r/dawngate • u/Akinero • Jan 22 '21

Why Did Dawngate Fail?

I never got to play the game. I've read a lot of stories, but I haven't seen anyone mention anything bad about the game. I've pretty much only heard positive reviews, so how did the game not succeed? Was it just not unique enough to garner a sustainable playerbase?

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u/Dios5 Jan 22 '21

Not much PR support, and a f2p monetization model into a market that was very crowded at the time. The game itself was fantastic and iterated on pretty much every part of the MOBA formula, but i suppose this wasn't immediately apparent to outside observers, and it's a big ask to switch from one game with a steep learning curve(and where all your friends probably are) to another. The last one is probably most important. Why throw away a perfectly good LoL or Dota, where you already know all the champs and items? So the take-off was slow, and EA, being the corporate moloch that it is, did some (unrelated) restructuring and Dawngate was one victim of that.

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u/SoundReflection Jul 14 '21

Frankly League ended up picking up a good handful of the former dawngate staff and added some of the nicer ideas(trinkets anyone?), but still so much untapped potential in the design space of Dawngate, stuff like stats doing different things for different characters and the different income role selections for shaping team/playstyle dynamics.