With Dune: Awakening‘s launch fast approaching, the survival MMO space remains a difficult one to navigate. Developers for Dune: Awakening can look to the initial failures and eventual successes of another major game in the space, Fallout 76, as an example. Where it appeared at first that the Fallout IP simply wasn’t enough to compensate for the underwhelming gameplay at launch, 76 had many things working against it. While it would seem these massive franchises have equally massive built-in audiences, it turns out things are slightly more complicated than that and these MMOs cannot rely on name recognition alone.

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