Doesn’t this already exist? I could have swore one of the open source Minecraft clones had a battle royale mod.
There are definitely free battle royale games out there though I don’t know of their cosmetic unlocks situation.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days agoI mean… You could make a knock-off Fortnite, make the cosmetics unlocked by just playing, and give it away for free. That would probably be enough to topple Fortnite. It just also would net you exactly 0 profit.
Justdaveisfine@midwest.social 3 days ago
darthelmet@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Maybe. But you’d need servers. And that would cost a lot of money for something aiming to be that scale.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
You do what games used to do: provide the server software to every player so they can run their own. This also means the game can never die.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I mean that’s literally just Minecraft hunger games at this point.
The reason Fortnite is popular isn’t it’s outstanding gameplay, it’s a network effect coupled with the sillyness of the various IPs interacting. People play Fortnite because their friends play Fortnite.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You seem like you might know, why’s it called fortnight?