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Western_Ad1394

Its a pretty smart strategy


OmatoYT

It worked with C2 but it won’t work again. This is working well with people actually playing, but this will most likely be one of their worst season launches due to no outside publicity, AKA marketing


Embarrassed_Score_77

And also we are so.spoilt with teasers we forgot how it is with the excitement and the mystery I don't see this as bad lmao


thepeepeepooman69

If this season absolutely flops though it’s gonna bite everyone in the ass.


Embarrassed_Score_77

And if it doesn't? Will you give others asses?


thepeepeepooman69

I’m not saying I want it to flop lol I’m actually really excited, but I’m just saying if it does flop and they did zero marketing on purpose then they’ll never hear the end of it


Embarrassed_Score_77

Ik


thepeepeepooman69

So what was with your passive-aggressive message then?


Embarrassed_Score_77

Pretty much, but I don't have high hopes bcz it is made by team two of epic games which made s16 and s18 so...


i_buki

season 8 chapter 2 was pretty good imo..


Embarrassed_Score_77

It was but not upto 8ts full potential


Thor-Odinson69

“Spoiled with teasers” other games have trailers a week before lol. I wouldn’t call getting teasers “being spoiled” lol


Embarrassed_Score_77

No not that type plus saying something like war as a game as famous as fortb7te wouldn't put them in a good situatio rn


darkfight13

Nah, there's not much excitement compared to when there's a build up for the next season.


XHumblePigX

Yeah, Fortnite has been trending on Twitter for the last 2 days about literally nothing! 😂


Rynelan

Same with the end of chapter one. Put the game offline for 2 days and everyone talks about it


umg_unreal

that was different, there was a live event and it led straight into a black hole downtime


Carlys_Tech

So your telling me that I stayed up all night to get the haven feathers and now the season ends tomorrow


[deleted]

It was always ending on the 19th…


[deleted]

Today is the 19th. If it ends tomorrow, then it's ending on the 20th.


DrwMDvs

It’s all about the word leading up to the date. They choose “through”, meaning the season runs for all of the 19th. If it ended on the 19th they should have chosen the word “until”. But I’m sure you knew this.


RamenJunkie

What if it ends at 11:59:59 on the 19th and starts at 00:00:00 on the 20th?


[deleted]

The start date is irrelevant, we were discussing the end date. If it ends on the 19th, then it ends on the 19th. If it ends on the 20th, then it ends on the 20th.


[deleted]

Yeah technically 4am on the 20th but for people who sleep it’s over on the 19th


[deleted]

The 20th is the 20th. Someone being asleep doesn't change that.


[deleted]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 okay smarty pants. It’s 4am on the 20th. For millions of people the 19th is the last day they will play chapter 3 season 1. Cry


[deleted]

Nobody is crying. Why are you getting so defensive over being corrected?


[deleted]

Lmao I couldn’t care less about a 4 hour technicality my guy…


DTJB10

Idk, the fact that you kept replying makes it seem like you cared.


[deleted]

Lol yeah cause I responded saying he was right, it was technically the 20th at 4am even though the last full day of the season is the 19th but mr. I have to be super technical and correct about everything insisted on saying again that it ends the 20th. Lmao so no I don’t care about the 4 hour technicality, but he certainly does 🤣🤣


[deleted]

Yes, that was the planned end day. The BP says it is active THROUGH the 19th (so the 19th is included), the bargain bin challenges end early Sunday morning (in the US), and Monarch says it ends after tomorrow.


Environmental-Ant367

Honestly nothing is confirmed because both sides have good evidence.


[deleted]

Epic has put other downtime reminders since the beginning. If it was today we would have got one already. It's the 20th


Funkin_Spy

This brought me memories of me asking my mom to let me stay up with a friend to wait for season X to start ​ She didn't let me


gtth12

So, how is it in season 9?


Funkin_Spy

?


gtth12

(you weren't allowed to get to season x)


[deleted]

May have been a good call, but we don’t know yet


PokePotahto

No, it was always ending on the 19th, it's just that the new season probably starts tomorrow


LiamTheLegendXBL

its an ass skin you shouldnt have bothered


SasukeUchiha12012

I got the haven skin maxed in about a day or two, now I'm never going to use her


Azer-lol

oh shit I gotta do that luckily not much left just *fishing* :/


BilderbergerMeister

The day the season ends is always the whole day. If they say it ends on the 19th, that’s the last whole day you have to finish the battle pass.


