Hello this is some ways that could help Discovery to get improved and also promote more good Creators rather than scammers.
1] Theres need to be Verified Creators.
-How some one could get Verified?
1: To have official socials connected to his account.
2: To have an amount of plays ( for example 500.000 plays or more)
3: His account to be at least 60-90 days old
4: And maybe other things also…
2] Verified Creators sould have more benefits from the non verified.
-What those benefits could be?
1: To have more time in Discovery when they publish a game.
2: To have more chances when they making an update to one of their maps to get into discovery to New & Updated or the Updated categorys.
3] Also a major problem Discovery have at the momment is the amount of Maps getting published. I know that Epic from the begining wanted to give everyone a chance but it seems that Epic cant handle that many Maps being published everyday. So they dont even even promote them properly.
-Some things you can do to solve this problem is:
1: Is to make a limit on how many maps a creator can publish every month.
2: Verified Creators Limit to be 4-5 Maps per month.
3: Non Verified Creators Limit to ve 1-2 Map per month
4] One other major problem is the scammers… Discovery is full of those… they dont follow the rules and they dont get punished!
Theres need to be a team of modarators that will enforcing the Rules and will give penalties to those who dont follow them. ( Note: The penalties must be hard ) ( I dont speak about small things for the hard penalties… i speak about obvious scams like v-buck images in their games and such… ).
5] A major problem with Discovery also is that there is not much Map rotation… We see in the Homebar and not only but many categories the same and the same maps to be promoted.
-What would be better?
1: To rotate maps every like 8 or 6 hours. With the 8 hours to the 24 hours the day have they will get promoted 3 pages of maps with 6 hours 4 pages of different maps.
2: Homebar is a major boost for maps in general and we see mostly the same Maps over and over. A good change could be when a game make a specific amount of money… for example over 500.000 dollars or 1.000.000 milion dollars to not get promoted in that specific category… so this way many more games have a chance to get in and get promoted.
6] Major problem of Discovery the Algorithm. It has verry high standards to promote your game and its also looking for some stats to many Maps that souldnt look. For example the retention to some games that are made for a one time experience.
-What would be better?
1: Remove retention as a metric for specific game categories such as: Escape rooms, deathruns, Horrors and more…
2: Push more games with good ratings from surveys ( Not only from favorites and likes ).
7] Another problem with the algorithm is that it promotes alot of games that bring trafic from outside of fortnite… sounds good at first but it ends up promoting scammers that abuse tik tok and other platforms.
8] One other major problem with the algorithm is that it promotes every creator differently based on some aspects such as if it has verse or custom UI and such. That has a major impact in discovery promoting some Maps 10 mins and some other 1 hour. I know Epic wants to promote better quality of maps but it end up promoting more scammers. How Epic promoting that way more scammers? cause either the scammers importing Maps with verse and custom UI and boost their scam Map easier to Discovery… either they really know how to make verse and custom UI and abuse the system…
-What would be better?
1: Promote even time every game in Discovery. Do some testing period collect some data… and when you have enough data collected… in the next new maps that getting published adjust the algorithm to promote those who have the closest(or more) stats to the avarage stats collected on the tested period.
2: Promote more games with good ratings and critics from the serveys
9] Something that could improve also is the FOR YOU category. Mostly this category promotes games from either Discovery or the Browse. Its ok but they boost maps that are already in a category.
-What would be better?
1: To promote maps that are not in Discovery and Browse… based on some good stats they had in their launch.
2: Also give us the ability to refresh the FOR YOU category of even remove a Map so some other appear.
10] About Epicks Picks. At the moment Epics picks is one of the most reliable way for a Creator to promote his work but these days is very hard to get in cause the standards got very high and the amount of spots is verry sort.
-What could be a solution?
1: Keep Epics Picks as it is.
2: Add an extra category called something like Epics Recommends and add there Maps that are not the highest Quality but good enough to get promoted. In this category the Maps will stay like 3-4 days rather than 7 is on Epics Picks. The way you could apply for this category would be the same form as Epics Picks with a difference this will called Epic Recommends.
I think thats it for now i am sure i forgot alot of things hah but its ok.
