313 rin rin ☁️ 🫧 | HORROR UEFN DEV retweeted
Hey @TimSweeneyEpic, @FNCreate
I've been creating Fortnite maps since 2023, and UEFN has genuinely changed my life and my family's life. I'll always be grateful to Epic Games for giving creators like me this opportunity.
With the old Discover system, even small creators had a fair chance to succeed. I understand the changes were meant to improve Discover and reduce spam, but unfortunately, the new system has made it much harder for independent creators to reach players.
Right now, it feels like most exposure comes from Epic's Picks, sponsored rows, or already established creators. For someone without a large following or a marketing budget, it's extremely difficult to compete.
I'm not asking for guaranteed success. I just hope every creator has a fair chance to get their maps discovered again.
I truly appreciate everything Epic has done for us, and I hope you'll consider improving Discover for independent creators.
313 rin rin ☁️ 🫧 | HORROR UEFN DEV retweeted
@FNCreate this is such an insult to everyone who has spent so much time on their projects that have been released since April, we are literally wasting our time with this discovery no more tabs where you can advance if your game is actually good, only sponsored or favoritism now
313 rin rin ☁️ 🫧 | HORROR UEFN DEV retweeted
I tracked every new Fortnite map that hit the NEW row from Aug 31 to Oct 23. (20,000+ maps, hour by hour.)
How a launch goes: → ~40 minutes in NEW → players spike, then leave → 1 in 4 maps lands in a genre row ~2 hours after the spike, when most of the players are already gone → genre rows sort by live players, so it drops out again within hours
Epic's own docs say: "Islands that perform well graduate from the testing pipeline."
So I checked.
I took the new maps that performed well by Epic's own stats: top 25% for playtime, favorites and recommendations, launched with 100+ players, no Sponsored. 167 maps. All of them dead within a week.
Good engagement does help early. New maps in the top 25% for playtime, favorites and recommendations kept their players to day 3 more often. By day 7 that edge is gone.
Discover doesn't graduate new maps. It sorts the ones that already have players. @FNCreate @HaroldAtEpic
There is so much more I can say which makes things even worse.
Literally anyone could've made it if you had a good map now the good maps are having the same path as spam maps
Nice and my projects that I've worked months on didn't even hit top 5 on the NEW tab when I released them
