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Fortnite paid over $350 million to content creators in 2024

Fortnite Year in review shared by Epic Games reveals that over 50 people earned at least $1 million while hundreds of others made six figures.

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Fortnite Year in Review for 2024 is out and this year, Fortnite saw over 70k content creators making use of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) to publish almost 200,000 islands. Epic Games also paid out a whopping $350 million to the creators with several people making millions while many others also making six figures while playing a video game.

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Top Fortnite content creators were paid handsomely for all their hard work with seven people earning over $10 million each while fourteen people secured over $3 million each. The number of millionaires does not end here as 37 more took home over $1 million.

Others were also rewarded some decent amount with 154 people taking $300K and 418 people taking $100K. Over 1,700 people made $10K while over 5,000 people had over $1,000, and finally, around 13,000 people made $100.

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Fortnite Creative pulls in heavy numbers

What’s impressive is players spent 5.23 billion hours which is one-third of the time or 36.5% of the total playtime spent by Fortnite players was on these creative maps. This was a 5% increase from the previous which remained at 4.98 billion hours, a little shy of reaching 5 billion but impressive regardless.

All of these numbers are proof that people can also earn while playing games, although this was also thanks to the large amount of players Fortnite attracts with each update. Last year, the game broke its all-time peak player count during the Juice WRLD event with player count reaching over 14 million.

The regular collabs with other popular game franchises also play a huge part. Epic Games is planning to add a lot more things to the UEFN like custom items, the ability to build more complex games, quality-of-life changes, and more.

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