Yes, in the summer of 2017, after six years of development, a massive company-wide rescoping, the departure of several key higher-ups, and the impending destruction of Paragon, Fortnitehit Early Access on all platforms… and made a medium-sized splash. It’s hard to keep in mind now that we live in a world where Drake is jumping on livestreams, but I remember people playing that Early Access release, and coming away with subdued, but mostly-nice things to say. The PvE experience (now called Save TheWorld, then called, simply, Fortnite) earned genial takes from thoughtful websites, and I think most people were happy that Epic finally managed to get a working piece of software out the door. Three months later, everything changed.…