/v/ BTFO
>>730211991This is like their second relaunch now and they're still flopping? Embarrassing
>>730211991I'm not playing a game that takes over 2 minutes of waiting to play a match regardless if its the most fun I've ever had online.
never even heard of this game until this thread
just two more launches
>>730211991>they show one number . . . at one given moment.I'm pretty sure they show a lot of numbers across a lot of moments.
>>730211991they show that your multiplayer game is dead at any hour of day and there's no reason to play it
>multiplayerslopdon't care, but if your games only lure is "people to play with"? No shit popularity rankings will make or break you.
>>730212137>2 minutes of waitingthat does means they got rid of the bot lobbies... right?
WHAT UP my fellow FPSCHUDSMEMBER HALO? HECK TO THE YEA-UH. more like call of dooty am i right? can i get a what what for titanfall 3? now check this oldskool kino out
>>730211991oh that's just sad.
Pre-emptive cope.
>>730212393I love a good lolcow
/v/cucks btfocharts don't matter simple as because pcmutts don't play video gamesall the sales that matter are on consoles
>>730211991>fun
>>730212393now post the grovelling apology for being heckin' problematic because he wore an evil hat.
ACK
I can't think of a more unfun idea than a shooter where you can get randomly backstabbed through a portal somewhere.
>>730211991The text in the image contains neither arguments nor numbers. File it under damage control.
>>730211991This shitshow makes Multiversus look like a hit in comparison>>730212393Genuinely, what the fuck was he thinking with this?
>>730211991As someone who was told by the developers that this game is not for me, I respected their wishes.
>>730212620he made the mistake of thinking /pol/trannies play videogames
>>730211991>1047 GamesMore like 1047 players
>>730211991We need a fun chart then. Please provide us with one.
>>730212560perfectly fine. fighting games regularly have peaks of 100 and are perfectly playable online without discord
>>730211991KWAB they are seething
Whales bringing the heat I guess
Private servers of long dead MMOs often display counters of currently online players, weekly peak and recently active accounts. Why can't major companies show their own number to disprove the steam metrics and rumors?
>>730212560ONE NUMBERON ONE PLATFORMAT ONE GIVEN MOMENTPLEASE DON'T TRY MEASURING FUN
>>730211991Doesn't matter if your game is the funnest game ever made, it's multiplayer only and a dead player count means everything
>>730211991i played splitgate 1 and all they had to do to fix it was remove ADS, remove sprint and tweak the mapsdoubt they tweaked 2/3 in splitgate 2
>>730211991You know the game is dead when the dev posts statements like this
>>730211991>a lot of passionate people worked very hard on itThis is one of the biggest red flag statements I can think of. Any time someone says something like this you can bet the people working on it were neither talented nor hardworking.
>>730213106>remove ADSYour games are dead for a reason, boomer.
>>730212620Never cater to people who spend more time complaining about games than actually playing them
>>730211991If anyone ever asks for the text version of the 'I'm not frustrated!!' meme, this is it. What amazing cope, distilled into a single image.>Steam charts don't measure funYeah, but they measure whether a game is dead or not, and I can't think of many dead multiplayer games that are fun to play.>>730213068>don't try measuring funI don't know if trying to measure fun is more or less embarrassing than when big publishers use bullshit metrics to try to pretend their new game isn't flopping. (Like Ubisoft using the brand new 'session days' metric when trying to explain why ACS was a success in one breath while categorically refusing to release sales figures in the other.)
steam charts
>>730213310What could you possibly need this many monitors for
>>730211991No wayIt's so over for them
>>730211991ok but literally who?
>>730211991>s-steam numbers aren't the end all be all in the age of PC dominationMmmmm-hmm, my favorite.
