Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Tonic Games Group, Makers of ‘Fall Guys’, Joins Epic Games WWW.EPICGAMES.COM We are thrilled to announce Tonic Games Group is joining Epic Games! Tonic Games is the creator of the hit sensation, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 The title of this thread should be "Fall Guys soon to be F2P". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Epic is so awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Why? Seems like the Among Us devs would be a better purchase. Fall Guys feels like a fad that blew by in a couple weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 12 hours ago, Xbob42 said: Why? Seems like the Among Us devs would be a better purchase. Fall Guys feels like a fad that blew by in a couple weeks. You'd be wrong, the game still has a huge player base. People love it. I had some fun with it, but it's not something I'd play a lot of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Once a Chinese knockoff happens, your game is worthless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 46 minutes ago, ManUtdRedDevils said: Once a Chinese knockoff happens, your game is worthless. Well, speaking of Among Us, Epic did their Chinese knockoff of Among Us in Fortnite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 13 hours ago, Xbob42 said: Why? Seems like the Among Us devs would be a better purchase. Fall Guys feels like a fad that blew by in a couple weeks. i pop in a few times a month and play a couple rounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I would guess it wasn't too expensive an acquisition at this point, so it was probably a good deal. Right now Fall Guys is 97 on the top 100 steam games, but it feels to me like a game that could remain more relevant. Going F2P is the obvious move, and launching on Switch and Xbox will help either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Well, speaking of Among Us, Epic did their Chinese knockoff of Among Us in Fortnite. Among Us is actually a knockoff of another game. I think it was Space Station 13 or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 4 hours ago, BloodyHell said: You'd be wrong, the game still has a huge player base. People love it. I had some fun with it, but it's not something I'd play a lot of. Do you have a source for this "huge" player base? Because Steam Charts shows something like a 90% drop in players since launch. It still has a decent amount of players, but hardly "huge." Yes it was given away on PSN, but I imagine that only makes the drop off even more steep on that platform, since in my experience, people who pay for a game are far more likely to play it more to get their money's worth. It seems very likely to me that Epic is aware of this massive drop off of players, hence them teasing it going free to play. The game for me was fine, but its shallow nature and borderline random at times controls really sap the fun out of it. Even my 6 year old daughter went from being obsessed about it to bored in a few days. Unlike Phasmophobia, where she continues to enjoy hunting evil ghosts with her aunts weeks upon weeks later. I'm sure they'll have no trouble getting more people into Fall Guys, but it seems like a really late an bizarre choice when looking at the "fad game" market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 9 minutes ago, Xbob42 said: people who pay for a game are far more likely to play it more to get their money's worth My Steam backlog says otherwise 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Xbob42 said: Do you have a source for this "huge" player base? Because Steam Charts shows something like a 90% drop in players since launch. It still has a decent amount of players, but hardly "huge." Yes it was given away on PSN, but I imagine that only makes the drop off even more steep on that platform, since in my experience, people who pay for a game are far more likely to play it more to get their money's worth. It seems very likely to me that Epic is aware of this massive drop off of players, hence them teasing it going free to play. The game for me was fine, but its shallow nature and borderline random at times controls really sap the fun out of it. Even my 6 year old daughter went from being obsessed about it to bored in a few days. Unlike Phasmophobia, where she continues to enjoy hunting evil ghosts with her aunts weeks upon weeks later. I'm sure they'll have no trouble getting more people into Fall Guys, but it seems like a really late an bizarre choice when looking at the "fad game" market. Going F2P will likely help bring the player base back up a bit. Now is likely the best time to buy the devs. Early enough that everyone still knows them, but late enough that the initial rush has died down and they aren't as pricy. It's not like Rocket League was really blowing things up when they were bought. They topped out at just over 119k concurrent players. Going F2P for them bumped that up to over 1m. Rocket League passes 1m concurrent players WWW.GAMESINDUSTRY.BIZ Psyonix reaches a new milestone as its competitive driving/football hybrid goes free-to-play I can easily see the same thing happen for Fall Guys. I never bothered because the game send silly and too random for $20. Free, though? Yeah, I'll try that out on my Switch to give my kids s good laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 9 hours ago, BloodyHell said: Among Us is actually a knockoff of another game. I think it was Space Station 13 or something like that. It's just an adaptation of the game "Secret Hitler" if you want to take it that far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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