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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by andyfleming on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:16PM (#18771741)
Plenty of games have had elimination modes for a long time. This is really just an evolution of that adding the mechanic of the map edges closing in.
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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by ehsankia on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:19PM (#18771768)
Elimination mode is more generic. The battle royale subgenre started with the Minecraft hunger game mode, and grew more popular by H1Z1: King of the Hill, and then by PUBG.
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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by cthalupa on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:45PM (#18772888)
>The battle royale subgenre started with the Minecraft hunger game mode, and grew more popular by H1Z1: King of the Hill, and then by PUBG.

Minecraft had nothing to do with it. PU was inspired by the Battle Royale novel/movie and The Running Man. He forked the Day Z ARMA2 mod and made DayZ: Battle Royale, and that predates H1Z1 KotH by 3 years.

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