Lately, I’ve been playing as much Duelists of Eden as I can before it dies. Duelists has wildly unique mechanics for a fighting game, such as drawing attacks from a deck of cards and locking movement to a 4x4 grid. The game’s concurrent playerbase is already down to a paltry 200, despite launching just last week at the low price of $5. As with many niche multiplayer games, Duelists will soon experience queue death. The live matchmaking pool will decline to the point where players are unable to find opponents and will abandon the game.
There's some precedent for that in reviving dead esports. Warcraft 3 competition centers around a chinese league funded by some billionaire's gamer son who just loves WC3. Maybe we can get some of that arab money (though they seem to be throwing money at clout rather than nostalgia)
I liked the FNM example. Maybe there's something to creating paid-pots at specific period from MM desperate whales?
There's some precedent for that in reviving dead esports. Warcraft 3 competition centers around a chinese league funded by some billionaire's gamer son who just loves WC3. Maybe we can get some of that arab money (though they seem to be throwing money at clout rather than nostalgia)