Think Fortnite doesn’t face any competition when it comes to live events? in the USA. Yet during MTV’s 2022 VMA Awards broadcast this weekend, Epic Games’ Battle Royale has lost its crown to PUBG. Indeed, PUBG won the “Best Metaverse Performance” award. In this ceremony in the music world, he is very popular in the United States.
Thus, PUBG’s Blackpink The Virtual event wins the title against Ariana Grande’s virtual concert in Fortnite this year. This has been a tough pill for Fortnite fans to swallow, especially since the PUBG event used some elements of the Fortnite concert in very questionable ways.
K-pop power
The Video Music Awards are a ceremony where fans vote for a short list of nominees. And in this little game, knowing how to mobilize the public for a massive vote is crucial. Ariana Grande and Fortnite could form a solid tandem, but that was without taking into account the strength of the K Pop community which carried Blackpink on a small cloud during the ceremony.
Anyway, while Ariana Grande’s activity in Fortnite seems more accomplished and fluid, this is one of the arguments that Fortnite proponents put forward to explain this “failure”.
interactive aspect
Staying good gamers and leaving aside the uncanny similarities between PUBG and Fortnite concerts, it’s safe to say that Blackpink’s concert is way more interactive than Ariana Grande’s Fortnite. While the Fortnite Rift tour really felt like a passive audience, the PUBG concert really needed interaction..
It does not matter; We deeply know that Travis Scott’s Fortnite concert in April 2020 will go down in history as the greatest virtual concert ever in a video game. And it will take more than an MTV award to change our minds.
Source : Millenium
