Bluehole is concerned, not because Fortnite has the Battle Royale mode, similar to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, but because improvements developed for this game are used in Epic Games' own game.

The brutal success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is not going unnoticed by anyone, but less by Epic Games, who wants to climb the goose that lays the golden eggs, but with an almost traced imitation of the game but with Cartoon graphics. Fortnite in its new game mode, the Battle Royale is raising blisters in Bluehole, due to the similarity in the gameplay, movements, cities and even parachuting and it is something that the developers of PUBG do not like. 'Replicating the experience', or plagiarizing it in other words, is really upsetting PUBG developers.

Changhan Kim, executive producer of the game, has come out to speak and comment that 'there were other Battle Royale game modes released earlier this year', such as the one that was released in GTA Online, something that 'never was a problem. I think it's great that there is more competition and everyone should be able to create their own Battle Royale mode. ' This is why the criticism goes more towards Epic Games, developer of the game: 'It is not about the idea itself, but about Epic Games. It is a simple gameplay and we are not claiming any ownership of this judgible option. The problem arises because it is from Epic Games', rather referring to the graphics engine of both titles, Unreal Engine 4.

What Bluehole is afraid of is that the graphics engine, developed by the competition, could end up deliberately damaging them. 'We are starting to worry that they are going to develop new features or improve something in the engine for our Battle Royale and then use it for their own game mode' Fortnite will hardly be competition for PUBG, but this starts a debate, about until what point, in this case, a company can benefit from the work of another in graphic development and optimization, among others.

Source: PCGamer