What makes games gain cult status popularity?

[RandalMcdaniel]

PC gamers are weird..goat simulator, five nights at freddys, surgeon simulator, rocket league, farming simulator, minecraft.. Games i would never expect anyone to like at first glance become the most popular. It's weird.

Is it because people buy it to fit in? Is that why? Because i know for a fact nobody i know would ever consider buying a truck simulator game in actual seriousness.

In reality i would expect a game like this to be somewhere in the dark depths of steam with maybe 18 reviews total (not saying its bad, im just saying its not a game you would expect people to play)

[Muh macht die Kuh]

many people say this game is for relaxing. i find it quite boring after i drove one missions, but my girlfriend loves this game.

in fact i bought this game for her because she always wanted to do taxi missions in gta and i thought she would love such a game. and she does, lol

[Moving Shadow]

Have you considered that people actually like those games? They're different from the Battlefields and the Call of Duties, the Fifa's and the Need for Speeds. Games like this are a niche area, and have fan base that are desperate for something specific to their intererts. A percentage of ETS2 players have absolutely no interest in trucks in real life, yet put hundreds of hours into the game.

SCS are just as surprised as you at the popularity of ETS2, they never thought it would become what it is, and have the fan base that it does.

I do understand what you're saying though, your example of Minecraft is a good one, I tried it, and am baffled to the fascination with it. League of Legends is the same, it's one of, if not the most popular game in the world right now, yet I find it totally boring. What may seem weird to you, may be the best thing in the world to someone else.

Make a little corner somewhere, and you may be surprised how many people want to sit in the same place.

[RandalMcdaniel]

No i have not considered the fact that people may actually like these types of games because if that was the case then all truck games would have more reviews and purchases but they dont. The reason i made this topic was to identify why do some games randomly get a cult status following

[Muh macht die Kuh]

Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:

No i have not considered the fact that people may actually like these types of games because if that was the case then all truck games would have more reviews and purchases but they dont. The reason i made this topic was to identify why do some games randomly get a cult status following

nah, youre wrong. there is no cult. the game is just good while other trucking games aren't. its the same reason why other games are bought often. witcher series. great rpg, lot of customers.

[Noergelbert]

People are different, and so are their interests. Actually no one I know would consider to play CoD.

[Solo Kamen]

I was playing this game a lot when I was working in a physicaly demanding and very, I mean VERY stresfiull work. It was the best way to get relaxed fast when It was not possible to go, mostly due to time reasons.

[Dave]

Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:

I think people see that a game gains cult status popularity and simply buy it to fit in

Cult status? Uh.. what?

But regardless, people that are easily swayed into purchasing anything just because there's a high number of other people that own it are the sort of people like to call gullible and easily manipulated idiots (or in short just plain idiots). There's a few of us out there that couldn't care less about what the other side is doing/playing and we only want to own what we want and not buying just to fit into the 'popular' group because next thing you know the next popular thing comes out and they all move to that and throw away the previous popular thing; actually.. that makes them sound more like sheep moving to another field than anything else.

Just because a game is popular doesn't necessarily mean that the potential buyer would even enjoy it to begin with regardless of how widely known it is. For example, anyone who just buys ETS2 and isn't interested in the HGV side of the logistics industry, does drive/wants to become an HGV driver for real, enjoys travelling/driving etc. they hardly ever stick around for less than a week, pushing two, because it's 'boring' to them but yet there's people such as myself with over 1,700 hours clocked on ETS2.

[~{DCMT}~ Ryu]

I bought it on a whim when it was on sale, with no idea what it was all about. And it was so engrossing that it eclipsed all my other game playing for the next month or so!

[RandalMcdaniel]

Originally posted by Ryu:

I bought it on a whim when it was on sale, with no idea what it was all about. And it was so engrossing that it eclipsed all my other game playing for the next month or so!

Interesting.. I will probably never seriously get into it but i am curious to try it for $5

[~{DCMT}~ComaWhite12~]

I bought it 2 days ago and have put 14 hours into it so far.
I find it very entertaining being I drive quite a bit all day anyway, and for some reason this really clicks with me.
I think it's the same with SpinTires. People look at you strange when you have 500+ hours in that game. Most cant see the appeal.
Me on the other hand am baffled how people can live inside RPG games or Mincraft.

[RandalMcdaniel]

crap its not $5 anymore lol

[This American]

Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:

PC gamers are weird..goat simulator, five nights at freddys, surgeon simulator, rocket league, farming simulator, minecraft.. Games i would never expect anyone to like at first glance become the most popular. It's weird.

Is it because people buy it to fit in? Is that why? Because i know for a fact nobody i know would ever consider buying a truck simulator game in actual seriousness.

I think people see that a game gains cult status popularity and simply buy it to fit in, its really the only thing i can think of because in reality i would expect a game like this to be somewhere in the dark depths of steam with maybe 18 reviews total (not saying its bad, im just saying its not a game you would expect people to play)

I just love simulators and this will be one of my favorite simulators until american truck simulator comes out :)

[This American]

Originally posted by ~ComaWhite12~:

I bought it 2 days ago and have put 14 hours into it so far.
I find it very entertaining being I drive quite a bit all day anyway, and for some reason this really clicks with me.
I think it's the same with SpinTires. People look at you strange when you have 500+ hours in that game. Most cant see the appeal.
Me on the other hand am baffled how people can live inside RPG games or Mincraft.

I agree with you minecraft just got boring to me anymore

[Muh macht die Kuh]

Originally posted by The Tank Cop:

I just love simulators and this will be one of my favorite simulators until american truck simulator comes out :)

hell yea, im waiting for this too. the graphics are awesome and the streets and towns seem to be handmade and individually (atleast more then in ets2).

[23wojtas_PL]

Originally posted by Muh macht die Kuh 👍:

my girlfriend loves this game.

Is she from Ukraine or Russia;] ?

Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:

PC gamers are weird.. MINECRAFT... It's weird.

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