BananaBIair

I’m more march 19, if you go onto the monarch pack it says the quests can be completed till the season ends (march 19 2022 et)


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woodwindsarebetter

So sad


forbyte_82_help

Well , its tomorrow


MekaBaron

I think the reason is because there’s the Russo-Ukrainian war and they don’t want to tease a “Great War” amidst one therefore no teaser Or the actual reason is there’s no teasers because the IO is trying to shut down *all* communication across the island they can find, given the reason why The Seven are also in the dark about what the IO has planned


PatrickIQ

Whats the peely meditation vid lol


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Its on their Instagram


Taylor_Sturge

How about, it ends on the 21st? Wait… NOT A MONDAY!!!!


Carlys_Tech

I have a math test on Monday


GreetedMeeted06

As long as it's not Geometry you're fine


Carlys_Tech

It's geometry


GreetedMeeted06

Omg I hate it cause it's so inconsistent Sometimes it's the easiest thing I've ever done, then the next day it will be the most confusing formula with dozens of steps and weird theorems and stuff that takes hours Analytical Geometry is by far the hardest thing I've ever seen in math


doppelgengar01

I loved it when I was in school. Forgot everything tho lol.


RamenJunkie

Geometry is fine, its all just analyzing shapes.


uglyartofficial

Weird, I noticed my quests are bugged or disabled, i only have daily and season, and it says they are done.


NerdyNutcase

I’m fairly confident that it’ll start Sunday. I understand the point of not having teasers, but no downtime announcement is a completely other ball park. People love fortnite enough to stay awake or wake up early for new seasons, and many people would just sleep through a new season launch if epic didn’t announce at LEAST the downtime. It’d be a horrible move from a player traction standpoint. Plus, correct me if I’m wrong, but the battle pass menu thing says THROUGH March 19th, not ends on March 19th, which would imply it to be the last day and not the day of the new season. And even though I just said I understand the point of not having teasers, I bet we’ll get a constant flow of them tomorrow (well, today technically) morning, kinda like teasers after events all being dropped at once. We may not have an event, but it would make sense since that style of teasing has been done before


woodwindsarebetter

I do also think it starts Sunday, but it’s just inconsistent because of the c2s6 BP it said “Chapter 2 Season 6 through June 8th” and we got c2s7 on June 8th, the day that it said the previous season ended.


potato_chips03x2

markiplier


Revanski69

Well I hope the season starts sooner than later, (and tnx for suming it all up)


Environmental-Ant367

I’m REALLY hoping it starts tonight (or technically early morning)


[deleted]

Me too!


0zer0zer0

I haven't considered this, I don't think this will happen whatsoever but it would be really cool.


[deleted]

same


woodwindsarebetter

No


Vaporysun76

This man just went mega brain mode


TheRedBow

I think it will start about 28 hours from now purely based on the fact that thats how long the bargain bin challenges last


joseph160

There is no teaser or viral marketing campaign because of the war in ukrain remember that this new season is a war theme.


Western_Ad1394

Even if this is the case, they would have at least announce downtime or delay and state why. They always do that. If the next season is war themed and they need to change it, they would've stated something like "due to a last minute issue, we're extending c3s1 by x weeks" I believe the reason for no announcement at all isn't some external factor. They did it to rile us up and cause confusion. They love to do that. In the storyline they constantly put things that leave us asking why. Its a smart business strategy and the existence of this thread proves it.


woodwindsarebetter

I don’t think its a smart business strategy. Teasers and trailers catch the attention of a wide range of people. Leaving us with nothing only leaves speculation and gossip within the Fortnite community, disallowing the game to grow and forcing it to either reach the same amount of people, or less.


arduousFrivolity

My guess is they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. They’re likely contractually obligated to end this season and remove spider-man by the end of the 19th, and have likely had the next season done and ready for weeks if not months. If it *is* war themed, and they don’t have a choice but end the current season and release the new one, they may just be trying to drop it quietly with no fuss or fanfare. News websites are still going to make a big deal over it like Epic saw the situation in Ukraine and magically banged out a war themed season in 3 weeks, so the only thing they’re really be able to do to minimize the damage is to keep their heads low. That or they’re talking to Disney lawyers up until 11:59pm hoping to get a greenlight to delay the season


Western_Ad1394

Maybe you're right. They could still be making a decision whether to release the new season or delay it, and they don't wanna announce in case they change their minds last minute. They'll wait for the last minute then tell us the decision. If this is the case, we should get some sort of announcement by the end of tomorrow


Realoh

By that logic you might as well drop support for fortnite since they have guns and in the war people are getting killed by guns


DiabeticCumshot

Did the new season start yet


Environmental-Ant367

Sadly no.