>>730211991That's a fucking sad PR move. I'm playing it, enjoying it somewhat, but the small 4v4 player counts is probably my most disliked part of it. One bad player on the team or someone disconnecting and being replaced by a bot is almost a guaranteed miserable match.>>730212590Yeah, as novel as the portal mechanic is, the way it is implemented is not really enjoyable.Because the TTK is so slow, the most effective strategy is to shoot a portal behind the guy shooting at you so you can teleport behind them, you can take your sweet time doing so. Anyone with a bit of experience can zip across the whole map in seconds. Since you can't see through other players' portals, you can get sniped at without being able to see the guy on the other side, and your means of shutting down their portals is inconsistent and limited.
>>730211991>high numbers>look at all the players! our game MUST be fun!>low numbers>erm numbers don't measure fun, pls try our gaem ;_;Your devs are fags so I will not be playing
>>730213435steam charts
>>730211991Is this that dumbass that basically said "we're not like the other FPS games" then showed a Battle Royale to Imagine Dragons? Or am I thinking of a different game?
>>730211991Stop putting your games on steam, then.
>>730214109yeah that's this game. it was so unpopular that they did a post-launch abortion and took it down. This is the relaunch, and it's even less popular.
>>730211991WHO?
>>730214198They could go to Epic, where I don't think there's any ability to check the player count of a game. Likely because it would immediately show how there's probably only a few thousand people on Epic's store at any point.
>>730214214I can't see why, bending over to lefties always works.
>>730214410Bingo.
>>730212869Fighting games are 1v1...
launch it again. and again. and again. one more time.
>>730214491It's worse than that, pic related was what the game initially looked like when it was first announced years ago. the 'make FPS great again, btw here's a fortnite clone' announcement was actually a hard pivot from lefty pandering to righty pandering, with the recent launch they've pivoted back again to something that's probably more apolitical (I wouldn't know, I'm not touching it).moral of the story is just make the fucking game and do it without pandering to retards
>>730211991Fuck ya, it's Morbin' time!
>>730215331>have sex have sexhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL2FWc29fC0
>>730212137(cries in Gundam Battle Operation 2)
>>730211991>1047 game developers responded about their games (like 10% of the games released last year, probably) being fucking DOA
>>730215331I still have no idea why Morbius was memed so hard when to me it was just another generic MCU movie>inb4 that's the problemNone of the other MCU movies around that time or since have been trashed this badly, closest I can think of is that Marvels show that everyone agreed not to talk about after a week, meanwhile Morbius is still brought up to this day
>>730215529This song legitimately had like 200 views on Youtube before they put it in the movie, how did they even find it
>>730216942Damn I worded that bad. I meant 10% of the games last year probably launched DOA and 1047 is part of them. There are literally-who indieshit games that probably did better.
>>730211991>1047 Games copes to Recent Steam Games Conversation
As much as I hate steam charts, if you have a multiplayer GaaS then the player count is essentially your life. That is the consequence of creating such a game. It's not the same thing as comparing the player count of singleplayer games.
>this game with this artstyle is supposed to "appeal to the chuds"lmao it's like HRT through the optical nervewokaloids will unironically say that THIS is the "right-wing concord"
>>730212975What rumors? There is nothing to disprove, obviously steam metrics are accurate. But steam metrics are just steam metrics, you don't know how many people are playing in other platforms.
>>730217008Morbin is just an inherently funny sounding word.
>>730217008Anon...It's not even an MCU movie.The whole joke with Morbius is that Sony has a weird rights thing with certain Spider-Man characters and they were trying to capitalize on it by making really shitty movies with Spider-Man villains but no Spider-Man, so they could attempt to get some of the MCU money. The Venom one was reasonable, but when they started making a movie for Morbius the Living Goddamn Vampire for some reason, it became great fuel for memes. Because it's so stupid, obviously forced, and transparently low quality. It doesn't help that Morbius itself is a funny name and it was a period in which people were having fun shitting on Jared Leto.They also made movies for Kraven and Madame Webb but by then people had stopped giving a fuck because the Morbius joke had used up all the humor of the situation.
