Okay, I have to get this off my chest. I know, I know, I wasn't gonna get into the weeds about design priorities, but I'm kinda shocked that I never hear anyone talk about how consistently broken Fortnite is. Epic brute forces an update every week that breaks what they just scotch-taped back together. It's literally like that every week.
I was just on the island trying to find anime care packages, only to find out now that they disabled it, because it broke. A few days before, they took hurdling out of the game, which they just added. However, they didn't bother taking out the new perks for hurdling, meaning I waste a perk often, when I don't think about them removing the ability.
Before that, the Rocket League cars were tuned to be so fast that their speed broke the server, because it couldn't keep up. That literally made the game unplayable for weeks. They even rushed to cram the World Cup in there with quests that didn't trigger. Before THAT, they had wolf masks that they had to disable right when they introduced it. It just keeps going back like that every week. It's fucking crazy.
At some point, some time, there's going to have to be some pushback about what these forced updates are doing within the game space. I mean that not just as a consumer. I mean, if I'm getting hindered as a consumer, then I can only imagine what the backend of that looks like for developers on the floor. Not only do they HAVE to come up with content every fucking week, but then they also have to rush to repair it, once they've rushed to push it out. 
MORE CONTENT FOR THE CONTENT GODS!
It seems very counterproductive to have this development model, just to strangle user retention to death with stuff. It works, sure, but to what end? I dunno, this is very "am I taking crazy pills" of me, but it feels like the logical solution would not be to crank that weekly dial like Sysiphus pushing the rock, only to see it crash to the other side. Even ratcheting this back to half the amount would help getting a more steady, reliable time for every party involved. The only issue is: Gamers are conditioned very easily and, by now, the vocal Fortnite crowd received weekly updates enough that they would snarl at any decrease in that. Kinda like an addiction tactic :) Gotta keep the kids checking the in-game store every day. Epic didn't become a billion dollar platform overnight by being ethical.
I just depressed myself a bit more.
