Bottom line: Ease of accessibility. Beyond that: High skill ceiling but anyone can play even if they suck and still enjoy themselves. Took a pre-existing formula and made it more generally appealing. Free to play. Skins. Bright colours. Sound effects like a slot machine. Well optimized.

It’s absolutely a LoL/DotA, Guitar Hero/Rock Band, Marvel/DC situation of “this town is barely big enough for two of us”.

So they had a massive failure of a game where the main 2 complaints were 1. That it was entering an over-saturated market currently dominated by one popular title (Overwatch) and 2. It’s very edgy aesthetic. They decide to follow this up with a seemingly out of nowhere entry in what is soon to be the most…

I look down on both games. I’m already onto the next big thing. A battle royale game where your only weapon is the merciless surgical precision of interpretive dance.

Why is it so hard for these morons to keep their god damn mouths shut?

Woops, RIP career. Was it worth it?

You’ll never find it, because that early MMO magic was a combination of the time in which those games came out, your younger self, and the “oh wow!” newness of a living, changing online world. Those times are gone.

Will never forget my teen years spent trying to level to 75 in FFXI pre any expansions, just the act of forming a group of random rag-tag heroes and trying to make a functioning party out of people from all different countries and backgrounds. It was so satisfying when it worked, but also so brutally punishing when it…

We can even take it one step further. Real players don’t fuck around with these f2p soft-ass-mechanic’d fad shooters on anything.

Guys, stop being dipshits, if girls want to play video games even if it is a free to play kids game on mobile LET THEM PLAY AND ENJOY THEMSELVES. There’s nothing wrong with women who don’t normally game getting more into gaming, that’s a GOOD THING for all of us, why can’t we share our enjoyment?

This is one reason that I’ve never understood the hostility from many straight men to women playing video games. People should be able to do what they like, and it’s awesome if other people you may be attracted to are also doing the things you like.

100%. Imagine being able to approach your crush back in the day with a line like “Hey if you want to get better at this video game, I have a bunch of wins in it and I play a lot, I can give you some pointers”. The fact that it might result in a positive exchange would absolutely blow my high school selfs mind.

Damn, I would have killed to have so many girls interested in mainstream gaming when I was in high school. All these boys are lacking vision: a shared interest is an unbeatable icebreaker. Dumbasses.

“Real players are on console” is clearly not as sad as the generally sexist arguments, but it’s doing its best to compete.

We do! We need much more Dragon Ball Super!

Pro tip: Never take anything online to heart and your feelings wont get hurt.

Activision, EA or Ubi are going to eat PUBG’s lunch with a polished take.

“I thought I’d stab him in his sleep”, “I was trying to kill him for cheating”...pleads not guilty.

“I wasn’t a sweaty nerd, more of an Ethlete,”

You're right. If the guy managed to get that many weapons there's no reason for the others to have zero equipment.