Small ammount of players

[r5cya]

Still low playerbase, nearly empty servers with botfarmers, most servers are running only stockmaps, 1 populated classic server. High ping servers. This game is nearly dead!

the only time i ever saw your name in a sever, was when you were killing people that were spawning.
why don't you just go play another game? and when RS comes out? PLEASE PM ME YOUR ADDRESS. i'll take up a collection, to pay you, not to join the game. it's the least i can do for TWI.

 

[Holy.Death]

That' enough. We don't need the fistfight here. If you want to make a flame war it's not the place of this. Harrasing people who state their own opinion - even tiresome - is no less wrong than unconstructive criticism and baseless complaining.

 

[Sulman]

Prime time in the Eastern US has almost always consistently 1000+ players online.

Really? I play most nights when I'm free and it's usually two full or nearly full servers plus one half full, consistently, with the exception of weekends where it's a little busier.

 

[CaliEsd]

Really? I play most nights when I'm free and it's usually two full or nearly full servers plus one half full, consistently, with the exception of weekends where it's a little busier.

Agreed. also my personal experience yesterday night at ca. 4am UTC.

 

[CocaineInMyBrain]

Agreed. also my personal experience yesterday night at ca. 4am UTC.

I don't know what game you guys are playing , but here in Canada (Toronto to be exact) every weekday from 5 to about 8 there are at least 4 full realism servers (and at least one full Classic server) with the population hanging at about the high 900s to the low 1000s. On weeks its generally even more populated.

Are you guys using the in-game server browser or the Steam server browser? With the in game one it will frequently show only one or 2 populated servers when it clearly says 1000~ people online, but with Steam server browser it shows you all available servers and doesn't seem to randomly leave servers out.

 

[CaliEsd]

I don't know what game you guys are playing , but here in Canada (Toronto to be exact) every weekday from 5 to about 8 there are at least 4 full realism servers (and at least one full Classic server) with the population hanging at about the high 900s to the low 1000s. On weeks its generally even more populated.

Using the in-game server browser. And i have to check my server filters.

 

[Sulman]

I don't know what game you guys are playing , but here in Canada (Toronto to be exact) every weekday from 5 to about 8 there are at least 4 full realism servers (and at least one full Classic server) with the population hanging at about the high 900s to the low 1000s. On weeks its generally even more populated.

Are you guys using the in-game server browser or the Steam server browser? With the in game one it will frequently show only one or 2 populated servers when it clearly says 1000~ people online, but with Steam server browser it shows you all available servers and doesn't seem to randomly leave servers out.

I use the in game menu, I can always get a game, and Steam's filters can be a bit coarse. Interestingly, if what you're saying is true it means the in game browser is only indicating around 1/5 of the community's activity. Strange, no?

 

[CocaineInMyBrain]

Using the in-game server browser. And i have to check my server filters.

Refreshing your sever browser also can help with this. But your best bet is to just use the steam server browser, the only down-side is you can't see the amount of bots a server may have as easily.

 

[LordSteve]

At the time i cannot enjoy a game, kicked and the rest are all realism servers with only stockmaps. This game is more than dead.

 

[aquasplash]

this game is crap and dead i hope TW open eyes and on next wekend switch to FREE TO PLAY MODEL this is only one change what this ,,game,, have

I'm waiting for the next game TW studio and I hope that will be longer ever continue Red Orchestra series


if that time TW does not go insolvent

 

[CocaineInMyBrain]

At the time i cannot enjoy a game, kicked and the rest are all realism servers with only stockmaps. This game is more than dead.

You literally see the incoherent rage seeping through your post.
So its the game's fault that you got kicked (session ban or w/e) from your favored servers? Have you never seen the 40-1 Classic server? its as consistently populated as any normal Realism server, except when its early in the morning or late at night. Even the 2jg, TaT, and 40-1 Realism servers -which btw are almost always full- do run custom maps, some TaT servers even run them exclusively.

if we're just going down the usual "game is dead cuz i think it is" road you may as well just leave now (which you logically should anyways, seeing how you despise the game and its makers so much) and avoid causing all the drama.

this game is crap and dead i hope TW open eays and on next wekend switch to FREE TO PLAY MODEL this is only one change what this ,,game,, have

i honestly don't see how people like this are not banned. he has not made a single relevant or contributing post in his entire posting career, and the mods even specifically labelled him a troll. He doesnt even put the effort in to make his post understandable, kind of like that factor13 guy but 10x worse.

 

[LordSteve]

At the moment there are more populated classic Ost Servers full than Classic servers in Ro2. That says everything, sorry but this game is dead.

 

[CocaineInMyBrain]

At the moment there are more populated classic Ost Servers full than Classic servers in Ro2. That says everything, sorry but this game is dead.

Let's not even go into why Classic is so unpopular right now, but the fact is it is right now 2 PM Eastern time, smack in the middle of the afternoon - guess what? people are still at work or school or generally doing something other than gaming - I've already listed the peak times for 40-1 Classic server but clearly you are too angry to listen to basic reason.

As I've said previously the fact that you don't consider Realism worthy is your preference and its hardly relevant to the health of the game's population, the game could have 0 classic servers and 99999 fully populated Realism servers and it would be still dead to you - why? BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE REALISM, and thats fair and you are entitled to hate it; but don't go around spreading false statements like you are now just to make everyone else (that's still enjoying themselves) be as miserable as you are. Frankly, your post is extremely insulting towards anyone that enjoys Realism or even still plays the game.

