GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH TAKE THAT CHUDCELS
>>733754448>Create Indie studio>Develop the most generic blend of a bunch of other popular games/FPS genres>Take this mystery meat blend and shill it to investors>Tencent likes it enough to fund your studio>Launch game and if it hits develop it and if it doesn't well who the fuck cares? Tencent funded you. Just fire everyone and now take that money to fund actual games.Almost commendable ngl. The CEO John Wildlight has a bright future.
>>733754448Game will make a huge comeback. Just watch.
Hope you know, this guy still works in the industry
>>733754448>not even a fucking month>already less than 1000 playersI predicted end of service in 6 months, but unironically i think it wont make it 3 months
>>733754448>HIGHGUARDIANS, CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG-ACK!!!
>>733755175It will remain "alive" in the sense that the servers are online for as long as it needs to be for their lawyer to say that they are no longer at risk of needing to hand out refunds in any large jurisdiction.
>>733754448Let it go, they are fucked. what did the devs do to you? watchout for karma, my firend
ban steam charts threads
>>733755320The world doesn't need any more F2P live-service multiplayer slop "games".Unironically, every single person who ever worked on such a game needs to get cancer and die ASAP.
>>733754448We're the guard-bornThis bug is airborneWe're the new pornOur kind is newborn
>>733755286It's a f2p game...
>>733755513Oof
>>733755513But it still has monetization.
>>733755320OP is getting good karma for defeating the evil that is Highguard.
>>733755513Even if the game is F2P, you probably run into issues somewhere with the revenue brought in from selling cosmetics then rug pulling weeks after launch.
>>733754448
>Game will make a huge comeback. Just watch.
>>733755320Pajeet
>>733755320SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!
Why did they have to make John Highgaurd the face of the game? Should have been Ms. Ginger
>>733756370where's the druid edit of this
>>733755956I feel like they probably only sold like $100,000 in cosmetics so to refund it probably wouldn't even matter compared to what they already spent
First we high, then we guard. The Highest of Guardians will be loyal to Highguard till the end of the world. The Highguardian Empire shall rise again! Glory to the Highguard!
>>733757134I'm going to make High Guard, where you're a security guard named Atticus that smokes weed
>>733754448>100,000 concurrent players at launch>meaning there were 100k people who bought the gamecomplaining about sales numbersOh no, how terrible. What a failure.
This game might've actually dethroned Palsnoy for the biggest player cratering in the history of video games. Congrats Geoff, you did it!
>>733755320yeah i'm having a blast!
>>733754448All you economic terrorists need to die. You actually need to fucking die.You ruined this game. YOU. We made perfect lightning-in-a-bottle blast having fun. And YOU pissed all over it.You OWED us success. We DESERVED a win.
>>733756863archive that pic and it's in the first few responses to said picat least try anon
>>733757223>sales
When bad multiplayer games fail, then my usual gayman friends won't be spread so thin and we can just keep playing good games.Games failing that you were never going to play anyway absolutely is a good thing, for that reason.Either make a good game or stay the fuck out of the way.
>>733754448What time zone does it peak?
>>733757348Imagine how bad this monkey smells.
>>733754448I'd say that is the least surprising thing ever, but I also expected Arc Raiders to flop bigly.
>>733754448I HURT MYSELF TODAY
>>733754448Brother is late for his (You)s lol here you go though, not playing the game, but you care more than the few playing it
>>733757837Giga-cope.
>>733757348>this has mainstream written all over itTerrible insight, essentially saying i can recognize this as other things at a glance>no way this will flopNot a great mindset to go it with>I could play this game all dayBut WOULD you, this is the gayest shit I've ever fucking read, and whether you like it or not, games are art. This is the shit that kills art.
has it been a month yet? will they pull the games if it hits 100 active users?
>>733757906I literally have never heard anyone speak about this game outside of people laughing at the failure, I'm sure there are YouTube videos describing the downfall with more viewers than there ever were players. This is just girls gabbing
>>733755513>>733755956Yes, I recall something like that happening with Marvel Heroes Omega when it launched on consoles and got shutdown just a few months after. There is usually some kind of safeguard against companies just dumping a game and pulling the plug shortly after. Most platforms like Steam or PSN will step in and give refunds if necessary to keep players happy
>>733755156>jewish man(hollywood) sabotages games industry(competitor) and destroys it
Highguardians.......
>>733756370
Marathon will be the same shit. It just wont die as fast.
>>733761621>Marathon will be the same shit. It just wont die as fast.It's a 40$ game. It will never reach these player numbers, retard.
>>733755156I'm so tired bros...
>>733754448More like Byeguard, amiright
>>733761727bungie will send out free codes, game is shit though so people will just play arc or tarkov for an extraction game.
