Here is the current CCU of the game. We had 3 peaks of players so far, but none were from the discovery algorithm, just us having to battle this unbeatable algorithm with good old organic promotion and players that genuinely want to play the game.
We made a unique game that may not tick all boxes when being recognized/promoted by the algorithm, and this goes to show that new is risky and trends are safe.
Discovery was added to Fortnite in 2021. Since then, we had the same issues, mainly because it was built to replace manual curation. It hasn’t worked IMO, and I 've been watching and complaining for years now.
Now look at steam. They promote different games everyday that you want to play. They have great content, because great content was worthwhile to build in the first place.
Here, its not worthwhile, and its an never ending cycle because no matter what update they do to Discovery now, they ll never have content to promote because of those previous choice. I know for a fact that I don’t want to develop another game like Mercs until things change, and this time I ll be waiting for a change from Epic. So first make it worthwhile, then maybe you can introduce Discovery back in a more fair format.
Do better Epic, stop killing all this effort we put into your ecosystem.