Fortnite’s social experiences, such as its famous 2020 concert with Travis Scott. In that case, “players” converged on a much smaller portion of the map, meaning the average device had to render and compute far more information. Accordingly, the title’s standard cap of 100 players per instance was halved, while many items and actions, such as building, are disabled, thereby further reducing the workload. While Epic Games can rightly say that more than 12.5 million people attended this live concert, these attendees were split across 250,000 separate copies (meaning, they watched 250,000
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