A Riot Platform Fighter Was cancelled Because of THIS game.

[Ziack]

This makes me SO damn sad to hear. They said in an interview that they looked at Multiversus and no longer thought their game that they had been working on would be successful. It had 70-80 people working on it.
This is just crazy. Platform fighters are generally more accessible and popular than traditional fighters, yet this hasn't stopped them from pouring everything into 2XKO. I am excited for that game, but MAN, a Riot Platform Fighter REALLY would have been the Smash killer.

Imagine:
-160 characters they can use
-Experience with a free to play Model and making it work
-THOUSANDS of skins they can make
-the quality and passion that Riot bring to their projects
-The Netcode would have been great.

Now we can only imagine what would have been.

THANKS A LOT MULTIVERSUS. Your failure discouraged an entire Dev team.

Source: https://www.readergrev.com/p/riot-games-pool-party-canceled-smash-melee

Who knows if it's actually true, but now my mind is racing about what could have been.

Edit: Well it's old news now, we can let this topic die guys lol, everyone knows about it now.

[Eric Clapped 'Em]

Origineel geplaatst door Shadowlet:

Origineel geplaatst door Phil2244:

Eh platform fighters are pretty fun but I wouldn't install chinese spyware to play one so I'm glad Riot didn't get there first and we got this instead

All that bigoted reaching and you don't even know who owns EAC which this game uses.

Epic owns EAC. Epic is an American company in which Tencet only has ~40% stake in.

You apparently can't read that person's reply correctly because they were suggesting the Riot game would have Chinese spyware considering Riot is 100% owned by Tencent. Tencent is known to be heavily involved with the CCP, and Tencet has failed antimalware tests and was caught cheating.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/427339/tencent-qihoo-antimalware-firms-are-accused-of-cheating-stripped-of-rankings-in-antivirus-tests.html

SO, Tencent basically does have spyware.. All of this is easily found on Google. Maybe if you weren't such an ass pirate, you wouldn't sound so goofy when talking.

[Babaganoosh]

man idk. ive seen a few different articles about this pop up, but its just like who really cares. its probably a bunch of trend and buzz bait bs anyway. why would anyone from riot say anything about something like that without ill intent? if they had any confidence in their own product, the state of multiversus should be irrelevant to them. if any kind of platform fighter was ever in the works for them, it was nothing more than idea someone had taking a poo and then presented at a meeting that got shut down. doubtful there was any real development on anything. they just said something that would easily buzz across different media outlets and try to make riot look good while they take a dump on some company that is WAY smaller than them. PFG and multiversus has their issues, and several of them, but blaming them for a Riot platform fighter not existing just aint it. that is just asinine.

[G0jia]

Origineel geplaatst door ඞ:

Good. Riot games is a terrible company and deserves to fail.

i mean from a game company that has toxic workplace, gender discrimination and sexual harassment so yeah but atleast arcane is good

[BIG DADDY]

Origineel geplaatst door Arron Peter's Murder My Wife:

Origineel geplaatst door ඞ:

Good. Riot games is a terrible company and deserves to fail.

i mean from a game company that has toxic workplace, gender discrimination and sexual harassment so yeah but atleast arcane is good

What are you on about? Arcane was generic disney trash that ruined their best character in vi. The gayme company sucks because the fighting game isn't out yet and nobody but bums like those top down hour a match trash games

[RobBrawlBeast]

Origineel geplaatst door BIG DADDY:

Arcane was generic disney trash that ruined their best character in vi.

True. Don't care for League but Arcane could've featured a lot more of the "champions", but no let's focus only on Vi & the Harley-wannabe blue chick's lovey relationship stuff.

[Wulfen]

What I don't understand is how developers will go ahead and make Shooters in a market where dozens of them come out each year with varying success, but when one Dev sees another dev making a game in a niche genre such as platform fighters where, what, only 3 other notables titles exist in, they cancel it.

[Grizzledorf]

Origineel geplaatst door Wulfen:

What I don't understand is how developers will go ahead and make Shooters in a market where dozens of them come out each year with varying success, but when one Dev sees another dev making a game in a niche genre such as platform fighters where, what, only 3 other notables titles exist in, they cancel it.

the reason for cancelling was likely not even this game. if there is an official statement saying thats why it was cancelled, it is likely just an excuse, riot games was probably ready to shut down their project regardless and that would be such an easy thing to say.

