Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team

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• Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  80 employees given 6 months severance or the ability to change departments

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s not the worst deal in the world for them, but it does show how the game definitely didn’t take off like a free to play game needs to to survive.

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    • Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I play league. Im still not sure 2XKO is released. I could check but it just seems like they didnt get word out anywhere

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• Laser@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While I do like the genre, fighting games are a niche nowadays, and you’re always going up against Street Fighter, Tekken or Smash. I don’t know what Riot expected. It has similar vibes to the Saudis investing millions into a single marketing event for CotW.

  Even Mortal Kombat 1, while it was initially a commercial success, is basically no longer supported as far as I know. And that game isn’t old either.

  The visible audience (Twitter) is very picky and vocal; they’ll tell you they want thing X, they get thing X, they’ll tell you it’s bad because Y. There is very little nuance it seems sometimes.

  Remember when everyone complained there were no defensive options and everything was getting too easy? Them CotW came and nobody plays it because the menu sucks. Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.

  I at least have a legitimate reason not to play 2XKO (kernel level anti cheat that won’t work on Linux), but you don’t see me complaining about that.

  Anyhow, if you want to make a game that sells big numbers, don’t make it a fighting game, because your audience will be comparably small and hate you.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Except for Fatal Fury, which is a revival of a series that people haven’t heard of in decades, all of those games are tremendously successful and could not be counted as niche anymore. MK1 did poorly by Mortal Kombat standards, which still made it the eighth best-selling game of 2023. DBFZ sold over 10 million copies. The genre is not the problem; not even being a tag fighter is the problem. This game just didn’t take off, and free-to-play games need volume.

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    • Laser@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But doesn’t it speak volumes about the genre of the eighth best selling game of 2023 can’t support three years of service (as in meaningful content updates)?

      While there weren’t any Fatal Fury entries, the characters did have presence over the years via King of Fighters, and Mai and Terry were even in SF6.

      SF6, arguably the biggest game in the genre, is currently in 60th place in the steam 24 hour charts. You might argue consoles have a higher share for the genre than games you find on steam, but still, that’s not totally mainstream.

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  • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.

    Yeah I’m not playing a game when I’ll have to see a real life rapist in the character select screen

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    • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What?

      Are there fighting games with real people?

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have never been less interested in a fighting game in my life. I’m confident I’m more interested in MK1 than this game, and I’ve had 0 interest in MK for years.

  The entire LoL IP always felt soulless and bland to me, nevermind Riot’s awful history of greed and misconduct.

  I also hate how everyone started shilling hard for this game even before it came out (oh hi, Core-A Gaming, Sajam, and TGAs), which put me off even more.

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  • _Nico198X_@europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the best thing they have is the netflix show

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• _Nico198X_@europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i can’t believe how much the FGC was glazing this turd for YEARS. XD

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I just now got the name of the game.

  2XKO.

  Best 2 out of 3. Ugh… 🤦‍♂️

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  • OrgunDonor@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, it is 2XKO because it is 2v2 and you need to KO both characters. It is a garbage name

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Does that mean you go 2 out of 3 twice against both characters, or is it like Marvel vs Capcom where it’s still just 2 out of 3 once but against a team of 2?

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  • mohab@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s worse… Double Knockout.

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• Horsey@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  After watching some playthroughs, I can comfortably say that this game is awful. That said, I don’t like 2D fighters, but this would absolutely not make me want to play one.

  The queue-room idea was pretty cool as a concept though.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not into fighting games at all, but i thought 2xko looked cool. But the waiting room isn’t really anything new. And having only that little of a roster, where you have to pay for half of it seems super weird.

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  • _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I hadn’t been following it as I don’t like tag fighters and don’t trust f2p games, but what’s wrong with it in terms of gameplay? I was under the impression that the initial reception (even when it was in beta) wasn’t bad.

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    • Horsey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just cannot see how there’s any complexity to it. Compared to league, what’s the point if you can just hit square to win?

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  • Laser@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I do prefer 2D fighters, but I personally don’t like how 2XKO looks. I don’t know how to put it. Floaty? That said if I wanted to go into a tag fighter, it’d probably be Skullgirls; yeah the game is super dead but the game is snappy, has fun characters and still like good because of its style.

    All that said I’d give the game an honest try if I could because that’s only fair before talking smack. But I can’t

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Skullgirls is very much still alive. I play it every week, and there are people still holding beginner brackets and such.

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