding a wild animal or a zombie because it's just not worth the two or three shots it would take to kill, when I've only got an empty rifle and a pistol with half a magazine. H1Z1 constantly made me feel the heaviness of survival: being unable to carry good loot because I'm already overburdened, and being forced to dump precious foot and weapons on the ground to make room for scrap materials for a shelter. Which is perhaps a fine feeling for a zombie-apocalypse game to evoke, but it's not a particularly exciting one. I was certainly surviving… but it didn't feel like living. Then I'd have to stand by a bed for 20 seconds and rest, and perhaps eat some food in order to recharge my energy and hydration bars. An entire hour could pass with little to show for it except a handful of pistol ammunition and a few wooden planks for construction. As I crept around the small town of Pleasant Valley, looting one cookie-cutter office building and tract home after another while avoiding the surprisingly sparse population of zombies, I started to wonder why I should be so invested in acquiring old cans of food and bottles of fresh water. I found myself thinking about meaning a lot during my time with H1Z1, which is a game that certainly gives plenty of space for introspection. Because its name proves to be a pretty accurate summary of what's on offer in this Early Access build, and a reminder that sometimes survival isn't enough. In H1Z1: Just Survive, I think I've found the cure for apocalyptic romanticism. If only, such fiction says, something awful would come along and imbue our lives with meaning as we fight to preserve them. Several times during its run, Battlestar Galactica paused to show you just how lost and hopeless the main characters were before their world was destroyed. A similar sentiment ran through a couple early issues of The Walking Dead. World War Z has no shortage of characters who found meaning and purpose in the zombie apocalypse, a disaster that liberated them from postmodern malaise. There's an archetypical plot running through a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction, and particularly zombie fiction, where the survivors realize that they never before felt as alive as they do in the midst of their fight for survival.

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We won’t be having another sale this big until next year.Non-commercial use, DMCA Contact Us Relevant png images We’re happy to announce that the Hardcore server is in fact the Atlanta map, as per the results from the survey sent to the community. This allowed us to define the Hardcore’s initiation. These are some of the most crucial results we had back. This sale only applies to the 1.6.4 servers, Once 1.16.5 has been released you’ll be able to get a credit for what you have spent on 1.6.4 on 1.16.5, We do not take into consideration what you pay, If you buy a $100 rank at 60% off and spend $40 then you still get $100 credit on the 1.16.5 store on release because you’ve bought a $100 rank. > Wondering if your purchase will be moved over to 1.16.5? YESSSS!! Of course! But you may end up getting so much more content for the same price but stuff on 1.16.5 will end up costing more so you get better value! ⭐ To celebrate Black Friday & Cyber Monday all packages on the store including cash cards premium and other things are 60% off until the end of next Tuesday! The biggest sale of the year - 60% OFF November 23 2021

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Its free to claim them!Įnjoy your Christmas, The free claimable keys are only available until the 27th What is in the crate keys, This is a surprise. They will be released to your account once the server has been officially moved out of beta as there will be a reset once this happens, Anyone who wants to claim them now is free to do so, Once the server is up i will allow the crates to be claimable for you, ONCE the server resets to beta you will lose all your claimed stuff but you will be given another 3 crate keys. This is an early version of the store, Do not expect it to be fully designed or integrated yet but you can still claim the crate keys.

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We are giving out 3 free festive crate keys which you can claim on the 1.16.5 store for free here: The above summarizes everything about the Christmas holidays, I wanted to announce some free claimable stuff for the 1.16.5 network and to wish you all an awesome and most important a joyful happy merry Christmas. Merry Christmas from Crafting Dead December 25, 2021 All of you have come together at one time or another and helped make Crafting Dead what it is today, and we thank you! For those who are still in 2021, I give you an early welcome into 2022! We look forward to you, our community members joining us in this new year as we progress and continue to grow as a community. Special thanks to all of our wonderful beta testers, whom have dedicated lots of time helping us improve the Crafting Dead Reborn experience! Many many more have done awesome work this past year and we thank everyone that has helped Crafting Dead! Along with for being our awesome asset developer making unbelievably awesome new models for our many items. I would also like to thank our awesome administrator Fishy for all of his hard work behind the scenes, creating several of our new features all of you will experience in-game. I will give a personal thanks to our build team and its project lead for getting the Atlanta map redesigned and made specifically for the Reborn experience. I would like to take a moment to say in the last year we have dedicated lots of resources and made massive progress on Reborn, launched Atlantas private beta, and have a few more secret projects in the works we will be sharing details later on for. As we have just passed the new year here on the eastern coast this will be our welcome to all of our American player base as we say hello to 2022! Heya! Happy New Year from everyone here at Crafting Dead.

