Sacred Symbols+, Episode 217 | This Is Fortnite's World (We're Just Living In it) (Patreon)

Fortnite, Fortnite, Fortnite. Frankly, I (Colin) am tired of hearing the name. But alas, my feelings have struck headlong into reality, because Fortnite is one of the most popular games of all-time, and it demands at least some of my attention. And yours, too. Here's the rub: Fortnite attracts more than four million concurrent players a day, with more than 80 million unique players a month. That 80 million players is eight times The Last of Us: Part II's cumulative sales, perhaps the most AAA single-player game ever launched on a PlayStation platform. And it took two years to reach that number. So just imagine the reach of Fortnite, the amount of money it makes, and the commercial, cultural, and social gravity it can deploy. To talk about the game -- its origins, its lure, its present and future -- I invited Kazden Risk to the show, who is nearing 2,000 hours played. Forget about a money printer. Fortnite prints billions and billions and billions and billions...