So what did tencent get out of the funding deal. Did they get the IP or bigtime revenue share
There's no way this will fail.
>>733762569they most likely partially own the IP and a share of the profitsbut boy was that a horrible investment
are companies still getting huge ESG payouts? that's the only reason I can think of to keep making these woke 'em ups that no-one wants
>>733754448I'M HAVING A BLAST
>>733761727BurntPeanut said it's literally the best thing he ever played.I'm suspecting Marathon to be a peanut hit
>>733754448>AT LEAST WE OWN THE CH- AAACCCKKK
>>733757348>The internal pre-reveal feedback, even from unbiased sources, was quite positive, and where it was negative, it was constructive, and often actionable. People who played the game, including us, had a blast>People who played the game, including us, had a blastAs always you just can’t trust people who had a blast.
>>733764430I care not for the opinion of AstroTurfedPeanut
>>733764430oh you mean BottedPeanut ?
>>733755320They fucked with gamers...
>>733764430no idea who that homo is.Is he your boyfriend?
>>733764641>>733764675I just checked his twitchtracker, he's 100% botting his views>averaging 18k viewers on Nov 14th>averaging 61k viewers on Nov 23rdand somehow it keeps the same average viewers. How is this guy still not banned ?
>>733761581KEEEEEK
>>733764641>>733764919he's not actively botting if his youtube replays get huge numbers and a relative % equivalent of comments. You're jealous, petty and retarded.Streamers who do not bot get bot-brigaded by haters aswell sometimes, to astroturf their hatred and/or political stances. If you banned everyone who ever had a bot on their stream, you'd have no popular streamers past 100+viewers at all.
>>733764919Twitch platforms people who support terrorisn you think they care about some peanut retard botting views?
>>733765226I’m sorry I didn’t realise you can’t bot YouTube views and comments.
>>733765226retarded useful idiot
>logged in>win 1 matchyea, I'm one of the top 500 Highguard players in the world. Soon I'll be in the top 100
>>733764736They got what they deserved, let it go.
>>733765284youtube has the best anti-bot protections, and so far there's little evidence any youtube celeb that isn't connected to a major corporation of botting, as there's no money to be made in doing so, as youtube revenue is dogshit, most creators make money off of collabs, merch and sponsorships primarily. Botting doesnt help this, so they don't do it.The botting is always done by phishers and indian-scammers on youtube. You get the occasional deranged tranny paying for some spam and harrassment of a creator they don't like though.>>733765371yes, you are, stop projecting retard. The anti-streamer hate is just obnoxious sour grapes, grow the fuck up loser and stop letting people you hate, for no reason, live rent-free in your smooth brain. If you hate a specific streamer, say so. and why, when its relevant, otherwise stfu. You're just mad you can't do what peanut does, if you could, you would. If its soo easy, do it yourself champ :)
go woke go broke
>>733754448765 people are having a blast while you sit here and mald.
>>733755156>noseOf course I know.
>>733756863
>>733755156
Crazy that the game was meant to be 8v8 first, but they just kept shrinking the team size until somehow they thought that 3v3 was the sweet spot, on a gigantic empty map
>>733755156Good. His work of tanking more faggot AAA companies isn't done yet.
>>733767217Go join them then, fag.
>>733754448636 is still enough players to play matches normally, they are still there so it didnt flop.
>>733754448I still don't understand how some people actually still play the game.At this point the matchmaking is clearly fucked beyond repair. You're not gonna find decent enemies and teammates that are around the same skill level as you when there's maybe 2k people playing at most if you include consoles
>>733766049Nigger there's retarded bot comments on every Youtube video you look at. And if people bot comments they can bot views.
>>733754448>witness a free fucking game featured on vga's center stage riding on the fast lane to go even lower than fucking furfag battlefield in less timeWhat a time to be alive
>>733755156This guy is 120% jewish.
>>733767720Actually, it's just bots afk'ing the menus.
>>733754448I'm not even laughing, I'm baffled how companies think hero shooters will be profitable in 2026.I mean, I wish fun multiplayer shooters were a thing still, but if I ever want to play them I either load up Team Fortress 2 to play with people or my modded copy of Unreal Tournament (1999) to fuck around with bots.
hey pussies we high guardin' tonight, boot up and tap in
WARDEEENSWE MUST BE BETTER ALLIES
>>733755156vile shlomo
>>733766049>ishowniggeryeah ok you're 100% a stupid dumb nigger
>game shows 9v9>launchs with 3v3>band-aid in a 5v5I want to know what happened behind the scenes. We already know the hero designs are shit because they just outsourced them with no real creative oversight, but it doesn't explain the gameplay feeling so fucking barren.
>>733755156>mystery-meat kikeniggerfits in perfectly in the jewSA
>>733768494Marvel rivals and overwatch are doing jusr fine.
