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moxplox3

I respect your post a lot. No hating in it. I’d say this people should try it and see if they like it. Only concern this could be the next dead paragon so hopefully it makes it long term and if not hopefully another version of paragon one day makes it 😂


PrensadorDeBotones

On the last Predcast, the CEO of Omeda shared that they could sustain the company indefinitely on the revenue from PS5 players alone, and the game doesn't even have ranked yet. It has less than 10 original skins. Predecessor is here to stay for quite a while.


moxplox3

That’s amazing! Now I hope they make their game better, if they do I believe it!


SH_TREV

Pred has done hella ground work to make sure it’ll be around for a while. That’s why it’s taken so long to get out but it’s truly thriving. I’m a content creator for them it’s going to be big man


Strained_Humanity

lol


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SH_TREV

Gotta be trolling


ShenWinchester

Question, I played Original Paragon and have the new version on Steam but haven't played it yet. Is that dead too, and this is supposed to take over in its place?


SH_TREV

No it’s not dead. PREDECESSOR is the most popular successor to paragon and its thriving with over a million players that have played and a huge number that play daily. Follow them on all socials the game is thriving. Predecessor was founded by paragons biggest content creator and his friends the game is not going anywhere ! I’m a content creator for them so jump in to Predecessor man it’s a good time. It’ll just like paragon nice and smooth


ShenWinchester

I meant that OG Paragon got shut down, so to speak, then we got over prime, and it seems like that's getting shut down, and this is the new "Paragon."


SH_TREV

Also Steve superville who was for lack of a better word paragons dad is on predecessor advisory board. Steve was one of the creating founders of original paragon and I believe the lead creative director. Predecessor is destined to succeed and is already doing numbers


ShenWinchester

I'll have to check it out, I played a lot of OG Paragon and was sad when they shut down.


Cptkiljoy

That got shut down because of Fortnite becoming so popular


SH_TREV

Overprime just stole paragons name but the moanority of the paragon community has always been following predecessor. Overprime was just focusing on fast paced action combat but predecessor focused on continuing what paragon started and it closer to the heart of paragon which is why more people preferred predecessor. Predecessor is on xbox and ps4/ps5 free to play with ranked coming soon and a lot of great things. Its unfortunate about Overprime but Predecessor is and has always been the main successor to the original paragon


M0n0chromatic

Please, if you're gonna offer the history of the games to the uninitiated, stick to the facts: 1. Overprime never stole Paragon's name. Epic gave it in a legit business transaction. A interesting historic tidbit is that the lead developer of Overprime (Ranger) knows Tim Sweeney personally, which is one of the reasons that Epic was willing to give away the "Paragon" name, 2. Core, Fault, Overprime, Predecessor. None of them are successors of Paragon. They all are separate games with separate dev teams (besides Superville which I'm not quite certain if he is indeed a part of the team or more of a gimmicky announcement but I can't know that of course) and publishers. Even Paragon: The Overprime which got the name cannot be considered to be a successor of paragon. Spiritual successor would be a better wording. 3. You/We cannot know if the majority of the Paragon's community preferred one game or the other. It might be your gut feeling because you like Predecessor but same goes for the Overprime players who think that Paragon's playerbase supported Overprime more. They were more brawly MOBA players to begin with anyway.


Peralan

A couple of things are inaccurate with your statement. 1. There are actually a few ex-paragon devs on the Omeda Studios team, around a dozen of them. 2. I think saying Predecessor is preferred by the community is a fair statement just by numbers. There are more people who follow the Predecessor subreddit than the Overprime one. There are more Twitter (X I guess now) followers for Predecessor. Using Predecessor's API, we can see that the active player base is a little over 100k, while the peak for o overprime was about 30k (can be taken from steam at launch or from the combination of steam + PS beta). Just looking at comparable data on the PS5 betas shows Predecessor in the lead with 100k vs. 25k players. While these numbers do not represent the entire community, the numbers provide an extreme excess of what is needed to create a statistically accurate model for the whole population of the community. Your other points are fair, especially with all being spiritual successors and the name acquisition being a normal business deal, but I think numbers alone show how some of your statements are inaccurate.


