And that’s basically nothing.
GRIT is a mediocre battle royale title utilizing NFTs that launched on the Epic Games Store, and I can count three fatal mistakes in that sentence. The first one is launching on the Epic Games Store as an exclusive. The second? Being an NFT game. The third? Being a mediocre battle royale game on the Epic Games Store.
Putting a mediocre battle royale game on the Epic Games Store is like opening your crappy fried chicken restaurant across the street from [insert your favorite restaurant here]. And GRIT is getting exactly the kind of response it deserves being on the same platform as Fortnite. Virtually none.
And I know this because people are occasionally posting on the GRIT Discord thinking it’s a bug that they sit in the lobby for an infinite amount of time and never get into a game. It’s not a bug.
GRIT is not a particularly good or even enjoyably mediocre battle royale. It’s poorly designed, the shooting sucks, the graphics are bottom of the barrel without getting into Synty Studios assets, and it’s definitely not worth the cost of stuff like battle passes, NFT characters, and limited use weapons they sell on the game store.
And the devs presumably made just enough cashola to justify this pump and dump. Going by Gala numbers, and assuming they are accurate, the folks sold 211 battle passes at roughly $8 each, totaling $1.86k USD. They did however seem to sell 5,800 gunslinger boxes at $1,474 each (my calculations may be inaccurate) meaning they duped $8.5 million out of morons for a game that was probably guaranteed to be DoA. That stands for “dead on yer asses.”
There’s a few other bits and pieces of the hundred odd items on the store, each with negligible sales numbers, so I think it’s fair to say the revenue from this game so far has been $8.6 million if my math is right on the gunslinger boxes. And let’s face it, that’s $8.6 million more than the game would have made launching on Steam with no NFTs because the game would be dead day one, but also nobody would have bought overpriced NFTs.
To the high rollers that have no issue spending thousands on dead end products with no hope of returned investment, I’d like to point out that MMO Fallout has a Patreon ready for new subscribers. The only difference is I don’t give a false sense of security in your spending.
MMO Fallout 