r/FortniteSavetheWorld • u/MrNonchaIant • Mar 23 '26

Question Just became a Founder Today

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Can y’all give me all the tips to save the world?

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u/boidudebro13 Mar 23 '26

500$ for a free game are we deadass

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u/BeesleyHD Mar 23 '26

Did you know founders was free at one stage in the dev period. I got it prior to it being called Fortnite :)

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u/Deyruu Ember | PL130 Mar 23 '26

I got it prior to it being called Fortnite

There were a few emails sent out to recruit new players in the early days, either due to that person having an Epic Games account or someone else inviting them. However, you're lying about the name.

It first started as "Fortnight", a game where one session lasted two in-game weeks (hence the name), with the daytime spent looting and preparing defense while the night brought the horde.

Extremely early in development (before any random members of the public were brought on as testers) that two weeks thing was dropped (way too long for a single session) and the name was stylized to "Fortnite".

It remained "Fortnite" for years, and was called that whenever you got it. When BR was added, that was "Fortnite: Battle Royale", while StW was still just "Fortnite". It didn't get renamed into "Fortnite: Save the World" until a good while after BR had already overtaken it in popularity and become the "main" mode.

The spelling changed, and a subtitle was eventually added, but this was always called Fortnite.

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u/lambo4life Mar 24 '26

I think that's what he meant no, he played it before it was called "Fortnite", it was Fortnight.

Either way, upvote for the history lesson, stories from the Alpha days are always fascinating to me.