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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by pbalau on Thursday December 27, 2018 @06:44PM (#18773681)
I don't think the question is who started the genre, but who made it commercially viable. And I think pubg gets this
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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by user5994461 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:54PM (#18774010)
If anything, it's the movies that made it commercially viable, not games that came out later and rode on the wave.
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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by moron4hire on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:18PM (#18774134)
I doubt 50 million people in the West have seen a Japanese cult film, but 50 million people have bought PUBG.
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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by user5994461 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:31PM (#18774217)
Didn't everyone see Godzilla?
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