Now that the dust has settled... what went wrong?
>2025
>I am (already) forgotten

>>715045672 (OP)
I played it for one season, even finished the pass and had my fill. The genre is fundamentally flawed, I want to have fun first and foremost and the 5v5 or 6v6 format is the epitome of no fun allowed. When KoTH is one of the two base modes you type of game can work with you know it's fucked from the start. Paladins in the only one that even approached being fun with some kits like Buck or Pip but it was still very flawed. Not gonna count Dirty Bomb which was also good since it was more of a hero shooter spin on TF2. New BF is gonna suck too probably since they're going to try really hard to get the CoD/Warzone audience.

I don't play live service slop. How do its current numbers compare to Overwatch 2? I heard it was supposed to be its killer.

>>715045672 (OP)
No King live forever, such good numbers after all this time is still pretty good

Chinese games get stale real quick.

>>715046058
Steam charts shows 12k people RN but I think everyone playing it is playing it via the blizzard launcher so that doesnt mean much. I would like it to die however.

>>715046058
No way to know overwatch real numbers so your guess is as good as mine
>>715045995
Paladins was so fucking fun back in the day. Hi-rez is so slept on imo. Their games are all janky but they are peak SOVL if you can ignore the monetization schemes they use. Seems like they actually just try to make games fun over anything else. Also one of the few companies that were putting out very sexy female characters and eye candy during the peak of that period where most companies were too scared of getting cancelled to make visually appealing character designs.

>>715046058
OW has 10k
41 decline ig

shields and heals and front to back deathblob fights are fucking lame

>>715045995
Wow, someone else in this board remembers dirty bomb. I thought I was the only one.

For me it was the lack of role queue
Sorry not sorry, I won't be arguing with retards who can't undersrand basic team comps EVERY GAME

should've added deadpool bro

>>715047548
Probably waiting for the player numbers to drop even more.

>>715045672 (OP)
S3 might save it?

>>715047314
5 dps 1 support. Always go sixth.

No one posted the correct answer yet. I'll wait.

>>715045672 (OP)
i played it a shit ton and now im burned out.

>>715048790
Several people did: just like Overwatch it's just not fun by design.

>>715050078
Still not the full answer
>>715048938
Incorrect

>93k 24h peak
Doesn't look forgotten to me

EOMM.

>>715045672 (OP)
It's not as good as Overwatch

I grinded to gm3 with a 90%+ win rate when the game was new and it still took like 100 games or some shit because there’s no win streak bonuses or anything like that. Fuck that shit I’m not doing it multiple seasons or multiple times a season. Maybe they changed it by now but I’m not going back. Truly the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

>>715050427
Winner! We finally have the correct answer. Congratulations anon.

>>715050698
Apex has EOMM and is still fun a relatively popular despite the content drought. Warzone and CoD too.

>>715050895
Yeah? Well maybe you're right and I'm wrong. Fuck you.

Also Apex fell off fucking hard I dropped that game. Them adding the tranny character was about the turning point. It's very obvious some butch middle aged bulldyke is in charge of their character designs. There's like 6 "lesbian aunt with tattoos" characters in their game now. How the fuck is it a deathsport and there's more lesbians and trannies than men. Fuck that game so much

>>715045672 (OP)
Oversaturated DPS cast with the strongest characters available means most people who pick up the game will want to play a DPS character. The most meta comp in ranked with a bunch of randoms is 2 of each class. Not enough people playing healer and tank means healer and tank players have horrible games with majority DPS players who don't understand that it's not CoD and you need strong team comps to win team fights and not CSGO flick headshots (somewhat, high tier gamers who can aim on Hawkeye or Hela hard carry games) so they get fed up trying to get 4 dps insta lockers to try another role and quit. DPS players who just want to play DPS notice the void and switch into tank/heal roles which they don't want to play and quit. Then the remaining playerbase is all quickplay 6 DPS insta lock gamers that nobody wants to play with or against.

Add on top of this the realisation that the matchmaking is literally rigging ranked games by 1% swings in a very complex algorithm that tracks all your playstyle habits and clicks while the game is open so that they can psychologically trick you into buying skins is a pretty fucking wild slap in the face to most gamers. Especially after they grind 100 games or whatever through this forced elo hell only for the season reset to throw you out of solid high elo games back into hell. How about I play Dark Souls for the 6th time instead of doing that grind again Netease?

Finally, general lack of gameplay variety. They try to refresh the core gameplay loop by adding characters and doing frequent buffs/nerfs and adding new maps but they're missing the point. The random weekend game modes are a step in the right direction but they have all been extremely mid. Why not add a horde mode like many multiplayer shooters have done in the past? Good and unique custom games settings? Forge mode? Single player Marvel Campaign? Halo 3 came out almost 20 years ago and figured all this shit out but instead the devs add a 3 day autochess mode?

