I don't see how the analogy works. There is no inherent risk to those who are watching the NFL regular season. The risk, is to the players, and they players are playing due to the financial and social rewards. There aren't going to be many extraction shooter players who are going to be rewarded with notoriety and multi-million dollar contracts.
Game where the player extracts projectile(s) from the weapon(s), maybe.
Yes. It was truly a special time to be a gamer...unless you had an obsession with 2D games and resisted the inclusion of the 3rd dimension. Then it would have been a nightmare.
The transition from session based (Pac Man) to long form (Final Fantasy) was nearly as special. Multiplayer is currently going through the same transition. The only way you couldn't appreciate that is if you're one of those 2D obsessed gamers who are unable to appreciate the finer qualities of multiplayer gaming.
I don't think so. There are loads of people who only watch less popular sports like basketball and baseball when the playoffs start. When winning and losing has more weight, more consequence, more people tune in because they can appreciate the added drama of every moment. The viewership numbers speak for themselves.
There are also loads of people who only watch more popular sports, when the playoffs start.
Exactly. People prefer the added drama of the playoffs.
People's propensity to be an audience to drama (high stress), doesn't equate to their interest in being involved in it. If your argument was focused around the extraction shooters potential popularity in e-sport viewing, then it would work. In this situation, I don't believe it does. It would be like making that argument that "murder is the Mario 64 moment of life", do the popularity of true crime shows and podcasts.
I would argue the rise in popularity of roguelites in the indie genre, Elden Ring, and Battle Royales suggest you're wrong. All 3 genres give players higher stakes in their involvement.
They both went through transitory periods. Session based to long form.
I'm like the Ken Burns of forum posting. I look at gaming from a wider, more objective lens than most.
Please list me "a game for everybody" and I will show you a game that didn't appeal to most gamers.
MiyazakiHatesKojima
threads but I chuckled
Addressing the Tarkov argument first. Tarkov being the most popular extraction shooter, doesn't tell us anything about the market as a whole. Like any and all creative endeavors that are made products, there are niches. Something being the most popular in a particular niche, doesn't tell us anything about games outside of said niche.
Nobody truly knows. We just have to read the tea leaves.
Doubtful. I've been on the Live Service train since 2017 because I instantly recognized how uncompetitive the old model was in comparison. Fortnite was revalatory.
Men_in_Boxes
it's time to remove the Concord disc from your console and finally play a few actual games. You're losing it.
I'm glad you brought this up.
It's really simple to understand.Lol. What are you talking about, you mad bastard
Isn't the Premier League the most watched league on planet earth?
CoD has DMZ, and probably made more money in skins that the rest of the genre combined. It's now stalled out.
You have to read the OP. It's more about session based games transitioning to long form games.
Aprt from Tarkvo, the Hunt and maybe DMZ there hasn't been enough decent Extraction shooters for the genre to become stale.
