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The Fortnite Season X changes push Ninja to Minecraft
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Replace "Fortnite" by "Microsoft" and "season X changes" with "money" and you probably have a more accurate title.
I mean "Fuck Fortnite I'm playing Minecraft" has been real common lately
I'm sure the fans who want to see someone expertly win solo queue and tune in for that skill level in a 1 v 100 game wants to see *checks notes* their dumb castle or red stone thing or whatever. It's clearly ms money.
Behold, the discussion that results when OP is one line long and provides little context.
It's not like Fortnite hasn't been putting a fair number of streamers off lately with its season X changes. I mean, I get the skepticism, but that someone who's been vocal about Fortnite having a weird balance lately, switching to another popular streaming game, is not all that big a surprise.
It's not like Fortnite hasn't been putting a fair number of streamers off lately with its season X changes. I mean, I get the skepticism, but that someone who's been vocal about Fortnite having a weird balance lately, switching to another popular streaming game, is not all that big a surprise.
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Yeah, no. Microsoft didn't pay a fortune for him to stop doing what he's popular at. Minecraft also really doesn't need that sort of push.
A lot of big streamers have been playing Minecraft for a couple weeks now. Including a lot of people Ninja usually streams with so I wouldn't be so quick to say Microsoft had any input in him playing it. Seems to be a move many popular streamers are making recently.
Before WoW Classic, pretty much every big streamer started streaming Minecraft somewhat recently.
Ya'll are gonna be claiming this when he plays the Master Chief Collection and Halo Infinite when they release on PC, even though Halo is his roots.
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Courage moved a week ago right? And TimTheTatman and others are all on Wow Classic? (Shroud too but he doesn't do Fortnite).
Don't expect this to last for long, he already "quitted" Fortnite once and started playing Uno with his folks for similar reasons, just to start playing Fortnite again the day after. This probably is a Microsoft thing that he's not disclosing to make it more "real", nothing else.
Plus he'd have to disclose he was being paid to play Minecraft
Yeah, but having a bunch of the big streamers crap on the state of your game and stop playing it isn't a good look for Epic.
I would expect him to be playing the Escape mode prior to launch.
I just think it's kinda convenient that a guy who changed streaming platforms to one owned by Microsoft would suddenly start streaming Minecraft a month later.
Microsoft payed a fortune for his millions of fans. You'd have to be very naive to not even consider the possibility they'd want him to play some microsoft products on stream.
Hell I'd be very suprised if he is allowed to decide what to play at all. I'd assume with rhe money involed a commitee has to agree on some whitleist of games he's allowed to play.
When a publisher is paying you to play x game you have to make it clear.
Also a lot of Fortnite players are jumping on other games
I dont think its either MS or Fortnite. Minecraft is seeing a serious resurgence right now. Ninja is just hopping on to something that might be super popular again.
He should just play the Fortnite PvE mode, complain about how grindy it is so Epic has to make it less grindy.
Something about speed building nerfs? Never played Fortnite, but I can tell a large vocal group of the community is pissed.
Why Minecraft though and not some other battle royale like PubG, Apex, Blackout, etc? The games aren't even remotely similar. Large viewerbase?
Probably that, other streamers doing it, and the building aspect.
Yeah, that's a normal day for Ninja, is what he usually did on Twitch. Remember that when he absolute peaked playing with Drake he had 100k concurrent viewers. 15k is average viewership for him.
I mean sure if you know nothing about streamers and Fortnite then might be the way to think. But anyone who actually watches and pays attention to Fortnite streamers knows that switching over to Minecraft has been going on for a few months now and Ninja finally got fed up with the most recent patch and decided to join his friends.
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