Is this game a fad?

[TaperedNinja]

Time and time again a game comes around, captures the world by storm for two weeks, then we never hear or see the game again.

Is this game doomed to suffer the same fate?

[Itz Da Booty Invadahs]

What is this??? You think people are f**cking psychics? Buy the game or not and find out.

[Player Zer01]

eh might be but you also have to remember this game was announced YEARS ago. a lot of people have been waiting for this and when it was shown at the game awards that pushed it to what it is now.

game is still fun as hell.

[ℝℯ⊻ℯℵℊ∄❤]

Originally posted by Gravdox:

Time and time again a game comes around, captures the world by storm for two weeks, then we never hear or see the game again.

Is this game doomed to suffer the same fate?

Yes this game is Beanie Babies and Funko Pops

[YelloMit]

If this is a fad, then its the biggest fad in a long time. 1.1 mil players online atm. Not even BG3 had that many.

[Merc]

can you give any example of game that fit your description?

[Okhu]

All games are fads. Eventually people stop playing them or the player base diminishes into its own niche corner and you don't hear from it again.

[Cryten]

If I was to base this on the path Ark took and then Ark 2 took it would have a massive start, and then attract a hardcore group of faithfuls that stick around on it for months. But 80% of people would move on within weeks.

I think the pokemon factor is adding to popularity. No idea what that would do long term. But without pokemon battling or raising I do not think it will be like main line pokemon games.

[Zaltys]

Possibly, considering how quickly I ran out of interesting things to do.

I know it's early access, but in the current state it doesn't have lasting appeal. Single map is going to get boring quickly, especially in multiplayer, and there's just not much left to do once you reach level 30 or so and get into the ingot grind.

[DarkFenix]

So... in your mind something that causes a stir then fades into the background is just a "fad"?

Perhaps you're new to video games, but that's the normal life cycle of a popular game. Apart from MMOs and the like which keep dropping major content over time, a normal game will release, get its fanfare, then go quiet.

For example, who's talking about Baldur's Gate 3 now? The answer? Nobody. Does that mean the most critically acclaimed game of 2023 was nothing more than a fad? Of course not.

[Mikedot]

By your logic, all popular games are fads.

[KawaiiAngel-chan]

these are the type of people who would call baldurs gate 3 a fad too because it lost 80% of its playerbase after a month or two

[Teroniss]

Originally posted by Okhu:

All games are fads. Eventually people stop playing them or the player base diminishes into its own niche corner and you don't hear from it again.

Came here to post this. No matter how you look at it, video games by their design are fads. Dev has idea, monopolizes on idea, markets idea to generate hype, game becomes popular for a time, generates (hopefully) a large player base for a while. People beat game, fad slowly dies off, with only few hold outs remaining. Even with post game content and replayability, there is only so much you can milk out of a game

[mattosika]

Do you know what they called Pokemon when it first hit? A fad that kids will get tired of. 137 games, several TV shows, a couple movies, and Ryan Reynolds as a Pikachu later it is still going.

[angelsenvy228]

I think the games you're thinking of aren't fads, they are just not never-ending live service games. Every body plays, they put in their 100hrs and then they move on, they come back and replay it later

[Faya AOP]

2 weeks of fun for this price? I take it.