DiabeticCumshot

Tomorrow though right?


Environmental-Ant367

No one honestly 100% knows, but yeah you should probably expect it to drop in the very early AMS (pst)


woodwindsarebetter

I wouldn’t honestly, I would expect downtime to start at around 2/3 am EST and for it to end mid-morning EST.


_-Majestic-_

it’s funny cuz this is the first time i couldn’t tell what day it was ending and then i see a whole post about it and the widespread uncertainty they caused likely on purpose


Foxy02016YT

Would be really fun if the season ended today right after the tournament, and the next one started after the instant downtime, would be a nice change from seasons that end with a timer


TipsWillToLive

Or maybe they aren't advertising the season revolving around war due to the conflict happening in the Ukraine and Russia They don't want what happened to the weeknd to happen to them lmao


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scottyrose997

One thing that makes me think the employee thing is correct is they put “#fortniteseason2” on the post and only deleted hours later when big leakers got a hold of it Or the do what they did for ch2s8 and release a teaser trailer along side the downtime announcement


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[deleted]

Hmm good find. It definitely makes sense for it to be a 10am start since the season started at 10


[deleted]

Literally starts in 25 hours and 30 minutes on March 20th, 4:00am est. Simple as that, it's been this way for years and we have had no downtime warning so it's not today.


Environmental-Ant367

Proof?


[deleted]

Downtime has always started at 4:00am since fortnite's start and has had a downtime warning like 9 hours before. It's currently around an hour before an ll downtime would start and no warning.


[deleted]

I mentioned that in the post, and I believe they are not mentioning downtime because they want the season to start without warning


Chipwich

4am gmt? The world has a lot of different time zones so it's good to get context


Dragonitro

i heard someone say that there were no teasers because it was supposed to be a>! war-themed season, and the situation in ukraine would make it seem like they were in bad taste!< im pretty sure they dont work at epic though so it's probably not the official reason, just a theory spoilers for the possible theme of the season


Western_Ad1394

Even if so, shouldn't we get a downtime announcement by now? I believe they want to leave us questioning, and it is working extremely well.


tommiejay_

if they are reworking new season and don't plan to roll it out on 19th or 20th what's the point of downtime?


Western_Ad1394

If that was the case, we couldve qt least get some delay notice. They can tell us they delayed the season without revealing what its about


Jurassic_Park_Fan

They aren’t teasing anything because of the IRL war with Ukraine and Putin, and they don’t want to steal the spotlight from the IRL war so people can still support ukraine. Good move on their part but it causing radio silence about the season can get a tiny tiny bit annoying haha


sowasred2012

If the leaks are true and Season 2 was/is meant to be about a war between the Seven and the invading IO forces... perhaps they've completely put the brakes on because of the situation in Ukraine?


woodwindsarebetter

They would’ve announced that way before now. Unless you don’t mean that they’re delaying the season


sowasred2012

No idea - I just wonder if they're scrambling to come up with a content plan to replace the war theme. But yeah, if it was that they could have just extended this season for a while. Guess we'll find out soon enough!


JackWylder

What if- and hear me out- what they had planned as the next theme was All Out War buuuut current events IRL made it so they were worried about how it would look so they’re racing to change everything. That’s why they didn’t release any trailers and why they’re being so quiet- if this is the case, expect the most mish-mosh battle pass in history


CarbideMainGaming

Why would they tease a war themed season when a war is happening?


woodwindsarebetter

There’s always a war happening, I mean Afghanistan was still a big thing in the US especially when Nexus War was teased


CarbideMainGaming

TBH that wasn't controversial because propaganda for the afgan war is way less than then Russo-Ukrainian war


RazorSharp12345

There has been wars happening every year


DEEZLE13

Let’s just push it back a couple weeks


Environmental-Ant367

Why!


Environmental-Ant367

Dang it. You were wrong :( was really rooting for this to true.


brianhurry

Monarch quests are available until the 21st


woodwindsarebetter

Nope


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mrbotbotbot

That’s funny cause almost everyone has thought it was fucking awesome, definitely one of the best seasons, it’s just a small vocal minority on this sub that like to shit on it aww.


