• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    They honestly need to look at Fortnite as the model. It wasn’t meant to be this massive AAA game. It was a modest game with a unique concept (building). Adding battle royal was done on a whim. It just happened to click with millions of people.

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        7 days ago

        I don’t think this is quite right as BRs were new at the time. When Fortnite released there was really only PUBG in the battle royale space.

        I believe it was something closer to a prototype they made in a month or two simply because they liked Battle Royales and thought it would be a fun gamemode to add a side thing.

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          6 days ago

          there was really only PUBG in the battle royale space

          H1Z1 really having an Ozymandias moment rn

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            6 days ago

            I couldn’t remember the name of this one, but looking it up, it actually had really good numbers in the range of 80-150k concurrent players.

            So I was wrong, I recalled PUBG being the dominant game at the time with very little of anything else near its numbers.