Penny Arcade - Comic - Nite Time Is The Rite Time
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Nite Time Is The Rite Time
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Son: Did you see in Fortnite they've-
Me: Have they brought back 50v50?
Son:...No.
Me: Then I don't care.
I doubt it. I'm sure the kids are still hugely into it. AL maybe bled off a lot the adult players.
And then the olds like me went to Tetris 99. There's a battle royale for everyone!
Not right away, but like as far as popular perception yes it very much is. It basically got pubg'd a new battle royale came around stole all its major players and now its relegated to being number 2, which is still good for now, but like I'm pretty sure epic expected to be number 1 this year and keep riding that fortnite money to boost their steam service replacement. Without that massive cash infusion they'll be hurting with the kind of deals they are making to lock up exclusivity.
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It seems like a good example of the divide between the "Gamer community Zeitgeist"--where you're either number one or you're zero, where Twitch streams matter more than sales revenue, and where Fortnite is so old it might as well be PUBG--and the actual "population who play video games", where millions of people still play Fortnite and Apex Legends is literally weeks old and vastly smaller.
Down the line, something is going to knock Fortnite down from the top spot, that much is inevitable. It might be Apex Legends, but it's simply too early.
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.... okay actually Fortnite did announce that you can run some achievements to unlock a free season 8 battle pass yesterday. Your call whether them giving away ~$10 is a sign of anything.
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I would argue very strongly that nothing has killed PUBG. It might not be Teh H0tnez, but it had 800,000 peak players today. More than any other game on Steam (although it's pretty much neck-and-neck with Dota 2). It's like saying the Eiffel Tower fell down because somebody built a taller building.
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I don't think I'd call it a $10 giveaway system-wide, though. Players who invest a moderate amount of time can easily earn enough V-bucks to cash out for battle passes in perpetuity, and even an old man like me am likely to complete enough challenges to earn the freebie. I guess in theory, it could be an indirect giveaway in that people who might have spent Vs on the pass can now spend them on cosmetics they might otherwise have had to microtransact. Assuming the people would buy them in the first place (a lot of defaults running around servers these days).
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Timely since DDO is about to celebrate 13th anniversary and get a 4th expansion in Sharn after first the F2P store turned the game around followed by the design house going independent has allowed them to keep producing content/classes/races.
Was thinking the same thing
No more Viva Piñata and no sequel to Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts are the biggest holes in this generation.
What's a Battle Royale?...
-Tycho Brahe
You know Tetris 99? They're ripoffs of that, but changed to be about shooting instead.
They finally finished Gone Home Royale?
The only time I have ever tuned in to Twitch was in a pre-buy situation where I was on the fence about a game, and I wanted to see a bit of gameplay before making the purchase. And I think 100% of the times I did that, I grew so annoyed with the person who was streaming that I tuned out almost instantly.
Seriously, how can people stand to watch these streamers when it's just a constant, never-ending barrage of "Thanks for the sub. Hey, thanks for the gems. Thanks for the love. Thanks for the gems. Thanks for the sub. Nice to have you, thanks for the sub. Thanks for the gems. Thanks for the sub. Thanks for the sub. Hey, thanks for the gems."
Like seriously, people find that entertaining? I don't get it. Like I say, I think I'm just old and out of it and completely do not understand modern gaming culture even a little bit.
I don't know why people get so "how can you do that?" When people watch all kinds of dumb things all the time. At times it feels a little onion man with no tv.
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I don’t watch streaming often. The times I do it’s either a pro game with announcers or a relatively chill streamer that isn’t constantly shouting.
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I think it really depends on the streamers. I greatly enjoy watching the PA crew play stuff, and interacting with a cast of regulars in the chat.
Can you at least throw your hat at people to take control of their bodies?
-Tycho Brahe
I know my own level of play(basically the bottom of the barrel in every game to ever exist or that ever will exist). Sometimes it is fun to see people actually good at the game beat people that aren't me. Sometimes the person playing has a fun or interesting personality or gimmick that makes them fun to watch even if they weren't playing the game. The game is just adding to the experience("this fun dude is playing that game I liked, how will he respond when he gets to the part I spent 4 days trying to do?").