They could have been phenomenally successful if they released a game with rollback back when there were almost none. Then 2021 came along and rollback fighters are basically all that exist anymore.
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missingno@fedia.io 1 day ago
Still thinking back to when this was first announced and people were hyping it up like the mere presence of Riot's money was going to result in Project L completely dominating the entire rest of the FGC combined by an order of magnitude. I knew from the start that it would never live up to such unrealistic expectations.
From what I've heard, it doesn't sound like the game even did that badly, I wish some of my other favorite games had as healthy of a playerbase. But we're in this weird world where some games are perfectly comfortable with whatever audience they get and others have to pull the plug ASAP if they doesn't hit Fortnite-sized numbers overnight.
They just needed to have realistic expectations and they could've been fine with what they have.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Laser@feddit.org 17 hours ago
The hope wasn’t that the game would dominate the existing FGC, but that the IP would have such a massive pull that it would expand the FGC so much (and in the longer term, make the players be l branch into other games in the genre).
I don’t know what Riot expected, the genre is niche and from what I’ve heard, the game wasn’t very accessible in the first place, basically trading old hard stuff against new one (not that me being on Linux could have tried it myself), so yeah. My league friends didn’t even try it
And say what you want about SNK and their Saudi money, there’s a lot of valid criticism, but CotW is probably the best-supported and fairest game currently out.
Fuck the Saudis and Ronaldo though
missingno@fedia.io 14 hours ago
And even ten years ago I thought that was delusional.