{"id":7167,"date":"2019-06-21T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:12:39","slug":"this-video-game-was-almost-cancelled-before-it-was-ever-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/impossible-question\/2019\/06\/this-video-game-was-almost-cancelled-before-it-was-ever-released\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS Video Game Was Almost Cancelled Before It Was Ever Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANSWER &#8211; <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fortnite<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grand Theft Auto\u2026\u2026\u2026.. Super Mario Brothers\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 World of Warcraft<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has more than 250 MILLION registered players . . . and since last year, it&#8217;s generated more than $2.5 BILLION in revenue. But the whole game was almost CANCELED before it came out in July of 2017.\u00a0<strong>Rod Fergusson<\/strong>, a former production lead at Epic Games, said he\u00a0tried to kill\u00a0<em>&#8220;Fortnite&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0way back in 2011.\u00a0 He said he wanted to scrap it because of internal challenges, which seems legitimate, since it took more than six years of work before the game was ready to launch.\u00a0 Rod ended up leaving Epic in 2012, and\u00a0<em>&#8220;Fortnite&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0survived.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ee5XHCQTeC0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Impossible Question ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impossible-question"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 11:20:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/impossible-question\/2019\/06\/this-video-game-was-almost-cancelled-before-it-was-ever-released\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7175,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}