@deathlordcrime said:
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@deathlordcrime said:
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@g0ddyX said:
It has to contend with the casualness of the industry, bought in by shovelware and gimmicks.
I hope it does well and will bring back the old hardcore FPS shooter arenas back on the map.
Arena shooters were only popular bitd because CoD and BF weren't around yet. If there was a big demand for arena shooters, Epic would be on UT 6 at this point and it would be a big budget $60 game.
BF and COD existed when games like Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 were released. Epic moved on to making another IP.
The Halo games can be considered arena shooters.
And UT 2003 and 2004 weren't popular. Both games had under 1,000 players after a few months. By 2006, UT 2004 had one U.S. deathmatch server that was regularly populated and it was the demo server that allowed owners of the game and demo players to play together. UT 3 was dead within 2 months. I remember UT 3 sold a mere 30k copies in the first 2 weeks.
What new IP did they move onto? Gears came out before UT 3. There's no other reason there hasn't been a new UT in over 6 years but poor sales.
Halo doesn't have much in common with UT and Quake. Halo has very slow movement, there's no movement tricks to learn, you spawn with powerful weapons, correct me if I'm wrong but Halo is now completely regen health and has no armor pickups either. Halo has much more in common with BF and CoD than UT and Quake.
"Using the data collected from Xfire users, as of June 21st 2008, UT2004 is ranked 50th in the list of most played PC games in the world; with a combined total of over 250,000 minutes played per day by a total of over 2,500 Xfire users. On 21st March 2004, soon after release, UT2004's ranked peaked at 3rd place."
There was still over a 1000 people playing it in 2008 at times
http://liandri.beyondunreal.com/Unreal_Tournament_2004
Yes they focus working on their Gear of War IP which was based of a cancelled game back in 2002
A lot of people consider Halo 3 and the previous ones arena shooter now if its Halo 4 and Reach than they moved away from that element.
50th? Is that supposed to be good? UT 2004's player base dropped incredibly quickly.
CoD 4 is currently the number 1 xfire game. Yet it's nowhere near the most played pc game, not even remotely close. In other words, xfire means little.
Gamemonitor.com shows CoD 2 alone has more players than all the UT's combined. BF 1942 has twice as many players as UT 2004, plus it's highly likely that UT 2004 numbers include bots.
They focus on Gears yet a year later they release UT 3?
UT 3 sales were abysmal, why would they make another UT when they don't sell? Notice how there's no Quake 5 either. The demand for arena shooters isn't there.
None of the Halo's play anything like Quake and UT.
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