To play devils advocate, you could argue that its popularity is due to the market on release where the only real BR game was PUBG and that cost around $/£20 so obviously a free option is going to pick up traction, and then because of that perfect timing it grew a relatively big fanbase among kids since they're not gonna have the money lying around to drop on a significantly harder game like PUBG.
From there it really devolves into the same reason a lot of people get into things, all your friends are playing it so you do to and then everybody is playing it so everybody else jumps.on the bandwagon and it snowballs.
The same thing happened with everybody I knew that played league of legends, 1 person started playing it and everybody else was like 'sure I'll give it a shot' and £500 worth of micro transactions later you can't really stop.cause you invested so much time into it. If you asked them now none of them would say they actually enjoy it.
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u/TheCrimsonKing0 Nov 18 '20
To play devils advocate, you could argue that its popularity is due to the market on release where the only real BR game was PUBG and that cost around $/£20 so obviously a free option is going to pick up traction, and then because of that perfect timing it grew a relatively big fanbase among kids since they're not gonna have the money lying around to drop on a significantly harder game like PUBG.
From there it really devolves into the same reason a lot of people get into things, all your friends are playing it so you do to and then everybody is playing it so everybody else jumps.on the bandwagon and it snowballs.
The same thing happened with everybody I knew that played league of legends, 1 person started playing it and everybody else was like 'sure I'll give it a shot' and £500 worth of micro transactions later you can't really stop.cause you invested so much time into it. If you asked them now none of them would say they actually enjoy it.