>2XKO would have needed a monthly active userbase "in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions" to succeed>Been in dev since SF5 release (2016)>Mismanged and on California salary for 10 yearslollmao
>California devsWhat a shock. Although at the same time, the devs are pretty based making Riot waste so much money for 10 years, they essentially got a free ride the entire time to not work and do whatever they wanted. Glad the devs are dead and glad that Riot wasted so much money with them.
>>748936795riot can't innovate
>>748936795>in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions But no fighting game has ever had this.
>>748936795>doesn't want to do the work>comes up with an astronomical figure no publisher would accept>doesn't have to do the workmany such cases among the faggot community
I feel like it cant be understated how much the cannon brothers basically openly robbed Riot games Fucking 10 YEARS of development??? For a fighting game? with a roster that fucking small?
>>748936795>Hundreds of thousands of usersHo lee FUCK, what were they thinking? There was no universe where this was happening, ever. Even Street Fighter doesn't get anywhere near that.
>>748937702>the commies who hate millionaires that i hired scammed me, a millionaire? WTF HOWWWWWfucking hilarious how this keeps happening in the gaming industry. pretty much all microsoft studios are doing this shit as well.
>>748937702apparently the game had a team of roughly 160 employees before the layoffs.look at the game. look at its' roster and overall production quality. 160 employees. HOW?it's been developed with like 1/10 effectiveness for 10 years. genuinely insane only in USA shit. >>748937809it's >they would've needed that many players to turn profit with the project's current costs and business modelnot that it was ever realistically possible or their goal in the first place. it's basically just stating that the project made pennies per player
>>748937948Game companies that get way too big always end up having this problem. Hell it extends beyond just gaming.In Riots case it was pure incompetence and they just allowed themselves to get robbed
>>748937480i think in situations like this where there is some near unlimited money tap run by stupids, everyone is complicitthey know upfront they aren't going to make anything and just ride the wave for the money
>>748937983I can't wait to hear just how much FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCKIN' MAAANIIIII Riot wasted on their MMO they STILL CAN'T FUCKING FIGURE OUT ENOUGH TO RELEASE ANYTHING ABOUTPreproduction started in 2016. They announced it in 2020. They announced in 2024 they were resetting development. They're still hiring people for the project as of a couple months agoWe don't know how much money they've burnt because we don't know how many people are involved and for how long, but 2XKO proved Riot just doesn't give a shit so I refuse to believe it's a reasonable amount of money
>>748936795>Millions of monthly active players>2XKOYou can't be serious, not even Street Fighter or Tekken can pull those numbers.
>>748936795The devs made the mistake of ever listening to the FGC. Those niggas want money; they don't actually want your game to succeed. They want to cash consultant checks, and maybe get some cash on the first tournament when it inevitably flops.>>748937480They had the """community""" sycophantically telling them how great what they were doing was. Are poverty fgc niggas going to tell that shit is fucked, or are they going to tell them "yeah bro, you're going to get LoL numbers from the FGC and bring in the casuals. We're the original esport and pack arenas, we know what we're talking about!" and keep getting paid?Never listen to the FGC.
>>748939942Basically >>748937983 put it bestIt's not that it was the plan to have that many users, it's just that the cost of the game resulted in needing that many users to justify the money pit it becameI wanna be in those boardroom meetings where the development heads had to justify themselves to the c-suites. It must have been very amusing to watch without any stakes in what happens
>>748936795DeservedI hate RiotI will never stop wishing Riot to failI applaud every Valorant cheater and League booster
>we're riot everything we create people will play because we're riotThey should stick to ripping off Valve. The Deadlock clone awaits them.
>>748936795Blame Max for promoting the idea of F2P fighting games
>>748936795>thinking a fighting game is a good idea for making moneyRiot devs confirmed retards. No fighter in the history of ever has maintained a massive player base like that past the first year. Most don't even survive 6 months before losing 90% of it's players.
>>748940535>MaxIt was way, way, way more of these guys than just Max trying to latch on to it, blow smoke up Riot's ass instead of sounding the alarm bells, and take the money and run.