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Since you have a watch and that one will work, just that one hour ingame are 5 minutes in real time. The only similarity to Dying Light are the zombies.īut Dead Rising is a game where the player will be rushed. I definitely can recommend it, but as I said. I played the hell out of it and even created a 100% save on the Steam guides for the first one. Was the first game, which used a technology to render dozens of zombies at once.ĭying Light however, does that pretty well either.Īfter all, Dead Rising is a bit old already, still the graphics aren't that bad. In the second one there are some hidden objects, where you once need to jump from a chandelier to another, to finally get to the place of the hidden object.ĭead Rising is best known for its hordes of zombies. Still there isn't much of parkour in Dead Rising. Similar as in Dying Light, you start as low level char and have hard times.īut you can restart with your current expierence and skills to make things easier. If you like timed games then I would recommend Dead Rising.Īt least the first and second one were very funny for me. H1z1 Map is an example.I don't think there is any other zombie game with parkour. The hnahf nah play game hoping the game will resonate loud as the previous action games. That’s all what people see to enjoy.Īlong awaited official release date to see his big technological village will have surprises for us. And at the end of the gameplay, a mysterious creature appears and prepare “best defense” protagonist. Screen play with a stable frame rate of 60 FPS, and the visual effects are extremely voyeuristic. Microsoft’s E3 event began with co-op gameplay of Halo 4 5: Guardian. Of course, the most attractive titles enabled by Microsoft, Halo 5: Guardian already won their opening position is extremely majestic, instead of the version of Call of Duty every year, or Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, games were Xbox One shine and help get little “imposing” at E3 2014 last year. Most recently, in Microsoft’s E3 event began with screen co-op play extremely voyeuristic 4 people in the game Halo 5: Guardian. Just a few minutes ago, Microsoft’s press conference at E3 2015 event officially began. With many armed and new skills, Halo 5 will change the way people play attacking enemies, as well as marking the largest developers of Halo line ever. The company did not share much that only emphasizes this game will certainly be very special. So far, no one is sure if Locke’s friend or foe Chieft Master, as well as the purpose of this arduous quest. For its part, Microsoft only revealed that Halo 5: Guardians will be a leap of game action. It will be revealed when you participate in this game. The relationship between these two characters has not clear, but it will be one of the best attractions of the game. Locke and Master Chief are all playable characters in single-player game of Halo 5. Locke being tasked to hunt Master Chief after information from superiors said Master Chief who deserted. In terms of technology, Master Chief is just a Spartan warrior II, ie “backward” than two Spartan life than Locke. The Spartan soldiers are created with body capacity, gene technology and psychologically superior than ordinary soldiers. In the world of Halo storyline, characters Jameson Locke is a super Spartan IV, a project to train elite soldiers for special operations forces of the UNSC (United Nations Space Command). In particular, HUNTER armor can be used in multiplayer on the day of the release of Halo 5. If gamers around the world are familiar with the game Master Chief – Spartan warriors helped defeat mankind’s conquest, the Spartan Covenant species Locke was a rather strange character for you. Locke Spartan armor will include two equipment: Armor Helmets HUNTER and HUNTER. However, it is for the players bid Halo 5: Guardians at the GameStop store system. Among them, the most striking images Locke Spartan armor Armor Set. Two technology giants Microsoft and GameStop has released the trailer for Halo 5: Guardians.

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Friday Bullet Points about Daybreak, Plans, and Producer's Letters

Friday Bullet Points about Daybreak, Plans, and Producer’s Letters

Another Friday in July and time for another bullet points post.  I am going to have to go back and check, but July seems to be the most popular month for bullet point posts here.  My guess is based on my having done the “one year ago” section for the month in review post and seeing that I did four of them last July and the fact that this is my fourth one this month. At least I have been trying to…

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#H1Z1 #Standing Stone Games

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#call of duty #fortnite #pubg #h1z1 #fortnite battle royale #Youtube

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**EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM**

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November 2009: An outbreak, a city falls, a queen reigns March 2024: 15 years later, we return to take it back

When an outbreak of the H1Z1 virus ravaged the world, a top Doctor and his Assistant traveled to the Lab in Tallahassee in hopes of creating a cure, leading to 350 dead and the terrifying creation of a Zombie Queen with her hivemind horde. After years of preparation, the Lab is now embarking on a mission to capture the Zombie Queen and rid Tallahassee of zombies once and for all. Join them in bringing humanity back to the city!

