Fortnite Finally Leaves Early Access - What's the Difference?

Finally, after releasing in July of 2017, three years ago, the battle-royale of Fortnite has officially abandoned the tag of 'Early Access' in its home screens across its game modes. With this change, Epic Games has also announced multiple other new projects on the horizon, mainly pertaining to the 'Save the World' game mode. Read on to learn more! 

Of course, it's no coincidence that this change is taking place exactly three years later - this is all part of the development plans for the innovative battle-royale. For the most part, the update all revolving around the fact that 'Save the World' will not ever become free-to-play despite Epic Games' hints that it one day would. The PvE Co-Op experience, one could say, has been overshadowed by battle-royale for its entire existence. 

Today we’re bringing Save the World out of Early Access and have decided that it will remain a premium experience rather than going free-to-play. Development of new content will slow down after this official release, but the adventure doesn’t end here for Save the World.

To add to the game mode, 'Ventures' are being introduced by Epic Games. It's all quite vague but it seems to be a form of endless variants which look to make each experience unique when attempting the 'Save the World' game-mode. As you can imagine, this new feature is targetted to maintain player-base retention. 

Long term replayability is the key motivation behind our next major feature, Ventures. Ventures is a new season-long excursion that takes place in a seasonal zone with new and unique modifiers to tackle. Each Venture season brings in a path of continued progression and fresh seasonal levels to climb.

Multiple other pieces of content, such as Frostnite and Dungeons have been announced exclusively for Save the World through rotations. For the entire announcement, it's viewable here. 

All-in-all, it's crystal clear that Epic Games is pushing a premium product of the game, finally developing it further after basically three years of prioritising the battle royale side of the title. And to answer the question in the title - no - removing the 'Early Access' label doesn't really change anything here.  

Let us know in the comments section if you'll be playing Save the World anytime soon!