• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Well, it’s been going strong for 17 years because of unlimited creativity.
    Name one game still popular after 17 years.

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      5 days ago

      Terraria just had its 15th year anniversary less than a week ago and is more popular than ever. World of Warcraft is still popular as well.

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        5 days ago

        Minecraft has 210 million monthly players. About 400X Terraria, 30X WoW. It’s not even close.

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          5 days ago

          Bit of an irrelevant metric if you’d ask me. Best-selling game of all time run by owner of both Windows and Xbox has bigger numbers than indie title, color me surprised. Considering Minecraft only has 5x as many sales as Terraria, I’d say Terraria is doing pretty well. Average player counts will obviously be comparatively lower because it’s a completely different genre.

          And to be clear I’m not arguing that Minecraft is unpopular or that it doesn’t allow for near unlimited creativity. It’s one of my favorite games. I was just naming a couple of other incredibly popular games like you asked.

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      5 days ago

      Guild Wars 2 is 14 years old this year, and you could argue that Guild Wars 1 is having a new renaissance after 21 years :)