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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 hours agoFortnite is a still-very-visible version of this exact concept. They were able to iterate quickly. Mostly because they just adapted their dud of a horde mode game into a completely new genre using the same mechanics, but they still did it quickly and found that success. We’re also seeing it in the likes of Getting Over It, Lethal Company, Vampire Survivors, and plenty of other games that spawned imitators.
vane@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sorry but my brain is shutting down after iterate quickly. To much corporate bullshit, you can repeat those words 1000 times and they don’t mean anything because with all respect you’re saying some bullshit. Trends don’t make money. Shaping trends make money. Actually shaping trends and exposure but despite the huge exposure look how hard is to shape trends. With AI they can shape shit somebody already created and nobody likes to see same shit 1000 times.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“Iterate quickly” isn’t corporate bullshit. It’s just English. There are always those that tag along to something successful and find success themselves, like Terraria and Starbound to Minecraft; or Apex Legends and Fortnite to PUBG. But if you spend 4 years chasing an idea that came out in 2017, you end up with Hyperscape or Concord, unless there’s truly such an insatiable appetite that customers can’t get enough. In a world of live service games, they look to retain those players for years. Decades ago, they didn’t. We had so many first person shooters coming out every year, single and multiplayer, that it would be a full time job to count them all. Most of them brought new ideas to the table, and across many releases it would take years of
iterationtrying things that are slightly different than the last idea that would eventually lead to things like aim down sights becoming a fairly standard feature of the genre.vane@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
So you’re saying people can change ? Stop chasing ideas ? I don’t believe. Nobody can change people ego. Not on this planet. It’s PR bullshit and then they go to business as usual. It takes generations of people to change mindset. Look at history, when I was born there was war on middle east and it will be there when I will die, because there is always war there since like 2000-5000 years, and you’re expecting miracles.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I think I’m saying that what we changed from is better than what it changed into. Chasing ideas being the desired goal, because it leads to permutations of those ideas. So it has changed. It can change again.