Share your unfiltered, unpopular gaming opinions and let's dive into some real discussions. If you come across a view you disagree with, feel free to (respectfully) defend your perspective. I don't want to see anyone say stuff like "we're all entitled to our own opinions." Let's pretend like gaming is a science and we are all award winning scientists.
My Unpopular Opinion:
I believe the criticism against battle royales is often unwarranted. Most complaints revolve around constant content updates, microtransactions, and toxic player communities
Many criticize the frequent content updates, often cosmetic, as overwhelming. However, it's optional, and no other industry receives flak for releasing more. I've never seen anyone complain about too many Lays or coke flavors.
Pay-to-win concerns are mostly outdated; microtransactions are often for cosmetics. If you don't have the self control to not buy a purple glittery gun, then I'm glad you don't play the games anymore, but I don't think it makes the game bad.
The annoying player bases is the one I understand the most. I don't really have a point against this except that it's better to play with friends.
Overall I think battle royale games are pretty fun and rewarding. Some of my favorite gaming memories were playing stuff like apex legends late at night with friends or even playing minecraft hunger games with my cousins like 10 years ago. A long time ago I heard in a news segment that toy companies found out that people are willing to invest a lot of time and energy into winning ,if they know there will be a big reward at the end, and battle royales tap into that side of my brain.
This is just my opinion
Isn’t most competitive multiplayer games like that? That’s like thinking chess has zero replay value because there are no unlockables.
No one’s told you about the Super Knight? It’s $8.99/turn but it can move in any upper-case letter path. It also discounts the Victorian Hat Pack for the queen.
It depends on their format. A lot of competitive games have abilities and different loadout options that allow you to try different playstyles on purpose and practice getting better with them, while the battle royale's format forces you to deal with what you find, preventing practice with specific setups.
For example MOBAs allow you to pick heroes who play very very differently and allow you to become proficient in a number of different playstyles purposefully on your own time, so you feel the progression more directly and if you dead end with one character you can try more.