Fire Team Elite Dark Shadow

[CptnSpandex]

I can see from the numbers already that people are sceptical as hell on dipping their toe in with this one, shame really that a completely different game can destroy another.

[StoriesBonesTell]

lol imagine being a numbers andy for a single player game

[CptnSpandex]

Originally posted by StoriesBonesTell:

lol imagine being a numbers andy for a single player game

Numbers say everything in every aspect, imagine not knowing that.

[MOK]

I sincerely doubt that fireteam elite is affecting this title in any meaningful way. Different studio, different genre, different gameplay. The problems that tanked F:E don't relate here. If you perceive something that's affecting uptake or retention, I double-promise it's got nothing to do with what f'd up the F:E rollout. Few people even know that title exists.

Weird post, man.

[CptnSpandex]

Originally posted by MOK:

I sincerely doubt that fireteam elite is affecting this title in any meaningful way. Different studio, different genre, different gameplay. The problems that tanked F:E don't relate here. If you perceive something that's affecting uptake or retention, I double-promise it's got nothing to do with what f'd up the F:E rollout. Few people even know that title exists.

Weird post, man.

Every Aliens fan gamer would know that fireteam elite exists and was a total bag of poop, which as you can see by the numbers here clearly have taken a toll, different studio, different genre but people will still see the last massive Aliens fail, clearly if you cannot see that you must have something wrong with you.

[goka9696]

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

Originally posted by MOK:

I sincerely doubt that fireteam elite is affecting this title in any meaningful way. Different studio, different genre, different gameplay. The problems that tanked F:E don't relate here. If you perceive something that's affecting uptake or retention, I double-promise it's got nothing to do with what f'd up the F:E rollout. Few people even know that title exists.

Weird post, man.

Every Aliens fan gamer would know that fireteam elite exists and was a total bag of poop, which as you can see by the numbers here clearly have taken a toll, different studio, different genre but people will still see the last massive Aliens fail, clearly if you cannot see that you must have something wrong with you.

Fireteam Elite was perfectly fine.

[MOK]

THERE ARE TENS OF US. We demand to be taken seriously.gif

[CptnSpandex]

Originally posted by goka9696:

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

Every Aliens fan gamer would know that fireteam elite exists and was a total bag of poop, which as you can see by the numbers here clearly have taken a toll, different studio, different genre but people will still see the last massive Aliens fail, clearly if you cannot see that you must have something wrong with you.

Fireteam Elite was perfectly fine.

334 in game right now, now try fanboy me some more.

[Eightball]

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

Originally posted by goka9696:

Fireteam Elite was perfectly fine.

334 in game right now, now try fanboy me some more.

It's 2 years old. Personally I can't stomach any game for longer than a month, no matter how well I rate it. Fireteam elite wasn't a bad game by any stretch at all. You only need 4 players to enjoy a match so 334 seems fine to me. Also if you are going by steam charts, thats a massive failure of your logic right there, most people play it for free on the microsoft game pass, which most players will obviously use the free copy on there rather than pay full price.

[MOK]

Originally posted by goka9696:

Fireteam Elite was perfectly fine.

Not PERFECTLY fine, but a good game, great atmosphere, and shooting bugs was reliably fun. Matchmaking was a disaster on release, and a long, long stretch before it was fixed, with little genuine interaction or acknowledgement from the devs. Too few modes, and the maps were too static, and the difficulty levels weren't well conceived.
Not perfectly fine, but a fun game, great vibe.

[CptnSpandex]

Originally posted by Eightball:

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

334 in game right now, now try fanboy me some more.

It's 2 years old. Personally I can't stomach any game for longer than a month, no matter how well I rate it. Fireteam elite wasn't a bad game by any stretch at all.

A good game keeps a player base no matter how old it is, a bad game gets no new players to it because it is a well known bag of crap to avoid, and unfortunately with a game like this even though it is completely different it still carries the Alien name and has to deal with the misfortunes of the previous Alien instalment.

Same goes for say superman on the n64, not one developer will go anywhere near it because it will no matter what get put against it, dev's have pitched and tried but got destroyed because of the way people look at previous instalments carrying the same name, look it up.

[MOK]

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

Originally posted by goka9696:

Fireteam Elite was perfectly fine.

334 in game right now, now try fanboy me some more.

See, this was my point. The problem that tanked F:E's player count was it's busted matchmaking problems on rollout. Few video game bugs can tank an active userbase immediately like matchmaking problems can. All it's other merits - of which there were many - just don't matter if you can't get matches in a multiplayer-only game. And unlike F:E, this game doesn't live and die on how many are currently online either.

So, again, weird post my dude.

[CptnSpandex]

Originally posted by MOK:

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

334 in game right now, now try fanboy me some more.

See, this was my point. The problem that tanked F:E's player count was it's busted matchmaking problems on rollout. Few video game bugs can tank an active userbase immediately like matchmaking problems can. All it's other merits - of which there were many - just don't matter if you can't get matches in a multiplayer-only game. And unlike F:E, this game doesn't live and die on how many are currently online either.

So, again, weird post my dude.

Weird post maybe but it is basic business and marketing mate, if you went into a mc donalds say and had a horrible experience, even if a seperate mc donalds sold completely different burgers and were fantastic you would not go in because of your previous experience associated with the name, so easy to understand and i guarantee you the dev's of this game were fully aware of what i am saying right now, it does make real sense and is undeniably a factor.
I will buy this because it is alien however, but the once bitten twice shy factor does take its toll.

[Eightball]

Originally posted by MOK:

Originally posted by goka9696:

Fireteam Elite was perfectly fine.

Not PERFECTLY fine, but a good game, great atmosphere, and shooting bugs was reliably fun. Matchmaking was a disaster on release, and a long, long stretch before it was fixed, with little genuine interaction or acknowledgement from the devs. Too few modes, and the maps were too static, and the difficulty levels weren't well conceived.
Not perfectly fine, but a fun game, great vibe.

lmao. Perfectly fine. Not perfectly good, or perfectly amazing. Just sits, nice and comfortably, perfectly at the fine level.

Originally posted by MOK:

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

334 in game right now, now try fanboy me some more.

See, this was my point. The problem that tanked F:E's player count was it's busted matchmaking problems on rollout. Few video game bugs can tank an active userbase immediately like matchmaking problems can. All it's other merits - of which there were many - just don't matter if you can't get matches in a multiplayer-only game. And unlike F:E, this game doesn't live and die on how many are currently online either.

So, again, weird post my dude.

You are all being weird if you are going off steam charts. As I said before, most people play it for free on the microsoft game pass, why would we buy it on steam also? Ofc the steam numbers are gonna be low when you can play it for free on a subscription that almost everyone I know has.

[Zeke & Sil]

Don't feed the troll. Block and let him enjoy the sound of his own voice alone.

[DarkPoolz]

Aliens Fireteam Elite is a fun game for what it is. The problem is developers couldn't keep up wih the content updates. The crossplay came way too late. It is was one of the games I actually had to use Xbox LFG in the beginning. Releasing a multi-player game based on a license can be hard if developers/publishers don't have everything in order like a road map of new content agreed by license holders. As a licensed game of a popular franchise like Aliens, I doubt you get mod support like what still makes L4D amazing. The playerbase of Fireteam Team is starved for content. I know since I still have the game installed for if they ever drop new content.

For Dark Descent, the playerbase is even more irrelevent since it is a very focus single player experience. I just bought Warcraft 3 campaign again just yesterday to experience the great story like a decade ago. Good single player games are eternal and insulated from decling playerbases. Just hope these developers put in a lot of bug fixes, QoL improvements, and DLC before calling it quits.