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Old 10-23-2018, 06:20 PM   #12976
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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat View Post
To bring something new and lasting to gaming or the next big money maker like PUBG and Fortnite for recent stuff.
"New and lasting" is an amorphous goal that's almost never an actual motivation. I think you're conflating the public or even cultural response to a smash hit game with the honestly simple beginnings of a project. Nobody making Fortnite or Dark Souls was thinking "we're gonna change everything". Every game starts from the same place, maybe leaning toward the financial or artistic at times, but never with such a specific ideal as to be profound.

Companies arrogant enough to actually express this goal tend to set up their own failure.

As far as being a money maker you should keep in mind that we're talking about a video headset apparatus with bleeding edge tracking tech that after 2 decades hasn't managed a single killer app despite many attempts from very smart developers and game jams. I'd dare to say not a single commercially released VR game made good on its investment. Not one.
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