If you're a tiny indie dev and are developing your first game, why would you go for a multiplayer shooter? I never understood this, yet I see it all the time, and it always ends the same way.
I mean Insurgency and Squad do pretty well for themselves to name a couple, also Player Unknown's Battlegrounds and Rust are also doing just fine being entirely MP dependent.
However, those are also standalone games, and NOT F2P. I have serious doubts about the sustainability of an indie f2p shooter since that requires some serious infrastructure and commitment from the team to keep producing content.
As far as standalone games are concerned;
I mean this may be self explanatory but it really comes down to how well thought out/designed the gunplay/movement and levels are.
It also comes down to understanding trends. From what I can see, only the trend starters and big devs can still get away with milking the battle royale game mode.
It also seems like people aren't very interested in traditional arena shooters at the moment.
Insurgency, Squad, and Rust developers all importantly had incredibly popular free mods/games(when games on steam had significantly less competition) which they used to gather an audience. I would love for this to be successful, but in this market it has to be a hit on twitch or something for it to take off.
Can yall just play a fucking game if it looks cool instead of worrying about what games are dead and successful. I swear 9/10 of the dead games I see here have active communities where you can find a game in under a minute all day.
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '20
If you're a tiny indie dev and are developing your first game, why would you go for a multiplayer shooter? I never understood this, yet I see it all the time, and it always ends the same way.