You were so close and yet you still missed the mark.
I will repeat this in every thread, the game's peak player count on steam was almost 100k. If the game was good, then they would have found success, no matter who hated it beforehand.
Gamers don't root for random games to fail. They root for certain games to fail because developers and the industry at large isn't listening to them and what games they want, and the only message these entities seem to hear is when a game bombs, so gamers root for that to happen to get the message across.
That's true, but let's not forget that this was a live service game. Live service games are inherently predatory, designed to get a small group of whales to spend enormous irresponsible amounts of money on them. You just need to look at the art style and gameplay elements to see that this wasn't some passion project that was the devs dream to create (unless if trying to make lots of money counts as a passion on its own lol), this was their attempt at making another one of those. The problem was that they didn't do a good job of it, and because they were making a live service game, I don't think they deserve much sympathy. Also I think part of the reason for the hate is because people want fewer live service games.
And dont go balls deep blowing the budget on some crap nobody wants. But just like a poor family winning the lottery, once someone gets a bag of money it's time for everyone at the company to magically become Mr. Bottomless Pockets. Fast forward a couple years and they are broke.
That's why you never go radio silent on a unproven MP only game, hell not even on SP games. They did this shit to themselves.
I think it's much less because of the radio silence, and more so on the fact that they didn't do external testing whatsoever. The radio silence approach worked for Apex Legends, but it was a different time and a different game. They thought they could do that here. I wouldn't be surprised if Apex had more testing behind closed doors, etc. It sounds like Highguard didn't whatsoever, maybe aside from just close friends and family I guess.
I mean Apex truly came out of nowhere in a time where the gente wasn't as tried and tired as nowadays.
It was definitely a time that wasn't as saturated and strained as it is now. Yeah, I mean think about it, people complained about performance, external testing could've helped with that. People also complained about the 3v3 choice, various gameplay mechanics, and balance. Other things that external testing could've helped with.
I mean, I don't watch his videos myself because I don't want outrage farming videos and genuine racism and sexism to take over my youtube algorithm (not necessarily even because of what he apparently says but because of a significant number of his fans. you've only to take a peek at kotakuinaction to see that some (again, not all) of those people are pretty nuts), but anyone can be right every so often, and judging from what people are saying here this is one of those times where he was at least partially right.
Eh. I just think a good game will succeed, and a bad game will not succeed. The game was fine for a lot of people apparently, but fine wasn't enough for them to succeed, and that's really it.
Was fine for a few people, the masses rejected it
Exactly, and for a number of reasons. If the game was phenomenal, the outcome would be different. But it wasn't, so here we are, lol.
I think I saw someone mention a character having specific pronouns in their bio, but that was it? So, aside from some text, nothing else as far as I know.
fuck off with required tutorials