>>715045672 (OP)
Played for a season, had fun, moved on to something else

I think more people are just getting sick of 'job games' in general, especially for team-based (aka random outcome) games

>>715045672 (OP)
>what went wrong?
Nothing. Still doing well, still better than OW.

Tired of 0-4-2's so im learning vanguard and now everything is 1-4-1 or 1-5-0. Misery.

>>715045672 (OP)
All these shooters are boring shit for wagie retards to unwind with because they don't like games that require them to do more than pick a character and hit a trigger.

Notice how no OW troon ever posts any numbers? Notice how they cry "muh everyone is on battlenet" when pressed? Notice how battlenet has no public numbers?

Funny!

>>715045672 (OP)
casual players do not like the holy trinity game design. they do not like being FORCED to play in the way optimal tryhard players do in order to not get completely shut out.
TF2 designed its classes where they all have "objectives" that are on paper pretty selfish (engineer makes a sentry to get kills, spy does spy shit to get kills, scout runs around finding soft targets to get kills ect ect) but which because of clever game design tend to synergize in a way where a bunch of poeple who are acting solo are still causing their overall team to have an advantage. this means that you have a lot more freedom to just play the video game in the way you want instead of in the way the devs want (which is to have all your attacks instantly made irrelevent by healers unless you have ult or someone is massively out of position, which is how every single dogshit hero shooter has ended up being played).
people don't download the marvel game in order to "get picks on the exposed healer", whatever the fuck that means, they download it to fly around as the character they like pressing buttons and seeing cool things happen and get some guy pissed at them for throwing because they aren't playing in a way the game itself never explains is what you should be doing.

I stopped playing because people were taking the unranked matches too seriously and chimping out.

>>715054548
yep
dedicated healers and tanks are just annoying shits you have to deal with before you're allowed to play the game, but by the time you've killed the tank the healer has respawned again.

>>715045672 (OP)
>over 30K players after months
>called forgotten
i want the same "bad customers" kek

>>715054482
first time dealing with blizzard cultists?

>>715045672 (OP)
5-10 matches is enough for you to experience everything the game has to offer

>>715045672 (OP)
I think it's time to admit that the game was never better than OW2, to be honest it was never better than Paladins.

>>715054482
Notice how you only care about numbers and not if the game is actually good or not.

>>715057463
It was and is still better than OW. Scurry back to papa Blizzard's teat, tranny. Maybe they'll see fit to reward you with another generic AI-generated flatty with they/them pronouns.

>>715046058
ow2 right now has 20k players, let's assume 10% use steam, a very realistic number, there is no way it's more than 20% since people have been using battle.net as long as steam, it's probably closer to 5%.
Assuming 10%, then the numbers are 200 000 players + console.

>>715045672 (OP)
>93k
>forgotten
Never played Marvel Slops, never will. Still here to call you a faggot.

>>715057463
Both Paladins and Rivals are better than Overtrash
In pretty much every possible aspect, too
Fucking faggot trannoid

rivalchink try not to say troon in every post challenge = impossible

>>715057847
>>715057542
Zero arguments, just fanboy screaming.

>>715058141
where is your argument

>pander to brown thirdie subhumans
>they can't afford skins
>game flops
wow, who could've seen that coming

>>715058374
OW2 has at least 10 times the player numbers to rivals and paladins is dead. Cry about it.

>>715058556
OW has 5k players tops which is why Qs are 20m long while for Rivals it takes 5s to get a game
You are not getting paid today ramesh

>>715058646
90% of rivals games are bots lol

>>715045672 (OP)
dogshit character balance that no one wants to deal with

>flying characters are untouchable aside from 2 whole characters in the entire cast
>dive characters take literally no aiming skill whatsoever and rape reports for free
>cucky has been S tier for two seasons, he got nerfed slightly for 2.0 then got buffed again for 2.5
>woverline is the #1 tank killer in the game where most tanks have no way of dealing with him and he's just been buffed
>tanks are all mostly dogshit except mags, emma, and strange and no one wants to play them

rivals is a "counter" based game like overwatch supposedly yet has characters in the game that take multiple people and team coordination to "counter". the quickplay matchmaking is also absurdly dogshit - routinely putting metal rank players against Diamond+. and the competitive EOMM shit forcing losing streaks tires people out. this game was lighting in a bottle and of course they fumbled it because they don't actually play their game.

>>715058691
b-but the remaining 10% are real brown people!

Live service sucks and people nowadays have ADHD 5 minute attention spam before moving to something else.

>>715058556
so zero argument
just fanboy screaming
in a thread for a game he doesn't like

>EOMM
>Team game with roles, played almost exclusively by angry retards who refuse to work as a team.
>Homogenized roster. OW characters despite looking like fags all have more meaningful differences and tighter gameplay.
>Chinese mobile gaming company with the microcurrencies to match.
Sad part is I had alot of fun with this game for a while. It was the first fun Marvel thing in a long time for me. Now I can't stand it, only the worst parts remain.