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Games Media in Review: Ninja

Though Tyler “Ninja” Blevins remains the most followed Twitch streamer on the platform, his active viewership has dropped significantly from the heights of his past. He maintains a consistent schedule streaming Fortnite Battle Royale on every major platform available: Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok. Despite multi-million dollar deals done in the past and a litany of controversies, Tyler shows no signs of stopping doing what he has been doing for the past twelve years as both his Florida and Illinois houses have their own dedicated streaming areas.

Tyler Blevins was born on June 5, 1991 to Chuck and Cynthia Blevins, and welcomed by his two older brothers, Jon and Chris. Chuck Blevins had a love for gaming that was shared by all three of his sons, though Tyler excelled out of all of them from a very young age. At 18 years old in 2009, Tyler joined Major League Gaming competitions for Halo 3. He met his future wife Jessica Goch at a tournament in 2010 and the two began dating in 2013 and married in 2017.  Sometime in 2014 Tyler experienced pain in his right eye that led to being diagnosed with a retinal detachment. He recovered after surgeries and continued to stream on Twitch as he had to a modest but unremarkable viewership. Tyler moved on from Halo to H1Z1 and then PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in 2017 due to frustration with the professional Halo tournament direction. This same year he got into Fortnite and began ascending to Twitch stardom, slowly growing over time until he hit 100,000 subscribers on Twitch in March of 2018. This all culminated in a stream in which he played Fortnite with Drake (as well as Travis Scott and JuJu Smith-Schuster) on March 14, 2018, breaking the non-tournament record at 635,000 concurrent viewers. In August of 2019 it was announced Tyler had signed an exclusivity deal with Microsoft’s Mixer livestream platform that potentially earned him between $20-30 million. Mixer was unceremoniously shut down only eleven months later on July 22, 2020 Microsoft would shut Mixer down, transferring all partners to Facebook Gaming, though Tyler chose not to (though he does still sport Mixer merch on recent live streams). Instead he returned to Twitch on August 4, 2020, before announcing on September 10, 2020 that he would be exclusively streaming on Twitch. This deal ended on September 1, 2022 when Tyler announced he was taking a break on Twitter changing up his profile in a dramatic fashion to appear as if it was abandoned before returning on September 9 to announce he would begin streaming on all platforms going forward, which has continued to this day.

Being so popular and streaming for many many hours for weeks and months and years on end also means Tyler’s comments and statements and actions have earned him much criticism over the years. In December 2016 prior to his big blow up he released the address of someone who had donated to his stream and left a racist message. He was only banned for 48 hours and apologized. Both his apology and Twitch deciding to only ban him for a limited time earned a lot of criticism for being lackluster. The same month he streamed with Drake and broke records he later used the n-word while singing along to Logic’s “44 More,” which does not actually contain the word in its lyrics. Blevins apologized claiming to be tongue tied, which of course led to more discourse online about both his behavior and the usage of the word online. Later in August of 2018 he infamously stated he does not play with female gamers on stream to avoid rumors and gossip that might damage his relationship with his wife. In November of 2018 he believed a player to be stream sniping (in which someone watches a livestream of a game in order to hunt down and harass the streamer) and attempted to have the player banned from Fortnite despite the player ultimately being innocent. Another Twitch streamer, Imane “pokimane” Anys was the subject of a hate raid in 2022 by Jidion “JiDion” Adams who was subsequently banned for two weeks by Twitch before being permanently banned for his actions. Tyler supported Jidion, claiming to attempt to intervene with Twitch staff to prevent his ban and referred to Pokimane offhandedly as a bitch. Pokimane sharing this information led to Blevin’s wife Jessica direct messaging Pokimane to threaten a lawsuit over defamation, though that has never materialized and Jessica Blevins stepped down as Tyler’s manager later that year.

