The ARC Raiders server slam event closed this morning, but while it only lasted for the weekend, it has already had a transformative effect on the shooter landscape. For the first time in recent memory, the extraction shooter genre has been referred to as anything other than an overdone fad.
Whether this reputation was ever warranted before is up for debate, but the reality is that the biggest successes in the extraction shooter genre have never quite managed to help the genre reach similar levels of popularity.
I was never going to be an objective judge for this, as my gaming preferences have—sometimes by choice, other times by inertia—pushed me into 'the shooter guy' box here. I love a good shooter, and I especially like an extraction shooter, so ARC Raiders was always going to be up my alley. My experience with the spring testing session proved that right.
However, what I didn't expect was to see so many people who never quite cared for extraction shooters, or even specifically loathed them, chiming in to sing praises to ARC Raiders and the genre as a whole.
It wasn't that long ago when the community had an overwhelmingly negative reaction to...
