Brink not in the steam top 100?

(Esso) #1

Im not home yet stuck at work so cant check online myself but incording to steam statistics site Brink isn’t in the top 100 for the first time… Is it offline or something?

(Esso) #2

I hope this isn’t the case and Ino its been getting lower and lower players on each day but this is during around peak top player time and its just not there… can anyone confirm its offline or something? I would like to play when I get home lol

(nick1021) #3

It’s peak is 800 players. It’s there. But not too good.

(wolfnemesis75) #4

…man this does get old…

(Glyph) #5

And yet the size of the player base is a very valid concern for the life of a game.

(Esso) #6

Im on the statistics page now its still not there, gettin worried, i hope the servers arent down or even worse theres hardly any1 on which i highly doubt, hopefully the its just messed up and not showin brink for some reason, maybe something to do with it being available for UK today

(TruGamer97) #7

Dont remind me of the player base…

(Esso) #8

Oh, considering its not showin cod BO which is always near the top and a few other games it looks like the stats page is just messed up. phew lol i thought brink had died

(nick1021) #9

Yes it has. 800 peak isn’t exactly what you call alive.

(V1cK_dB) #10

[QUOTE=wolfnemesis75;349240]

…man this does get old…[/QUOTE]

Yeah. We should just ignore active player counts. It doesn’t matter. :rolleyes:

(TwwIX) #11

[QUOTE=wolfnemesis75;349240]

…man this does get old…[/QUOTE]

Yet you continue to reply to them.

(Esso) #12

Lol ino im well aware of this, infact the majority of the time over 24 hours of the day its under 400 :frowning:

If more people would play it we most probably would be getting more maps and support, but as it is I doubt we’ll get many extra maps over the year. Infact SD have recruited more people so it looks like they’re on another project. I dont think Brink is their main priority even a month after release and dont think they see much more money coming from it.
I hope Brink gets the care it needs and deservers from the devs but i doubt it will.

(KrilionGD) #13

Thats a fairly circular argument…
The devs would work on if more people played.
More people would play if the devs would fix it.

We’ll end up with neither and this game will go the way of Medal Of Honor & Homefront…
Fantastic shiny coaster to sit your coffee on while at the PC…

(nick1021) #14

The devs know that once a game is dead. It’s dead. Unless something drastic is done. But they won’t. They already have your money.

(INF3RN0) #15

I don’t get how continuing to play will generate more money or demand for support? They already got their money from sales, and the lack of players means the game needs more support. So ya… I think the motive and the means are already there, but it’s up to them to figure out how to deal with it. People won’t play unless the game seems to be going in the right direction, which so far it has not.

(nick1021) #16

Why would they care who plays? It’s not a monthly fee or anything. They aren’t going to get much more sales. What do they care =/

(riptide) #17

Because this IP dies here if their fan base does.

(Kendle) #18

I would imagine a budget has been agreed and provided by Bethesda to produce DLC(s) / patches for a certain amount of time, in fact I’d bet my house the content for the up-coming DLC and any future DLCs already existed before the game was released, so the only thing they’ve been working on post-release is patches.

My guess is they’ll continue to issue patches and work on the game until the money already agreed to fund it runs out. After that they may or may not. SD have always struck me as a company who do actually care about their player base, so if another patch or 2 is needed after the Bethesda money runs out I suspect they’ll still work on them.

(dazman76) #19

They care because, alongside being able to pay their bills, they also enjoy making games :slight_smile: People who enjoy making games don’t enjoy seeing almost nobody playing those games, even if the bills have been paid :slight_smile:

(zenstar) #20

[QUOTE=Kendle;349513]I would imagine a budget has been agreed and provided by Bethesda to produce DLC(s) / patches for a certain amount of time, in fact I’d bet my house the content for the up-coming DLC and any future DLCs already existed before the game was released, so the only thing they’ve been working on post-release is patches.

My guess is they’ll continue to issue patches and work on the game until the money already agreed to fund it runs out. After that they may or may not. SD have always struck me as a company who do actually care about their player base, so if another patch or 2 is needed after the Bethesda money runs out I suspect they’ll still work on them.[/QUOTE]

I doubt all the DLC existed before release. I’d guess that the DLC releases and content were planned and work had started on it as soon as people freed up (you don’t need the model and texture people doing models right up to release if they’ve already created the required models and textures -> they can start on DLC). If it did exist then they wouldn’t have missed the June deadline.

I agree with the rest of what you say though. Although there could be clauses that state “blah blah blah… not enough purchases… blah blah blah… no more money”.

Yes “blah blah blah” is actual legal speak :tongue: (well it should be!)