The Chinese version of the famous game Fortnite, Fortress Night, is set to close later this month.
The game was first released in China in 2018 in collaboration with Tencent, a Chinese digital company. For both legislative and cultural considerations, many Western games must be considerably adapted for the Chinese market. According to the notice, new sign-ups for the last-player-standing type fighting game ceased on November 1, two weeks before the intended termination.
Fortress Night differs from the original Fortnite in a number of ways, including steps to limit how much time players spend playing the game and the absence of “microtransactions,” which allow players to buy extra in-game things with real money. On Fridays, weekends, and holidays, China’s video game regulator declared that under-18s will be limited to an hour of online gaming.
“Thank you to all the Fortnite China gamers who have ridden the Battle Bus with us by participating in the Beta,” Epic Games said in a statement announcing the closure.
Fortnite was highly anticipated in mainland China, despite the fact that it took nearly a year to arrive. Hugely popular games from other countries rarely make it to the United States. China’s rigorous authorities have imposed extensive terms and conditions that prevent games from being released if they are deemed too violent, pornographic, or portray China in an unfavorable light.
Epic Games, which owns Fortnite, has yet to provide an explanation for why the online shooting game was shut down. The game, which has been available in China as a “test” for two years, would come to an end on November 15, according to a statement. Children in China are only allowed to play internet games for a certain amount of time.
This means that users on the mainland can play with each other but not with international gamers. Fortnite held a unique position in the Chinese market for a while: it was a foreign game that overcame all of those restrictions while still being relatively new.
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