Since the launching of this online multiplayer game in 2017, it has become an outstanding game in many countries of the world.
Fortnite is a third-person perspective shooting game with improved mechanics of building structures, a bright and ever-evolving environment, and also the battle royale mode.
During the construction of the main type of combat structures and the negotiation of variable challenges.
Players can decide whether or not to participate in a one-on-one fight or even cooperate with partners to defeat enemies on a huge island.
Fortnite is now a phenomenon of digital culture in the gaming industry due to many factors, including bright art direction, constant updates, and numerous events happening in the game attracting millions of gamers.
Fortnite player count in 2024
Epic Games displays the actual numbers of players online in real-time in the game, available from the Discover screen in the Lobby menu under each game mode.
But they rarely disclose the overall Fortnite players count figures. However, this has not been the case this year because of the popularity that Fortnite has received in the market.
After the publication of Season OG, new Fortnite became an unmated success reaching 44. 7 million players in just one single day making it the highest record in a day the company has had breaking its record of 12 million plus.
3 million users were achieved during sponsored concerts such as the one featuring Travis Scott.
Season OG became the most popular in Fortnite’s history, as Epic Games admitted itself, saying it ‘’far exceeded our expectations’’ Moreover, the company stated that Fortnite would be back with Season OG in 2024.
But it did not cease there; Epic also included that ‘Fortnite fans set another record on reaching over One Hundred Million players in the November for the game Fortnite OG.
As for The Big Bang live event, Eminem closed out Chapter 4’s Season OG, introducing three groundbreaking modes: For Chapter 5: Festival, Rocket Racing, and LEGO Fortnite products.
This was exactly the thing about LEGO Minecraft-style mode that helped Fortnite to set its live peak player count record of more than 6. Up to 6 million concurrent users may use the system at any given moment.
Looking at the yearly figures Epic stated that in 2020, Fortnite had more than 350 million registered players. As of 2020, the number had reached over 400 million and by 2021, it was more than 400 million with 2022 crossing 350 million users.
The statistics for 2023 are still to be released but one could anticipate further records being set to exceed 500 million when the actual figures are released in 2024.