What is Tyler, aka Ninja, like now, in 2023? Well he seems relatively complacent and comfortable. These past two weeks he has only streamed for about four hours a day during weekdays, generally from morning to afternoon for his current timezone as he is residing in his house located in Illinois as opposed to his house in Florida. He recently had a team come by his house to redo his streaming room setup and commented about the gameplay feeling much smoother than ever before after they finished. Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 4 just dropped on Friday, August 25 and its additions and changes and returning items were good enough to keep Tyler streaming for almost seven hours as opposed to his average of four. His demeanor was noticeably improved as well while streaming the new season, and he even commented that he was very happy playing the game now as opposed to the previous season.

Tyler’s streams on Twitch in the past month have only pulled in an average of nearly 9,000 viewers, very low when you consider his follower count of +18 million. On YouTube the VOD’s of his stream average 160k views for the past 24 VODs. His regular YouTube uploads average 200k views for the past 20 uploads. There is a noticeable dip in views whenever the game being played is not Fortnite, showing how pigeonholed Tyler is into playing the game above all others, despite his forays into Valorant and Call of Duty: Warzone. These videos are also not edited by Tyler but instead by a third party contractor, though you wouldn't know this or who actually did the edits without looking it up yourself as they are not credited in any form in his uploads. The videos are edited by the group known as Grumbae. I also have to believe he has a social team handling clipping and posting all these YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels and TikToks on his many social media accounts but who knows who is handling that. 

Streamcharts.com is reputedly the best Twitch tracker online currently and shows Tyler’s airtime per month has steadily declined as time has gone on. This makes sense as Tyler no longer has to stream for 8 hours a day everyday in order to earn, he has reached the top, and if he was smart with his multimillion dollar deals, can live comfortably for the rest of his life. He has even acknowledged the lack of concurrent viewership compared to his earlier days, speaking to The Washington Post in 2021, ““No one’s gonna stay on top forever, especially when it comes to live-streaming; there’s always somebody new and hot,” Blevins said in a recent interview with The Washington Post. “I have no intention of being that guy anymore. I know I’m not going to pull 100,000 viewers on [Twitch] anymore. I don’t have time to do that. I have a wife, I have a family.”” On a recent stream a commenter also asked why he continues to stream if he’s so rich, to which Tyler responded that its because he enjoys it. He has separately commented about not wanting to get back into competitive esports due to both his age and the time required to actively participate and perform, he would rather spend that time with his friends and family nowadays at the age of 32. So he streams for a few hours each weekday, lives his life, and has been doing the livestream career for so long that it is likely a clockwork routine for him to perform, reading out donations, responding to select portions of his chat, spouting out random SpongeBob quotes, and partying up with his brother Jon and other livestreamers. His reading of paid comment submissions can be pretty robotic, and I’m sure years of getting the same questions and comments have grinded away any enthusiasm he has for engaging with his audience, which I think is true for any long standing face who finds themselves in parasocial relationships, from RedLetterMedia to Giant Bomb (pre-2021). Tyler being the subject of attention of so many naturally will lead to a subdued form of antagonism towards your viewers.

As a public figure in 2023, especially one whose income is reliant on active viewership while livestreaming, Tyler can’t be openly antagonistic towards his viewership. He also can’t and doesn’t engage with subjects or ideologies that might cut off a particular crowd of his viewers. He recently talked openly about believing in Jesus Christ as his lord and savior but at the same time downplayed any desire he has to proselytize the viewers. Is this a personal decision or a business decision? Given that his brother whom he often streams with is active in the church and has a masters in theology, I have to think it is purely a business decision to not attempt to convert his audience. Additionally, a good large portion of the New Testament are letters from Paul the Apostle basically talking about going out and converting non believers. Christianity is pretty concerned with evangelizing, though I will admit a good majority of Christians are content to evangelize silently by being a “light on the hill” that doesn't actively engage with the larger non-believing community in any way.

The public, especially the younger public, constantly want to party up, befriend, or use Tyler’s platform to launch their own stardom, all of which I don’t believe Tyler has any interest in engaging with himself. With such a large public eye you also get invasive people who try to get involved in your private life either out of pure social ignorance or malice. On a recent stream Jon Blevins commented that he was getting phone calls from an unknown number followed by a donation to his livestream from someone asking him to answer the phone. This is the kind of privacy invasion public figures fall into, and this is just the male portion of Twitch stardom, the female portion is exponentially worse and more toxic.

