When anybody copies anything, whether it be yesterday's homework or a triple-A video game, that person or company is usually slammed for doing so. Unusually, though, that's not the case for Fortnite, as the game wears almost𝓀 all of its influences on its sleeve despite still continuing to dominate the market.

Now, with Fortnite's new season making its debut and once again inducing a freakout amongst most of the gaming community, it's safe to say that Fortnite might go down as one of the most popular games of all time. But for a while, I thought the light we see Fortnite in would be somewhere I'd see PUBG one day.

When PUBG dropped, it gave us the best take of the battle royale formula and the game seemed to be growing by the second. But it was held back by poor performance issues and terrible optimization, only giving a “good” experience for PC owners with great graphics cards. And it only got worse for PUBG when they released maybe one of the worsꩵt console ports ever.

Suffice to say that Fortnite had ample opportunities to capitalize and become THE battle royale of today. But instead of giving us an entirely brand new take on the battle royale genre, Fortnite really boiled down to a PUBG/Minecraft clone. It may be an undoubtedly fun game, but we're going to call a spade a spade, and today we're going to go through all the things Fortnite has ripped off.

30 Ripped Of⛦f: The Battle Royale Formula

Yes, we know, just like The Hunger Games, PUBG didn’t invent the battle royale formula, so many might say that it doesn’t matter that Fortnite ripped this particular thing off. Buuuut, just as The Hunger Games popularized battle royale in movies, PUBG was 🦹responsible for popularizing this formula in video games.

Fortnite also did a good job of copying the exact style of PUBG’s battle royale, but we’ll get into that later.

PUBG didn’t invent battle royale, but they still deserve a ton of credit for making it what it is today. Sorry Fortnite fans, this one was a shameless rip-off.

29 ꦫ Ripped Off: 100 Player Lobbies

Now that we’ve got some of the meat and potatoes out of the way, it’s time to dive into the finer details of how Fortnite rips off PUBG. Starting with one that par🌼ticularly feels like a blatant rip-off, keeping the lobby sizes to 100.

Sure, 100 feels like a great number, we celebrate it greater tꦡhan most birthdays, Drake’s made a song on it, and heck, it even has an emoji.

But Fortnite choosing this particular number just feels too on the nose to the game sizes in PUBG.

28 Does Better: 🦹Free To Play

Allow me to say that if you purchased PUBG in its early access form, you probably made your money back by selling tons of free skins for bloated prices on the Steam marketplace. But most people probably weren’t as fortunate, and not only had to pay for PUBG but also have to look at all the microtransactions as they play their🎀 game.

Fortnite deserves a ton of credit for how they rolled out their game versus PUBG. Making Fortnite a free-to-play game validates the reasons for the affordable battle pass and﷽ all the other cosmetics that the game offers.

27 Ripped Off: The Game Modes🧔 And Variations

Fortnite just didn’t take the high road when it came to shaping its battle royale mode. Instead of separating their mode from the competition like how GTA V did with their battle royale mode, they shamelessly and obviously ripped off features like player count, and game modes/vari🍨ations.

Most of the time in Fortnite you have the opportunity to play in squads, duos, or by yourself to take on the other meme dancing 6th graders you're probably playing against. Sounds an awful lot like PUBG, which offers the exact same game mod💯es and variations.

26 🍃 Ripped Off: The Blue Circle From PUBG With The Storm

The Storm is an undoubtedly cool feature: you’re caved in on this island and are slowly being pushed towards the middle by this abundance of fog known as the Storm. Too bad the Storm is yet another feature that feels creative, yet is another rip off of PUBG’s blue circle.

The blue circle in PUBG acts exactly as the Storm does, moving players towards the center but instead with damage dealt by an aura of blueness.

Fortnite’s version is definitely the more memorable version🐈, but i🃏t still counts as a rip-off.

25 Does Better: Apparel And Cosmetics 🌳 ꦗ

Not only does Fortnite do a better job of how they roll out their skins and costumes, but they also just have better cosmetics than PUBG. Fortnite’s skins have become iconic to the gaming industry ranging from tomato 𓆉heads to full-on armors like the Omega outfit.

While PUBG's cosmetics are pretty good too with outfits like the trench coat and now the new weapon skins. We just can’t help but feel like PUBG's skins are just stale in comparison to Fortnite.

24 🦂 🦹 Ripped Off: Unreal Engine

This is where PUBG’s infamous lawsuit against Epic Games and Fortnite comes into play. Both Fortnite and PUBG use the Unreal Engine, which might paint Fortnite as the robbers of yet another aspect, but, this situation gets a lot dicier when you realize the owner of that engine, Epic Games, also makes Fortnite. Yikes.

Apparently, the lawsuit was fueled with resentment because Epic Games wasn’t completely cooperating with helping the PUBG devs in optimizing the engine for their games.

Obviously Epic would have no reason to help out their competitors, but this whole situation just seems so shady that we don’t even know what to make oജf it.

23 Rippe🅰d Off: The Way You St🌼art Off Each Game

One thing you gotta give credit to Fortnite for is that they may wear their influences on their sleeves, but they do a dang good job at pimping out those ideas. Take the plane from PUBG for example: yet another thing that Fortnite has stolen and reimagined for their game.

The Plane from PUBG gave players a unique and pretty cool way to start off games.

Guess this was just yet another good idea that the Fortnite devs couldn’t live without; so add the battle bus to the list of the things of things that Fortnite has ripped off.

22 💯 Does Bꦡetter: Taunts And Dances

PUBG, a more serious take on the battle royale formula, has no real place for things like taunts and dances. Sure, taunts are getting more and more popular in games, but they just don’t feel right in PUBG. I guess the devs didn’t care when they saw how popular they were in Fortnite.

Fortnite dances and taun📖ts have become a sensation, inspiring cringey yet occasionally funny videos across the internet. And I’m sure you’ve seen kids doing the dances from time to time. Sure, you want to shake your head out of moderate to severe disappointment, but you can’t deny this sensation.

21 Ripped Off: Bush Outfit (Based On The Ghillie Suit) 🐼

More of a minor nitpick, but those count too! The bush outfit is another staple from Fortnite, yet it’s pretty easy to spot similarities between the disguise and PUBG’s Ghillie suit.

Once again we find Fortnite guilty of ripping off something and making it more playful for their game and their audiences.

Both of these outfits are extremely rare to find in a game, but they both offer a coveted outfit that allows you to camouflage with the environment. Though it is admittedly more fun to watch someone stumble around as a bush in Fortnite.