you're almost making it sounds like apex legends isn't a massive success
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you're almost making it sounds like apex legends isn't a massive success
And that's my point. If it has amazing gameplay, the market leaders will adopt it. The playerbase, for the most part, isn't moving. Not when they're trying so hard to be the same thing but better, in an effort to chase a market. It's why World of Warcraft stayed on top all these years as well. Too many devs trying to create the same thing but better, leads to Blizzard saying "hey, great idea!" and adding to WoW. The playerbase is already hooked, and hard to move if you're intent on playing copycat.
This looks awesome. Riot being behind it + f2p means it's going to be far more successful than Overwatch. They're paying attention to the right things to build an esports scene too, and Riot obviously has experience there.
Game is going to be big.
Game is going to be big.
Yeah. Next League.
It'll 100% be f2p since they want to target the Asian market, but I'd be amazed if they gate any characters. They'll probably just sell cosmetics since I can't imagine they're planning on have anywhere near the roster size as LoL.
It will be F2P but we don't have confirmation about characters being gated. There will be 8 at launch nut hundreds like League. It almost feels like gating wouldn't work really work in a shooter. Hopefully they just go with cosmetic microtrasactions.
CSGO has had no competition. This game will have new game hype, it will be massive on twitch and it will be free to play and run on potatoes. People wan't CSGO but better.
Yeah, remember the game that logged 70 million players within an year of launch and is a gigantic cash cow for EA? It was too late to the market, and so could only get a fraction of the player base. A shame really. Everybody was already so hooked to PUBG that no one bothered to play it. Except 70 million players, that is.
It's doing really well, and I don't mean to take away from that =) It's just not going to dethrone Fortnite. And maybe that's not the goal here either! Maybe they don't want to be the market leader. In which case, no problem, they're on the right track with a copycat game.
You're acting like it need to dethrone Fortnite. It doesn't.
This is one of those games that I will probably never hear about again and when I look it up it's going to have 350 million active players.
Hopefully it's a bit more accessible for someone like myself too, find I'm in over my head with League.
Y'know what, hey, I'm excited for this. Honestly this'll probably be a lot more polished than CSGO is. That's why I've personally played Siege more since it came into its own. That and after a decade+ of playing CS it feels kind of stale to me. The Hero-Shooter design of this will really shake things up TBH.
And yes, while Siege is indeed "Hero Shooter CS" it also in a way really isn't CS given the Interiors-Only level design, and emphasis on intel control, destruction, and breaching, which creates a significantly different dynamic from CS even without Hero Shooter mechanics, among several other design factors.
And yes, while Siege is indeed "Hero Shooter CS" it also in a way really isn't CS given the Interiors-Only level design, and emphasis on intel control, destruction, and breaching, which creates a significantly different dynamic from CS even without Hero Shooter mechanics, among several other design factors.
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This is ironic when CS:GO is bigger than ever in the year 2020.
And Riot is not going to make a better CS:GO by adding "characters with abilities" to the formula.
You are really betting on people leaving CS:GO to jump on this game.
It sounds like from your first post this needs to dethrone CSGO and it's too late etc. etc
I dont think EA or Respawns goal was to dethrone fortnite.
If the brevity of your optics on how big a game is, is literally "did it dethrone fortnite?" You need to look realistically. Which, no worries there, companies pay people to do that for them!
Personally I cant wait to see how Valorant shakes up the field.
Read the CS pro impressions. The abilities enhance the gunfight. The say it makes the game more tactical and deeper than CSGO. These aren't overwatch abilities that dominate over guns. Plus they are focusing on the right things. Higher tickrate servers, killing peekers advantage etc. I'd peronally like a new game where you don'tr go AK, M4 or APP 909% of the time.
I mean I find it disappointing when devs chase trends. Often they want to be the new market leader (see Elder Scrolls Online for example) and it's just obviously not going to happen. Even if that's not the goal, and they're content with stealing a piece of the pie, it's still boring to see devs content with being derivative. Dota 2's spinoffs, Artifact and Underlords, seem equally bland to me. But that's fine if that's how they want to spend dev time: "There's a hot trend we need to chase! Copy it but add something slightly new!". Just not for me =)
I really think there's place for another game in line with cs. And the players base is looking for one for years now.
It's not even just targeting CSGO. They want crossfire. The biggest fps in the world and a CS clone that took of in Asia in a way that CSGO hasn't.
CROSSFIRE is one of the most played online FPS games worldwide, with over 8 million concurrent users and 650 million registered players.
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And you think the CS community wants abilities because some CS pro impressions say that they like them?
And good luck with that.
Interesting! Ive never heard of this game but its wild its super popular. Gotta watch the video when I have time.
You're exactly right. Most of CSGO players map veto new maps and complain about gun changes....I doubt there will be a mass move to a new game, especially one with heroes. People play CS because it's CS. Some say it's "stale", some say don't fix what isn't broken.
Both games will coexist just fine.
No but it shows they are perhaps not what people expect when they read hero abilities and how they effect the game.
Era is generally completely clueless when it comes to anything online and/or competitive.
A developer which success is based on a game that copies another game makes a new game that copies another popular game. Who would've thought.
All the people on my Twitter feed seem to believe this is the CS/Overwatch killer, that every single thing about it seems perfect and that they are ready to devote their lives to it... Then they complain about the name, the visuals, etc.
It's almost as if people are infatuated with the idea of the game, rather than the actual thing. I'm a console players so I'll probably never see this thing, but the idea of a 1 shot kill to the head makes me nope out of this real fast. I'll stick to Overwatch.
It's almost as if people are infatuated with the idea of the game, rather than the actual thing. I'm a console players so I'll probably never see this thing, but the idea of a 1 shot kill to the head makes me nope out of this real fast. I'll stick to Overwatch.
Riot might copy other genres, but they almost always perfect that genre =)
CS GO have over 20 million active players, so no crossfire is not the most played online FPS now
Crossfire has over 8 times the concurrent player count of CSGO's record high. It's bigger than CSGO and comparable with Fortnite numbers.
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CS:Go has currently 800k concurrent players, with a 925k peak today.
CF, according to the devs, has around 7-8 million concurrent players on average.