On a side note if you see tons of populated servers in Ostfront AND you can't stand this game/this game is dead to you - heres a crazy suggestion : play Ostfront instead, which is obviously the holy grail of FPS to you? But of course you're not going too, you'd much rather grumble here on the forums

Perhaps try to lay off the "holier than thou" attitude sometimes

 

[The Beast (nl)]

this game is crap and dead i hope TW open eyes and on next wekend switch to FREE TO PLAY MODEL this is only one change what this ,,game,, have

I'm waiting for the next game TW studio and I hope that will be longer ever continue Red Orchestra series


if that time TW does not go insolvent

What are you searching here then?

 

[LordSteve]

Let's not even go into why Classic is so unpopular right now, but the fact is it is right now 2 PM Eastern time, smack in the middle of the afternoon - guess what? people are still at work or school or generally doing something other than gaming - I've already listed the peak times for 40-1 Classic server but clearly you are too angry to listen to basic reason.

As I've said previously the fact that you don't consider Realism worthy is your preference and its hardly relevant to the health of the game's population, the game could have 0 classic servers and 99999 fully populated Realism servers and it would be still dead to you - why? BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE REALISM, and thats fair and you are entitled to hate it; but don't go around spreading false statements like you are now just to make everyone else (that's still enjoying themselves) be as miserable as you are. Frankly, your post is extremely insulting towards anyone that enjoys Realism or even still plays the game.

On a side note if you see tons of populated servers in Ostfront AND you can't stand this game/this game is dead to you - heres a crazy suggestion : play Ostfront instead, which is obviously the holy grail of FPS to you? But of course you're not going too, you'd much rather grumble here on the forums

Perhaps try to lay off the "holier than thou" attitude sometimes

A game with a populatation of 1000 or 1200 players is dead for me. "Ah Ro2 is a Nichegame", i know other niche games and those have more players online. Why so many Clans have stopped playing Ro2, why so many have left this game and never ever comming back??

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

At the moment there are more populated classic Ost Servers full than Classic servers in Ro2. That says everything, sorry but this game is dead.

That really doesn't say anything. Different game, different spec requirements could be a major reason for that (no matter your own personal opinion).

That said, I think the COD Black Ops 2 game is just dead (afterall, I don't like it)

 

[CocaineInMyBrain]

A game with a populatation of 1000 or 1200 players is dead for me. "Ah Ro2 is a Nichegame", i know other niche games and those have more players online. Why so many Clans have stopped playing Ro2, why so many have left this game and never ever comming back??

Besides addressing nothing that I've said to you in the last 2 posts, the points you are posting are moot.

A game with a populatation of 1000 or 1200 players is dead for me

So lets say you have a consistent population of 10000 players at all times. What exactly does that do for you? You will realistically ever play regularly with so many (clan, friends, or on a sever you like) people, a couple hundred if I'm being generous. What do the extra 9000~ people do for your gameplay experience exactly? And lets not forget the constant complaints about the lack of quality in players, what do you think a sudden influx of several thousand new players is going to do? and I'm almost certain that if it happened, you'd be right back here complaining about it and raving about the n00bs.

During most of its life, Ostfront could hardly hope for the population RO2 has right now. Did you or anybody complain "game is dead?"

"Ah Ro2 is a Nichegame",

Did I ever use that reason? And what are those games exactly? ArmA? its not like their development studio had numerous other titles already under their belt when they made ArmA 2 ....

Why so many Clans have stopped playing Ro2, why so many have left this game and never ever comming back??

And who are these numerous people leaving? Mainly people like you raging and making self-gratifying "im leaving guiseee, you should all leave too."
The whole ROLadder thing was a whole new ****-storm completely unrelated to player populations - which once again is what this thread is about.



once again Lordsteve with a public service announcement of why you should never post while raging.

 

[Sulman]

That really doesn't say anything. Different game, different spec requirements could be a major reason for that (no matter your own personal opinion).

That said, I think the COD Black Ops 2 game is just dead (afterall, I don't like it)

Same guy (I'm pretty sure) used to complain that ROOST was too slow over on DH forums, I'm sure of it.

 

[danh]

The recent updates, map recooks and workshop updates really killed the population. I see many people complain they are tired of downloading over and over. Also, new players that got the game right before the update were turned off because they felt like they were downloading the entire game again. With all these downloading, people with bad connection or little patience would probably not want to continue playing red orchestra 2.

Also, problems with the workshop and custom map errors contribute to the low population. Many people complain that though they downloaded the map through workshop, they still had to download the map again once they enter the server. Also, I believe when you download through workshop, the download initiates as soon as you open up red orchestra 2 and you are forced to sit there and wait it out without any indication of download progress.

Also, lord steve, we were playing on Winterwald and you said it was the worst custom map ever. I wanted to ask you why is that?

 

[Snuffeldjuret]

...The whole ROLadder thing was a whole new ****-storm completely unrelated to player populations - which once again is what this thread is about....

Not entirely true. As I understand it the site would not have been closed down if there would have been more people playing and contributing to the site, something that would be a lot easier with bigger population.