>>730211991>don't believe your lying eyes
DON'T LOOK AT THE NUMBERS FAGGOTWE HAVE A BAJILLION PLAYERSWE ARE NOT A FAILUREEVERYONE IS HAVING FUNSTOP LOOKING
>>730217008It was awful, yes, but it was also a very blatant disney marketing campaign against it. Like you said, were any of it organic, Marvels would have been ridiculed even harder.
>>730213181...women and trannies?
>>730211991>tfw normal dm and tdm shooters are dead because subhumans only enjoy hero shooters or br trashI hate how fps is dead. Guess I can happy I experience the peak of shooters in the 90's and early 2000.
>>730217485>Madame WebbI still like to say "Where is my spider? They took my spider!" in that retarded ADR voice
>>730217485>but when they started making a movie for Morbius the Living Goddamn Vampire for some reasonOh they were DEFINITELY trying to set up a Sinister Six. Morbius to start, then Vulture shows up in the post credits, then Kraven gets a movie, then... god only knows who else. I'm guessing the plan was to have their version of Venom fight them.
>>730211991>1047 games>look inside>its just one game
>f-funholy cope
>>730212560Literally looks fine, why did they get butt hurt about it
>>730211991>Doesn't even pull the "we have a lot of players on consoles" card>Doesn't challenge the player count issue in any way>Wants to release a fucking battle royale mode for their dead game
>>730212590>>730213708They basically completely fucked it with the low TTK, if it was more like Halo it'd actually work because someone shooting at you from a portal would give you time to react instead of already being dead.
>>730215269They were retards trying to pander to everyone while fucking themselves in the ass.They tried to appeal to the left by making lame and gay character designs, then alienated them by trying to appeal to the right with the MAKE FPS GREAT AGAIN marketing, but the right was already alienated by the lame and gay character designs.Meanwhile they alienated the fans of arena shooters by putting loadouts and hero abilities in the game, and adding a battle royale mode, while the zoomer audience didn't care about the game because the portals gave it too high a skill ceiling.The relaunch didn't fix anything to do with the conflicting attempts at getting different audiences.
>>730211991>STEAM CHARTS DON'T MATTER>b-but please come back to play our game>i-it's free!
>>730211991KWAB
>>730219394The fuck are you talking about? The TTK is too long.
>>730211991the desperation they feel to prevent the truth from being seen...
>>730213310Wtf did you eat? You in gamer prison?
>>730219862>multiple weapons capable of instant kills>any shotgun kills in two hits (or one hit and a follow up melee)>any automatic weapon will kill in about 0.3 seconds of all its hits connecting>The TTK is too long
>>730213172Yes yes, everything happens for a reason. Some of those reasons are gay and retarded
>>730212975Showing numbers reveals the truth. It's better to hide and disguise them, and then lie to shareholders for as long as possible. Imagine the "concord is breaking records!" narrative if steamcharts didn't show reality. The last couple of years every microsoft game narrative was "real players are playing in gamepass".
>>730212620If anything, it reminds me of how The Culling went back like a decade ago:>make solid, but niche game>grow audience through word of mouth about fun gameplay>make retarded changes nobody wants>game starts hemorrhaging players>shitcan game to "relaunch" a sequel>sequel is pure dogshit, dies in record time>panic and "re-relaunch" the original, except it's not really the original with kiked out microtransactions>nobody gives a fuck
>>730217459>, you don't know how many people are playing in other platforms.Arc Raiders when it was hitting 400k CCU on steam, said they had 300k CCU players on all the other platforms. I highly doubt there are more than 500 players CCU on the other platforms.
>>730212869The same 100 inhuman sweatlords that aren't fun to play against.
>>730220317>With its brief service life lasting just eight days, The Culling 2 is the shortest-living online game ever launched.feelsbadman
>>730211991tl;dr>NOOOOOOO DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS THE GAME IS FUN THE GAME IS FUN THE GAME IS FUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!
