Fortnite Hits 12 Million Concurrent Players With Travis Scott Concert

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Fornite breaks new records as players flock to see a giant rapper.
Perhaps you’ve been waiting for this week for a while, or perhaps it was only yesterday that you’d heard of the Travis Scott’s Astronomical event. One thing for certain is that a lot of people joined the event and wound up breaking an all-new concurrent player count record for Epic Games’ Fortnite.

Last night marked the first night of the event which is to span the weekend through to Saturday. However, despite it being the first night, Epic Games reported that over 12.3 million concurrent players were in attendance. Epic Games announced the figure through Twitter, and also reiterated that players can jump into an encore performance if they missed the initial time slot.


The event continues today with two more events to take place, one at 7am PDT and then later at 9pm PDT. The final night takes place on Saturday at 8am PDT and will hold the last show at 3pm PDT. Players are advised to arrive 30 minutes before the scheduled time to secure themselves a slot.

If you’re curious about what the event is like, videos have been floating around online from those who were in attendance last night. It actually looks fairly entertaining and features Travis Scott’s character performing an unreleased track that’s still due to launch. Players get to watch his character performing while the world around them transforms and distorts.


As mentioned yesterday in our coverage, Travis Scott is the second artist to hold a concert inside of Epic Games’ Fortnite, with Marshmellow being the first. Hitting over 12.3 million concurrent players is absolutely insane, especially given how back in 2018 the record was 3.4 million concurrent players just for simply playing the game.

If you’re interested in taking part in the next event you can jump on today or tomorrow as well as also unlocking outfits, emotes, sprays, loading screens. However, it’s worth pointing out that to get the outfits and emotes, it’ll cost you V-Bucks, however by simply attending Travis Scott’s Astronomical event you’ll unlock a glider and two loading screens for free.

Fortnite is available for free on Xbox One, PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

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GhostPosted:

I never really got to see any other events like this so when I came on and actually got to see it, it was absolutely incredible. Never seen anything quite like it and I probably won't ever again.

IntPosted:

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Mario350
iTOKEnCHOKE Rap is the worst type of music.


todays rap yeah but rap from the 70s and 80s was the best rap aka real rap, not mumble autotune bs.


you sound so stupid saying that. you know there was bad rap from the 70's and 80's as well right? Go listen to some Eminem or something because im sure he is about the only person you have listened to from the last decade that is rap. Rap from the 70's and 80's is boring because its non changing. You only gonna listen to the same songs over and over. If "rap" was bad, its influences wouldn't be in every other genre.


Music is subjective, let everyone have their own opinion it's not even worth arguing but I thought it was sick personally and I don't play the game.

EightThotzPosted:

Pretty sad how excited these streamers and youtubers get for this stuff. Do they forget they're adults?

322Posted:

Mario350
iTOKEnCHOKE Rap is the worst type of music.


todays rap yeah but rap from the 70s and 80s was the best rap aka real rap, not mumble autotune bs.


you sound so stupid saying that. you know there was bad rap from the 70's and 80's as well right? Go listen to some Eminem or something because im sure he is about the only person you have listened to from the last decade that is rap. Rap from the 70's and 80's is boring because its non changing. You only gonna listen to the same songs over and over. If "rap" was bad, its influences wouldn't be in every other genre.

IntPosted:

Seen some clips and it looked pretty sick, mad how much influence Travis has...

Mario350Posted:

iTOKEnCHOKE Rap is the worst type of music.


todays rap yeah but rap from the 70s and 80s was the best rap aka real rap, not mumble autotune bs.

GossipPosted:

Hate this game but the was definitely cool to see from them. Really cool.

9ntyPosted:

It's expected to be honest with you, with the worlds highest artist like Travis Scott of course it's going to pull crazy numbers I'm happy for Fortnite for sure. Even when this concert happened it pulled at least 1 Million views on Twitch & Youtube combined, right?

tO0tPosted:

Cookie Really don't wanna sound like a hater because I'm glad for them. But the quarantine obviously played a huge roll in this. If you disagree then your just dumb.


Using Travis Scotts name played a large part too. I haven't played fortnite in quite a while but saw one of the concerts on youtube and was thoroughly impressed with it!

XeCookiePosted:

Really don't wanna sound like a hater because I'm glad for them. But the quarantine obviously played a huge roll in this. If you disagree then your just dumb.


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