That's a pretty big chunk of change

Numinar wrote on Jun 28, 2018, 04:17:
Someone needs a game that does PUBG ranged combat with battlfield/cod close range stuff and BF1 graphics/detail at PUBG map sizes and then we are golden.

I thought the new BF game that's coming out in October has a Battle Royale mode. That might be what you're looking for

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 12:55:

Darks wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 12:49:
This is actually disgusting that people throw away their money so easily on virtual items. This was very obvious at E3 on how much Swag and all the free food they were giving away.

Especially the Freshly made Chocolate Chip cookies they were baking on site thought out the entire E3 experience.

You know what they say about a fool and their money.

No sign of the ending of those micro transactions in sight. I don't have any beef with cosmetic items though so at least good on fortnite for that.

Yeah. It's hard to fault Epic here. They did everything right: they made a F2P game with purely cosmetic microtransactions, and there's not loot boxes/gambling.

So you can play the game, never pay a dime, and be every bit as competitive as any other player, for as far as your skill will take you. It's F2P done right; that's not even something Valve can manage.

It's a silly amount of money and I can hardly believe that people are spending this much on it, but good on Epic for doing everything honestly. They've earned their success.

It's hard to be mad at them. I'm not smart enough to make these idiots/kids send me billions of dollars for digital art assets.

I prefer PUBG, my years with ARMA make the clunky but slightly less horrible PUBG movement seem amazing. Someone needs a game that does PUBG ranged combat with battlfield/cod close range stuff and BF1 graphics/detail at PUBG map sizes and then we are golden.

I play a lot of games with my 9yo, who is still deep in the Minecraft phase of drawing plans for buildings she will make when the weekend rolls around but she said Fortnite is what all the kids at school are playing. If it's a fad it's a massive one.

Not sure why anyone in their right mind would spend waste $20 on some lousy skin.

But hey, thank you for giving me an awesome game to play for absolutely nothing. Hopefully all other companies follow suit shortly.

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 18:17:

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 14:27:

aka_STEVE wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 14:04:
mind boggling - how you can make over a Billion dollars selling virtual items.

get a good fraction of the kids in the world playing your game and begging their parents for that cool outfit all their friends have, and you have a gold mine, it turns out =)

I was eating dinner at a restaurant the other day and the family beside me was arguing with their kid about fortnite and his friends all playing it.

Kid was maybe 8-10 years old. Didn't realize is was THAT big.

The funny part of that is it's just a fad. In a year or two fortnite will begin to feel old hat and the masses will move on to a new title, or by then there will be so many battle royale titles that the player base will fracture.

My age bracket had the Pogs fad, the Tamagochi fad, Legos, SNES/N64s that we all had our parents spend real money on. Fortnite isn't much different other than the money being spent is on digital goods/clothing. Kinda sad, in a way, but not much different from being unable to go back and visit that one Charmander you had on your GameBoy in one game which some later save over-wrote.

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 14:27:

aka_STEVE wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 14:04:
mind boggling - how you can make over a Billion dollars selling virtual items.

get a good fraction of the kids in the world playing your game and begging their parents for that cool outfit all their friends have, and you have a gold mine, it turns out =)

I was eating dinner at a restaurant the other day and the family beside me was arguing with their kid about fortnite and his friends all playing it.

Kid was maybe 8-10 years old. Didn't realize is was THAT big.

My only beef with this is that the game is shit...

I really hope Battlefield can become the AAA Battle Royale mode with the foundation of a proper shooter with great level design, physics, graphics, gun-play, vehicles, etc, etc.

PUBG and Fornite are meant for smelly casuals!

Jesus Christ. And here we're all sitting wondering why nobody makes normal games anymore, and everybody wants to humpfuck the mtx gravy-train.

aka_STEVE wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 14:04:
mind boggling - how you can make over a Billion dollars selling virtual items.

get a good fraction of the kids in the world playing your game and begging their parents for that cool outfit all their friends have, and you have a gold mine, it turns out =)

mind boggling - how you can make over a Billion dollars selling virtual items.

VaranDragon wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 13:12:

Darks wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 12:49:

You know what they say about a fool and their money.

Indeed. I will admit to purchasing some cosmetic items for PUBG. But I only spent a few dollars which I actually earned by SELLING cosmetic items for PUBG.

Im not telling anyone they shouldn't spend any money, but I have seen some that are very reckless with how they do it. to the point of it effecting their livelihood.

$1.2 billion
No one is ever allowed to complain about the piddling sum CIG has amassed for SC ever again.

Darks wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 12:49:

You know what they say about a fool and their money.

Indeed. I will admit to purchasing some cosmetic items for PUBG. But I only spent a few dollars which I actually earned by SELLING cosmetic items for PUBG.

Darks wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 12:49:
This is actually disgusting that people throw away their money so easily on virtual items. This was very obvious at E3 on how much Swag and all the free food they were giving away.

Especially the Freshly made Chocolate Chip cookies they were baking on site thought out the entire E3 experience.

You know what they say about a fool and their money.

No sign of the ending of those micro transactions in sight. I don't have any beef with cosmetic items though so at least good on fortnite for that.

This is actually disgusting that people throw away their money so easily on virtual items. This was very obvious at E3 on how much Swag and all the free food they were giving away.

Especially the Freshly made Chocolate Chip cookies they were baking on site thought out the entire E3 experience.

You know what they say about a fool and their money.