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coolbeans said:
Machiavellian said:

I think it feels more prevalent with Fortnite because it's one of those forever games and thus since it's free to play its whole model is trying to sell character skins cosmetics and season passes.

The GaaS side of online gaming is another major component, for sure.  Keeping with the Ready Player One example: imagine if a later edition came out that incorporated Fidget Spinners as a weapon or other recent cultural phenomena alongside all of the 80s nostalgia.  At this stage, anything less than a "hard M-rated" series could be eligible for the Fortnite spotlight. 

My son would be all over that Fidget Spinner as  a weapon in Fortnite so yeah, I totally agree that these GaaS games going that route seems about right.  Lately we have been seeing a lot of crossovers in these games even with the new Helldivers 2 and Halo.  I just read that Overwatch 2 is getting a whole crossover event from Persona not just the Joker addition.  I am sure this isn't going to be the first of these type of additions.  Now if they got Street Fighter or Tekken characters and that actually might get me to bite.