oh dear

[JawaJoose]

A patch and a sale and still cant break 300 players? I think they need to rethink the "multiplayer rogue-like" idea and focus on the single player experience.

[grimmothee]

player count doesnt really matter for an early access game with limited content that can be played solo, the patch was just a ton of bug fixes and a new character, not really a gameplay change or anything. Idk why youre suggesting cutting the multiplayer, scaling could use some work but its not a bad feature or anything

[Lildebbie]

Most definitely overreacting brother bear. It's early access, getting its feet on the ground, and the patch wasn't even anything crazy. you gotta stop dooming.

[JawaJoose]

Nah dog. It cant be marketed as a multiplayer game if there is no multiplayer scene. Need to double down on the single player experience.
Early access is still release. It is your big moment. There is no second burst of sales at v1.0 unless the developer or publisher pays for marketing.

[Oobaneko]

Originally posted by JawaJoose:

Nah dog. It cant be marketed as a multiplayer game if there is no multiplayer scene. Need to double down on the single player experience.
Early access is still release. It is your big moment. There is no second burst of sales at v1.0 unless the developer or publisher pays for marketing.

Nah dog. It can be marketed as a multiplayer game and me, so as a lot of other owners, waits for a drop of some content, not just rebalance.

[ianquiksilver]

I agree with JawaJoose, they should definitely focus on solo play in terms of developing and planning future content, multiplayer is currently broken and crashes half the time.

[⚪Bubblehead⚪]

I'd rather have a complete single player game, then an incomplete multiplayer game

[Von]

Originally posted by JawaJoose:

Nah dog. It cant be marketed as a multiplayer game if there is no multiplayer scene. Need to double down on the single player experience.
Early access is still release. It is your big moment. There is no second burst of sales at v1.0 unless the developer or publisher pays for marketing.

idk why everyone is treating this game like it's some sort of live service game where if the playercount is low they need to abandon the multiplayer and pivot to single player only

at this point the multiplayer (aside from some bugs and stability issues) is basically done from a mechanical standpoint, what motivation do they even have to remove it? especially considering the game can be played entirely single player and multiplayer is in no way mandatory and gates no content

like seriously the ONLY TIME player count actually affects your experience of a game is when it is a game with mandatory multiplayer (especially in PvP games) - unless you really, really wanted to play this game exclusively by joining random lobbies in multiplayer the player count has literally no bearing on your experience

[Dr. Rockso M.D.]

I don't think I ever checked the player counts for Risk of Rain 2, though I'm sure they were decent. The game could have a concurrent player count of 20 and it would be good to go... this isn't a MMO that requires 100 players per session. 4 players is the coop maximum, so all you need is 3 other players at any given time.

I will have to agree that it doesn't feel that this is a forced multi-player game (there are no rewards or bonuses, at least none that I'm aware of). Not sure how item sharing works, but imagine that having to share with others might serve as incentive limitation/balance for larger groups, as I'm not sure there is any difficulty scaling (depending on amount of players).

If you enjoy playing single-player, as I do, just play single-player.

However, after some time played, one might come to the conclusion that the game was designed for mutli-player... as the bosses and health economy in the game is currently quite brutal and unforgiving, even unfair at times (due to glitching, getting stun-locked, randomly appearing enemies that see and engage from a mile away, etc.) Maybe you need a team of 4 to not constantly die and restart a new world several times in one session.

That been said - hopefully the devs are placing more focus on the content, mechanics and bug fixes, rather than the multi-player experience. This game is indeed still in EARLY ACCESS.

[Kay-N]

You speak like a Twitter lad.

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