Why is this game dying? (an honest discussion)

[Adûnâi]

Apparently, both Reddit and Discord are moderated to hell, so nobody dares to speak up about the state of the game. But according to SteamCharts, January 2022 has been the worst month for this game of all time.
https://steamcharts.com/app/1049590

What could be the reason for the people leaving the game? I have found three different reviews, but I'd like to hear more thoughts.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/subdog/recommended/1049590/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/kuroowns/recommended/1049590/
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198210884175/recommended/1049590/

[Swordz]

It has tons of things that are not apparent until you either play a lot, or have a sudden flash of brilliance in which you suddenly understand how to improve your build routine.

Players not understanding the impact of weapon levels, players not replacing their core set for appropriate golden items, newbs getting 2-shot by a dude with 3 goldens, how turning on additional info revolutionizes your game, quick casting off by default, a constant barrage of new characters so there is always one who hard-counters yoursm which does look like a bit too much in a FFA game

I love this game and i love the sense of improvement i get when learning something new, but even after a few hundred hours i do feel like i miss something important about it.

PS: Also, new build planner sucks, it is the first thing that made me want to drop the game

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[Lizzy]

It's easy. The new player experience is just garbage. Aside from that crafting system and routing etc. It's not fun for new players to get continously for hours on end stomped due to bad matchmaking also the que times can be bonkers sometimes which doesn't help at all.

[YourFreeUseHairbrush]

Aside from whats already mentioned. This game also has absolutely ♥♥♥♥ designed ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ characters. Two and a half of Williams ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buttons are out of his ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ control for the sake of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ complexity. And if his e lands in a bad spot he just doesn't have a passive. William's entire game plan is landing his w, hence the first letter of his name. If he lands this he has a chance to fight and probably get a kill. If he misses then for the next THIRTEEN SECONDS William prays he stat check them and scares them and doesn't get teamed on. So what's nimble neurons answer to buffing william and his extremely inconsistent "one shot" combo thats entirely reliant on hitting his W (3+ hits is not a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ one shot combo btw)? buffing the out of his ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ control stat check button q. It couldn't be making his w have different variations (based on charge or number of w presses or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anything) because thats what ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pitchers actually do. Oh and he's probably now THE ONLY CHARACTER IN THE GAME that is screwed over by the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ammo system for the sake of complexity. And to make sure this character sucks extra ♥♥♥♥ his ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ routes are ass for a slow character. I know this has been said before just by sifting through the replies but I just want to reiterate that the balance team for this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks nuts.

[@R+5]

i want to give the game a shot, but im unable to start the game: a screen asks me to change my username because i was inactive too long, but im unable to close it to search where to update it or do anything. is it a bug?

[Jake]

New player here and my thoughts on why it is dying. Try hard elders who shoot noobs on site, the best matches I've had was with people who did not have fancy portraits. But the real issue is queues. Currently waiting five minutes for a five minute game is boring.

[icantsee]

most player are asia so na/eu is pretty dead with long ass queue and hard to learn for new player since the tutorial is trash.

[Jake]

İlk olarak icantsee tarafından gönderildi:

most player are asia so na/eu is pretty dead with long ass queue and hard to learn for new player since the tutorial is trash.

Also I've seen some suspicious people doing tons of damage. I recreate the build in practice and it doesn't even come close.

[Noel Ardiens]

Everything that's been mentioned in this one thread is definitely true--As someone who's tried this from all the way back in Season 1 where there even weren't fancy skins-And I was one of those who did buy one of the first two skins. Highly regretted it, regretted even more to come back to see how the game was faring... And it's heading down the same path as League, which is to say a lot.

I've been matched with people who have the Immortal HONORARY Border, so when I see those people, I know it's a loss. I don't even want to try by then and most people I keep finding reach full build in 2 minutes. It's infuriating. (Note: EU Player. Every match is a 15-Man Match and most of the new characters are so oppressive, you can't play the old ones you've mastered a couple years ago as they're fully overwhelmed by the new blood's absurd potency. Very funny.)

[pion]

because devs want to cater to LoL audience so they are committed to buff/nerf every week when they dont have enough playerbase to make a good statistic to base the balance on

[icantsee]

the balancing is so bad. range class are busted and doesnt get nerf but melee kept getting nerf to hell.

[Nine]

No advertising, terrible balance, predatory business practices, terrible new player experience. It's no wonder this game failed. And i'm upset about it because I wanted this game to do well. i had so much fun in the alpha tests but like something went wrong, the company refused to advertise the game and they started becoming scummy as well and implementing predatory business practices like using FOMO to try and sell overpriced 100 dollar bundles.

[Adûnâi]

İlk olarak Nine tarafından gönderildi:

as well and implementing predatory business practices like using FOMO to try and sell overpriced 100 dollar bundles.

FOMO = fear of missing out? There have been 3 (three) exclusive skins so far, in a year. Daniel, Nicky, and now Jackie. Meanwhile, they are giving out NP like candy, I have spent like 20 EUR and have every hero and around 20 or 30 skins (which I don't use lol).

İlk olarak Nine tarafından gönderildi:

the company refused to advertise the game

This is by far not the reason, because they have exactly done advertisement. The issue is not in gaining players, it's in keeping them.
https://steamcharts.com/app/1049590

LoL and Dota2 have terrible new player experience, too. But they are team games. And I've become so jaded as to call it out as the reason they are popular - normies cannot deal with their own reflection.

Still, I will play ER because it's the only such game on this entire cursed planet - a competitive solo RTS battle royale.

[PoorMan Nate]

İlk olarak Adûnâi tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Nine tarafından gönderildi:

as well and implementing predatory business practices like using FOMO to try and sell overpriced 100 dollar bundles.

FOMO = fear of missing out? There have been 3 (three) exclusive skins so far, in a year. Daniel, Nicky, and now Jackie. Meanwhile, they are giving out NP like candy, I have spent like 20 EUR and have every hero and around 20 or 30 skins (which I don't use lol).

İlk olarak Nine tarafından gönderildi:

the company refused to advertise the game

This is by far not the reason, because they have exactly done advertisement. The issue is not in gaining players, it's in keeping them.
https://steamcharts.com/app/1049590

LoL and Dota2 have terrible new player experience, too. But they are team games. And I've become so jaded as to call it out as the reason they are popular - normies cannot deal with their own reflection.

Still, I will play ER because it's the only such game on this entire cursed planet - a competitive solo RTS battle royale.

you are in so much cope and denial

[@PEPSIKrus.天照]

İlk olarak Adûnâi tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Nine tarafından gönderildi:

as well and implementing predatory business practices like using FOMO to try and sell overpriced 100 dollar bundles.

FOMO = fear of missing out? There have been 3 (three) exclusive skins so far, in a year. Daniel, Nicky, and now Jackie. Meanwhile, they are giving out NP like candy, I have spent like 20 EUR and have every hero and around 20 or 30 skins (which I don't use lol).

I've been playing since the release and in total got about 20k NP for free. And that's just the blue ones, there will be more if I add the green ones.