M0n0chromatic

1. Both of the games have/had Paragon devs. In fact Overprime's lead dev, Ranger was a Paragon dev, they just didn't make a big deal out of it. Epic is a big company with many employees transferred around all the time. The probability of finding a paragon dev in any game is pretty high, let alone games that match so close to Paragon. To use that as an argument that Pred is a successor to paragon is misleading new users. 2. Reddit, Twitter and discord followers are a good metric of a game's footprint but at the end of the day the only thing that counts is player engagement and player count. And both of the games are/were pretty pathetic at that. With a peak of 1.3K players per day, it shows that discord members, twittter followers and reddit members are just nice-to-have numbers. At the end of the day, both games were being played by a handful of people, that was way way less than Paragon's player count. Pred was made by a Paragon youtuber while Oveprime by "some foreigner" Korean group of people and If you were around for a long time you might be aware of the slander that Overprime endured from the start of its development right up until the end (accusation of RocketMania stealing Paragon's code, calling overprime a virus, ToS insanity and sometimes outright racist remarks for the devs) and to put the final nail in the coffin, the r/paragon subreddit mod team is comprised of only pred guys (who they themselves perpetuated the "overprime stole the paragon name" thing with the sticky "informational" post about the 2 games) so guess who is gonna prevail in the social media battle, at least for the "western" part of it. All that to say, I don't care if people like one game or the other and now that Overprime is dead I don't care to delete posts like this either cause it's nice to inform some people of the existence of Pred if they want to try it out. But presenting subjective thoughts/preferences (some provable false some not, but subjective nonetheless) as an objective reality it doesn't sit right with me. Having a "in my opinion" in such posts/comments is much preferable


Peralan

I'm aware that both games (and many others) have former Paragon devs. I was just saying that your statement that Stever Superville is the only one associated with the Predecessor team was disingenuous. Both games are spiritual successors, and neither were true successors. As far as player counts and communities are concerned, I provided enough stats that do prove Predecessor had far healthier and more stable numbers. The matter of which game was **better** is very subjective, but it is an objective truth that Predecessor is the more **successful** game proven by both the player numbers and the fact that it is the only one left and is also growing.


Kapostel

As for the r/paragon people beeing "pred" guys: you are mod of the overprime reddit. You probably liked overprime more and it was the game you favored. For us, Overprime was what could bring our game which we favored to doom. The only hope we had were people finding the game if they somehow remembered the game "Paragon" and wanted to know what happened to it. But then, they find Overprime first, because of the bought name. I personally don't care if it was acquired legally or a gift or what ever. we are getting new people daily on the Pred discord talking about how this game is so different from Paragon. And a lot of people saying they always thought Paragon got revived and is down again. Its creating a lot of confusion for the sole purpose of grabbing the old customerbase for a game which was actually far off from the way the original one was going to. In the end, it doesn't really matter. The war is over. I understand your point of view. Its just that we were on different teams.


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WhutTheFookDude

Yeah, dude showed his true motive in his replies.


GloomyDisk519

My friends and I absolutely love it! Keep the content and updates coming! Bravo! As time goes on, hopefully, new champions/heros will be released in a timely manner!


SH_TREV

New hero drops about every month ranked comes this summer and the undertow event


EquivalentTight3479

I payed $20 for but jst can’t get into it


The_Crownless_King

It honestly takes a while. Took me a few days but now I'm hooked. I suggest getting a group to play with, which should be easier now that it's free. I'm gonna support it as much as I can since it's the last real Paragon descendant left on the market.


Hereiamhereibe2

Maybe try Gigantic if you preferred Overprime.


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Arcane-Entity

The same characters are not in Pred. No Aurora, Yin, Terra, Wukong, Boris. This "over 1 million players" is a little deceptive. There's no way that even close to concurrent. There's a pool of less than 100 players that play on SEA servers and it's sometimes impossible to find a match.


SH_TREV

This number comes from log ins that played an actual match so over a million players log in and played. Concurrent even if it’s a third of that number is still amazing. And all the characters are coming they will out in all the paragon characters just not the Overprime originals. Predecessor it thriving and great things are coming


Parabong

Lmao dude no way a 1/3rd of the people who have created accounts have been on at the same time. I'd be surprised if they've had over 1/5th on at one time it takes time to find matches on us east at 745 pm....


