Dirty Bomb player numbers dropping rapidly, what's the reason? Does the game have a future?

(Daergar) #41

The cheating is one chunk.

The misconception that the game is pay to win is another, incredibly poorly handled by the PR-department.

If there is one thing that is paramount for a f2p game today it is to advertise loudly, shouting from the top of mountain-loud, that your product is not pay to win.

Once a game gets smeared with that excrement and starts emitting the p2w-odor, it’s in a well with smooth walls; difficult and time-consuming to climb out.

I still read chat-comments, and forum scratchings, that people who own merc A, or have load-out B, have “paid to win”. That’s both hilarious and horrible.

(K1X455) #42

There’s rampant cheating now even in public servers.

XIGN is failing their purpose.

(CCP115) #43

[quote=“Daergar;62610”]The cheating is one chunk.

The misconception that the game is pay to win is another, incredibly poorly handled by the PR-department.

If there is one thing that is paramount for a f2p game today it is to advertise loudly, shouting from the top of mountain-loud, that your product is not pay to win.

Once a game gets smeared with that excrement and starts emitting the p2w-odor, it’s in a well with smooth walls; difficult and time-consuming to climb out.

I still read chat-comments, and forum scratchings, that people who own merc A, or have load-out B, have “paid to win”. That’s both hilarious and horrible.[/quote]

Anyone who thinks this game is Pay To Win needs to go look up what it means in a dictionary.

I can’t believe it’s gotten to the point where some people are SO STUPID that not being pay2Win is actually advertised as a feature of a game. No limit to human stupidity.

(Lumi) #44

[quote="-0wnage-;62464"]Ah right, thought the match making itself was gonna get a revamp sometime soon along the quick join. But damn, judging by that data… DB is looking like a 70 year old on the verge of collapsing.

Could anyone shed some light on how many developers exactly are working on DB? I heard 2 lol. Seems reasonable.[/quote]

Did you even check and compare other games on the link I provided?? The drop in numbers is only because as DB hit open Beta many people tried it out as it was free to play. Many of those first timers are bound to not stick to it. Not everyone enjoys DB and that is common for every game.

Now unless the drop continues on until lower levels (under 1000 players) then I’d start worrying but right now: the game is live and well and it promises still a good run ahead.

(Dirmagnos) #45

For this type of game on current market, anything above 4-5k players is good. Give it time.
I would be worried if after a year game would drop to 3k players.

(Gi.Am) #46

Yeah seems like around 6-5k is where the game peaks. It seemd to move into that place already, right after we hit the openbeta steam frontpage peak. And was only buffed because of the streamer+event infusion after witch it fell back to 6k again.
Sure those are not the numbers that the juggernauts are pulling (incidently all Valve titels). But if Nexon/SD were expecting and working under the assumption to pull 100k playerbases from the get go, they are doing it wrong anyways.

The game is dead when it doesn’t pull in the targeted cash, not before not after. Look at Syfy original movies, are they as good and polished as the big AAA hollywood stuff. No but they are made in a fashion that they generate enough money to keep on going.

Quickjoin. Don’t use it.
Ever since the amount of servers reached a critical number (to accomp the large playerbase btw.) Quickjoin has become less than quick.
It tries to get the ping of all servers to determine who has the best latencies and that takes a very long time, quite often by the time it tries to join you to the best servers, they are either full or empty.

Use the Serverbrowser instead filter for non full/non empty add stuff like -max -region and sort by latency. The first few servers are what quickjoin would have given you.

(disguisedRocket) #47

No anti-cheat.
Only 5 maps.

Currently, the half-life of the game is 1.5 month. It means that every 1.5 month, the number of players is divided by 2.
6000 now
3000 end of september
1500 mid november

If they don’t add new maps (and a good anti-cheat), the game will be dead in six month.

(Fleshpound) #48

[quote=“disguisedRocket;62665”]No anti-cheat.
Only 5 maps.

Currently, the half-life of the game is 1.5 month. It means that every 1.5 month, the number of players is divided by 2.
6000 now
3000 end of september
1500 mid november

If they don’t add new maps (and a good anti-cheat), the game will be dead in six month.[/quote]
Or even less unless they play… until game is closed even on 4vs 4

(elegantRoyalty) #49

cs:go down 170k
payday 2 down 12k

it goes on and on and on , its summer, schools and uni’s are on break , and the northen hemisphere is on vacation , every single year every single game has this slump and every single forum gets flooded by the same damn thread.

(Szakalot) #50

[quote=“disguisedRocket;62665”]No anti-cheat.
Only 5 maps.

Currently, the half-life of the game is 1.5 month. It means that every 1.5 month, the number of players is divided by 2.
6000 now
3000 end of september
1500 mid november

If they don’t add new maps (and a good anti-cheat), the game will be dead in six month.[/quote]

whats the halflife of your post?

(quickMicrowave) #51

More people will play this game during beta than release at this rate, directly related to the lack of anticheat in my opinion.

(Ghosthree3) #52

[quote=“disguisedRocket;62665”]6000 now
3000 end of september
1500 mid november[/quote]
Oh god what happens at the end of March.

(quickMicrowave) #53

Looking back on the history of SD FPS titles, more players play ET than more recently released titles - which pains me to say because I am not a huge advocate for ET! Overtime, the popularity has consistently been less and less per title and the ‘halflife’ of each game has been short and sweet.

Enemy Territory not included below but normally > 500 - not officially a title on Steam type deal.

For the rest, all data information has been pulled from http://steamcharts.com which currently shows a 6,280 30-day average for Dirty Bomb - consistent with what was mentioned here.

Game title, release date, and current 30-day average population of Steam titles:

Doom 3, Aug. 3 2004, 148.3.

Enemy Territory - Quake Wars, Sept. 28 2007, 0.5.

Brink, May 10 2011, 24.2.

(Old Man) #54

The game definitely needs more maps. To be fair Counter Strike players play Dust2 over and over again and the game is still one of the most popular FPS out there. Unfortunately CS is an established brand, Dirty Bomb isn’t.

(-0wnage-) #55

Well… for the past week I’ve been quick joining and finding myself sitting in an empty room with no other players… I’ve had to manually look for a server and even still there’s hardly any populated servers. Was it always like this? or is this something new… 'cus it seems DB is dying down for some reason, which is a shame.

(Volcano) #56

they also have more than 5 maps if they feel like changing it up

(immenseWalnut) #57

Started encountering this one more often in casual play as well. At least with that, you can advise your team to leave instead of feeding the troll.

Competitive mode though, punishes players for leaving, and I can’t fathom why this is still in place given the rampant hacking that is taking place.

Even more perplexing is the new missions that are forcing casual players into competitive matches, and exposing them to just how bad the hacking issue really is.

(Ghosthree3) #58

Because if you could just leave without punishment the system would be completely broken?

(planetaryJalopy) #59

This game / If they dont immediately fix the horrible matchmaking pairing/hacking - this Dud of a bomb will just fade in the wind - especially when there will be BETTER games of this genre coming out Q4 this year.

Also don’t FORGET, this is…Nexon…THIS IS Nexon.
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(Ardez1) #60

[quote=“planetaryJalopy;62798”]This game / If they dont immediately fix the horrible matchmaking pairing/hacking - this Dud of a bomb will just fade in the wind - especially when there will be BETTER games of this genre coming out Q4 this year.

Also don’t FORGET, this is…Nexon…THIS IS Nexon.
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