The Meme Box

[Xzi]

I wasn't talking about their overall strategy though, just that they're smart business people. It doesn't matter if it's just one game, they took a decent enough game and made it immensely successful, and even though I don't like them as a company and such, I'm not going to deny that they've made some really good business decisions that got them there, and this is not from the perspective of a gamer. If it's so easy, why can't other companies come close to Fortnite?

The success of a single game can often be attributed to luck or chance. Fortnite is largely derivative of other games/concepts, and it happened to come along at precisely the right moment. Before battle royales there were MOBAs, and LoL took the crown. Before that, MMOs were the most popular money-making genre, and Blizzard won out with WoW. So to answer your question: "flavor of the year" games come and go, there were several before Fortnite, and there will be several after. Only if Epic can produce more hits of that same magnitude might I consider them "smart business people." Right now it's unclear if they'll even retain Fortnite's success for the long term.

Also as gamers we have a plethora of opinions and views of many companies and their practices and decisions. But when it comes to reality and sales, the situation is quite hilariously the opposite.

We blame Activision, EA, Ubisoft, etc, but yet the top selling games are always from them lmao.

I'm not putting my trust in Epic either, but as business goes, it's undeniable that they've made very good decisions to get to where they are now, amongst huge competition as well.

"A fool and his money are soon parted" is as true as it has ever been. Though in Epic's case it's mostly money taken from the parents of said fools.

 

[VinsCool]

Guys can you fucking take this elsewhere?

 

[Jiehfeng]

Guys can you fucking take this elsewhere?

Chill dude, the discussion came out of the meme he posted so it's all under the rules of the OP. Though @Xzi proved his point so I'll leave it at that.

 

[Veho]

Guys can you fucking take this elsewhere?

i.e. "Get a room, you two!"

 

[Jiehfeng]

 

[Reynardine]

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Keeping it classy. That wrench actually looks cool, I'll admit.

Hmm, maybe I should glue Luigi to a delivery van and test how people react...

 

[Jiehfeng]

Keeping it classy. That wrench actually looks cool, I'll admit.

Hmm, maybe I should glue Luigi to a delivery van and test how people react...

If it's a van, there's a certain member you have to contact first about.

 

[Xzi]

Only true OGs gonna get this one.

 

[Reynardine]

If it's a van, there's a certain member you have to contact first about.

That gave me a chuckle. His van may be getting a bit old and rusty now, but you have to admit, he sticks to his role.

There is truth in these words.

Edit:

Only true OGs gonna get this one.

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A Chex Quest meme? That's a first for me.
Tripandrear

 

[Veho]

Only ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛʀɪᴇs ᴛʜᴀᴛ sᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʙʀᴀɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴄᴇʀᴇᴀʟ gonna get this one.

Chex your privilege.

There is truth in these words.

Tetris taught me that your achievements disappear, but your mistakes pile up.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Chex your privilege.

Thank goodness, I was questioning my "OG-ness" and was having an early midlife crisis.

Though my country did have those Kellogg's cereal game discs, man those were the shit.

 

[Xzi]

Chex your privilege.

Ahh I had no idea Chex wasn't global. Well, here's an easily understood meme for everybody, courtesy of the crackwatch community.

 

[Veho]

 

[ThoD]

Thank goodness, I was questioning my "OG-ness" and was having an early midlife crisis.

Though my country did have those Kellogg's cereal game discs, man those were the shit.

Same about the disks, those ones were shit, thankfully we didn't get them here and what we did get were some cool AF (for the time) flying simulators with helicopters or football games with Frosties, played the shit out of those when I was in elementary, good times

 

[Jiehfeng]

 

[Deleted User]

Thank goodness, I was questioning my "OG-ness" and was having an early midlife crisis.

Though my country did have those Kellogg's cereal game discs, man those were the shit.

Eh, you can get them for free now :3
https://www.themarysue.com/play-chex-quest-1-2-3-free/
https://www.moddb.com/games/chex-quest/downloads/chex-quest-3-official-release

 

[RandomUser]

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Hey now, I own a Supercharged Jaguar R with that hood ornament.
I don't own a Atari Jaguar though.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Eh, you can get them for free now :3
https://www.themarysue.com/play-chex-quest-1-2-3-free/
https://www.moddb.com/games/chex-quest/downloads/chex-quest-3-official-release

That's nice, though I'd never be able to play those games. Back then it must've been fun, now for me at least they haven't aged well.

 

[Jiehfeng]

 

[ThoD]

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You know... if using just one hand you can just use the right Alt and right Ctrl just fine