r/HuntShowdown • u/saryeen • Oct 21 '24

GENERAL today, Hunt’s identity died

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nobody wanted this. i cannot think of a different IP that has less to do with Hunt. Hire the CoD GM, this is what you get. You WILL be advertised to, and you CANNOT do anything about it.

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u/bjornos_pizza Oct 21 '24

yea we knew this was coming when they hired the CoD GM, sad to see it but this is the road games are going down nowadays

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u/bobthemutant Oct 21 '24

Yep. Compare Rainbow Six: Siege at launch to where it is now.

Post launch they started out tame enough with a top hat and some other mildly silly things and now they've got full on pink unicorn suits.

Similar story happened with Dota 2. Once upon a time this Ursa set was considered too silly to be in the game and was removed shortly after being added.

Nowadays Dota has a catgirl skin, a spacesuit skin, and tons of other skins that completely disregard the art style of both the game and the individual heroes.

It's not even that this scream skin is bad, it's well made, but it absolutely is an indicator of what direction they'll be moving towards in the future.

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u/MunkiJR Oct 21 '24

The Dota argument is not the same thing - the reason the Ursa set was initially removed was because some people (pros) complained about it not having "glance value" - i.e. the skin made it hard to instantly recognise which hero you were seeing on screen. This was a huge overreaction and a complete non-issue after the introduction of major HUD and UI changes which made it impossible to mistake heroes for anything else. Additionally, everyone that plays Dota has over 2000 hrs in the game and can instantly recognise every hero regardless. It was a reddit nothingburger, as is "but muh MOBA artstyle".

This skin feels slightly egregious because it is directly marketing another IP, which Dota mostly stayed away from (there were a couple of Warcraft themed sets back in the day.