All of this has me thinking, expanding beyond Tyler as an individual, but how much grace are we willing to give to individuals who find themselves under a microscope by so many people for so long a time. This isn’t meant as an excuse for Tyler’s many dumb and hurtful actions and comments in the past, but more a general thought on how much time livestreamers devote to being under watch by thousands upon thousands of people at one time, all of their comments and vocalizations subject to being the next top post on r/livestreamfail or some other online forum to be shared and mocked and eventually written up on a more mainstream website. Again, this isn’t as an absolving of using the n-word in a song where it doesn’t exist, but more an acknowledgement of the recurring joke I will find online of people admitting if their group chats were released to the public they would be unanimously executed by the larger public.

During the years prior to this observation, Tyler only came across my view during the Drake stream, and whenever his dumb comments would make the rounds, most notably both the “it’s just a game” tweet and the “I don’t game with women” comments. Then there is also just plain harmless dumb stuff (or cringe), such as his “braless wife” tweet. Taken as a whole, I can’t muster much anger towards Tyler. Out of all of the previously listed controversies the actions regarding Anys remain the worst, but also involve his wife and delves into Twitch drama which is such an abyss that I don’t have the time or interest to get deeper into than crawling r/livestreamfails and corresponding comments to attempt to understand the situation. What he did and said regarding Anys are wrong, and as far as my searching went I could find no real apology ever being offered.

In comparison, something like Cecilia D’Anastasio lying to and ignoring Nathalie Lawhead is something I will continue to be angry about and all those involved: D’Anastasio, Stephen Totilo, all those subtweeting Lawhead on Twitter for no reason than to satisfy their own pride and inability to admit wrongdoing in the press, are forever on my shit list. Patricia Hernandez, whose tenure as editor in chief started with the removal of the article in question, after over two years of requests and begging by Lawhead to have it removed, will forever be highly regarded and respected, even before her firing by G/O Media. This is the kind of online action that I will carry with me and continually remind others of. Taken as a whole, I think Tyler can be very stupid with what he says and does, but I don’t view him as intentionally cruel or hateful, which cannot be said for some of the other larger Twitch streamers.

Watching Tyler is pretty similar to any popular livestream. They are pretty damn good at the game, and generally mistakes are chalked up to: lag (both on OBS and the game), stream snipers, sweaty players, rat players, campers, and cheaters. Despite these complaints towards his complaints, watching Tyler play Fortnite is still probably the best PR for getting into the game itself, something I ended up doing myself and that I’ll talk about. Nothing quite seems to have the draw to play a game yourself as watching someone on Twitch play it. It doesn’t quite work for everything, as I’ll watch plenty of people play whatever the latest big new game is without so much as touching it myself, but the combination of the amount of time I was spending watching Tyler kill people in Zero Build mode, the remainder of Zero Build mode’s existence (which drops the building aspect of Fortnite, something intimidating for older newbies such as myself) and that the game itself is free to play was enough to get me on the Xbox store downloading and booting it up after I thought I would never do it again.

Due to games being something you can control directly, watching someone else play instantly has you thinking of what you would do differently (and superiorly). Movies often cause the viewer to think about what they would do differently were they placed in that situation, and watching someone else play a game causes the same reaction, except with games you can play it and perform differently as you have control and a game isn’t a linear sequence of images. I’ve had this occur before, mostly with watching Twitch people play Apex Legends which would make me want to go home and play Apex Legends myself, as its been the live service game of choice since release for me. Twitch streamers also have their own habits, rotations, and item preferences which you can adapt into your own play style. I know once I booted up Fortnite I was pretty much adopting Tyler’s preferred weapons into my loadouts as they were both familiar in terms of handling as I had watched him use these weapons for multiple hours, and they come with the bonus of likely being some of the best weapons, as someone who has played this game more than I ever will and has a handle on how the game works prefers these weapons, so I probably should stick to them as well. It also helped that my in-laws also play the game quite often, and once they found out I was dipping into the game, they instantly began inviting and playing with me online.

