Release of so many low-quality battle royale games

I think the phenomenon is more of a trend. When there's huge success in general, there's bound to be imitators and, in the case with video games, new games that will try to ride the success of a popular genre or game, and some of those games aren't going to be as great as the game that built the most success. It's sort of like how when Minecraft became popular, there was an explosion of voxel/sandbox clones, or how when Flappy Bird became popular, people developed their own version. It's something that's to be expected for many genres, not just battle royale.

 

Yeah, with Flappy Bird, there were a lot of imitators; when you have such a brilliant idea, so many people will want to borrow that same idea. That's pretty much the parallel with Fortnite, where you also have imitators, although it hasn't been that bad. I feel like Flappy Bird was worse since the game was so simple, but what makes battle royales different is their complexity.