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ITT: We take bets on how long the Battle Royale fad lasts.
| Until someone else comes up with a good idea
| I don't know i guess when pubg and fortnite dies
| Another year at max, then someone will create something else and all the retards are going to go crazy over it for a year or two and so on...
| I mean hero shooter fad is still technically alive. And considering minecraft lasted like 4 years, plus the fact that PUBG is still getting 1M+ players playing at the same time; I'd say it will took around 2-3 years until battle royale fad "dies"
| Hero shooter "died" because Overwatch was so good, it ate everything in the field. Fortnite shows that Plunkbatt hasn't eaten everything yet. I think there can still be more games in this field.
| 3 years max
| Give it a year before the fad fades. If any new battle royale games appear by then, they may go out of business quick or remain overshadowed by Fortnite & PUBG.
| Longer than it ever should.
| 200$ that it last one more year.
| I think the fad is kinda dead already, not to say pubg and fortnite are dead, what I mean is that those games are so big every new competitor seems like a clone and gets over shadowed, I don't think the genre will grow much more, but I still think those two games are gonna keep growing.
| Till 2019 I suppose
| Seems like the average opinion is that the current trend will last just one more year.
I guess that's acceptable.
| How about how long until it becomes uncool to shit on battle royales?
| >>284087 People will shit on whatever they want, and other people will shit on them for doing so... ad infinitum.
The Battle Royale 'fad' has taken off crazily in part because anyone can pick it up and only be slightly disadvantaged. In other genres, even if loot disparities don't exist the lower player-per-game count means experience plays a bigger role in every match. That's really not the case in these popular Battle Royale titles. Free to play makes it even more enticing.
| These fads in gaming seem to last 2 to 4 years in general. It all depends on how you define the beginning and end of a fad. For example, LoL and WoW are still 'alive' but I wouldn't say MMO's or MOBA's are still a fad these days.
| I give it another 3-4 years, never underestimate the power of big let's players and easily impressionable kids
| It died when it started.
| >>284253
I'm sure the ideaguy degree will pay well.
Just like whamin studies students making bank.
Oh wait...
| I personally don't see it becoming unpopular any time soon, but new games are dead on launch.
| Bet 30 Credits that the newest Fad is going to be something to do with class based battle-royale moba first person shooters.
| I'd say maybe a year and a half tops
| >game design student
>not a programmer that's destined to be jobless on graduation because of a combination of market oversaturation and crippling over specialization.
though to be fair, computer programming as a whole is an oversaturated field, so whatevs.
| >>284087
Never. Every genre will be shat on repeatedly ad infinitum.
It's a major part of being a video gamer. If you aren't shitting on one or more video game genres that you strongly dislike for a combination of objective and subjective reasons, you probably consider Farmville major league gaming, you casual.
| Either it will become over saturated and die (so, three more years) or the AAA market doesn't fuck it too hard and it survives to become a genre.
| Pretty sure it's already on its way out.
| Well CoD:BO4 announced their Blackout Battle-Royale mode.
So yeah, that must be an obivious sign that things may be on their way out after CoD does its ways with it.
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| Hero shooter fad barely lasted two years?