When it comes to live service games with a heavy multiplayer focus, there's always a choice that developers have to make when it comes to their audience. Do you cater to your casual audience, which will likely be huge, but have a more consistent drop off as the game becomes more stale, or do you cater to your more dedicated audience and lean into the more competitive elements of your game?
It's a pretty tricky thing to get right, as Marvel Rivals is one such example of a game that struggles to strike the right balance between competitively balanced and actually enjoyable for casuals. However, the Arc Raiders community doesn't think it's a problem at all, as it appears to be pretty unanimous that fans want the game to stay "as casual as possible."
This recent comment came from popular Twitch streamer Ninja, who Fortnite fans will obviously be very familiar with. In a recent stream of his, Ninja said that Arc Raiders would fall in quality dramatically if the developer — Embark Studios — attempted to make it more competitive, going so far as to say that he "hopes there are never tournaments for it.
"I want them to keep it...
