Fortnite generates billions of dollars in revenue annually, primarily from in-game purchases, which constitutes the majority of Epic Games' income.

Epic Games has invested heavily in developing the future of technology, spending more than they earn to build a robust ecosystem around Unreal Engine and Fortnite.

The Fortnite item economy will be opened to third-party developers, allowing them to integrate their game items with Fortnite and participate in a shared metaverse economy.

Epic Games' success with Fortnite is attributed to its ability to scale its online infrastructure to support millions of concurrent users without purchasing additional server hardware.

The technical challenges of scaling Fortnite involved building a robust online backend that could handle a massive increase in concurrent users, from 40,000 to 15 million.

Fortnite's evolution from a building and survival game to a social gaming experience highlights the potential of the metaverse to create engaging multiplayer environments.

Fortnite's Battle Royale mode was developed rapidly in response to the popularity of the genre, leveraging existing content to create a new gameplay experience.

The goal of Verse is to simplify programming for the Fortnite community while ensuring that it scales effectively for large simulations, making it easier for developers to create complex gameplay, and Epic Games allows developers to create games that can be shipped as standalone titles or integrated into Fortnite, enabling interoperability with Fortnite items and cosmetics.

The success of games like PUBG and Fortnite illustrates how gameplay patterns can emerge from community-driven experiences, such as Hunger Games mods in Minecraft.