>bot lobbiesJust awoke a memory I had of a World of Tanks clone I worked on in 2018.We had Texan oil money as funding. The top boss was paying millions to keep a full online game as a service online.We had a player peak of 1000 on a Friday night, and 10% of that was the dev team because we made it part of our company culture to set aside time to play.Millions for a f2p game nobody cared about lmao
>>730225035>Paid fucking nobody streamers to main our game for their audience of a few hundred.>Had a community team who'd do livestreams with very little charisma>Live streams with game designers who had even less>Brought out a PS4 port that nobody played>Broke down the whole game and started over because it was too easy to progress, so we put a bunch of currency grinding in the way of unlocking new weapons and paint>200+ salaries>Barely 200 daily players, who spent maybe 20 bucks per full account lifetimeKek. It was just a job, but in hindsight what the FUCK were they thinking.
shame these games keep flopping I liked the first well enough, it's a cool concept but with such a small playerbase it wasn't long before I was getting absolutely dunked on by better players because that was mostly who was left. this second game they basically shot themselves into the foot over and over to the point where I didn't even give it a shot
>>730213310>the thing that requires the least input and attention on the main monitorwhy
>>730217008>>730217485>>730217463i wanna make the hot take that morbius would of been great if they had cast anyone but jared leto
>>730225946I really do not understand how the man even gets leading roles anymore. He's just pure poison to any production.
>>73022606337 movies. incredible. he was okay in like...2 of them. american pyscho and lord of war. lord of war over 21 years ago
Since no one gives a fuck about this game and the devs probably made this thread here are some suggestions:- remove skins- add a server browser- add custom map support- mark the bots as bots instead of disguising them as players- ditch BR and focus on core modes- tone down the art style, halo reach would be something to copy rather than fortnite
>>730213310Krit?
>>730226431>- mark the bots as bots instead of disguising them as playersIt already does that.
>>730213310This nigga eatin Swanson frozen dinners.
>>730226063Dude has serious, serious dirt on his fellow hollywooders and keeps buying his way into the spotlight with his blood money.
>>730226605it didn't when I tried it, they had fake usernames similar to some phone games
>>730211991It's only relevant for multiplayer slop since, you know, you need players to play multiplayer
Yap yap yap yap... gameplay looks like shit. I mean look at this crap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDzagrTYmIJust look up random gameplay clips, it all appears very bland even in the "epic" moments. Like chewed up bubblegum.The overall style also seems very vacuous.
>>730211991MAGAt Devs:>Please don't put it in the Newspapers our game flopped when we attempted to "make FPS great again."Holy kek.GO CHUD; FLOP FLOOD.
>>730226721They use a bot icon instead of the steam or console icon.
>>730212620>We don't need 50% of our audience! :^)Clown.
>>730220927>>With its brief service life lasting just eight days, The Culling 2 is the shortest-living online game ever launched.*Laughs in Concord*>But they didn't pull the plug until two wee--It was dead in a day.
>>730211991>literally who seething about steam charts>/v/ somehow BTFOseriously though, literally who???
>>730225551They didn't need to make a sequel. The first had some hype until Halo: Infinite "stealth launched" and stole their mojo. As soon as that happened they panicked and decided to make a sequel to try to get a second chance instead of just waiting for Infinite to kill itself and somehow get a second wind.
>>730213310>pso2 chart>pso2 game openHoly kek.>Roadmap for 2026 extends to October>Level cap to 120>**EX** Level Cap (SErvice GAmes trying to hide the +5 levels with a "we're new game plus leveling now!")Holy kek.I'm surprised ERP'ers still play since that game is like 500 now.
>>730214491If that was the case, then why did their CHUD hat not bring players to where they aborted and tried for Lefties again, CHUD-kun?The fact is: Splitgate just isn't popular, and aborting your game and relaunching later NEVER works, we have a history of this now.Multiversus ("It was just a $250 beta guys!"), Marathon (soon and in a way), Splitgate 2.If you unlaunch your title, you're admitting defeat and should just cancel the whole thing at that point and refund players like Concord/Sony did.
>>730213172>Your games are dead for a reasonYeah, because they all added sprint and ADS.
A game that looks like overwatch at a glance will never be popular again, everyone will go and think "oh I already played something like this and got bored*
