Pretty much all of what you say is wrong and I could easily prove that, but tbh. I don't bother anymore. Really no more sense in bringing up the same facts over and over again when people just ignore them and only view their own reality in which they have to bash games for whatever weird reasons.
Yup, thats exactly why its a failure, thats as pathetic as UT3, 5000 players is nothing!
a bunch of 'elitists' who have no interest in any games other than a small handful that was released back in '99 and RO
I wonder how many players RO has (active) then... I can find more populated servers for DODS than for RO atm..
Mate, you should know better by now. I don't know why you waste your time trying to argue with people here, as all your up against is a bunch of 'elitists' who have no interest in any games other than a small handful that was released back in '99 and RO.
I wonder how many players RO has (active) then... I can find more populated servers for DODS than for RO atm..
Ahhh the DoD thread. Always comes down to a comparison with RO.
We all know how good DoD used to be, and we all know that it is now a generic shadow of its former self. And we also know that RO does not have the universal appeal of a generic ww2 shooter. So why bother arguing about it?
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What you should say is
"a bunch of grumpy gamers with a vested interest in gaming, and who remember things used to be and who are quite bitter about the current state of PC gaming on the whole"
Right?
Wow, I actually expected something ~1000. So, considering that, 5000 players certainly doesn't sound like "failure" to me.About 200 at the moment.
And this is why people like you are being called elitists. Why do you have to be so arrogant? Why are DoD:S players kids? You like RO and probably some other games too, other people like for example DoD:S. I mean you really don't have to like DoDS(and obviously dont do) - it doesn't make much of a difference to me or anyone else - but don't insult the people playing it. I've been playing RO mod for a long time and RO:Ostfront since it was released. I really was a hardcore realism gamer back then and I can remember how I was defending RO back 2 years ago. I've also played DoD since the betas - to be honest though the first time I played it was a very early beta and I was still very young too - it was too hard for me back then with bleeding etc. But that was really only because it was too complex and I was too young. I actively played DoD when it went retail and before. And hell I really loved that game. When DoD:S came out I first loved it too, but when RO:Ostfront came out I totally changed my mind. So during my RO hardcore fanboy time(you'll probably even find some of my old posts here) I also really bashed DoD:S. I actually got banned once or twice from the DoD:S forums. I simply didn't want to accept what they did to my old DoD and that it's not as realistic/authentic as it could be. Because for me DoD 1.3 and previous versions were very intense ww2 games, whereas I have to agree DoD:S is more of a FPS with an additional ww2 setting. However I actually never stopped playing DoD:S. Because as time went I just found out that all the bashing doesn't serve any purpose and just took it the way it was. It's a different game - and while I would also have liked a DoD 1.3 on source engine instead of DoD:S - I just accepted it as what it was and had fun with it. Custom maps for example are the biggest plus of DoD:S, without them I would've stopped playing it long enough. But the game keeps me coming back, what basically means that it has something special. WW2-atmosphere like of course it however is nowhere near the old DoD 1.3.Well it failed to improve on the original, badly! It failed to keep its community together and lost a tonne of players! Sure there are loads of kids out there still enjoying it, but thats nothing to write home about!
I personally wouldnt go as far as saying its a failure. But it has failed in all the areas important to keeping me & a shed load of others playing!
RO still has the next installment on UE3 to come so lets discuss RO's doom when that happens!