a Battle royal means not its become a automatic sucses like fortnite or Warzone.
but if its become a good sucses then you also get a lot off problems with it like the cheaters and hackers you get more like in warzone you have.
battlefield Battle royal mode has also not done great at all more.
i not know if you can still play it or not at all since you hear notting more about it any more.
same with apex more.
its the same with the F2P more do’s not mean its something good since it can also become a hard fail more like we see now more with the multiplayer from halo.
there are things that are good for a game and some are not.
for some is a Battleroyal mode something good and for other game’s not.
same with Open world that is good for the halo series more but for cod is it not good maybe.
Fortnite’s success was built on a few happy accidents. They didn’t do too many missteps after that though. However you need to have a look at the landscape back then.
PUBG was THE game at the time. The BR craze in full swing. It also ran on Unreal Engine and Epic had done a lot of work to make the engine work better with such large game modes (based on feedback by the PUBG developers). They had already a game in the works (as has already been mentioned) which they could take assets from. And while PUBG still ran quite poorly and had trouble getting new maps out Fortnite launched taking a large portion of the BR population with it.
It was free, catered to a larger audience (with the more “fun” visuals) and ran well. And once you get people “invested” in your game they tend to stick around unless you really screw up (which they didn’t).
That’s quite different form Infinite, which launched with high expectations into a much more crowded marketplace and it’s sole unique feature being “another Halo”. Even with more content and less bugs it would not come near Fortnite’s numbers. In order to do so they would need to bring something new to the table that lots of people feel they need to experience (like CE did on the OG Xbox and Halo 2 did with Xbox Live).
I’d like to see a battle royale mode in Infinite, but I think arena is still a very important mode.
After several battle royale matches, I always feel like going back to arena or PvE modes.
Coupled with their desire to move away from being beholden to a publisher, Epic Games observed that the video game industry was shifting to a games-as-a-service model (GaaS).
Sweeney stated “There was an increasing realization that the old model wasn’t working anymore and that the new model was looking increasingly like the way to go.”
In an attempt to gain more GaaS experience, they made an agreement with Chinese Tencent who had several games under their banner (including Riot Games’ League of Legends) operating successfully as games as a service.
In exchange for Tencent’s help, Tencent acquired approximately 48.4% of Epic then issued share capital, equating to 40% of total Epic – inclusive of both stock and employee stock options, for $330 million in June 2012.
Tencent Holdings has the right to nominate directors to the board of Epic Games and thus counts as an associate of the Group.
However, Sweeney stated that Tencent otherwise has very little control on the creative output of Epic Games.
Sweeney considered the partial acquisition by Tencent as the start of “Epic 4.0”, the fourth major iteration of the company, allowing the company to be more agile in the video game marketplace.
By July 2017, Fortnite was finally in a state for public play.
Epic launched the title through a paid early access then, with a full free-to-play release expected in 2018.
Following on the popularity of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a battle royale game released earlier in 2017, Epic developed a variant of Fortnite called Fortnite Battle Royale, which was released in September 2017 as a free-to-play title across computer, console, and mobile platforms.
If Halo could have a BR/Warzone type of mode, something that the gaming industry has never seen before, I feel like it could step back into the mainstream spotlight and really take the gaming world by storm (no pun intended seeing as this is a fortnite thread)
Even the tv show should have been made ten years ago when the series was popular.
It just shows how poor MS is when it comes to exclusives. The problem with Halo is that Microsoft has so much money they can drag the series through the dirt and not have to worry about returns!
Although I can see this been the last considering the model and the calloborative effort of MCC.
Fortnite has been building it’s free-2-play community for YEARS. Infinite has been around for MONTHS. Fortnite is also a completely different game with it’s 3rd-person FFA style play. They also have tons of community created content and have designed a pay structure that people seem to find appealing.
Halo may have a sizeable community, but Infinite’s free-2-play online style is still in it’s infancy. It’s also taking a lot of time to increase it’s value to potential players. 343 also seems terrible at advertising Infinite since its release. 343 needs to actually tell people about it’s events, highlight game modes and cosmetics. Team up with IGN or something to get the news out there.
Probably because their customization options are better. If you buy a color coating in Fortnite it’s universal… And when you buy attachments they can go on any of your characters…
And than you have Halo, where they said they took away custom colors because the coating system will be better and than proceeded to lock 50 of the 60 default colors from Halo 5 behind a paywall. And the shop has just been generic coatings.
A good question…the simple answer is Infinite’s lack of content. Fortnite has been going on for years with a continually moving storyline AND overwhelming content, even today…it has so many playlists and modes too…Infinite has none of this
The real question at this point is will infinite be able to pull itself up and bring players back? The answer is clear if the last 4 months are representative of what is to come.
I just heard that fortnite got rid of building so I’m downloading it now to try out again. I played like 10 games when it first blew up years ago and hated it. One of the things I hated most was the building and halo infinite is dead for the next couple months so thats why Im giving fortnite a second chance
Really need Certain Affinity to carry 343 now. They at least are a company which seem capable to develop anything. And wasn’t their CEO a former Bungie back in the H2 days?
And hopefully they just disband 343 entirely and entrust the Halo IP to Certain Affinity, or leave 343 as a puppet studio while Certain Affinity helps develop every Halo in the future.