What happened to player count?

[davidj123456]

February game had 900'000 players online at once. Now it has 30'000. This is still an amazing and insane number for an SP game, but why has it fallen by 30x?

[brimstone]

cause people played through it and now they're done with it? this isn't an mmo that people play for years

[Twisty]

As brimstone said.
Most people got what they wanted out of the game. Myself included.
It isn't a live service game with new events every week so there isn't much to do unless you PvP or do theme builds, or play with mods

[davidj123456]

Publicado originalmente por Twistybanana:

As brimstone said.
Most people got what they wanted out of the game. Myself included.
It isn't a live service game with new events every week so there isn't much to do unless you PvP or do theme builds, or play with mods

I hope the DLC brings back a bunch of players. Would be amazing to see 250'000 when DLC hits.
I also feel rather stupid for not playing the game back in February. I started in September when there were an abundance of guides and tutorials. Easily took 25 hours off of my playthrough and I regret it.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Weird topic breh.

People get bored of the games they play and move on to newer ones. It's really that simple.

[GermanyMan]

Publicado originalmente por Twistybanana:

As brimstone said.

It isn't a live service game with new events every week

And i am totally glad that it isnt such a game!
A game should be exactly this, a video game that you finish one day.
Not a game that you NEED to keep playing because the Devs make you FOMO.

Still, i play it when i need some "Whack your butt" therapy. Same with the other Soulsgames, there will come a point where you will return. Every. Now. And. Then.

[Somnia]

Publicado originalmente por davidj123456:

February game had 900'000 players online at once. Now it has 30'000. This is still an amazing and insane number for an SP game, but why has it fallen by 30x?

why would we only play elden ring all the time?

[TheDude1972]

Also a lot are waiting for the DLC to come out (having finished it multiple times)

[Wicked Sick]

Publicado originalmente por davidj123456:

February game had 900'000 players online at once. Now it has 30'000. This is still an amazing and insane number for an SP game, but why has it fallen by 30x?

Because the reality is hitting people little by little that Elden ring didn't live up to the hype and that the devs are deaf to the community pleas.

[Sirius]

Publicado originalmente por Juliano:

Because the reality is hitting people

Seems like you are really good at not getting hit.

[Wicked Sick]

Publicado originalmente por |x|SiriuS|x|:

Publicado originalmente por Juliano:

Because the reality is hitting people

Seems like you are really good at not getting hit.

It's a natural gift.

[GoreTiger]

There isn't much endgame content beyond just wanting to try a new build. Most of the endings are very short and don't really warrent replaying through the game for. Most of those 900k people are likely those who bought the game off of hype. They beat it once and shelved it. The number you see now are mostly the actual dedicated souls players who love the game.

[Ashbringer]

This game is pretty meh even with mods its not very easy to stomach more than one play through trust me I tried and I don't particularly like this game.

[vamirez]

I played it through two times in a row, and it is the only Souls game where I've done this immediately back to back. It is that good, trust me (a little friendly jab at #12 ;)). Anyway, what I want to say is - even so I've been currently done with it for quite some time. It is as simple as the other posters have pointed out.

[Sonnenbank]

Finsihed the game with 5 different chars
did everything i wanted to do

Last played 24.08.2022

[Scuzz]

Publicado originalmente por davidj123456:

February game had 900'000 players online at once. Now it has 30'000. This is still an amazing and insane number for an SP game, but why has it fallen by 30x?

The DLC will bring most of them back for as long as it takes to play thru.

30k is still a pretty good number.