Well it's officially happened

[BIG D' williamson from mBHS]

For the first time since this game's launch I cannot find a match in standard, non-ranked. It's been a good run despite no updates for 4 years. No matter how dead this game is I always come back to it when I'm bored. Really sad that it's finally come to this.

You know this game had more peak players than Deadlock ever did and probably ever will. Maybe if they actually continued active development they could have held a little community of 10,000 - 30,000 players which is more than enough to be a financial success.

I'm sad.

[STDMN]

Agree This Game has The Huge potential

[VerdiusArcana (Castaway.tf)]

Valve has a history of abandoning games (TF2 anyone?) that always have potentional in favour of a few projects.

TF2 could easily get a 100k daily CONSISTENT (aka not influenced by bot numbers) player count IF the heavy update came out right now.

But it won't, because Valve is lazy as ♥♥♥♥. The very definition of "Excuses"
and honestly they are extremly out of touch with what players actually want from them.

The Valve of today is a extremly mid game developer helped only by the fact they are not beholden to insane shareholders demanding constant DEI crap and other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (but even that has been leaking in on their own will, Deadlock looks like pure crap) and it's clear that the company is bleeding talent while the talented ones that defines genres are content (Robin Walker) to sit on their fat arses getting a salary for doing barely anything.

Content mostly in their revenue from Steam.

Seems like no matter what, public or non public, corporations end up corrupt and a shadow of their former selves because complacency sets in.

And don't hit at me with the "rolling desktop culture" crap excuse, Gaben can (and has in the past) put his foot down and proven just how much that carefree attitude matters when ♥♥♥♥ is on the line and he wants something done.

[STDMN]

Originally posted by VerdiusArcana:

Valve has a history of abandoning games (TF2 anyone?) that always have potentional in favour of a few projects.

TF2 could easily get a 100k daily CONSISTENT (aka not influenced by bot numbers) player count IF the heavy update came out right now.

But it won't, because Valve is lazy as ♥♥♥♥. The very definition of "Excuses"
and honestly they are extremly out of touch with what players actually want from them.

The Valve of today is a extremly mid game developer helped only by the fact they are not beholden to insane shareholders demanding constant DEI crap and other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (but even that has been leaking in on their own will, Deadlock looks like pure crap) and it's clear that the company is bleeding talent while the talented ones that defines genres are content (Robin Walker) to sit on their fat arses getting a salary for doing barely anything.

Content mostly in their revenue from Steam.

Seems like no matter what, public or non public, corporations end up corrupt and a shadow of their former selves because complacency sets in.

And don't hit at me with the "rolling desktop culture" crap excuse, Gaben can (and has in the past) put his foot down and proven just how much that carefree attitude matters when ♥♥♥♥ is on the line and he wants something done.

Absolutely True

[Worldspawn]

Game finally got an update on 29 of October for iOS, maybe we will get Steam update soon as well...

[BIG D' williamson from mBHS]

Originally posted by кошка лижет лапу:

Game finally got an update on 29 of October for iOS, maybe we will get Steam update soon as well...

They update the game every year so that it still functions on android & iOS. There was a brief period a couple years ago where it didn't work on phones and they fixed it after 2 days. Ever since they've been really on top of it.

Which means that they are aware of the game and want it to stay accessible, yet they have no plans to actually do anything with it.

[CondorDrake]

Just take it as an introduction to auto battlers and go play TFT - 100.000s of players per region, free and in season 13 now. This will never come back.

[Chernobyl]

Originally posted by CondorDrake:

Just take it as an introduction to auto battlers and go play TFT - 100.000s of players per region, free and in season 13 now. This will never come back.

Yeah TFT is a suitable replacement but there is some people that actually loves Dota more than LOL so the characters and abilities is what we miss .

[BIG D' williamson from mBHS]

Originally posted by CondorDrake:

Just take it as an introduction to auto battlers and go play TFT - 100.000s of players per region, free and in season 13 now. This will never come back.

I've tried it. It's not good. The only people who play it are people who are too dumb to play video games outside of Riot's client.

The carousal, the spatula, the lack of interesting alliances are all terrible. The hex grid and the reintroduction of creeps also makes the game just interesting to position or even play.

[onwhAt]

tft is boring and slow. I hate so many of its mechanics.