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- @filthy_vegans well must be nice to get in a game. I have not been able for a month now with cross play off and i am in northern canada. When cross play is on not even playable for me as it seems i am nowhere near a server in my region. This is why i like server browser and can pick by region and ping.
@filthy_vegans wrote:
@BFB-Praetorian wrote:
@CyberDymeHow do we know there's 10,000?
I've been struggling to work out how large the player base is with only Steam to go off.
I was about to pick a PS5 copy up for £30, which I think is a fair price for the game.
But if it's tanking even harder than I thought then I'll hold out and see if I can get a bargain.He's making the mistake of assuming that the Steam base is the entire player base. Only EA/DICE know how many PC installs are through Origin and how many players are playing on Playstation and Xbox editions of the game
If we assume that the proportions of Steam players (not absolute numbers) are broadly reflective of the engagement trends across all platforms, then the title of the video and the thread where the numbers are repeated and the thesis - that 2042 has lost over 90% of its playerbase - is false in the most basic way: It gets simple facts wrong. Arguably, the mistake -- taking all-time low player count and suggesting that this is a permanent loss of player-base -- is so egregious that I wonder if it's not deliberate. No one can really be that stupid, can they? I'll let you and everyone else be the judge of that.
Comparing like-for-like, the Steam charts show a net loss of about 64% percent of peak concurrent players over the all-time peak (as of time of writing), which is by no means good, but not the gaming apocalypse implied by the thread and video title. This is because the charts do not show, for instance, length of engagement or unique logins. Take the interpretation of the Steam figures in the video with a large pinch of "that particular 'content creator' is innumerate."
The video is a great example of why no one should get their news from YouTube without checking it. It is disappointing that this claim has since been repeated as "the truth" and has been repeated without even a scintilla of rational thinking, such as, you know, checking the numbers that form the premise of the claims made.
With regard to the matchmaking times, I wonder how much time people consider too long to wait for a match, and at what times. During afternoons and evenings on PC in the UK, the matchmaking takes less than ten seconds for me. There may be issues with the matchmaking on the consoles, however, so I can't speak to that.
You should Really lose that "everything is fine" attitude. I am on the EU Servers aswell. From 18:00 to 22:00 more then 50% of the Matches are starting as bot Matches with around 12-16 Players each Side. Yesterday we had to wait 5 minutes in the "pre-match"-lobby for Players to join. The Game started with 10 vs 12.
The 90% might be wrong, but the Problem is still there. Yet you are trying to deny it, even in a completely different post.
@TickTack121 wrote:You should Really lose that "everything is fine" attitude. I am on the EU Servers aswell. From 18:00 to 22:00 more then 50% of the Matches are starting as bot Matches with around 12-16 Players each Side. Yesterday we had to wait 5 minutes in the "pre-match"-lobby for Players to join. The Game started with 10 vs 12.
The 90% might be wrong, but the Problem is still there. Yet you are trying to deny it, even in a completely different post.
I'll thank you not to tell me what I should or should not do.
I'm not trying to deny that a problem exists; I have only reported the facts of my case. I can't (and didn't) talk about your case.
I have noticed that the matchmaker puts me into Japanese servers when I play with my friend in Beijing if he initiates the party. Perhaps something like that is happening to you and your friends.
I cant wait for them to come back and speak out
@filthy_vegans wrote:
@TickTack121 wrote:You should Really lose that "everything is fine" attitude. I am on the EU Servers aswell. From 18:00 to 22:00 more then 50% of the Matches are starting as bot Matches with around 12-16 Players each Side. Yesterday we had to wait 5 minutes in the "pre-match"-lobby for Players to join. The Game started with 10 vs 12.
The 90% might be wrong, but the Problem is still there. Yet you are trying to deny it, even in a completely different post.
I'll thank you not to tell me what I should or should not do.
I'm not trying to deny that a problem exists; I have only reported the facts of my case. I can't (and didn't) talk about your case.
I have noticed that the matchmaker puts me into Japanese servers when I play with my friend in Beijing if he initiates the party. Perhaps something like that is happening to you and your friends.
No, never happened, except for the Beta. Never had a ping worse than 50ms. So i am always on EU servers.
@TickTack121 wrote:You should Really lose that "everything is fine" attitude. I am on the EU Servers aswell. From 18:00 to 22:00 more then 50% of the Matches are starting as bot Matches with around 12-16 Players each Side. Yesterday we had to wait 5 minutes in the "pre-match"-lobby for Players to join. The Game started with 10 vs 12.
The 90% might be wrong, but the Problem is still there. Yet you are trying to deny it, even in a completely different post.
Since early access 12. November 2021, I had no problem to find a game within 10 seconds and they were 95% without bot.
Only games in late night\early morning (somewhat between 1am to 8am) you will get half full games.
I play on PC, cross play off in EU region (GER).
Some players have much longer loading time because they are using traditional HDD which has an impact on round start.
But still than you wait around 60-90 seconds, I would guess (never stopped it)
So only things that I observe is that some people are impatient on round start and leaving the round which give all a longer delay.
See you on the Battlefield
I can't even get a match to start since nobody is joining the servers. This franchise has been going downhill after bad company 2. Things were looking better with V and 1, but now they just made themselves the cyberpunk of 2021. I hope my favorite franchise of all time will turn it around, but I'm almost completely out of hope for that.
- @CountSero From what i see on here, mostly people in the EU are having no problem getting into a game. But for someone like me who is in northern canada it is impossible with cross play off and with it on can not play very buggy.
- @frekwalda1 that could be, maybe server host in US have some issues with the game.
I preorder it and now wish I could return it till they fix it
