Im actually stunned that this game is still increasing in popularity. Have a good understanding of how. Yet i dont comprehend why they are able to retain players.
I'm not going to hate on the game, since I haven't played it, but the whole Battle Royale thing is huge in online PvP, right now, and I think the whole survivalist aspect is consuming culture right now for the simple reason that we subsist in a society where most of our lives simply never face real danger. Look at Android or iOS.
Last Day on Earth: Survival was #1, and similar TBS games in the
The Walking Dead games have preceded it. I don't think Zombie Survival mode in COD kickstarted this, but
Running Man and
Hunger Games shit has never been bigger-- never. The post-apocalyptic genre continues to thrive, too.
If it doesn't have the fundamental underlying mechanics of the great games it won't have the staying power. If that's the case, then this is just a
Pokemon Go bubble. If not, then it will probably stick around. I thought
Paladins was quite the surprise phenomenon, but that turned out to be little more than a
Tribes: Ascend 2.0. It's the great programming that you get from companies like Valve and Blizzard that never die.