It's a ~10 year old game, a gameplay clone of CS 1.6 with wildly varying maps, game modes, and strategies. It's popular because the core mechanics are fun. I heavily disagree with your assessment here as to why it's successful. Do you know that there's also a F2P Call of Duty Online using MW1's assets that launched in China? There's a reason why the FPS scene differs a lot in these regions, and I can't imagine a game like CF to be successful in the west when there's many better options, while the East receives a much more limited catalog. Call of Duty serves as the go-to casual FPS for the west with AAA production value for the west. I honestly see no reason to play CF when you can shell out 15 bucks for CSGO, and as you mentioned, Dirty Bomb is free and even a much better game than CF. The audience that eat this kind of game has quite low standard, while only an extremly small part of the western audience would tolerate this kind of game. ![]() The game itself, is quite ass in my opinion. It happened to succeed in Asia because it's F2P, got marketed pretty heavily and can run on any kind of potato. It's a shoddily made game with ancient tech and really trashy F2P model scheme, production value is incredibly low, everything from gameplay, graphics, audio to level of polish screams mediocre. The reason why it's so popular in Asia is there's no FPS like it, and I don't mean it as positive. For example, a game with similar gunplay is Dirtybomb, but even that feels very different because headshots dont instagib and it doesn't feel like you can decimate a team by yourself because people can revive, undoing your kills. Literally the only similar games are other F2p asian ports, and well, you know how that plays out (ridiculous grind due to far different culture, low player numbers, dated features, and some pay 2 win if you're lucky). ![]() Its sort of like a mix of CS and an arena shooter, running has a MUCH smaller effect on crosshair bloom, making the game more rush centric and less static (not to mention TDM is the most popular pub mode), and I just can't aim well standing still, making me terrible at CS:GO. For those of you who don't know, Crossfire is one of the most profitable F2p games in the world, and its basically "Asia copies CS 1.5".īut its far more than a simple ripoff of CS, because I loved Crossfire and just can't get myself to enjoy CS:GO, they play so very different.
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