Tyler’s success is symbolic of that American Dream mindset, that if you simply work hard, put in the time, have the required skill, you too can become a multi-million dollar Twitch streamer, though even here, where a Twitch success story seemingly is the individual working his way into massive success and wealth, is a myth. Tyler’s success came after years of toiling away, yes, but the ability to toil away at live streaming for years without any return on investment is not something available to everyone. There is also the issue of whether his momentum at the beginning of 2018, where his meteoric rise began, was potentially aided by a mass influx of bots. Though this is unconfirmed, the fact remains that in 2021 Twitch did admit to taking action against 7.5 million bot accounts, and it was widely acknowledged that these bots long existed within the Twitch community. In 2018, when Tyler received an unprecedented growth of 50,000 subscribers in a little over a week, it was speculated some of this may be Amazon Prime subscription bots utilizing hacked accounts. Not that this ultimately mattered to the bottom line, as streamers would still be paid regardless of whether the subscription was subject to a bot or not.

Another major factor is that Tyler is simply just really good at the game. While some streamers have found success in being mid at a game (TimTheTatman in Warzone), it remains that more people are going to be more entertained by watching someone win than lose, and Tyler regularly wins his matches. Coming from the professional Halo scene set the foundation for his ability in most all multiplayer games, which was furthered by both his participation in tournaments for H1Z1, PUBG, and then dominating most all games in Fortnite. A hard lesson for aspiring Twitch streamers is that much like the battle royale genre, there can only be one winner, and very frequently you will find yourself the loser.

While Tyler’s enthusiasm for the new season may just be the usual, “Last content drop was trash, this new content drop is fresh!” cycle that every live service game audience appears to go through, playing Fortnite myself for about a week before the new season dropped really placed the differences in the light. The changes this season do seem to favor mobility much more, despite the removal of the grapple gloves that let you Spider-Man swing your way from Point A to B. The rechargeable battering ram that shoots you through the air and the seemingly increase of finding shockwave grenades makes moving around much easier and faster than before. Engaging with Fortnite has also reminded me of the game’s status as the seemingly symbol of the End of Games.

By this I mean that video games may very well end with Fortnite. The way this game acts as a black hole for IP, sucking in not only popular brands, franchises, and iconography in everything from its character skins, emotes, and various other cosmetic aspects, it can also be modified to capture popular trends in other games. Among Us exploded post Covid and so Fortnite debuted its own knockoff but official Epic Games-created game mode called Fortnite: Imposters, which came after a fan creation mode called “The Spy Within”. Most recently the success of Only Up, an indie game that found success thanks to Twitch streaming, was also copied into Fortnite as a custom game mode, and became even more popular online than the original.

These examples call to mind one of the earlier criticisms of Fortnite concerning its usage of popular dances as purchasable emotes in-game. Essentially, Epic Games was commercializing and profiting off of dances created by, and whose ownership largely belonged to, the public, specifically the black community. This is a larger problem with copyright and IP law, in that what is ideally supposed to help the original individual creator(s) retain the rights for profits really just favors the larger companies who can exploit it to punish criticism on YouTube or simply continue to own exclusive rights to a media’s existence despite never doing anything to make it widely available to the public.

Much as its replication of dance moves without any accreditation, these new game modes essentially are replications of existing games within Fortnite but lack any acknowledgement of where this idea came from. This sort of game clone is so widespread as to be expected within the mobile game space, in which any successful phone game is instantly copied and reproduced by every other soulless game company looking to make a quick buck off of free-to-play advertisements of their knockoff. For Epic Games to apply the same methodology to Fortnite is just sickening. 

Fortnite as the black hole of IP, sucking in anything and everything around it, also ensures players are constantly building their investment within the Fortnite ecosystem as they continually add recognizable skins to their collection and look forward to the next season’s addition of even more opportunities to buy into the game, a perpetual motion machine of Bender the Robot and Ahsoka skins that will seemingly continue forever until there is no more IP.

Ninja in 2023 is a known quantity. He’s not going anywhere, and he doesn’t have a top spot to chase after anymore. He’s achieved all he could likely dream of already before hitting 30. Even if his one Mixer contract was the minimum reported number of 20 million (pre-tax) that is the equivalent of 400 years of my current annual salary (pre-tax) which he earned in less than 12 months. Despite his wealth and consistency at saying/doing stupid things at least annually, I bear no real ill will towards him. I think his former popularity and well recorded mistakes make him an easy figure to mock, but watching him for the past two weeks has been enlightening and entertaining, and pushed me to play the game that has me partying with family members. What little Twitch drama I have followed and looked into after starting this observation has already told me that there are worse figures to follow along with than Tyler “Ninja” Blevins.

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