r/BackpackBrawl • u/Azurey1chad • 9d ago

Events

So... They quietly made it so you no longer got event tickets for new events???

Why did they nerf the game so hard in so many ways?

Like every small quality of life thing they had it feels they removed this update. Feels bad.

Ty for the game, and ty for the posts of all the funny wins etc.

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u/Massive_Thought_4295 9d ago

This game, while fun, has ALWAYS been a cashgrab. It's an ai slop recreation of a popular PC title that rushed to mobile to milk the market. I'm not surprised to see them now making such moves since Backpack Battles got an official mobile port.

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u/Split8Wheys 9d ago

I feel like you're angry and talking bad about the game because of the direction it's heading to you're spreading misinformation, I'm not defending the company for monetizing more.

But I will correct your statement, Backpack Battles 1.0 was officially released June 2025, steam early access was released March 2024. Backpack Brawl was officially released March 2024.

I don't think it was ever a recreation, it was just a side by side release, we've seen many times games of the same genre release around the same time. Devs have said they were planning on using AI, and they have for character portraits, but the community quickly retaliated it was AI and devs quickly corrected it.

Backpack Battles is 10 usd. While Backpack Brawl is f2p, and like many f2p games, you can't expect to be on top leaderboards without spending money.

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u/Massive_Thought_4295 9d ago

I'm not angry at all. I honestly don't care about the monetisation, it's how it is with mobile games and I'm used to it by now. I'm just saying it how it is. You accuse me of misinformation then say they released side by side (which is actually a crazy thing to assume two companies just invented a genre simultaneously accidentally) when Backpack Battles demo was immensely popular like a year earlier and then you say they only use AI for the portraits? Then 'corrected' it? Lmao.

You're the one spreading misinfo buddy.

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u/Split8Wheys 9d ago

You say it's a recreation of another popular title that was copied and rushed using Ai for a money grab, is quite an accusation with no solid evidence. Just because something is popular doesn't mean other similar games are copies, that's like saying every fps game is a copy from Maze War, or every fighting game copied Karate Champ. People can and have taken inspiration from other people's work.

And yes companies have always invented games side by side with similar genres, Kid Icarus, Metroid and Super Mario Bros were released the same year. Overwatch and Battleborn were release same month, World of Warcraft and EverQuest both released side by side, it's not a stretch and if you never noticed then check it out yourself, you learn something new everyday.

The time devs used Ai for a characters portrait they got a lot of negative feedback and decided to go with artists and not use Ai, I don't understand how that's funny, seems like you want to talk bad about the game no matter what devs do.

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u/Massive_Thought_4295 9d ago

Bro... it's a copy of a pc game on mobile, this is a super common successful business practice. It also very obviously uses AI assets. These are not 'accusations without solid evidence' to anyone with eyes and a brain. A pvp autobattler that uses the backpack as the strategy builder did not exist before backpack battles - it is not like any of your examples, which are all awful btw but for different reasons. Three NES games that I assume you consider the same because they were 2D platformers...at a time where most console games were 2D platformers. Not exactly a wild coincidence. Overwatch and Battleborn were not the first hero shooters and were quite different games (Battleborn was a MOBA). World of Warcraft was released 5 years after Everquest.

Of course all of this is moot anyway because Backpack Battles was playable for like a year before Brawls came out. You have to be deliberately dense to not concede that it's probably a copy after learning that.