Assuming that player count doesn’t mean anything besides how many people are playing the game. Why is it dropping so quickly?
Posted Jul 28, 2018, 1:47 PM UTC
Oversaturated market, people are not interested to pay 25 dollars for something with uncertain future. Simple as that
Using discord as the only outlet is a mistake. This does not attract new players. Any platform that could show hotfixes etc would give the game traction.
But no. Lets be content with losing players every day and say having a random discord is the best approach.
Because again. Having a youtube channel that showed bi weekly hotfix updates or dev interviews...thats crazy talk.
With how this fanboyism is going. Im starting to want to see the game fail.
You will get downvotes for that but I couldn’t agree more. The devs are taking some pretty dumb stances on issues that are bigger than they like to believe.
I think factorio is an amazing Game, Same for Path of Exile, still i have a whole load of Friends I would never even consider recommending it to.
Being a good Game does not mean you yourself enjoy it.
I can't enjoy fortnite for different reasons, but it is by my values for a game still a good one.
This Game is pretty niche in BR with its brutal pace.
Because the price means a lot and the game is not amazing.
It's an early access game, still in development, with no resources allocated to publicity of any sort. The game will improve over time, with the help of the people currently testing out the game.
because the game is not good enough.Animations, character movement, performance is too mediocre and borderline bad for me to enjoy the game. It has potential to be a good game though, so i'll keep an eye for further development.
we’ve only had access to this game for 3 weeks and there’s so much complaining from the community. why is it that i have zero rendering issues in IoN but in pubg, a game that is $5 more still have so much attention but they can’t fix the rendering issues. pubg feels super clunky, it’s still very super buggy. but this game thats constantly getting shit on runs amazing. i just don’t get it
Do really have nothing better to do than rip on this game all the time. Get a life, man.
I ask an honest question and get bullied by the IoN mean girls club. Jesus.
Honest question or not, you're still going to keep posting negative shit on this sub and you know it.
You are such a bully.
You said it, man.
The price killed this game before it even had a chance
Because group think and anyone who disagrees with the mainstream circlejerk are trolls or shills or something.
The games too hard for bad players. Most gamers these days think theyre entitled to easy wins. If not they cry and leave. Its that simple.
this game fucking sucks I wish i could get my money back. its clunky, the hit reg seems way off. The mouse feels like its not using raw input. pure junk every time i try it. uninstalling
Sounds like you gotta get gud at the game and stop complaining
Sounds like I wont be playing this shitty game lol. I have been playing cs for 10 years I think I know my way around FPS games. This one just sucks. thats why the player count is declining
Funny considering a CSGO professional has stated that he loves the game and the thing that is probably driving away players is the high skill gap and the game being centered around serious competition, not casual play.
What high skill gap? Exactly what is harder or makes this "higher skill gap" about this than say pubg or fortnite? You have only 1 type of ammo per weapon set. supressor is the only attachment, no grips. 2 ARs 2 snipers 2 smgs. The recoil is not hard to master?
later bud
Because it's not amazing, but it has the potential to be. I refunded the game but I'll still keep an eye out for it because it has potential, it's just not worth playing (for me) right now. I'll probably wait for a 100 player cap and more optimization first.
However, I still do think it should've went F2P. But that's just my opinion.
I don't think that a little studio like this can afford to go f2p.
100% true. If they opened up a Patreon, though, I'd be down to throw them some dough every month to help get development rolling. I suspect that a lot of the devs have part-time (or even full-time) jobs and the ION stuff is their passion project that they aren't really getting paid for.
I disagree, they could've probably earned way more money if they went F2P. Very few people bought the game in the first place and a lot of those people already refunded the game. With a F2P system such as Fortnite they'd not only gain a hell of a lot more players but probably also more money from people buying battle passes, skins, content, whatever. Not only that but I'm pretty sure they had a kickstarter for IoN, so they'd already have a lot of money accumulated from that.
At least 7,000+ players paid a minimum of $25 for the game. Some people paid substantially more through Kickstarter. Simple math tells us that that's at minimum around $175,000. That's not a lot of money divided between the 7 or 8 people in the studio, but almost 200k is nothing to scoff at, either - especially not for an indy studio.
I'm not saying that it is, I'm just saying that they'd potentially (most likely in my opinion) have earned a lot more. Besides, a lot of people already refunded the game so it's probably nowhere near 175K.
Fornite was 39.99 up tell september, it was 39.99 for years. It made money before and was able to release a "EA" Br mode because the game was funded well already. The Kickstar is nothing compared to what EPIC had. You trying to compare a game that was funded already and then went FTP 5 years after release. ION needs to make the money to fund themselves they are not a AAA company.
They can make money off in-game currency, content, skins, passes, whatever. They already accumulated something from the kickstarter, at least enough to get the game out. That should be enough.
Fortnite didn't take off before going F2P. A good example of a game that's been F2P since launch from a small company is Path of Exile. They simply made the game, then relied on people purchasing skins, content, supporters packages and what not. It is indeed possible.
Years? Ummmm you need to check your facts. Fortnite proper was only out for a few months before Epic got on the BR train. It was not out for 5 years.
you'll get downvoted to hell here, but this answer should be stickied. It's pretty incredible that folks don't get this.
Yup, this.