Really Pants posted:

buy Star Citizen

The 7th Guest posted:

if it wasn't for PUBG working with them in the early going, fortnite would've just been a tower defense game, and they'd be known more as a developer for abandoning paragon and unreal tournament. they had effort to go along with their luck but they were still loving lucky as poo poo.

(well that and using those internal discussions with the pubg developer to make their own pubg mode at the same time, which is why that lawsuit happened)

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chumbler posted:

Speaking of indie games, the Gigabuster kickstarter's not going to make it. Only a couple days left and it's only at ~1/3 last I checked. Why can't the rest of the internet also want a new Mega Man Zero?

mutata posted:

I'd like to see some sources that Fortnite BR came about through some kind of private discussions and not by just looking at the genre in general and going "Oh yeah let's make one of those". Most games that get so big are definitely there because of luck, but Epic has capitalized on that luck WAY more effectively than PUBG.

Wikipedia posted:

This release, which beat out Battlegrounds to consoles, caused some concern with Battlegrounds developer Bluehole, as they had been working closely with Epic for Unreal engine support in Battlegrounds, and were worried that Fortnite might be able to include planned features to their Battle Royale mode before they could release those in Battlegrounds.

International Business Times posted:

"We've had an ongoing relationship with Epic Games throughout PUBG's development as they are the creators of UE4, the engine we licensed for the game," said Chang Han Kim, vice president and executive producer for Bluehole Inc, the team behind the shooter.

"After listening to the growing feedback from our community and reviewing the gameplay for ourselves, we are concerned that Fortnite may be replicating the experience for which PUBG is known."

The statement comes after Greene (also known as PlayerUnknown) partook in a Reddit Q&A and answered a question about Fortnite Battle Royale. He said: "Other companies will, of course, enter the marketplace, but I would just hope they put their own spin on the game mode and not just make a carbon copy!"

Black August posted:

I never funded a single Kickstarter and every Kickstarter I DID want to fund and made their goals all never put the game out and folded after a few years

Seems like nobody wants to gamble money on vaporware anymore hmmmmmmmmmmmmm wonder whyyyyyyy

In Training posted:

Fortnite has polish?

Microcline posted:

The dev who made Defender's Quest did a pretty decent write-up of why making a Steam competitor is hard

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-steam/

Essentially you have to have deep enough pockets to bribe users to use your system (and consider that people still buy games on Steam despite being able to buy the keys on GMG for about 15-25% off) and bribe developers to put content on it (the best and most expensive being exclusive content).

The scenario we're already seeing is big publishers creating their own walled garden and subscription services and Steam correspondingly lowering the cut they take and increasing the exposure they give to these publishers.

Indies have a bigger problem than Steam, which is that they're close to an ideal market (low barriers to entry due to small development and marketing budgets, a massive number of competitors because everyone wants to make a game, low information asymmetry due to refunds) and that makes it very difficult to profit.

homeless snail posted:

as far at battle royale games go, its by the far the most polished. read into that what you want lmao

In Training posted:

Fortnite has polish?

In Training posted:

What about BLOPSIIII.

FirstAidKite posted:

bushisms.txt posted:

Pick better. I've kick-started over 30 different projects and only 1 has failed to deliver. No excuse for mismanaged projects, but some research has to be done.

exquisite tea posted:

PUBG looks and plays like a 360 game from 2010 so I don't see why Epic would ever use it to advertise UE4.

Black August posted:

Nah I’m happier watching them burn and sifting through the ashes for the ones that succeed and release something six years after their promised release date, and THEN buying it

homeless snail posted:

there is one thing that is kind of cool about fortnite and that is that they're constantly changing it, and not like for the better or necessarily for the worse, just loving it up and making it weird. like for a couple weeks there will just be a loving cube rolling around the world destroying things, and fighting near the cube gives you certain advantages, and then cube rolled into the lake and turned it into bouncy jello, before ultimately enchanting the island and making it float into the sky, and also certain areas that the cube rolled over are now cursed with shadow energy and make you temporarily invisible, and then the island broke into pieces and the pieces started slowly flying over the map, and now half the map is covered in snow and there are airplanes.

people are always talking bullshit about Games As A Service, but fortnite is the only game that justifies it with how often and how weirdly they update it

like what the gently caress is this poo poo, its so dumb but its going to be part of the game for a few weeks lmao
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1072621959672942597

homeless snail posted:

there is one thing that is kind of cool about fortnite and that is that they're constantly changing it, and not like for the better or necessarily for the worse, just loving it up and making it weird. like for a couple weeks there will just be a loving cube rolling around the world destroying things, and fighting near the cube gives you certain advantages, and then cube rolled into the lake and turned it into bouncy jello, before ultimately enchanting the island and making it float into the sky, and also certain areas that the cube rolled over are now cursed with shadow energy and make you temporarily invisible, and then the island broke into pieces and the pieces started slowly flying over the map, and now half the map is covered in snow and there are airplanes.

people are always talking bullshit about Games As A Service, but fortnite is the only game that justifies it with how often and how weirdly they update it

like what the gently caress is this poo poo, its so dumb but its going to be part of the game for a few weeks lmao
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1072621959672942597

FirstAidKite posted:

homeless snail posted:

there is one thing that is kind of cool about fortnite and that is that they're constantly changing it, and not like for the better or necessarily for the worse, just loving it up and making it weird. like for a couple weeks there will just be a loving cube rolling around the world destroying things, and fighting near the cube gives you certain advantages, and then cube rolled into the lake and turned it into bouncy jello, before ultimately enchanting the island and making it float into the sky, and also certain areas that the cube rolled over are now cursed with shadow energy and make you temporarily invisible, and then the island broke into pieces and the pieces started slowly flying over the map, and now half the map is covered in snow and there are airplanes.

people are always talking bullshit about Games As A Service, but fortnite is the only game that justifies it with how often and how weirdly they update it

like what the gently caress is this poo poo, its so dumb but its going to be part of the game for a few weeks lmao
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1072621959672942597

bushisms.txt posted:

Pick better. I've kick-started over 30 different projects and only 1 has failed to deliver. No excuse for mismanaged projects, but some research has to be done.

chumbler posted:

They've realized esports is actually kind of a load and at most just advertisement, and for player retention making frequent noticeable changes matters more. People are going to come back for a monthly thing that drastically changes a game or buffs something they like more than a biweekly notepad document of +1 damage to something, -1 to something else. Balance is an illusion, people only care about avoiding boredom.

DOUBLE CLICK HERE posted:

I've learned the top DMC4 speedrun is done entirely on a keyboard. A little hosed up if you ask me.