[Shadowlet]

Origineel geplaatst door Eric Clapped 'Em:

Origineel geplaatst door Shadowlet:

All that bigoted reaching and you don't even know who owns EAC which this game uses.

Epic owns EAC. Epic is an American company in which Tencet only has ~40% stake in.

You apparently can't read that person's reply correctly because they were suggesting the Riot game would have Chinese spyware considering Riot is 100% owned by Tencent. Tencent is known to be heavily involved with the CCP, and Tencet has failed antimalware tests and was caught cheating.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/427339/tencent-qihoo-antimalware-firms-are-accused-of-cheating-stripped-of-rankings-in-antivirus-tests.html

SO, Tencent basically does have spyware.. All of this is easily found on Google. Maybe if you weren't such an ass pirate, you wouldn't sound so goofy when talking.

Now show the "chinese spyware" in Riot games.

[✦𝒱𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓇]

Origineel geplaatst door Wulfen:

What I don't understand is how developers will go ahead and make Shooters in a market where dozens of them come out each year with varying success, but when one Dev sees another dev making a game in a niche genre such as platform fighters where, what, only 3 other notables titles exist in, they cancel it.

then you don't understand Cost Benefit Analysis, which is a core concept of running any business. Here, I'll try to break it down in a way you understand.

for example, walmart spends millions of dollars every year simply researching where the best locations are to build new walmart locations. In this millions if research spent every year, they research how successful their competitors are in different locations.

If a target closes down in a certain city, do you think walmart will decide to spend a ton of money and time to build a walmart in that city where target failed? Or will they put their resources to better use based on given industry and market information?

In their calculus, it would cost MORE to do that thing than they would reasonably make from doing that thing, and money being the end all be all in their minds, if it won't make them their money they want, it is NOT worth it. makes sense when you break it down.

[Chibbix]

Origineel geplaatst door Shadowlet:

Now show the "chinese spyware" in Riot games.

Tencent owns Riot and therefore LoL. The application is it's spyware. Every message you type or play you make is harvested and used by Chinese sociologist.

[Glaives]

The only reasons this game is losing players fast is because the devs are more interested in putting on resume items than making a fun game and the producers just want to squeeze money out of ips while pushing corporate synergy. Its clear nobody cares about the actual game's quality.

Players are dying for a strong platform fighter besides smash, and the initial numbers this game saw was a very clear indicator the market is interested, but gaming today is in a weird place, before devs and also producers would get into the industry because they loved it. Now especially producers, get in because they have dollar signs in their eyes, looking to make a buck off of existing ips and leaning heavily on that instead of coming up with something that's either good or new.

Its sort of the problem with gaming as a whole, but its really sad to see the dev team from riot call it quits, because I'm sure whatever they made would have turned out much better, and been much more successful than this one. I really hope if anyone over there is reading this that they reconsider, and also weigh in the success that rivals 2 is most likely going to have later this year, as that is a game made by passionate devs (and using their own ip's)

[Ziack]

Origineel geplaatst door Glaives:

The only reasons this game is losing players fast is because the devs are more interested in putting on resume items than making a fun game and the producers just want to squeeze money out of ips while pushing corporate synergy. Its clear nobody cares about the actual game's quality.

Players are dying for a strong platform fighter besides smash, and the initial numbers this game saw was a very clear indicator the market is interested, but gaming today is in a weird place, before devs and also producers would get into the industry because they loved it. Now especially producers, get in because they have dollar signs in their eyes, looking to make a buck off of existing ips and leaning heavily on that instead of coming up with something that's either good or new.

Its sort of the problem with gaming as a whole, but its really sad to see the dev team from riot call it quits, because I'm sure whatever they made would have turned out much better, and been much more successful than this one. I really hope if anyone over there is reading this that they reconsider, and also weigh in the success that rivals 2 is most likely going to have later this year, as that is a game made by passionate devs (and using their own ip's)

I agree on all points except Rivals 2. I am even a backer of that game, but I feel it won't enjoy large success. Only small success. They are keeping it way too closed doors and hidden and it's such a niche game. I really wish they would try to expand a little more. I'd be surprised to ever see mroe than 5k players on Rivals 2 tbh. Though I hope to be wrong, as the gameplay is 50x better than this game.

[Keyrala]

So they realized their game was worse than this?.

[L I G H T H O U S E]

Someone says Chinese spyware and you get the NPC's immediately dropping buzzwords...facts are facts sorry. It isn't "bigoted" to call out chinese spyware.