Fortnite will close in China on November 15

Epic Games has announced the closure of fortnite in China. The end of Battle Royale in the Asian country will arrive next November 15, after almost three years of testing, and since last Sunday, the downloads of the application and the records in your system were disabled.

During this time, what was in China was a special version of Fortnite s competitive mode, adapted to comply with the strict regulations of the country (does not have purchases within the application or shoelae or blood, among other changes) and covered by Tencent, the parent company of the same region. However, by not yet having an official launch due to the lack of the approval of the Chinese government, it seems clear that the withdrawal of the game is due to a measure with the aim of saving costs.

Daniel Ahmad himself, a trusted analyst focused on the Asian market in general and China in particular, explains in his Twitter account that the Battle Royale genre in this country has been strictly regulated from its relatively recent appearance (in fact, He mentions that not even PC pubg has been approved at the moment). «When Epic and Tencent decided to bring Fortnite to China, they had a license agreement during X years and it is clear that the cost of changes / operating the game / extending the license no longer makes sense, since there is no approval for it in This point, said the analyst.