No more players?

[Gugarag]

I can’t find an opponent, is it time to uninstall? Nobody plays this game anymore?

[Hendricus]

Originally posted by Eyesight:

The top 100 season is also really bad , i don't think team are suppose to sustain the attrition to do 50 to 80 matchs just to get top100.

Does it become better as a part of the playerbase starts their own Leagues ?

[sixty4half]

I think the BB2 2020 numbers are a good indication of how many people will continue to play blood bowl long term. Bb3's current numbers are quite a bit removed from that. Looks to be about 40% with just estimation.

I also see another chunk if the playerbase is still playing BB2. It is an assumption, although not a stretch, to think several of them will port over when league tools come. Those that are left will slowly trickle over here as games get harder and harder to find on BB2.

Also, and this is from personal experience, there are quite a few players like me who jumped the Steam Ship. I played BB2 on steam but play BB3 on PS5 (sony killed the PSForum so there is nowhere for us to go to discuss things, sorry you're stuck with me). I made the jump because of cross platform. I would imagine there is a non-insignificant amount of people that did the same. XBox seems to be struggling based on their number of top 100 players compared to Steam and PS4/5.


I believe that once cross platform and league tools arrive you will see the number stabilize aroun 400-600 across all platforms.

Originally posted by Hendricus:

Does it become better as a part of the playerbase starts their own Leagues ?

I dont see league tools making it worse. In fact it probably will make it slightly better.

In a league you're only playing 1 game a week per league on average. Most of the guys in my current league also play ladder because 1-2 games a week just doesnt scratch the itch enough. Obviously some people play in leagues because they only want to play 1 game a week.

So no it wont be a tidal wave of incoming players, more like a trickle. Enough to keep the game alive along as Cyanide was looking at the 2016-2021 numbers and keeping expectations realistic.

[HashSlingingSlasher]

The game is toast, unless you like playing the same few people over and over again. The game tops out at 250 a day, that is beyond a dead game. Lucky there's the "smart" AI you can play against.

[VoodooMike]

Originally posted by Hendricus:

Are those admin tools eating away a part of the playerbase for their top 100 Season perhaps. Keeping all players in the same Divisions they set up can do without other Leagues.

Given that they do not exist yet, I'd say the answer is certainly "no". A large portion of people who are primarily interested in private leagues simply don't play BB3 at all - they remain in their BB2 leagues.

Originally posted by sixty4half:

In a league you're only playing 1 game a week per league on average. Most of the guys in my current league also play ladder because 1-2 games a week just doesnt scratch the itch enough. Obviously some people play in leagues because they only want to play 1 game a week.

Those are scheduled leagues, like tabletop, and that's not the only type of league that exists in online BB. There are plenty of private ladder leagues where you don't need to schedule games ahead of time, or which play on a faster schedule than once per week.

[Alex]

I don't really ever play against strangers => I keep to playing against AI or friends only

[Torquemadada]

It takes less than 2mn to find a match, stop trolling.

[Yarrick]

Until the admin tools are added and you can reset a game people will continue to play BB2. It pretty much ruins your league when the system crashes and you cannot reset a match and have to keep a result, because if you reset the whole league it wipes all the other games at the moment.

So until this is fixed which is the major problem you will not see an increase in players.
Another factor is teams as they slowly release them you will get more interest, however the first one if they implemented that from the get go you would have definitely increased the numbers.

[mrsir]

Originally posted by Rotor:

It takes less than 2mn to find a match, stop trolling.

Actually it depends when you want to play. Off peak times it can take 20-40 mins to find a match. It also depends on which bracket you are on the team ladder and your TV.

[Cybot]

I would love to buy this game but...

1: The launch was a disaster
2: The microtransaction felt like i'm being scammed
3: Less customization and features than the previous game blood bowl 2

So I can't get myself to buy it until those are fixed.

[mrsir]

Originally posted by Sylph:

Just buy the game and enjoy what it does offer. BB2 is dead. They are slowly improving things

BB3 is every bit as dead as BB2 right now unless you only play peak times. My advice right now is simply do not purchase the game unless you have money to waste.

[Torquemadada]

Just spend your 18 bucks ! The game is fun and pretty hard to learn. You'll get many hours of outraging gameplay.

[Yarrick]

Originally posted by mrsir:

Originally posted by Sylph:

Just buy the game and enjoy what it does offer. BB2 is dead. They are slowly improving things

BB3 is every bit as dead as BB2 right now unless you only play peak times. My advice right now is simply do not purchase the game unless you have money to waste.

BB2 if anything is more popular right now because of the private leagues.

I Have just started up our league again because BB3 does not have the tools to run what we run on our league. We have 32 coaches tjis season and we are starting 15 Jan 2024 as right now we are doing race draft, so looking forward to starting.

[Medic!]

Originally posted by Yarrick:

Originally posted by mrsir:

BB3 is every bit as dead as BB2 right now unless you only play peak times. My advice right now is simply do not purchase the game unless you have money to waste.

BB2 if anything is more popular right now because of the private leagues.

I Have just started up our league again because BB3 does not have the tools to run what we run on our league. We have 32 coaches tjis season and we are starting 15 Jan 2024 as right now we are doing race draft, so looking forward to starting.

It's just absurd that BB3 is being left to wither on the vine simply because they cannot, for whatever reason, give us the same tools as it existed on BB2.

[Yarrick]

Yeah its a shame they are working on it. and its nice for the new ruleset, the issue is also not just the admin tools but races as well 3 months to wait for a race is too long should be at least every 1 or 2 months

[turnopia]

I stopped playing Blood Bowl 3 before Christmas and I'm glad I did. Currently only the official ladder has an interesting format, but being infinite bowl you have to dedicate a lot of time almost every day to be really competitive.

I would play again if the number of games per team were limited, right now if you only have time to play a few games a week it is absurd to try it...