ARC Raiders

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Checked the usual places, and I can't find anyone who is excited about this game or talking about it. Where are you finding these fans?
 
Donald_J_Trump said:
What do you guys think will be the next trend after extraction shooters?
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Roblox clones and metaverse. Tim Sweeney recently gave an interview claiming that's the direction Epic is moving in.

“Because we're seeing players increasingly drawn towards social experiences, that’s causing a rise in games like Fortnite and Roblox, but a decline in single player games and a decline in smaller multiplayer games as well,” he explains.

“That’s a real challenge that the industry's facing. And there's no solution to that other than getting every standalone game much more socially connected, and economically connected, to an interoperable metaverse ecosystem.”

Epic’s developers are all making games for this interconnected vision

“What we're really thinking about is how do we either redefine Fortnite, or how do we redefine the place where Fortnite lives”

Epic didn’t used to be all about Fortnite. From Unreal Tournament to Rock Band, Gears of War to Rocket League, Epic and its studios have made plenty of popular standalone titles. Yet most of Epic’s teams today are focused on Fortnite, whether that’s the Battle Royale mode or creating entirely different experiences within the Fortnite world.

Does that mean Epic has stopped making non-Fortnite games? Well, sort-of.

“We have somewhat of a challenge, because when you think of Fortnite, you think of the Fortnite characters and battle royale,” Sweeney says.

“But what we’re building is actually something quite a bit larger than Fortnite. It's a tool set and an ecosystem in which any content can exist, including photorealistic content, or totally differently stylized content than Fortnite itself. You have the ability for developers in the ecosystem to build content that looks nothing like Fortnite. And yet it's called Fortnite. And so what we're really thinking about is how do we either redefine Fortnite, or how do we redefine the place where Fortnite lives, to create a much greater realization that there's many different kinds of games that can exist here. And Fortnite is not just battle royale anymore.

“The future of Epic is in developing a huge variety of awesome games in different genres. Everything we develop in the future is going to be centrally and economically interconnected to this thing we have here, which is the app currently known as Fortnite.”

Again, it’s back to the metaverse vision. This idea of a single thing with a number of separate but interconnected experiences,
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This game is not new, it was announced by Embark a LONG time ago, it was originally free to play, but I'm sure the finals flopping changed this decision.

Embark is a Stockholm-based studio, Created by Ex-dice people, if you have seen any Battlefield or Battlefront announcement or E3 showcase you probably recognize some of the faces, Their publisher is NEXON, famous in the gaming communities for being absolutely dogshit and running f2p games into the ground, and former publishers of one of the biggest flops in gaming, Lawbreakers.

Anyways, Embark made The Finals, a game that is too complicated to explain, but is online only, team based, whatever, The finals had had a similar closed beta hype, it was really popular, then it shadow dropped in The game Awards, to not so impressive numbers, and it dropped constantly, Nexon openly admitted that it was a flop. ↑
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Arc raiders have been building some Hype and momentum because it had closed betas at the same time as Marathon, The Bungie extraction shooter that everyone is dogpiling on, and a lot of streamers are hyping this game to their gullible audiences, this is great because normies have low attention span and they consume without thinking, so catering to them is how you make the cash, these people are not loyal customers and they will move on to whatever new thing comes up, shadow dropping this game in early access would have generated some upfront cash, and you can still say is just Early access, so its okay if it doesn't work.


The other issue is that the trailer had no gameplay, featured a ugly black woman and gay generic art, so any normie that didnt know what this game was, has a tainted perception on arc raiders from your trailer, that I'm sure it was not cheap, and paying it to be featured on the Soulslike and roguelikes Summer fest also was probably not cheap, everyone in the chat was spamming "concord 2, DEI, concord-like" these people wont bother to check a gameplay of your game, tell people about it, Wishlist it or look forward to it.

So you just wasted a bunch of money, to not get a lot of new fans and to piss off your low attention span consoomer audience, not looking good for embark, but considering their only other true competitor is Marathon maybe they can pull it out
 
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