Where the players gone ?

[ElectroTurk]

Honestly, I like this game a lot, but I just went back to my old games. Not only has the BF3 Beta (which has less bugs than the RO2 release) been keeping me busy, but I'd rather not deal with all the bugs right now.

TWI messed up, and they messed up big. Once the last of the bugs has been resolved, I will gladly come back and play. Until then, I wait, and I imagine many others are doing the same thing.

 

[Dirtybandit]

One who goes through a lot when young often comes out stronger

Say that to brink

 

[ropeadope]

isnt naivety and ignorance cute ?

You posted this exact smarmy response the last time this was said with no further explaination or clarification. What am I ignorant of? What exactly makes Frostbyte 2 so similar to Frostbyte 1.5 that it's just a re-skinned BC2?

I get the impression you don't actually know **** about ****.

 

[Raquel]

Not going to waste my time arguing about engines with someone that cant even spell the bf3 engine name properly, its frostbite, not frostbyte, if you dont even know that i doubt you know whats the real difference between FB 1.5 and 2, but no surprise there

Enjoy bad company 3 and its gimmicks!

 

[Dr.Phibes]

Indeed. Here are the mostly ancient games currently drawing scores more players than RO2.

The game is virtually dead after two weeks. Sucks.

Current Players Peak Today Game
44,304 51,564 Team Fortress 2
44,20458,213 Counter-Strike
39,44853,449 Counter-Strike: Source
21,07223,368 Football Manager 2011
18,45029,786 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
17,87118,102 Sid Meier's Civilization V
13,40418,667 Call of Duty Black Ops - Multiplayer
8,5058,890 Left 4 Dead 2
7,8999,030 Total War SHOGUN 2
7,5849,367 Dead Island
7,1427,360 Fallout New Vegas
6,5197,039 Deus Ex - Human Revolution
6,1606,585 Empire: Total War
4,6835,076 Terraria
4,6365,239 Garry's Mod
3,6805,162 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
3,4434,847 Call of Duty Black Ops
3,4004,131 Condition Zero
3,1363,749 Mount&Blade: Warband
2,7043,340 Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
2,7033,143 Napoleon: Total War
2,6342,721 RIFT
2,5973,195 Red Orchestra 2

25 million players? Not that bad actually

 

[Raquel]

Lets hope TWI doesnt run out of tissues then

 

[Dr.Phibes]

Lets hope TWI doesnt run out of tissues then

I'm starting to like you

 

[kozzy420]

Im still here and will be for a few years at least, loving this game

 

[Sgt.NightFire]

Played it yesterday after a week of doing not so, ran into a server where almost every German was wielding a MKB, they were running around in Station like they were Rambo, blegh, will not play until i see some new maps or some huge changes being made to the game.

 

[Lex_Luger]

Problem is even after they fix performance and stats

balance is messed up and that is what pissing people off the most. Maps arent very fun, germans clearly have weapon advantage, mkb is clearly the best gun in the game, and 2 tanks doesnt cut the mustard for vehicles.

Its gonna be MONTHS before they add new maps, sort out weapon balance and realism, and add the new vehicles

by that time, I just wont care and will have moved on

This game is gonna need a miracle to save its playerbase, and meanwhile tripwire is spending all their time working on stats instead of fixing the horrible balance.

Maybe if tripwire hadnt gotten greedy by trying to turn game into cod clone and adding digital deluxe overpowered weapons for 10 dollars more, they could have better spent their time right now making sure the game was actually fun instead of how to code stats and unlocks and being forced to make that aspect of game work properly, even though its completly superfluous compared to the main part of the game.

 

[Garcia2100]

I avoid posting much, but damn. People have to be real hardheaded if they think the game is doing fine. Its obvious there is a drop in players.

I like the game, but i agree that its still a bit of a mess. Hopefully once the SDK is released we will start seeing some good maps, because im starting to get bored of these. As well as some proper realism mods, it doesn't even have to be some extreme realism, just something that is easier to get immersed in. Sometimes i get into the game, but then i see an mp40 with 64 rounds, along with every other person in the game with an automatic, and i get thrown back out. This hing with stats is so unnecessary as well. I just don't feel like there's a real point to it. I cant even imagine the man hours spent to implement the thing, and the man hours still being used to try and fix it. Hours that could be used to fix other things that affect the game play more.

Its been out for what 2 weeks now? And look how sharply the player base fell. Nowadays the community doesn't even feel friendly. Yeah people are saying the game is a mess in the forums, saying that they are gonna leave, and how do some people respond? "good, then leave, bye..." And little by little the players just take the leave. Its not like its 100 posts of people saying its a great game, and 1 troll saying it sucks. Everyday, every post is people saying the same thing. Im sure this would have hurt more if the game was like 50, but i only paid 30. I see the $30 as an investment, because i hope some of the mods coming out will make the game a bit more fun and engaging.

 

[Lex_Luger]

i hear ya bro,

good thing tripwire choose unreal engine 3 because its so easy to work with and make great maps with,

even if game isnt popular at all in 6 months, we will see some new map content just cause game is using the most popular engine in the world right now

 

[Sensemann]

Nowadays the community doesn't even feel friendly. Yeah people are saying the game is a mess in the forums, saying that they are gonna leave, and how do some people respond? "good, then leave, bye..." And little by little the players just take the leave.

