[quote=“Backuplight;62469”]Before people get carried away with all the doom and gloom posts lately, here is CS:GO’s player counts from when they released in 2012.
http://i.imgur.com/VoOWnVv.jpg
Dirty Bomb is fine. People need to stop overreacting.[/quote]
The difference is that CS is one of the oldest shooter franchises that are still alive and Valve has practically unlimited resources to do whatever they want with the game.
[quote=“Backuplight;62469”]Before people get carried away with all the doom and gloom posts lately, here is CS:GO’s player counts from when they released in 2012.
http://i.imgur.com/VoOWnVv.jpg
Dirty Bomb is fine. People need to stop overreacting.[/quote]
Using CS:GO to justify that Dirty Bomb is completely incorrect for multiple reasons.
First and foremost, CS:GO is a pay2play game. Most people do not buy it to just try it. They know they want it and they stick with it. Second, it is an old franchise, backed by one of the biggest companies in gaming. Third, it wasn’t doing well until skins and the economy were introduced, and that’s largely why the game is as huge as it is today. A large portion of it’s players are skin collectors and betters only. And all of this wouldn’t be possible without full Steam integration, something Splash Damage still struggles to figure out how to use.
The fact is, Dirty Bomb is NOT fine. Nosgoth, at the end of December 2014, had nearly the same player count as Dirty Bomb, right around 12K. At the end of March 2015, it was just above 5K players. Over this span, only two characters were released and both were fairly broken. Dirty Bomb had around 13K players at the end of June, 2015. It is now down to just under 6K players. It lost the same number of players as Nosgoth in nearly one-third of the time. This game isn’t just going through the F2P slump - it’s turning away both new and old players at an alarming rate.
Nosgoth currently has two feet in the grave. From my experience, Psyonix felt much better at maintaining and running their game than Splash Damage does with Dirty Bomb. Unless Splash Damage can pull out a miracle, I don’t see Dirty Bomb bouncing back, and this comes from someone who loved Hawken and Nosgoth dearly.
CS-GO Is Not As Fun As Dirty Bomb Only Thing I Don,t Like About DB Is The Credit System Maybe SD Will Fix This Down The Rode I Hope Other Than That I Would Play DB Befor Cs Go 
I have considered leaving the game a few times. The lack of some features and SD’s ‘unusual’ patching method (merc’s before fixes) has really made me question if this game is going to stay populated. The community is strong though and usually friendly and welcoming to new players so I can’t see the game disappearing into the abyss just as long as SD get their priorities right.
[quote=“Backuplight;62469”]Before people get carried away with all the doom and gloom posts lately, here is CS:GO’s player counts from when they released in 2012.
http://i.imgur.com/VoOWnVv.jpg
Dirty Bomb is fine. People need to stop overreacting.[/quote]
while its true that CSGO exploded, it also has to do with CS1.6 and CSsource players migrating to CSGO, where the money is.
Dirty bomb cannot hope for such a migration, previous games of this style are pretty small atm. (ET, QW, Brink lol)
I must disagree. If you look this chart, the Phantom release did next to no damage to the playerbase.
http://i.imgur.com/90FCS4f.jpg (I can’t add images or links, brand new)
EDIT: Image credit to ahisma on the subreddit
Right now its unplayable due to the new hack that is used all over the place in competitive. Basically, people running around one shotting the entire enemy team as soon as they spawn, reporting doesn’t work.
Oh yeah this new hack also constantly changes the hacker’s name to that of a legit player on the server
welp 6k sure seems like alot to me when i compared to playing rtcw up till a couple years ago, there was only about 30 active players left.
Thanks to Dirty Bomb Team for storing the skills and weapons information on the client side instead of the server, thousands of people are quitting because things like this happens everyday:
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yea client side hit detection is stupid… baffling to me too choose that direction on a game designed to be a competitive FPS., unreal engine may had made somethings alot easier to develop but IMO its kinda pathetic that FPS hit detection net code in this game is arguably not even as good as rtcw from >15 years ago.
lol first off its not 6-7k people a day, its 6-7k people playing at any given time. second, as someone who regularly watches the steam charts cs:go WAS low pop for a long time after release until they did a big release. This game rules, just enjoy it. play what you think is fun, and other people will too. stop worrying about what is dying. you are dying
We need more maps and game modes. I’m getting a bit bored with the game, because it’s always the same. Mercs only resolve that partially.
The hacks.
As a software developper, game dev, gamer and ex-seller of cheats (when I was young, had to make money… Sorry guys 
), I know it’s so hard to get rid of 'em.
Yet… It’s killing the game. EU comp at night are full of cheaters…
Some ideas have been proposed to get rid of the script kiddies & leechers… It’s the most important issue atm imho.
I hope the new anti-cheat system will deal with the widely available hacks.
[quote=“Aazhyd;62585”]We need more maps and game modes. I’m getting a bit bored with the game, because it’s always the same. Mercs only resolve that partially.
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Yeah I can agree with this, the two big things I’d like to see is some more maps and hack neutralization!
I have to agree with GodsMistake…especially when someone like Angry Joe makes a video calling it pay2win.
It’s the hackers for me and my small group of friends. This latest hack with the name changing and instant kills just knocked the breath out of all my enjoyment. I’ll prob come back if/when they fix the problem. Hacking a few weeks ago wasn’t so bad and even when you suspected someone, it was still just a suspicion. All that is different now, hacking is flaunted and used simply to destroy servers. Just not fun.
And maybe they are still logging in get their daily credits, which doesn’t exactly take away a huge part of your day.
