Everyone is enjoying Fortnite these days. Your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your boss, your dog, your grandma even. To those informal players, Fortnite looks as if a goofy, lighthearted, third-particular person-shooter survival game that doesn’t have that a lot to it.
Alternatively, game-builders understand that — behind the scenes — Fortnite is a gaming MASTERPIECE that belongs subsequent to the Mona Lisa in the halls of history.
There are too many issues plaguing titles like Call of Duty, League of Legends, and Overwatch — that Fortnite solves — to count. Instead, I’m going to concentrate on the big one. The psychological phenomenon Fortnite has captured absolutely:

In summary though, "lose by a little, win by quite a bit" heavily encourages people to maintain enjoying a game because of two reasons.
If a player loses the game by just a little, they'll examine the state of the game and note that they were "just one or moves away from successful! I’ll win subsequent time for sure!"
If a player wins the game by lots, they can study the state of the game and note that they "are AMAZING on the game. I’m just going to knock out just a few more ranges while I’m on this scorching streak."
Candy Crush made tens of millions of dollars exploiting this idea. The gaming studio ‘King’ programmed Sweet Crush to ensure that when players misplaced, they only lost by ~1–5 moves. Furthermore, King programmed Candy Crush to dump loads of factors on the player after they already won.
It worked. At one level Sweet Crush was making $850,000 per day!
Which is certainly a hell of an accomplishment, but I’d argue that Candy Crush only artificially implemented "lose by a bit, win by a lot." By jamming their players with factors that they didn’t earn after they already won and guaranteeing they lose by ~1–5 moves nearly each game; competent players will discover a development almost immediately.
Personally once I played Candy Crush, I felt like I was getting bamboozled more than an urge to keep playing.
Fortnite is totally different though. Candy Crush scratches the surface on "lose by slightly, win by lots" whereas Fortnite lives and breathes it….
…and it’s dangerous.

Fortnite is so addictive because whenever you lose, you only lose by a hair. Players in this game have deceptively low HP (even with full shields and health). Realistically, you’re by no means more than 5 assault rifle shots away from sheer dying; and the moment you die, the first thing you see is the HEALTH BAR OF THE OPPONENT WHO SHOT YOU.
Fortnite players, gamin what number of instances has this scenario occurred to you? You’re in a room playing with a few of your buddies. The buddy who is enjoying is in a heated gun struggle with one other player. The buddy playing dies after which instantly screams "dang it! They had been sooooooo near dying!"
In all probability each freaking time. Epic Studios (the makers of Fortnite) know this. They made positive that gun fights nearly all the time lead to one player successful only by the skin of their teeth.

However although, the Fortnite map is YUGE. Once you do win a gun-struggle, the probability of having to struggle one other player within the subsequent 3–4 minutes is slim to none. This means you’re probably going to climb 10–30 ranks after profitable just one simple gunfight! Actually, it seems like the consensus is that the general winner of your entire game only averages ~5 kills.
Fornite is a game defined by how just 2 bullets is the difference between coming in 70th and thirtieth… that’s why it’s so addicting.
After losing in Fortnite, practically every gamer believes that these 2 bullets are going to fall their way subsequent game.