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Fortnite has made a sudden return to its long-lost original map for a month-long mini-season fuelled by nostalgia, and its sudden spike in popularity has blown past everyone's expectations. It's a stunning moment for Epic Games' ever-changing battle royale - even by Fortnite's own stratospheric standards - and yet I can't help but feel a tinge of sadness that this is the version of Fortnite all 44 million players picked up on Saturday.
To see this version of Fortnite blow up now is surely brilliant for the future of a game I play pretty much every day - which Epic itself has said is only now starting to grow in popularity again after previous lockdown-era peaks . But the fact remains this is a version of the game that, nostalgia aside, lacks so many of the features and functionality Epic had built on top of these foundations.
With 44 million players turning up for the game's original map, will Epic really consign its creation to the black hole of history once again? Or could Fortnite's first Island be offered as a separate mode, alongside the game's fifth all-new Island, widely-expected at the start of December? Offering both seems a simple solution to keep everyone happy, but I wonder if Epic might fear a split in focus - that a majority might stay with its dated original Island rather than jump into...
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