To begin with, I don’t speak English very well, so I might make some mistakes.
Several creators are dissatisfied with the publishing process because their maps aren’t appearing in the new and updated sections. We believe this is due to the large number of creators currently flooding Discover with spam maps.
This is something that supposedly has been addressed, but they must have some way to bypass moderation. My maps haven’t even received 50,000 impressions per update, and yes, these are well-crafted updates since I recently implemented the payment system plus a bunch of other things.
I urge you to take this matter more seriously and investigate it. Clearly, something is wrong. It’s not normal for thousands of identical maps to be included in the discovery process while some of us don’t even have access, probably due to spammers like these.
Please select what you are reporting on:
Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Publishing
Steps to Reproduce
Publish a map and don’t even receive the 50,000 impressions they offer when updating the map.
Expected Result
End to creators who spam maps, all to occupy as much space as possible in the discovery section and prevent other creators’ maps from appearing.
Observed Result
Maps from small creators don’t appear in the discovery section, while other creators keep submitting spam maps to raise as much money as possible and take up space in the discovery section.
As a creator, I’d like these kinds of things to be prioritized. It’s pointless to publish new content if, when it comes time to publish, it’s nearly impossible to get featured because of these spammy creators.
Of course, I don’t intend to offend anyone with anything I say here. (It’s exhausting to work and dedicate hours to something if these kinds of problems then arise.)
I’ve made 4 maps in 3 month, but I haven’t seen them hit the ‘New & Updated’ tab. Only 2 of them made it into ‘New & Updated 2’ and ‘New Experiences,’ but both rank low like #25-#10 and that was only one time. Even when I update them, they don’t re-enter discovery.
This issue has been going on for 3 months. Even after the discovery bug fix on December 18th, we haven’t seen any improvement. It’s not just me; many small creators are facing this too. Please fix this. Last year, we used to get discovery within 24 hours of publishing, and updates would push the map back into discovery within a week. Now, that doesn’t happen. Please, Fortnite, fix this issue and address the spam maps problem as well.
by design we want AI to spam new accounts and clog every entry in order to snuff actual creators out, by design we will rename creators to developers and influencers to creators to remind developers their place in all this, by design we have rigged the game for only our most successful spam bots to get seen and by design we don’t speak to people with issues we let a bot or ai talk to them because by design we have no morality, we don’t care by design, by design we are insuring micro transactions and dark patterns rule this ecosystem and by design things will only get worse because by design we are enshitifying everything
by design we give our best botters our #1 slot instantly without any need to trickle up
by design “new” is made to make money, not to bring attention to new innovative maps that could potentially create new audiences, by design the maps are meant to look exactly the same every time and come from alt accounts from our most cherished account spammers
