| Teeqoz said: I wasn't even aware it had released yet. Assumed it had ended up in development hell. Lol. It's very impressive what Blizzard have achieved with Overwatch, not to mention Bluehole's success with PUBG. Getting the playerbase to support an online focused or online only game can be pretty difficult but these games have managed to build huge communities pretty quickly. |
I think word of mouth, followed by a need for a gnre or style of game can hekp maintain a user base. Twitch can help with the starting point, but eventually people end up watching other channels for different content. I watched Day 9 play/cast Starcraft matches for eyars, but then I got bored and moved onto other tubers and streamers. I'm back to watching him again, but not nearly as much as I used to 5 years ago.
I eventually found myself grabbing PuB last weekend when I had a LAN party with some mates. They were playing PuB and I was playing my own games, they were stuck with a random 4th player and he ended up team killing them a few times (some people can be assholes, even with team play), so I decided to buy the game and be their 4th player. Not my type of game, certainly wouldn't play it alone unless my mates are playing it. I do the same with games like Heroes of the Storm (though I'm more than happy to play with random human players vs AI, but agains other humans I play with my mates).
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