More members then DoD!!!

[D3terioNation]

Wow it surprises me, as a relatively new mod/full game, RO has more members then DoD.

DoD = 10,703

RO = 12,245

The reason I ask is because DoD is (or was) RO's main rival in its infancy and people used to compare the 2 all the time back then. And many RO players also played DoD as their main online WW2 shooter!

Obviously now, with the complete downfall of a legendary game, its impossible to compare the two! But I still I find it very intruiging!

Glasses raised to a game that never tried to appeal to the masses, but somehow did!!

<3

 

[OneShot]

Wow it surprises me, as a relatively new mod/full game, RO has more members then DoD.

DoD = 10,703

RO = 12,245

Actually according to stats from GameSpy RO:OST has 1,358 players currently. But what is alarming to me is the fact that while RO is still in the top 25 PC games (#21) the server numbers continue to drop. Currently 211 up and running RO servers as compared to CoD4 which if memory serves me correct is currently over 6,000!

 

[D3terioNation]

Well that is seriously not surprising!

COD4 is a superb game and deserves the numbers its getting! Currently it should be the most played game online really.

RO will always have its fans and the next patch should push those numbers up again!

 

[dogbadger]

Looking at gamespy now, interesting stats for me were-

Wolfen ET is still no 4
Soldier of fortune 2 also still remarkably popular, bigest surprise of the list.
ARMA not very popular.
Q4 well down on Q3, i guess q4 has to be called a multiplayer failure.
Battlefield Vietnam has roughly 1/3 the players and servers of BF42 (desert combat a factor I guess)
ET quake wars doing better than i thought- it's the highest placed recent game by a fair margin.
Good old Unreal tournament '99 still up there.

of course these are dynamic and may tell a different story when it's evening in NA's east and west coasts.

 

[melipone]

Gamespy stats are wrong anyway..more like a few hundred players I think..it was reported as a bug by an RO dev a while ago..dunno what happened with that.
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[dogbadger]

Gamespy stats are wrong anyway..more like a few hundred players I think..it was reported as a bug by an RO dev a while ago..dunno what happened with that.​

well i was wondering where these 1300-odd players were, now I come to think of it.

 

[Zetsumei]

well the main thing is if you remove all servers and simply count everybody on the servers (that includes bots). You still don't get to the amounts listed by gamespy.

 

[THG repo]

Well that is seriously not surprising!

COD4 is a superb game and deserves the numbers its getting! Currently it should be the most played game online really.

RO will always have its fans and the next patch should push those numbers up again!

COD4 I heard has major bugs.

ROOF is better IMO

 

[Ralfst3r]

*Than


Also, gratz RO.

 

[D3terioNation]

COD4 I heard has major bugs.

ROOF is better IMO

No it hasnt!!

I really would like to see a list of these 'major' bugs?

 

[Murphy]

There is this one gamebreaking one. The scene calls it "deathmatch" and I'm pretty sure that old crosshairs bug is back too.

 

[D3terioNation]

Mmmkay

Hardly a massive list & hardly major either come to think of it!!

 

[Rak]

You really can't compare it to RO. COD is at a Quake deathmatch pace, and RO is at thinking man's pace

 

[Murphy]

I like both, although I only play CoD/CoD2 with friends. It was meant as a sarcastic joke, whence the rolleye smilie.

 

[Deeival]

There is this one gamebreaking one. The scene calls it "deathmatch" and I'm pretty sure that old crosshairs bug is back too.

Try Search and Destroy in Hardcore mode!

 

[DraKon2k]

You really can't compare it to RO. COD is at a Quake deathmatch pace, and RO is at thinking man's pace

That's so wrong.

 

[SchutzeSepp]

lol, i heard about RO when i was verry actively playing on COD2 realism servers.
when ROost came out, i had never heard of it and sudenly everybody on the COD servers was talking about RO, did you see RO? did you play it? is it better? ... so i got the demo, and never played COD again, just like that! not once in 1 year!

i don't think you can compare RO to any other games, the average COD4 player will probably hate RO, and the average RO player will probably hate COD4.
it seems COD4 is even more away from the roots of COD, it's basically counterstrike with better graphics now.
AND STILL NO RAGDOLL EFFECTS WTF!!??!! do they even know it exists??

 

[Coey]

I don't think ragdolls fit in with the CoD cinematic feel.

 

[dogbadger]

If cod4 stands out from the field in the same way cod 1 did all that time ago then it's a top game regardless of whether it's 'cerebral' (lol- online shooters) or not.
But remember Cod didn't stand out as a result of it's graphics.

 

[D3terioNation]

the average RO player will probably hate COD4.
it seems COD4 is even more away from the roots of COD, it's basically counterstrike with better graphics now.
AND STILL NO RAGDOLL EFFECTS WTF!!??!! do they even know it exists??

Wrong, wrong & wrong!!

I love COD4 along with many 'average RO players'

The only similarity to CS is that it uses modern weaponry in a modern combat scenario. COD4 is waaay too complex to be compared to crappy CS & looks better too!

It does have ragdoll! It uses a scripted death animation & then kicks into Ragdoll. Its not OTT but it is there & its great!!