The community are playing the main games,

People are playing Vampire Survivors because it’s Vampire Survivors. No one can say whether it would be the Flagship of its genre if genAI let someone create a passable knock-off in a week. Yeah, we’ve always had knock-offs but those required some modicum of effort to produce. And that effort took time, time where the original could become entrenched with people that like what it innovated on.

We can’t talk numbers because nobody has them, but I’m pessimistic that the majority of Vampire Survivors (or any game that has reached “mainstream”) players are engaging with the game in a way to interfaces with what makes it unique. They would get the same enjoyment out of a shallow rip-off. They’re only going with VS or any mainstream because other people have vetted it as “not a waste of money” or out of FOMO. Idk how old you are but I absolutely “enjoyed” N64 shovelware games that were objectively 6 out of 10s because they were good enough. And I have a more discerning palate now, but that’s because I’m a fan of the industry. Most people are just consuming content, like watching basic TV. The “fans” you describe are people in these comments. And they are indisputably in the minority when it comes to volume of product sales.

I don’t think die-hard fans that trade off of established names are carrying direct profits. Especially for a franchise/studio as young as Moonlighter.

Die-hard fans keep the game’s community alive, which can eventually lead to new people finding it, but I’d be surprised if even 50% of a game’s revenue is supported by people that would pick the game out of a line up of all the game they play in a year. And that other, indifferent 50% could realistically be snapped up by someone who shits out a cheap clone with a similar enough aesthestic.

It was a facetious remark about how this change in leadership is likely to herald a bad end for the company.

Well, I still play on 1.20.1 and 1.21.1. Nothing that’s happened in the last 5 years of Minecraft “development” has mattered to me.

Shame about how Mojang was bankrupted tho

I had to read it like 3 or 4 times before I understood. Just confirming every intrepretation was bonkers until I remembered trucks are a thing.

What the fuck is happening? Why are corpos speedrunning to make everything noticeably worse?

Before it felt like tiptoes forward, but now they’re taking massive, fucking goosesteps to colonize new frontiers of terrible practices.

It looks like just another CoD, Tarkov, Battlefield, whatever.

You just named three different shooters with 3 different styles of play (Battlefield depends on the entry). Throw ARMA on that list and prove you’re really blinkered by the “modern war” visuals.

To answer the question, Wardogs is more freeform than any of the games you mentioned, sitting between Battlefield and ARMA in terms of “realism,” and requiring players on all teams to set up their own logistics to support the players blasting away at enemies.

While overarching goal is vaguely “King Of The Hill”, you need support players to engage as engineers to build fortifications, artillery, and utility buildings. And those engineers need supplies from each teams’ main base, which requires players to purchase and deliver.

I think the core draw is an economy system where you lose everything on your body when you die, but playing support properly is rather lucrative and in-game currency persists between games.

wuh

What was there before “causation”? That single word has notably different formatting

I’m not trying to bully you or bandwagon you, into not posting.

But you have to acknowledge your own free will. No one made you crosspost this. And no one is preventing you from addressing concerns with the leaker’s motives in whatever way you deem fit: be that deleting the post or editing the OP to include those concerns.

Saying the equivalent of “someone else messed up, so it’s fine if I don’t clean up” is a shiftless ideology. It is neither a good nor a popular position to debate from.