Destruction AllStars - Season 1 - Hot Shots Trailer

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Roll out the red carpet, Destruction AllStars Season 1 – Hotshots is nearly here. Play as the newest AllStar, Alba and score tons of seasonal swag with the AllStar Pass. Earn over 100 unique items including Destruction Points, Epic & Heroic skins and emotes.
 
I actually liked this game. It's fun to pick up and play when you don't feel like playing anything atm, but not a game I'd invest time heavily into. Same goes for Rocket League.
 
I don't understand why they call it "Season 1" when there's only one anyway.
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played this game once when we picked up on PS+ and have not played it since. Fun little game but was never going to be the new rocket league unfortunately.
 
It's a fun little game to play every now and then, a bit like diving into Pac Man 99 once every couple of days. I don't understand the negative reaction to it... it's fun, harmless, and quick.
 
It's amazing to me that people think these games are a good idea to develop. Kudos to the developers for what they made but trying to hit it off as the next big fortnite or whatever is lightning in a bottle. Just watching the videos before release it looked like a $5 bin game
 
I wonder if giving it away free actually hurt it over the long run. Sure, they got a lot of people at the beginning, but people tend to stick to games they purchase. "Free" games can be tossed aside without a second thought.
 
Will Season two add a 1v1 mode so people can actually find a game to join? because I doubt being able to get monochrome versions of the same old skins as before is going to draw anyone back into this.

The biggest problem are the characters, most of the Fortnite stuff I see is "omg look at this guest character doing a stupid dance" which drives the ongoing conversation around Fortnite and it's constant updates. That could of been this game, they could have put a bunch of Sony mascots in here with stupid vehicles, Kratos in a bone charriot or something. But instead we have this cast of.. I don't even know, just fucking boring characters nobody would ever want to pick if the roster had anybody other than them in it.

The idea that Fortnite got Kratos, Aloy and co before this is just a colossal missed opportunity. They need to pivot hard, focus on the girl with the cat ears, add more emotes, add more social sharing; get some more obscure guest characters with stupid cars to make people remember this game exists on reddit/neogaf etc.
 
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I'm always amazed that studios making multiplayer games don't anticipate the potential popularity of the game and can't offer post launch content in the first weeks. Even though Destruction AllStars was probably a lost cause no matter what it could've helped to launch this in the first two months when the game was still in PS+ and gaining new players.
 
Something that might get people to go back to this game

Weapons.

Add guns and make it a twisted metal like arena shooter.
 
I wonder if giving it away free actually hurt it over the long run. Sure, they got a lot of people at the beginning, but people tend to stick to games they purchase. "Free" games can be tossed aside without a second thought.

I'm not sure what the answer is but one thing's for sure, it was never EVER going to work at $70. That was crazy. And then having to backtrack and give it away after all just gave it the stench of death.

I think the the eventual strategy of free for 2 months then $20 was about right. I mean, maybe it just wasn't any good, or maybe people were too put off by the sudden reduction in price.
 
Maybe Sony should have waited until there were 20+ million PS5s sold before making this game.
 
this died so fast, like record breaking fast. I actually feel for the devs. This is sonys bleeding edge. Good luck team :(
 
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