So many bots today
I have 262 hours in this game and I can't even recall seeing a single bot. Today I've seen them filling up the matches I are in, there's like 10-15 of them. It makes the game really uneven for some...
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@Ice_ according to Steam stats player numbers have dropped considerably again. They reached a peak due to favorable circumstances (launch of season + free play + Gamepass + etc) and now we're back to steady-state conditions and seemingly people are not sticking around for some reason or another.
@TheseusJason Just a couple thousand less than the last week or so. I'm guessing the patch in Dec announcement didn't really instill hope.
- @SnubbyFighter I don't know...
Social media is not representative of society—Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram are full of neurotic individuals. By (almost) the same token, only the faithful post here on this '2042' community forum. I don't think we represent the casual players: I doubt they would go to search for and then read the game's patch notes...
The casual player, IMO, picked up a copy of '2042' to try it out and then somehow got disappointed and dropped it.
(I bought 'God of War' due to the hype and hardly play it anymore as something did not quite click, and somewhere there will be a forum of individuals dedicated to it.)I'm trying to hop into games (conquest 128) and we are literally like 2-5 people, two games in a row. There has to be some issue with the server cluster and it's not offloading players to already started games to fill them up.
I got a full game on third try with crossplay on :S
- @TheseusJason I can pretty much tell exactly what happened. Season 6 kicked off with the free to play week and sale which skyrocketed the game's exposure because suddenly people realized the game is actually fun and has been vastly improved since the disaster it launched as. People were talking about it and telling their friends, getting into the game together, etc. The theme of season 6 is also broadly appealing and interesting, the cosmetics are cool, the new map is cool, to the point that the whole game just became a Redacted simulator for myself and many others if I'm being honest. Redacted is the best thing that has come out for this game in years.
Then what happened? .... they removed Redacted for an entire week+. I'd assume they have some kind of metrics somewhere telling them what is and isn't popular in their game, but instead of listening to that and giving players more of what they wanted in this massive spike of activity, they continued to do the same stuff that people have been complaining about for years. Instead of DICE taking advantage of this MIRACULOUS opportunity that was handed to them, they fumbled it, as always. That was the disappointment.
So now we're halved on player count from 100k down to ~sub 40k peaks on some days, which is still dramatically higher than the previous peaks, but the downward trend continues without letting up.
