Obviously, you guys can post at these forums whatever you like, but if you want to attract new players, I don't think talking about the perception of players disappearing from the game, whether this is really true or not (someone needs to do a statistical analysis), and talking about that on a thread at least once a week, is really going to help Red Orchestra attract new players or the game.
I guess it is a fact that some people have left compared to a year ago, as it is inevitable with any video game, but I don't think it is anywhere near a crisis level, or that you can't play a decent game during prime time playing hours.
Look, some Mods, like Forgotten Hope 1 for Battlefield 1942, make it on their own for years with only about 60 players playing week to week.
RO, stateside, has a lot of people playing?? How many? I don't know; I don't really count.
But there are definitely enough people on several servers where you can play with 30+ people, even more, like 40 to 50, and have a great game.
Without a doubt, people who are thinking of buying this game visit the forum to see what people think of it.
Sounding a funeral bell all the time isn't going to attract new people, and there really isn't anything you can do about it anyway if players don't want to play the game.
I think we need to stress the postivie qualities about the game, rather than focusing on what may seem to be problems all the time, but things really are not that bad taking the totality of everything.
After all, last week had to be one of the best weeks for RO, with the release of the Minion Workz vehicle packs, the Maching Gun, and the decent maps of Kiln, Roadblock, Elyna, Schultzseppe's new version of PariserPlatz, and more recently KrasnyBor and Moscow.
So all those people playing Spaceman or whatever are missing out on this stuff.
Plus, it looks like maybe (guessing) Carpathian Crosses could make a release within six months or in the near future.
Really, I don't think things are that bad at all; on the contrary, the game is becoming better with each new map and addition people work on and release.
Finally, IMO, if a player is going off to play something else or do something else with their time, instead of posting a "Farewell RO Forever" in the General Discussion thread, they should say their goodbyes by private messaging their gaming pals.
Again, I cannot tell you, the RO player, what to do and I know you can do whatever you want, but for the good of the game, I think it would be best to avoid as much as possible, these sort of posts in the future, especially since there have been several similar posts of this nature already recently posted, and only issue these types of posts only if it is absolutely necessary.
(O.K., I just counted, at 1:52, E.S.T., kind of the late zone of playing, there were over 300+ people playing in total and a good number of servers with many players on them.)
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