Houseparty App verschwindet ab Oktober

Auch der Fortnite-Modus in Houseparty ist damit eingestellt. Das Unternehmen hinter dem populären Spiel, Epic Games, hatte Houseparty 2019 übernommen. Inzwischen arbeitet das Entwickler:innen-Team allerdings an neuen Experiences in der Epic-Games-Welt – und hat nun wenig Zeit, um Houseparty den eigenen Ansprüchen gerecht zu bedienen:

The team behind Houseparty is working on creating new ways to have meaningful and authentic social interactions at metaverse scale across the Epic Games family. Since joining Epic, the Houseparty team’s social vision and core technology have already contributed to new features used by hundreds of millions of people in Fortnite and by developers around the world. As a result, we can’t give the app or our community the attention that it deserves. While Houseparty may be going away, we hope that the memories you’ve made will last a lifetime.

Laut Analyseplattform SensorTower verzeichnete Houseparty im August 2021 bei Android 200.000 und bei iOS rund 500.000 Downloads.