But then again, this seems to be accepted by TWI. There were so many warnings, concerns and suggestions by the "veterans" of RO that were simply ignored. As a matter of appreciation, Lemon and bswearer were removed from the forums.

Jumping on the big money cash cow by creating a hybrid game and launch it with bugs and performance issues caused a great disaster. And this could've been prevented. If the game is not ready, post-pone the release if you can. If RO 2 would have been released in a more polished state after xmas, surely the start would've been better.

I for one have not given up on RO 2 just yet, but it's greatly disappointing me to see what has happen with the game and the forums. And I am very very concerned if RO 2 will survive only 1/6th of the time RO 1 did. Community content, no matter what.

Almost all of my steam friends come from RO 1, about 60 of them. And hardly I ever see 4-5 playing RO 2 at the same time. While I played RO 1 in July for 10 hours on a weekend, I cannot play this game for more than 2 hours a day because it's simply not THAT good. I like it, but see it more as a casual "in between the other games" game. And those are all not FPS as I quit playing CoD and BF-series around 5 years ago.
Now I appreciate other people like this game as everybody should play what he likes best.

But what I can totally see is that TWI tried to target the CoD and BF series player fanbase by options on gamemodes, exotic weapons, more run'n'gun like maps, I think you can already see the result of this.
The only populated servers I find are TE ones. Countdown seemed interesting to me, Firefight not at all. Many players are refusing the usage of Mkbs while they are forced to live with the fact that their opponents are using them.

If TWI had listened more to the community on implementing basic gameplay changing innovations, the game right now would see a more stable player base.

I am extremely worrying if my favorite FPS series is digging it's hole right now...

 

[Wodin]

25 million!!!! Really....what when the most online I've seen recently is just over 2000....

 

[Wodin]

Im still here and will be for a few years at least, loving this game

You might want to be...but whether you can find a server with a decent ping and enough players by then is doubtful.

 

[The Beast (nl)]

When i won`t kicked online without a reason i keep playing this
great game.

 

[Dee0342]

Yes I stopped playing as well.

I can ***** about the performance of this game, but what really kills me is the design and certain mechanics en gameplay decisions they made.

Also I feel like TWI is keeping us in the dark about updates and such, because the biggest bugs and broken stats are still in the game.

 

[The Beast (nl)]

germans clearly have weapon advantage,

I can`t live with such a remarc. Firstly i have no problems with the
russian weapons, secondly if Tripwire make the russian weapons better,
people will whining that the russian weapons are better.

 

[illscarlettNP]

I guess I'm off to BF3 for now, until a team that is in no was affiliated with TWI makes a decent mod.

Anyone care to join? The BF3 beta is quite good, and has working stats.

Plus even with 40 fps it runs pretty smooth! And on all LOW graphics, the game still looks 20 times better than RO2.

Sorry to say it, but I prefer a "Console Port" over this buggy and incomplete game.

Dead game, not even a month after it's release.

 

[Bear44]

Indeed. Here are the mostly ancient games currently drawing scores more players than RO2.

The game is virtually dead after two weeks. Sucks.

Current Players Peak Today Game
44,304 51,564 Team Fortress 2
44,20458,213 Counter-Strike
39,44853,449 Counter-Strike: Source
21,07223,368 Football Manager 2011
18,45029,786 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
17,87118,102 Sid Meier's Civilization V
13,40418,667 Call of Duty Black Ops - Multiplayer
8,5058,890 Left 4 Dead 2
7,8999,030 Total War SHOGUN 2
7,5849,367 Dead Island
7,1427,360 Fallout New Vegas
6,5197,039 Deus Ex - Human Revolution
6,1606,585 Empire: Total War
4,6835,076 Terraria
4,6365,239 Garry's Mod
3,6805,162 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
3,4434,847 Call of Duty Black Ops
3,4004,131 Condition Zero
3,1363,749 Mount&Blade: Warband
2,7043,340 Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
2,7033,143 Napoleon: Total War
2,6342,721 RIFT
2,5973,195 Red Orchestra 2

Current Players Peak Today Game
44,304 51,564 Team Fortress 2
44,204 58,213 Counter-Strike
39,448 53,449 Counter-Strike: Source
21,072 23,368 Football Manager 2011
18,450 29,786 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
17,871 18,102 Sid Meier's Civilization V
13,404 18,667 Call of Duty Black Ops - Multiplayer
8,505 8,890 Left 4 Dead 2
7,899 9,030 Total War SHOGUN 2
7,584 9,367 Dead Island
7,142 7,360 Fallout New Vegas
6,519 7,039 Deus Ex - Human Revolution
6,160 6,585 Empire: Total War
4,683 5,076 Terraria
4,636 5,239 Garry's Mod
3,680 5,162 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
3,443 4,847 Call of Duty Black Ops
3,400 4,131 Condition Zero
3,136 3,749 Mount&Blade: Warband
2,704 3,340 Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
2,703 3,143 Napoleon: Total War
2,634 2,721 RIFT
2,597 3,195 Red Orchestra 2