The Mechanical Arms Race that Kills Online Games

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Can competitive culture kill off games? In this video, we dissect the way player skill impacts online games, the ways that developers and player behaviour affect player count, and ways that these things can be mitigated.

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0:00 Intro
2:11 Definitions
4:44 The Player Ecosystem
7:11 BattleBit Remastered and Mechanics
10:05 The mechanical arms race
14:15 SBMM and you
16:36 The Finals and Matchmaking
19:31 The part where I make sense
22:08 What can be done?

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