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Machiavellian said:

coolbeans said:

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. 

Indeed.  The Joker addition to Overwatch 2 is what prompted my "Fortnite-ification" response here.  

And that's the thing with that potential Fortnite crossovers with those fighting legends: it's not impossible for Epic to incorporate a limited-time mechanic where the last two standing in a Battle Royale get transported to an arena and have a traditional 2D fight with various SF or Tekken button combos incorporated into it.  It's like... Cultural Velcro at this point lol.  Even Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is getting some type of Fortnite treatment.  It's not over 25 years old (yet), so it's safe to assume Di Caprio agreed to this arrangement.