Shame none of that is going towards UT development and Epic scrapped that project. Considering the state of the new Quake game I guess that's the end for Arena shooters.
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#12Hopefully this shows others that you can make successful games without pay to win mechanics.
Steam has been doing this for awhile. CS:GO, DotA2, etc come to mind.
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#13What does HN people think on the whole idea of stealing concept from PUBG? I am kind of divided on this topic.
What about Mario clones? (platformers)
Doom clones? (first person shooters)
Warcraft clones? (real time strategy)
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#14What does HN people think on the whole idea of stealing concept from PUBG? I am kind of divided on this topic.
The fast follower beating the original by offering a lower price is a well established business trend. Usually works pretty well. I just don't understand why PUBG isn't free yet.
PUBG doesn't have the scope for skins in the same way that Fortnite does. Fortnite's art style lends itself way better to crazy skins. It's also played more by a younger generation who are more likely to buy digital accessories (that's just IMO tho)
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#15What does HN people think on the whole idea of stealing concept from PUBG? I am kind of divided on this topic.
It’s interesting becuase I saw PUBG as an adaptation of Sa-Matras excellent Arma 3 wasteland mod which included all of the elements seen in fortnite/pubg like: scavenging firearms, building and free-for-all/teamwork choice through the Blufor/Opfor/Independent team selection.
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#16> ...has popularized the battle royale category — think Lord of the Flies meets Hunger Games — almost single-handedly... Almost single-handedly? This is a bizarre claim and it's like rewriting history.
This can be debated. Although Rust/H1Z1/PUBG were certainly popular battle royale games before Fortnite, Fortnite was the only one that brought it mainstream, outside the hardcore gamer ecosystem.
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#17Shame none of that is going towards UT development and Epic scrapped that project. Considering the state of the new Quake game I guess that's the end for Arena shooters.
It's too bad, but arena shooters have been dying as a category ever since around UT3. I'm hopeful they'll make a resurgence in the future.
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#18What does HN people think on the whole idea of stealing concept from PUBG? I am kind of divided on this topic.
I don't really see it any different than stealing the concept of FPS from companies that came before, or from stealing the concept of video games from the original creators. I see no issue with it, much like I see no issue with all sorts of games borrowing from LOTR (or from other sources that eventually trace their way back to LOTR). Even PUBG stole the concept from others. It reminds me a lot of Hunger Games actual battles (not the teenage romance angst portions), and Hunger Games effectively stole the idea from elsewhere. (And likely I'm missing links in the chain of who stole what from who, and I don't even like the idea of calling it stealing.)
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#19What does HN people think on the whole idea of stealing concept from PUBG? I am kind of divided on this topic.
PUBG did it to themselves. The game just doesn't run well, so people are moving on to better versions of the battle royale experience (Fortnite, Black Ops 4, etc).
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#20What does HN people think on the whole idea of stealing concept from PUBG? I am kind of divided on this topic.
What was it that was stole from PUBG?