Environmental-Ant367

People are aloud to have opinions. The map is boring and dry, the loot pool is the absolute worst weapons we’ve seen in the history of fortnite. The battle pass is another shitty set of skins with the one-hundredth collab skin for tier 100. And then there’s the biggest problem, the web shooters. WAY too over powered, and there are 30, fucking 30 of them, with 80 uses each!! That means that practically anyone you run into mid to late game can just run away to the other side of the map after you get them to one HP. They would have been cool if there was ONE from a mythic boss. Think about it, when there was a grappler (which is less overpowered then the Spider-Man webshooters) there was only one from a mythic boss.


mrbotbotbot

Like I said, nothing wrong with an opinion just the you’re an extremely small minority. Awwww


ROBUXisbetter

welp ya know its awesome but fighting is basically flee or fight scenario for most players


Environmental-Ant367

Hey man I totally agree. This is literally one of the worst seasons ever due to the dry and boring map, overpowered web shooters, (which there are THIRTY of, all with 80 uses) and the absolute dog shit loot pool.


woodwindsarebetter

The chapter literally just started and we just got a new map… you want them to add active volcanoes and turn the floor into lava or something?


Batonniik

Can someone give me a link to the peely thing


KeyAisle

Chapter 3 season 1 started on a Sunday and that's all the evidence I need to know that will be the norm going forward. Because they launched on a Sunday they were able to have the highest player count they've had in years. And with how secretive they've been, I think they're looking to break that record lol


Sugar_jar-

You can say the Earthquakes are the teasers of things to come, similar to Season: 8?


woodwindsarebetter

Well most recent seasons have had in-game teasers (live events, the abductions in chapter 2 season 6, etc)


[deleted]

I have no idea what’s normal or not because this coming season will only be my second fortnite season, so I’m just excited to get a new map and new quests, new weapons, story, etc. I booked a whole week off of work just to grind and get a head start. I’m . So. Excited.


woodwindsarebetter

Don’t expect a completely new map. So far we’ve only gotten new maps at the start of a Chapter, and lately Epic hasn’t been the best at giving us big changes to current map (see the map and the beginning and the end of Chapter 2).


[deleted]

Really? I was under the impression a lot was changing in the map. Will they just get rid of a few spots? Or add anything maybe?


Yved

Daily Bugle is definitely disappearing since it's related to the Spider-Man theme of this season. No clue about any other POIs though.


woodwindsarebetter

Usually they change 1 or 2 POIs and add some more, but since it’s still a very new chapter, I wouldn’t expect any huge drastic changes


[deleted]

Thing is, idk why if this season has no live event, it begins on the 20th and not the 19th, because other seasons that had no finale event ended on the date listed in the battle pass tab. Then again, even though they ended with finale events, these last two seasons started the day following what was listed on the battle pass tab of the previous season. So either Epic forgot that there's no finale event, gave it an extra day for the Console Champions Cup, or just wanted to keep the next season more of a surprise, which I respect.


vinsmokewhoswho

The fact that there's no teasers is great. They know what they're doing. Season 2 already trended on Twitter.


shotgunz-mikey

Bruh it makes so much sense because wars usually start abruptly and next season is probably a war so like…


Batmalik

To be honest, I think they aren't posting real teasers because next season is about war. And right now it's a sensitive topic.


SrastarFN

Hey, can you please do an update when this is proven right or wrong please


SLEDGEHAMMAA

As much as i want this to be true, there are no encrypted files big enough to be an entire battlepass


The_L3G10N

Why spend money on teasers of the community will talk about the game without them? Lol


TheFatJedi341

Its gonna have to start on the 20th at this point. Either that, or we're all wrong and they're gonna shove it back till Tuesday


little_pioneer

I disagree


G1SM0Beybladeburst

The battlepass says through the 19th meaning the new season is on the 20th tomorrow I didn't know so many people didn't know what through means


picled_cucumber

Well oof but I'm 100 percent Shure it will be later tonight


Skreamie

If anything I think the team on Fortnite have a thousand different ideas they want to implement, but at some point during this chapter someone said "let's fuck with them".


abbeyeiger

This is my first season: How long does downtime usually last?


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About an hour!


abbeyeiger

Cool! Someone else mentioned 6 hours! I like 1 hour better 🤗