Let’s get this out of the way at the start: There was no tweet on the official Epic Twitter that Fortnite Battle Royale was going to be closed down.
A rumor started circulating last week that Fornite Battle Royale would be seeing closure in May due to a lawsuit from PUBG Corporation, but it is simply baseless.
Gaming site Twinfinite published an article on April 12 covering the alleged tweet, stating that the rumor was started by an image of a tweet from the official Epic Twitter account. The tweet the writer claimed to have seen read as follows:
“Due to the law suit against PubG on copyright infringement. We are sorry to inform you that Fortnite Battle Royale Will be coming to an end May 24, 2018. Save the world will still be in development and we will roll out ASAP. Thank you all for the support.”
Have you seen the supposed image of the tweet? Because I have not.
I’ve done some scouring at this point — not because I believed the rumor, but to discern whether Twinfinite was kicking up crap just to get traffic — and I have not seen it anywhere, even in the corners of the internet where they’d dance around the virtual bonfire at such a rumor. There is zero. Zilch. Nothing.
Did someone email them this image? Or did they make it up? I don’t know, and frankly, I don’t care. The end result is the same: a panic over a rumor so small it shouldn’t have been given the time of day.
The alleged tweet itself is as poorly written and unofficial-looking as it can be. The capitalization is all over the place (“PubG”, “Save the world”) and clarifies absolutely nothing while simply aiming to stoke the flames of panic.
The public hasn’t heard much about litigation against Epic Games due to the release of Fortnite Battle Royale, but at this point, it’s safe to assume the mode is not going anywhere. In fact, it appears to be devouring the playerbases of a number of other large multiplayer titles. No other game is as popular as Fortnite is right now. Absolutely none.
Baseless rumors don’t help anyone, and a rumor so devoid of base that it’s sunk into the ground shouldn’t have shot its way across the internet in the first place. Have you seen any signs of Epic slowing down content releases or events? No. So stop worrying about it.