Idk how to explain it but the game feels weird. Feels plastic? I guess feels Chinese works. Don't know why but it looks janky even if it's not technically. You don't get the same vibe from playing Overwatch.

Flyer season killed quickplay
Nobody cares about comp

>>715045672 (OP)
happens to every FOTM game

>game shares space with a blizzard property
>blizzard fanboys descend like locusts to FUD about it
Many such cases.

>>715045672 (OP)
i've said it once and i'll say it again: they left diveniggers overtuned for too long

>>715046352
Hi-Rez is the epitomy of good games/Ideas on its core and execution but terrible skills at retaning people by making shit that literally no one ask for and runing everyone's time.
Paladins was a miracle that kept this long with Smite being their only long retention game.

[VGS] WILL NEVER FUCKING DIE

NA servers are genuine zoomer cancer frfr. If you want to have some semblance of fun try the other ones even if the ping's bad.

>93,000 people playing it at peak times means it's dead
I hate this board and the subhuman 3rd world roaches infesting it

I went to Ow2 stadium, and I'm having more fun and I don't have to play tank every fucking game

>play f2p slop for a couple months
>get bored
>move onto next f2p slop title

as god intended, a million games will be unprofitable in my wake as i consume hundred of hours of free content

>>715045672 (OP)
Infinite treadmill games are always running into that problem. Most people barely have time to keep up with one. Even Neets struggle to do dailies for more than 3 games. And once you fall behind, for many people the spell is broken.

>>715061595
blame blizzard cultists in this case

>>715061595
erm... tim the tat man stopped playing it... so did Ninja... its dead, jim xD

>>715059431
I knl2 exactly what you mean.

>>715059808
Them making vgs gay and getting rid of play of the game and making the stats screen lame ruined it for me. I will never forget the best times spamming VGS
nice job
Nice job
Oops!
Cancel that.

You rock
You rock
Oops
Cancel that
Good game

Attack the point
Attack the point
Enemy spotted
I'll Attack left flank!

Best videogame announcer voice since halo 2

>>715061869
Based

>>715045672 (OP)
Every single multiplayer game does this if there's no money to be made with trading. Literally every single one. The players drop until they hit where it's mostly just the dedicated players left. It's not even like nearly 100k daily is a bad thing.

>>715045672 (OP)
Kill all steam chart trannies

>>715045672 (OP)
>40k
>dead
what

>>715045672 (OP)
A large percentage of fun had from multiplayer games after the shiny new toy effect wears off is fun interactions with other people. Rivals is a marvel competitive hero shooter

>>715045995
>>715047041
Dirty Bomb my beloved. The last time I had fun with an FPS... before the Phantom rework...

>>715045672 (OP)
Delta Force stole the playerbase

>>715068740
lol
rofl
lmao

>>715045672 (OP)
Every single multiplayer and live service game loses players with time, this is their natural cycle

>>715068790
more players than BF or CoD on steam, seethe and dilate tranny

>>715054482
Notice how overwatch has been going for almost 9 years and rivals is irrelevant not even 9 months in?

>>715069096
We weren't talking about call of duty or battlefield. There is barely an overlap in players between marvel rivals and modern military shooters but you don't actually care about that.

>>715069325
malding tranny

>>715069385
You are more mentally ill than the tranny you are imagining in your head

>>715069461
>replies with tranime
the irony...

>>715045672 (OP)
How long do you want people to play the same games?

>>715069561
You're way too desperate, here's your last (You)

>>715045672 (OP)
>40k steady players
>prolly invested enough to keep putting cash down
40k is a success. F2p always peaks in the first month

I stopped playing for a week or so because the current state of the game is shit and i'm waiting for Phoenix/new map. It also has a huge consolefag playerbase, of which i am apart. It never fails to amuse me that this retard keeps posting pictures saying the game has like a 90k peak player count for each day and claims it failed in the same post

>>715045672 (OP)
I really don't get this obsession with wanting it to fail, This is pretty Tendie

>>715070636
It competes with Overwatch. Ergo Blizzardtroons need to try and tear it down.
They do that with every game that has a genre overlap with one of their own.

>>715070964
>40k players (mostly brown)
>competing with anything

>>715071276
but enough about overslop 2
(and you forgot the troons)

>>715045672 (OP)
dogshit maps especially compared to TF2 and OW2

Games are disposable now. Very few games establish a big loyal fan/playerbase. They’re slop mass produced trash they shit out and get hyped by streamers for views and then it’s on to the next new thing. Ever walk by the big bargain bin of DVDs at Walmart and it’s full of movies that were a big deal at the time but they’re all lumped in there together for 1-5 bucks like trash? Everything is disposable now and what’s worse is it’s people too if you aren’t under 25 you aren’t shit