Re:Millions of Women Will Make Fortnite a Billion-Dollar Game
by ksec on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @01:12PM
(#17181062)
This a million times. I asked for this like for nearly a decade. And it seems wired no game studio quite understand this.
Oh, and another thing that was lost in the 20 years we grown up as millennials. Games are suppose to be FUN. Fun Fun, something we enjoy, not for wasting our time. Nowadays most games are graphics showcase, poor game play, little story line, and mostly for hardcore gamers. Zelda is fun, may be more so then before, but it is now an even rarer breed.
When you have a family, particularly a young one, you have time but not contiguous time. Meaning a 15-30 minute game is possible, a 1-2 hour game is simply not (except perhaps on weekends).
Fortnite, Overwatch, and many mobile games do very well at this. AAA games often fail due to the level of grinding just to be on par (e.g. Battlefield, COD) and for single player games it is a mixed bag, some like Far Cry and Breath of the Wild have gameplay elements (like freeing outposts) that lend themselves to short burst of gameplay with a small reward.
Millennials are now in our thirties. We have families and kids, we game. There's a market for this.