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Guy you're out of touch There's quite a few new RTS games coming out

by Razengan 15d ago

PorciiVorbesc 15d ago
>There's quite a few new RTS games coming out And how many copies are they gonna sell? How big is their player base? All important things bean counters want to know before they pony up north of seven figures of investor money into another RTS and not into another looter shooter instead with a 100x revenue and 100x player base.
- kllrnohj 14d ago
  Starcraft 2 was over 6 million sales before its final expansion even came out. That seems like the obvious player base for a Starcraft 3, and it seems more than large enough for a major release.
  - PorciiVorbesc 14d ago
    >Starcraft 2 was over 6 million sales before its final expansion even came out. GTA 6 preorders beat that in like a week and the game isn't even out and no gameplay footage was even show. >That seems like the obvious player base for a Starcraft 3 A lot of that player based has aged out of the game or will stick to playing SC2 instead of spending 80-100$ on buying the same game over again. RTS have reached diminishing returns. There's not much more you can add to SC2 to improve it and convince people to spend on buying a new game. SC2 is feature complete.
    - kllrnohj 13d ago
      > GTA 6 preorders beat that in like a week and the game isn't even out and no gameplay footage was even show. Really? That's going to be your measuring stick? So anything that isn't as successful as GTA 6 is a failure that shouldn't ever exist again? In fact any genre that isn't as successful as GTA 6 should just be wholesale cancelled? A game is successful if it makes a profit. Other games making more profit doesn't suddenly make them failures. This isn't a zero-sum game. > A lot of that player based has aged out of the game What does this even mean? Gamers don't "age out". We're long past the era of pretending Nintendo is a children's toy...

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Guy you're out of touch There's quite a few new RTS games coming out

by Razengan 15d ago

Guy you're out of touch There's quite a few new RTS games coming out

PorciiVorbesc 15d ago
>There's quite a few new RTS games coming out And how many copies are they gonna sell? How big is their player base? All important things bean counters want to know before they pony up north of seven figures of investor money into another RTS and not into another looter shooter instead with a 100x revenue and 100x player base.
- kllrnohj 14d ago
  Starcraft 2 was over 6 million sales before its final expansion even came out. That seems like the obvious player base for a Starcraft 3, and it seems more than large enough for a major release.
  - PorciiVorbesc 14d ago
    >Starcraft 2 was over 6 million sales before its final expansion even came out. GTA 6 preorders beat that in like a week and the game isn't even out and no gameplay footage was even show. >That seems like the obvious player base for a Starcraft 3 A lot of that player based has aged out of the game or will stick to playing SC2 instead of spending 80-100$ on buying the same game over again. RTS have reached diminishing returns. There's not much more you can add to SC2 to improve it and convince people to spend on buying a new game. SC2 is feature complete.
    - kllrnohj 13d ago
      > GTA 6 preorders beat that in like a week and the game isn't even out and no gameplay footage was even show. Really? That's going to be your measuring stick? So anything that isn't as successful as GTA 6 is a failure that shouldn't ever exist again? In fact any genre that isn't as successful as GTA 6 should just be wholesale cancelled? A game is successful if it makes a profit. Other games making more profit doesn't suddenly make them failures. This isn't a zero-sum game. > A lot of that player based has aged out of the game What does this even mean? Gamers don't "age out". We're long past the era of pretending Nintendo is a children's toy...