But I do think more game developers should think about making chaotic, open online environments for players to interact in, rather than ‘game-y games’. Beast kicked off 2021 by hiding $100,000 worth of gift cards in their server for a scavenger hunt.” Whoa. It’s a similar story with Minecraft and the Dream SMP server ( example video ), as the Pause Button folks say: “Every creator involved in the server has seen a significant increase in popularity, riffing on the Speedrun genre (e.g Minecraft Manhunt) and hosting their own exclusive server. It’s less about the gameplay, and more about social interactions, hilarious occurrences, and - yes - storytelling, whether that be petty feuds or more interesting themes. He goes on to list some of the reasons why he thinks it’s working: “Most interactions happen digitally vs IRL Primarily in gaming Each creator uplevels the rest of the group (Dream SMP is crazy successful in this regard ) synchronous viewing for a variety of creators same game different factions Lore and storytelling.”Īre there any lessons from this for you, the average game maker? Well, creating a multiplayer environment which is a little bit freeform, but can be customized and player-enhanced is why Rust is breaking out again. The folks at the excellent Pause Button newsletter have also been commenting on this trend, with Fawzi Itani noting on Twitter: “Feels like Offline TV (with their Rust/Minecraft servers) and Dream SMP are the equivalents of “digital hype houses.” (Hype/collab houses are real-life streamer cohabitation hangouts, for any old people tuning in.) In fact, enough big streamers were playing Rust together that you’ve even got fans editing together Twitch highlights from this private server into videos: And all the time, Rust was totally dominating the most-streamed Twitch games (1.365 million simultaneous watchers, at one point!) & those watchers were buying game copies galore. But here, xQc threw an accusation of stream sniping at fellow Twitch streamer Ali 'Myth' Kabbani after being killed in an out-of-the-way area of the map.”Īnd then some players quit, and then their fans got in a fight, and so on and so forth. The French-Canadian streamer has found himself in hot water before, having been banned on Twitch for a number of reasons including stream sniping and broadcasting explicit material on his channel. “In the week that the OfflineTV Rust server has been active, there has been conflict between some of the participants, but most of this seems to revolve around controversial streamer Felix 'xQc' Lengyel. It’s created endless drama and discussion points in the celebrity streamer world, as explained by this Gamerant piece, which almost feels like TMZ-level reporting: The reason for this seems to be simple - streamer/influencer collective OfflineTV created a private Rust server, and invited a whole bunch of big streamers to play concurrently on it. But clearly, $1 million in a day is way above and beyond. Comparing it to 2019’s post, Rust sold 530,000 copies during 2020, and grossed $43 million during the year. The above screenshot is from Garry Newman’s Tweet, in which the Rust/Garry’s Mod creator says simply: “We made over $1m on Steam on two days this week.”įor context, I recently posted that Facepunch’s 2020 year in review blog listed its lifetime revenue for Rust.
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