by phsc » 8 September 2018, 19:57
pb2 is a game for kids
kids like X
they dont really care about quality, they just want X
someone who came up with X gets a spotlight but its either too good or too bad
someone steals X idea, adds a few things to it, really popular, i'll call this Y
Y is really popular, someone makes a simpler version, even more popular
someone makes a high quality complex version, less popular
at this point, people dont really remember about X, someone makes a copy of X with a few Y features but realy crappy, popular
its pretty simple, pb2 has always been like that, someone has a idea, no matter how that person executes that idea, someone will copy it, but pb2 isnt about quality, its about making things as simple as possible, theres many base maps with tons of features that arent popualr so we have paul308-base, we had ph3x-base, xfrostbytex-alcatraz, and a thousand other base maps earlier
and probably the original idea was to use bases to recruit people for clans, and well, turns out kids just like being abusive killers in a flash game!
great ideas can be popular too, but they wont be as much, you can see that prison map i think made by cleaver45, it is pretty great, not a good map, but decent
a ton of people made maps like that before, but they were either too bad or too complex
its like that with everything in life, popular films, music, etc, any art form must be easy to consume, not something which you need to think because people dont like thinking, so pb2 follows that, into a even higher level as its kids we are talking about