Fortnite took Epic Games six years to build, and the world forgot it.
That game, Save the World, was a paid co-op survival grind Epic dreamed up back in 2011 and finally shipped in July 2017. Two months later, chasing the PUBG craze, a small team bolted a free battle royale mode onto its assets. The afterthought swallowed everything, and in 2018 alone it pulled in $5.48 billion.
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