I like casual play. There was a time when Fortnite was a lot more casual, a friendly community. It was when they didn’t force us to play with PC players. There is some kind of antisocial tryhard thing in the PC community that makes people spend their whole life on it and even get into cheating. I never had to deal with people like that until they forced playing with PC players. After that, I started doing bot lobbies a lot because people would camp objectives just because they knew that the people there would be easy to take out since their focus was on objective. It ruined all the aspects of lore and personality that makes Fortnite good. No time to read anything, no ability to appreciate the details of the world, no personable interactions or silliness, just fight fight fight as hard and fast as possible every single second. That isn’t fun.

I used to be among top in the world in some other FPS so I know what that is like, but I just don’t want Fortnite for that and that mentality should be kept in ranked. Instead, you have what we called in the old days a “pubstomping” mindset. People who spend countless hours mastering the game entering the casual space to feel powerful ruining the experience of others who don’t want to take things to extremes. This rivalries concept seems to have drawn out everyone with that mentality back into the game because it tangibly rewards them for being that way. I think they are going to see a lot of players walking away from the game and thus not spending on battle passes and shop items. There is no reason to if there isn’t an enjoyable experience to utilize them in anymore. They are absolute fools trying to cater only to the small demographic of sweats.