>>733755052>Create Indie studio>Develop the most generic blend of a bunch of other popular games/FPS genresThis shit right here. There was no point in them going independent: Highguard is exactly what Souless Corporation #3 would have told them to make.
>>733754448Highguard lost to Nortubel
>>733764736Correct. Get fucked.>>733755320Sorry sweaty, you made everything political so guess what? Everything is political now.
>>733769706They didn't want to share with megacorp.
>>733756370Guardians, stand proud. STAND HIGH, GUARDIANS!
>>733757348>had a blastThis reads like a /v/ shitpost except its actually sincere.
>>733767291>yfw the BBB(Big Buck Break) hits
>>733769882Yep, the whole "independent indie ingenuity" skit is BS, they just wanted to keep the earnings.Which, while understandable, is a risk they decided to take.
>>733754448>game is fucking horrible, i couldnt even cope with finishing the tutorial>alt f4>uninstall>READ DEV POSTS>"MOST PEOPLE DIDNT EVEN FINISH THE TUTORIAL! THEY DIDNT GIVE THE GAME A CHANCE!"*laughter*
>>733754448Why did people get mad at the Geoff for "fucking" this game over?If they just shadow dropped it like their dumbass plan was the current playercount would be higher than their hypothetical peak.
>>733757348This was so pathetic to witness in real time, I am so thankful that you all did nothing and obliterated these faggots.
I feel bad for them. It's a good game.
>>733771848Wokeshits will blame anyone but themselves for their failures
>>733772168True. Just look at the Concord/Bazz thread right now. Got one swearing up and down that it wasn't being woke that killed the game.
>>733767720You can't pay cali wages with 600 players, most of the devs got laid off already so it flopped big-time actually.
>>733754448I actually like a lot about this game and I'm disappointed to see it die so drastically. The gunplay is really good and the gamemode is pretty fun once you're past the smashing rocks phase.The biggest problem is the performance. It's massively CPU hungry and I get sub 60fps in gunfights on a 5600x. Why they thought this was at all okay for a "competitive" shooter is bewildering.If they fixed the performance, sorted out the first phase and killed off that one bitch that keeps saying "baddies" I would actually really like the game.
I only care about the redhead getting porn. It'd be funny if it's this game's only legacy.
>>733771848Because he made it out to be more than it was and caused it to be hated more than it deserved. It wouldn't have helped much since the character design is ugly as sin, and the game performance is dogshit but the general gamer perception probably wouldn't be as badThem making John Videogame the poster boy and not Leon (Slade) Kennedy is retarded too. They picked the zoomer mutt over the blonde chad.
>>733757348anyone has the entire thing screenshot?
>>733754448How did this shit have 90k to begin with?
>>733755320no the devs need to be blacklisted
>>733774476I freely admit I don’t have a gauge for what good steam numbers are.
>>733774515It's f2p and the negative hype got people to check it out. That it started with such high numbers and immediately dropped off says it all.
>>733756370>>733761581
>>733774515Geoff Keighley making a big deal about it and it being shown as the final trailer of TGAI firmly believe Geoff knew what he was doing, the "Welcome, to Highguard" and the Hammond clip from Jurassic Park really make it seem like it.
>>733767291
>>733754773>do nothing>company diesEconomic terrorism and its consequences
50,000 people used to play here... now it's a ghost town.
EOS by mid March, if concord couldn't make it with 600 players, neither can Highguard.
>>733777328Concord's highest point on Steam was 697 concurrent and it quickly went downhill from there.It's looking extremely bad for Highguard but they do still have a bigger player base, for now. Concord crashed and burned harder than I ever thought possible for a 1st party game
>>733777954Highguard's 24-hour peak should fall below Concord's highest point soon, as in a hour or so.
>>733754448>600+ players online>6 players per game>100 games at any given time>average game is 15 minutesSo you click "play" and find a game in 10 seconds? DEAD DEAD DEAD lol
>>733764430I dunno what Riloe sees in it either. Did he sell out or something?
>>733771848It's the difference of guilt and honor based culture. You don't think he did anything wrong because you aren't retarded, they think he ruined the game, because he gave them attention which made more people see them fail, thus damaging their honor.
>>733777328Concord couldn't make it because it was a paid game with a lot of content promised that still had to be made.
Could've just made fantasy Titanfall but noooo.Can't just make some tacticool knights/ninjas summoning giant magic armors and monsters. To have some quick and exciting matches. No sir. We want the Apex, R6S, Fortnite, Overwatch and Valorant audiences.Fuck this.
>>733754448It's not dead yet?
>>733784103Highguard might as well be an Apex Legends add-on since the UI is so fucking similiar.