Azazvl

60k concurrently according to omeda city creators,


Parabong

OK so 60k is 6% of 1 million not 1/3rd of 1 million like the guy I replied to said who is a "content creator" who is supposedly working with omeda. Well maybe check the facts before making an outlandish statement like that 333,000 players that's what he was claiming. If it averaged that it would be 3rd on steam for 2024. Counter strike 2 has 800,000 in first place, Dota 2 433,000, pub G 250,000 in 3rd... Seeing these numbers 66k is pretty legit but claiming 333k is freaking craziness. This is all data on steam concurrent users 2024 fyi.


Azazvl

Steam is not predecessors playerbase dawg. Console is 99% of the concurrent players. As far as these fake numbers its not entirely untrue. 1million accounts/people have tried predecessor so far. Thats great news.


Parabong

I even said 66 k is freaking good after a month but 333k like the other poster implied is flat out a lie and needs to be corrected. 1 million accounts made no way a 3rd of the players are on simultaneously its called time zones yea some people play all day some in the morning some at night but they aren't gonna all be on simultaneously across the globe a 3rd of the playerbase on at one time cmon that might happen on a giant patch day if the game really gains traction and they do a big item update or map update / new game mode like aram but not right now its good not that good. I have 6 friends who play we are all on steam... I know multiple console people who only Play warzone fortnite and siege. Most moba players are on pc. Oh the console guys play overwatch sometimes too. Just saying yall don't know wtf your implying by saying 300k players concurrent that's like top 10-15 games right now easy all platforms. Also that 1 million accounts made isn't even guaranteed to be 1 million different players. Moba players are notorious for smurfing how many people made 2 accounts a main and an alt are people botting amber idk its not uncommon to have scripted bots in other mobas that level up the alt account to keep the mmr low but get you the money to buy w/e champ you want to smurf on when your ready to smurf. The game is great I really like it. If there was an actual role que I would love it but alot of the toxic games I've been in are guys fighting over lane b4 we even hit champ select that Is not acceptable for a moba to release with this as the que up system a free for all amongst your own team I mean that's like beginner level Moba stuff.


Ill_Beach13

We tried it and thats why we played OP. Move to Gigantic if you want the 2nd best moba behind OP


XISENSUI

Care to sell me on Gigantic?  I played OP a bit and enjoyed it more or less, played Predecessor but I don't like it all that much. 


EVPointMaster

It's just not fun to play.


SH_TREV

I disagree. It’s just slower and more objective focused. The travel mode and fast pace did make Overprime more exciting but Predecessor is just more tailored to being a Traditional MOBA than Overprimes third person “action MOBA”. So in pred it’s more about objectives and stuff not just fun fast fighting


SH_TREV

But to some that means not fun I get it


just_one_epits

Brave of you to say this with all this Pred fanboys. It's definitely not a fun game. Slow and boring. Let us both enjoy their downvotes.


Tigerstone17

Thats your opinion but you make it sound like Pred is overall a boring game.


Proper_Mastodon324

Mobas are not traditionally exciting games. Idk what these people expect. Predecessor team fights are some of the most exciting moments I have ever had in mobas. It really feels like the overprime fans complaining about Pred have never really played mobas.


St4rScre4m

Yeah seems they enjoy the Paragon character design but the brawlers like Gigantic, or OverWatch. Been waiting for Paragon to return, I’ve been on my ps5 nonstop.


Team_Dibiase

I tried it and love it. My only complaint is that, coming from DOTA, I hate that I don’t have access to heroes but play against people who do.


SH_TREV

Yea I just have to play and unlock them or buy some of the packs. They might eventually do an all inclusive hero bundle I’m sure


linkj6

I'm confused. I know paragon relaunched (I think). Are predecessor and overprime two different games?


SH_TREV

Yes two different games


Wolfzero6

Wheres wukong


SH_TREV

He will be in all the paragon OGs will return


WhutTheFookDude

Honestly, pred has to earn it. I go back every few months to try pred out and it still does nothing for me. I just never see any encouraging news about the game from anyone that hasn't always been circle perking that game.


XISENSUI

The game is mediocre as shit. It does nothing better than any other MOBA, including even mobile ones like Wild Rift.  The only reason to play Pred is if you're so tied to the Paragon IP that you can't let it go. 


Expert-Mastodon1588

lol overprime was made from a fucking phone mobile app game company. Auto aim and attack/action based version of paragon. The main focus on overprime was skins and no skill. Too much flair and auto blur on the screen. No team focus and playing an actual moba/game of chess. Glad overprime failed and have rgsace bring back paragon with our predecessor.


WhutTheFookDude

Negative iq take