But it's not dead. It's been holding the same stable playerbase on Steam for the past couple years. In fact, even though it was stated ahead of time that the current season would be a bit lax on major updates due to the ongoing Major, it still ended up getting the standard mid-season numbers of 18-20k.

It's only dipped a little lower because Arc Raiders just came out recently, and there's overlap in the playerbases due to Embark crosspromoting the game and having them set in the same world.

>make fresh new game that innovates on everything and avoids the pitfalls that other shooters constantly fell into
>turns out that being fresh, new, and innovative also means that your game is unfamiliar
>turns out that every other shooter was falling into those "pitfalls" because it got them players
>proceeds to only have a relatively niche playerbase
it's just cause and effect

>>725986640
the different weight classes were a mistake

>>725986640
its stale

its just... kinda boring. playing battlefield is more fun for me

>>725987352
Loadout did this

it's the small team sizes. when teams are small they can't be casual. you have too much individual impact to your team to fuck around. you are forced to tryhard all the time. if you fuck around and do whatever you want in tf2 you can still win cause theres 11 other players on the team.

>>725986640
Why? Because it's first person?

>>725986640
FOTM for like 1 week sandwiched somewhere between helldivers 2 and whatever the shit was before it

>>725986640
Forced esport slop. If you're solo queue it's not fun to play as it's simply impossible to win against a stacked team. Either get friends or have fun losing.

>>725988191
I remember loadout
I remember being consistently unable to play with my friend because it'd put us on different teams