>>733784164It will die soon.>Literally 90% of players that tried it left>Most of the staff has been laid off>Roadmap for the game was reportedly cancelled
>>733784307I love that they apparently added an entire fucking loot collection phase at the start of each match and literally everyone immediately agreed that it is just completely pointless fucking downtime.
>>733754448>All those comments about how "gamers killed it the second the trailer was shown">Game hits almost 100,000 concurrent players on just a single platform>Not accounting for any other platform to play or less active time zones even>Game is so fucking dull that's completely gone in just a few weeks to sub 1000You don't get those kinds of inital numbers for something put out to die. The game was just painfully uninspired and not very good.
Blast status?
>>733754448Should have started the trailer with the redhead tummy girl hip zoom, cut to her riding the horse with intense slowmo groin grinding against the sattle as she rides towards the battle.You can send me my fee in robuxs.
I guess the devs are real pieces of shit then, because it seems like karma took one look at their hard work and said "naaaaah, this game deserves to die and they need to lose their jobs!"Just sayin, shit goes both ways. The actions of today are because of the actions of yesterday.
>>733785276Given that retarded tantrum from Josh Sobel, you're probably on point.
>>733761727So was Arc Raiders, but normies immediately bought it in droves like goddamn sleeper agents. I'd never even heard of the game til it launched, when it was suddenly the biggest thing
>>733755320Did you read his apology? They wanted this game to be a meal ticket for them to "escape millennial debt." It was literally a botched money printer that they made instead of trying to make an actual successor to Titanfall. They deserve contempt and failure.
>>733773667It is unrealslop. Most people know shit about properly using the engine so they let it do everything for itself, shitting up everything with Lumen and Nanite and TAA and excessive shaders and all that crap.As a result , the game ends up running like shit even on high-end GPUs. The AI crisis that'll kill Nvidia dead will weed out the devs who still use UE5 and force them to optimize again.
>>733785767You didn't hear about it because you cared about different games. Let me guess, Black Ops 7?
>>733785767its the biggest thing because it's a good game. You can just sit back and watch players interact and die trying to survive Arc encounters and be entertained.
>>733784470The Capture the Flag objective should have been immediately on the map at the start of every match. Either go straight for it or spend time finding loot but risk the other team getting there first. It would have made things way more exciting instead of just having boring ass 2min looting phases multiple times per game. I would keep the loot boxes but make them sporadic and eliminate the mining completely. The 5vs5 is okay but it still really needed more players per team. There was honestly the potential for a decent game here but these devs desperately needed some unbiased outside opinions to tell them what needed improvement
>>733784937Scarlet is basically the only character design from this game people actually liked. I just don't get the mentality of making a free to play game that needs to sell skins to survive and then making almost every character something completely unappealing that no one would want to spent money to unlock different looks. The First Descendant wasn't a great game either but those devs at least understood that making attractive characters with sexy outfits will at least make players spend money. It's the reason that game still has a playerbase while this game is dying just a few weeks in
>>733757348>mean content got 10x more engagement>theyre only mean because it gets engagementThey really do intentionally misunderstand shit. Put the fries in the bag faggot.
I'm conflicted about this game. The CTF phase of the game is so unique and entertaining that it makes me wonder why they barely bothered to put any mechanics in the game to bolster it. I would play a 24/7 ctf custom server desu. Most of the effort put into this game is around the looting, the gunplay, and the raids which are all worse than the 1 flag ctf phase.The marketing was also such a cope. They say they wanted to shadow drop it and blame vga for the bad press, but you took the faustian bargain. The fact that no one suggested getting a marketing team to run ahead of the bad press and actually show off what the game was like just shows how unserious the creators were. No one knew what the game or genre even was until it dropped and then the devs cried that it was just impossible to advertise after the fact.The setting is boring and bland. Fantasy, multiracialism but everyone is human, magic but all the guns are just guns, bases are just bog standard fantasy that barely relate to their elemental character (hells mouth to slade for example).I think the biggest problem was obvious and every player pointed it out. There is too much god damn waiting and inaction in this game. 1 minute base prep, 2 minutes of looting, 1 minute until the shield breaker spawns. You are doing basically nothing for 4 minutes straight at match start. Its even worse during the raids though (which also take 1/2 minute to start) because if you get killed you have to wait 20 fucking seconds to get back into the action only to most likely die in a 1v2/3 and wait another 20 seconds. There is just too much waiting and nothing happening in this game. God forbid you die during looting phase and you do nothing for 20 seconds during the do nothing phase and then ride your horse through nothing to do nothing until the shield breaker spawns. The doing nothing was what really killed the game, not the performance issues or dei or whatever. Its something no amount of updates or dripfeed can fix.
>>733754448live service games live and die based on how cool they are. modern audience character designs are uncool, every game doing them will die.it's like how gachas live and die based on how hot the characters are.
pin steam chart threads
high guard more like guy hard
