Hello everyone!
I just recently came back from a hiatus of playing SC, and something stood out to me… There seem to be WAY less people that the last time that I played. is this true? Is the community shrinking? It is to the point where the most people I saw on were 700 (at the most busy time on Saturday) and the only way to actually play a PvE game was to round up a squad, I simply did not find anyone when I searched for a game…
Anyway, is it true? Is the community and amount of players shrinking?
I truly hope it isn’t, this game is a very fun game and just needs a little bit of love.
Just to exemplify, some weeks ago, when they correct the MM a little, and brought back the fixed tiers for PVP (even thou it was unbalanced due to bad coding to the MM) the number of players on weekends reached peaks of 2900+ players, and the server barely could handle it.
THen, they decided to make the MM a garbage again, and brought back the mixed tier nonsense, which essentially killed R9’s again. And now we see around 2000ish players online on weekends.
What this game needs, is someone with a head on its true place, that improves things instead of devolving stuff.
It seems they walk 1 step forward and 3 backwards everytime they change something.
I wonder, is that so hard to make fixed tiers, and balance the teams acording to SR? The only problem i remember with fixed tiers was that the MM put the best squad with the best players available, and the other team with the worst players available instead of mixing them.
not sure what time you were on on saturday but when i came on there were 2100 players online
On this weekend, numbers were around 2200 on prime time. Two weeks ago they had a big special with gold for wins and free premium days, so as they said, the number reached almost 3000 online and servers went kaput.
So far I’m not seeing any shrinking, but neither an increase in numbers. New players keep comming, some of the older ones go away. Is the usual stuff.
I do observe a bit less during the times I play (Eastern Standard time)
Normally I see 500-700
Now, I’m consistently seeing 300-450…
the 2200 players online at this weekend lasts 1-2 hours then its back to 2000 and less.
the 2200 players online at this weekend lasts 1-2 hours then its back to 2000 and less.
That is the reason is called “prime time”
I am interested why is the game so much less popular in US than in other parts of the world. I would say that probably big majority of players is russian, and the game is much more known and a hit in their home country/community, hence half of all the registered players are probably russian. So if you split the eu daytime community by half, you almost have the same numbers as US has during their prime time.
But having around 2000 regular for our timezone is not so bad actually, and this number being stable and constant with all many players coming and leaving (actually not a lot of us from that number stay around as long), these are reasonably good numbers for a game and development team of this scale.
Wow. My first post got deleted. Well the other posted what I was essential saying. So Private Hix when was the last time you played before today/yesterday?
I also noticed the low population of this game … Well I do not know if the devs plan to launch SCon with the same gameplay, but if they do it will just sign the death warrant of the game. Bots are not a good sign and just shows that the game is not able to stay active alone. If the next patch does not bring serious changes the trend is worsening the situation.
They have a Dev Q&A now to at least answer a few questions and to suggestions that have been made. The problem remains that the game still needs a lot of fixing. And they haven’t set any time frame (except it will be this year) when they intend to make the 1.0 release so we get more players (with the promised advertisement after 1.0 release).
Enny, NICE logo, can’t wait for the Remastered version 
Anyway, @Enny, the last time I played, prior to now, was about around December. and idk why your first post got deleted 
I do believe as well that there need to be some MAJOR changes with this game if they want it to grow/survive…
Enny, NICE logo, can’t wait for the Remastered version
Anyway, @Enny, the last time I played, prior to now, was about around December. and idk why your first post got deleted
I do believe as well that there need to be some MAJOR changes with this game if they want it to grow/survive…
Thank you. I hope there will be new version of HW some day.
I have been around in December too. Right now the amount of players online is very low compared to Dec or not long ago. Not sure why maybe because of the changes in recent patches or just (temporary) lost interest.
Thank you. I hope there will be new version of HW some day.
I have been around in December too. Right now the amount of players online is very low compared to Dec or not long ago. Not sure why maybe because of the changes in recent patches or just (temporary) lost interest.
Yeah, hopefully just temporary lost interest…
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