Epic Games unveiled yesterday a new game mode for Fortnite and of which we have told you today what it is about. Well, after many have thought about it, now they are responsible for Among Us those who speak out about it and, logically, it is something they cannot fight against, but this does not mean that they show their discontent and criticize the lack of desire to give it its own personality.
Fortnite impostors surprise Among Us
Surely when Epic gave the green light to create the new game mode called Impostors someone thought that this could end up happening: those responsible for Among Us and millions of users around the world saying that they they had copied the idea.
Well, it has happened, in addition to the hundreds of headlines that refer to the title of Innersloth, now there are several accounts, some of those responsible for and developers of the popular game, which have commented on networks that they are surprised that a company like Epic Games has not been able to contribute at least 10% to give it their own twist or how they copied it.
https://twitter.com/PuffballsUnited/status/1427781760692068355
https://twitter.com/MsMinotaur/status/1427717612780367877?s=20
In the tweet of the founder of Innersloth it is commented that they they did not patent the mechanics because they believe that it would not be good for a healthy video game industry, but they would have expected a little more interest in doing something more their own or personal.
Of course, they like it more or less and despite having taken the Among Us development team by surprise, it could be said that that is what it is if they did not legally protect the work. In addition, Among Us was free in the Epic Games Store a few months ago, when the title began to grow in popularity motivated by the confinement situation generated at the beginning of the pandemic.
Perhaps seeing the download data and the interest it aroused served as an idea to develop this new game mode that is sure to be successful within Fornite.
However, it is not the first time that Epic and Fortnite have done something for which they have been criticized and the occasional complaint. It already happened with him carlton dance in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Alfonso Ribeiro sued Epic, although later he ended up removing it. Which they didn't do when they sued Matt Geiler for his Dancing Pumpkin Man dance.
Epic Games only cares about Epic Games
As Tom Warren rightly points out in The Verge, this new mode introduced by Epic Games comes at a time when the company continues to fight against Apple for some supposed basic freedoms that they believe consumers and developers themselves should have.
However, this copy by them of the mechanics of a small development studio like Innersloth doesn't do them much good. Since it is once again a demonstration that the big ones can erase the small ones from the map just by making a copy of what they propose. Your marketing machine will do the rest and no one will remember who got there first.