ODavid

I’ve been a full-time Fortnite dev for 2+ years. Honestly, I’m exhausted. I update Mic Up almost every 1 or 2 weeks. But lately I spend more time fighting moderation and bugs than building. Moderation first. A dirt decal on a bathroom floor got sanctioned as “blood”. So did wood splinters from a knife landing in a table. Both appeals declined. Icebreaker questions like “what’s your favorite color?” got my map taken offline twice for “asking for private info”. I was told it wasn’t against the rules. It only stopped after I went to someone higher up at Epic. My last “violation” even changed 3 times in 5 minutes. Exploit + blood, then exploit only, then blood only. What is moderation even doing? Meanwhile Discover has been full of spam maps and skin & pickaxe changer exploit maps for years. Focus on that instead of punishing genuine creators. And Discover itself got worse too. The new look is nice, like Netflix. But removing CCU and adding a Top 10 was a bad decision. Players want to see player counts, and new maps need more ways to be discovered. Give us a Top 10 Up-and-Coming instead. Then the bugs. Proximity chat is the core of my game. It broke 4 times in 2 years, and every fix took months. It’s still buggy today. It cost me 50% of my player base. Every Fortnite update, I’m scared of what breaks next. Every takedown and bug costs my team real income, and enough wrong calls can get my account suspended over things that were never against the rules. The community we built is the only reason I keep going. No hate against Epic, I love working in UEFN. But their decisions and communication with creators need to improve. @FNCreate