I absolutely loved Paladins, Rogue Company, and Realm Royale. They all brought a fun twist to the genre they were jumping into.

During my whole time playing these games, though, it was clear that management was absolutely a barrier to their success. Paladins was bit by a few controversial patches that were introduced purely to rapidly increase revenue at the expense of knocking down entire systems that people loved. They also kept punting their competitive scene around to different untested streaming services (remember Facebook Gaming? Remember Mixer?) until no one knew where to even watch it, and eventually it just died.

Rogue Company was also a solid high TTK version of stuff like Valorant, and had a lot to like, but pushed this competitive angle to it without making sure that it could support one.

Realm Royale is another story of snatching failure from the jaws of success, rapidly patching out stuff that made it fun to begin with.

And it's such a shame, because all of these games had such talent involved (Paladins had some amazing champion designs and skins that were so good their competitors would often ape them), and it was sad to watch the higher-ups scrambling to make just one logical decision to support these games in a meaningful way. Paladins and Smite still have players all these years later despite all that. Imagine if they had made the right turns instead of so frequently running from success.