Zach

Potentially hot take incoming but idc. I sincerely believe that if Riot had gone forward with the original plan of their platform fighter (Pool Party) and gone a Melele-esque route that game would be all over everyone’s timelines even today. FGC saturation is a real thing, and there’s legit maybe only 4 relevant Platform Fighters played by a large number of people, dominated of course by Smash. Famously, Riot saw what happened to MultiVersus and they got spooked. I want to remind everyone that MVS at one point had over 150,000 concurrent players on Steam, which is absolutely mind boggling to think about for a platform fighter. But the failure of MVS was due to strange dev decisions - such as their decision to keep the game extremely floaty and slow after a 2 year hiatus - I don’t think this is a mistake Riot would have made, especially after seeing the good polish that 2XKO has. I truly hope they give Pool Party one last good attempt because it really could have been the one.

Yea I think it’s GGs unfortunately. Buy your physicals on Switch, hope that Xbox takes advantage of this to make discs for next gen so the market that wants it can have it, and at least Steam/PC gives you more flexibility access for digital as well. If Playstation doesn’t want you, it’s gonna be up to you to make a stance to not want them back. This disc thing is like 1 part of the problem with Playstation. Studio shutdowns, billions wasted on live service games that never even saw the light of day, lack of first party games this gen, and clearly next gen things are gonna get WORSE. This is a PS that doesn’t care, nor needs to care cuz in their mind they are the default console people will buy. I hope they are humbled beyond belief going into PS6💀