LawBreakers and Dirty Bomb are a lot different. Similar to the comparison between Dirty Bomb and Overwatch. Those who play one game may not like the other.
As for Nexon ditching Dirty Bomb, like the others that have said, they are a publishing company. Splash Damage and Nexon are bound to each other by contract.
Law Breakers looks cool, but I will never find replacements for the characters I have grown to love in this game.
Played Overwatch, feels like TF2 more than anything, I love Dirty Bomb more for a reason.
Lawbreakers looks more or less similar in that regard but then again I haven’t gotten into the Alpha yet.
dirtybomb will be fine. people dont understand the numbers needed to be profitable. its minuscule part of the player base who need to buy to keep the free players.
the numbers are good for dirtybomb.
i play overwatch and dirtybomb and dirtybomb is better for me personally. nearly 1000 hrs now and i play at every opportunity. most of my group old clan also play it every day.
overwatch will have a decent player base doesnt mean it will affect dirty bomb.
dirtybomb is basically free. that is a big deal to many many people.
also on the last dev stream i seen other night the head guy even said live on twitch the game was doing well financially and for the foreseeable future. which surprised me. normally devs wont comment on finance in media.
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And while yes, certainly people did leave to player overwatch, a number of them will play both and some may even decide they don’t like overwatch as much. Not to mention DB is free. Anybody who doesn’t want to pay but still wants to play a decent shooter might be showing up.[/quote]
Going to take a wild guess but I believe that DB being free is the only advantage it has over Overwatch (pun not intended) and Lawbreakers.
If Overwatch and Lawbreakers was free a whole lot of players would leave and try those games out.
@Black Whether one game is better or not is generally a matter of Opinion. Being Free does give DB an edge, it only means that people are more likely to try it, not that they are more likely to stay. There are a lot of free games out there.
I play and enjoy Combat Arms.
I play and enjoy Dirty Bomb.
Pretty sure I’ll also play and enjoy Lawbreakers at the same time. Each game has their own appeal, and even if my interests shift for a time, it doesn’t mean I’ve completely forsaken the other games and will never come back.
(Still waiting on the alpha invite :/)
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And while yes, certainly people did leave to player overwatch, a number of them will play both and some may even decide they don’t like overwatch as much. Not to mention DB is free. Anybody who doesn’t want to pay but still wants to play a decent shooter might be showing up.[/quote]
Going to take a wild guess but I believe that DB being free is the only advantage it has over Overwatch (pun not intended) and Lawbreakers.
If Overwatch and Lawbreakers was free a whole lot of players would leave and try those games out.[/quote]
Value for money is not the only major factor in this. If Dirty Bomb would have been 20$, I’d still have bought it. With a few more maps and game modes, I certainly would have bought it for 40$.
I’ve spent some significant time on W:ET and years on Urban Terror (when this game was awesome, between 2.x and 3.x versions) mostly because those games were good. And better in my opinion than cs:s over the same period of time. I’d have paid to play them as well. But I prefered the gameplay of the two first, which has always been the biggest priority to me, far in front of money. Most of us will always pay for something we desire.
Honestly, for a strong multiplayer focused game, it’s getting really hard to put the full charge 50$ on players nowadays, even for huge studios. Unless you’re over-confident and even put additional content to totally abusive price (proper dlcs or cosmetics). And personally I start to think that the full pricing is not a good sign to us players, in terms of long term support. On the contrary, a good F2P is now a guarantee of quality improvements over time, because they basically need players to stay to be profitable. There’s nothing prohibiting Blizzard to throw their game into the bin or into something unexpected in 6 months even after selling 1X million copies. Ask D3 players. That’s just a copy of farming simulator now. Don’t even bother to talk about ubisoft… I have plenty of friends who bought the division (even though I don’t like rpgs, I understand why they went for it), and nobody still play it. Just because they’ve done that move.
To me, if a multiplayer is alive for like few months, and after that, the population declines, it might as well be dead to me.
[quote=“Dox;186625”]Lol wtf Alpha. Balance issues? Have you even played Overwatch? xD
If Dirty Bomb has bad balance issues I don’t even know what to say about Overwatch…
[many of] them are saying Dirty Bomb is way more enjoyable and that they will probably main Dirty Bomb again once the OW hype dies down.
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Probably one of the truest things on the forums right now. Way truer than some of the bug fixes. >.<
But really, N80 described most of my feelings playing OW pretty well. It was fun, for a while. And then you realize how sickening it can be sometimes.
Sometimes, I just couldn’t play OW at all… Certain characters in it just ask for salt.
Overall, DB should stay fine. Would be nice for some of dem maps on the tumblr to come quicker doe.
Nexon won’t ditch DB cause of LB and I am pretty sure that DB won’t lose its players since the game is awesome! I am excited about LawBreakers too, but would never leave Dirty Bomb. <3
I mean, you have to play dirty to break the law!
saw some’grandfinal’ for OW: cloud9 n luminosity i believe: looked like good players.
the whole depth of the game boiled down to two balls, of five players each, going at it for 10 min or so. no flanking, no setup, no ambushes, no spawncamp, just pure TDM, basically a casual MOBA from the first person perspective.
admittedly this is just the beginning of the game but it looks like the TTK plus shields plus heals makes for little reason to spread out and try to outsmart the opponent
Doesn’t feel like that at all from what I have played though. Some very unique elements.