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How 2001 PC Game Majestic Almost Transformed The Gaming Industry (retrododo.com)
submitted 8 months ago by zamuz@lemdro.id to c/games@lemmy.world
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While the game is nearly forgotten today, its DNA can be seen all across the gaming industry, with many of its innovations now commonplace.

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[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, Majestic was incredibly interesting because it was an attempt to create an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that was more than just a marketing campaign and could support itself financially. Its failure led to ARGs being abandoned as standalone games and ARGs mostly remained marketing which - ultimately - led to a slow, but inevitable decline of the ARG as a genre when the marketing money dried up.