Apparently the new Housemarque's game is a battle royale

A few years ago it was the "everyone copies DayZ" fad, then the "everyone copies Overwatch (which already copied TF2)" fad, now it is the "everyone copies PUBG" fad. I assume more devs would have tried to copy the "UbiSoft style open-world fuckaroundery" fad if UbiSoft themselves wouldn't have made the flooding.

pity i liked Nex Machina, and that "arcade is dead" comment just felt like blame shifting. Ultimately, its just another company wanting to get a bigger cut while doing less.
oh boy, will they be ever more pissed when they discover how reluctant people in moving from one PUBG or Fortnite to another, cant wait to see their response then

Thoughts?

I'm just as uninterested as I am in the other battle royale games :)

this is so true

Even CoD & Battefield will be going Battle Royale according to rumours.

Have zero interest in Battle Royale games on top of not usually playing multiplayer only games.

I've enjoyed their previous games published on steam. I don't think this move will turn out well for the developer and hope it doesn't destroy them.

Most of these games will probably not be successful unless they do something that is very good. With the popularity of PUBG and Fortnite, I don't see a reason why players would want to switch to something else. Even H1Z1 is almost dead and that is a decent game that once had a fairly large player base.

I don't know why developers choose to follow a trend rather than making a new one. It's the games that do something new that become popular and successful. Unless there is something wrong with the popular games that already exist and you think you can fix it or bring something new or better to the table, like Fortnite did, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Really, I don't see any point in even talking about these type of games that try to cash in on the popularity of other games. If they do something game changing that actually makes their game relevant, then we will hear about it and the game will become popular, otherwise I will just ignore it and let it fade away like so many others.