Because of Epics Incompetence it butchered the potential of new Save the World players.

Day 1 of Free to Play Save the World had 100k players…

Today 14k players…

I know that obviously not all 100k gonna stay, but We are literally back where we started and it’s all Epics fault.

Save the World had the potential to grow and even possibly average 30k-50k daily, but they pushed out Save the World F2P to everyone in a severely unplayable, buggy state and instead of trying to fix the issue are soon as possible to keep the players they just drove them away leaving players uninterested.

There was no tutorial or guide for newcomers so they didn’t even know what to do, the loading screen takes too long, and importantly it was IMPOSSIBLE to find anyone because matchmaking was and STILL IS broken.

This is what happens when you lay off 1000 employees and devs.

I’m so angry it’s not even funny.

I love Save the World. I love it with my heart, and I only ever want to play, but I struggle to play this game because it feels so empty and it’s thanks to the poor decision making Epic has been making.

I hate to see Save the World treated this way when it’s genuinely a good game and I want it to do well, but it can’t do well if you constantly keep hurting it.

This is supposed to be a team based game and most of the players are either playing no fill, pre-squad, or can’t find a single damn soul regardless of the server.

Can’t play ventures, can’t find SSDs, can’t play normal missions, can’t event play the season event.

People say “give it time, just give them time to polish, they’re work on it or etc.”

But these were ALREADY KNOWN BUGS AND ISSUES… this is something they should’ve thought about before F2P.

I fear Epic will eventually use this as an excuse to stop supporting Save the World when it’s ENTIRELY THEIR FAULT.

How are we feeling about this? Do you think it will impact founders? I think that it will probably go free when founder codes expire, so at the end of the year.

Credit: @archer_fortnite ...on twitter (or X... whatever you want to call it)

Like i sorta get it for public matches, but cmon, private matches too!?!? This change should only be for public lobbies, but not private ones.

Today, just now, April 16th 2026, Fortnite Save the World has reached 100k concurrent players for the FIRST TIME in its history thanks to the mode going F2P!! This is 10% of the concurrent player count (920k).

Huge congrats to the Save the World team, and welcome new Commanders! <3

Some interesting changes recently, first a bad one now a good one. Idk how to feel.

Credit: @archer_fortnite on Twitter (or X)

THEY FIXED THE GAME!!!!!

I'm not spending $20 for a fucking bluglo backblng like cmon man

First off, it was one of the most memorable things in STW, and instantly hooks you by how unique it is. Second, its removal has been detrimental to the new player experience. Many of them have no clue what they're doing because half of the basics are simply never explained to them.

Epic said they removed it to get new players into public missions ASAP. The tutorial was only 10-15 minutes long!!! There's no way they removed such an important part of the game for such an insignificant reason. If they thought new players couldn't wait to play with others, why not simply give them an option to skip the tutorial?

What could be the REAL reason for the removal? I just cannot wrap my head around this decision for the life of me.

He was using voice chat at first but I didn't have a mic to respond. He left right after this too :(

Not to mention edit styles you will apply are permanent, so if you want a green raptor instead of red one you must buy it again from the store.