Metagame Examples?
5.8BRAINROT SCOREmetagame In gaming, the conventions of a community and the strategies currently most popular or viable, often shortened to "meta", along with preparation based on them. Playing outside it is called off-meta. In a wider sense, a metagame is a game about games or beyond the game.
Origin:Wikipedia dates the word to 1956 in a publication on zero-sum games and to Nigel Howard's 1966 work on metagame analysis, and says Richard Garfield's 1995 column in The Duelist and 2000 talk brought it into game design. Wiktionary's video-game sense is the conventions of a gaming community, including which characters, weapons and techniques are viable in multiplayer.
First Seen:1956 (publication on zero-sum games, per Wikipedia)
Peak Era:2000s-present
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Using It Correctly In Context)
EXAMPLE USAGE
""After the patch, the metagame shifted toward fast decks and nobody played the old slow ones.""
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