Thanks for the reference, ever heard of that game!

My guess is its too expensive to convert it to free to play now, it would just be taking another huge risk and throwing away money.

Considering they are refunding all purchases, it definitely would have but they rolled the dice and this is what they got.

Those aren’t re-skins though, they just used the battle royals game type as their main game type.

I can’t really think of a similar game to fortnite before it in regards to the combination of building and competitive shooter, although I’m sure someone can point out an early example, and Apex is smashing together counterstrike and maybe overwatch or something similar for the gameplay.

Personally I don’t think apex would have worked if it just looked like a re-skin but its got a lot of great artwork and the level designs are interesting at least to me.

Also fortnite has become the everything game, they have Lego and rocket racing and a guitar hero minigame, its sort of gone wild IMO.