Is this game dead?

[Sirmattington]

Literally sitting in a lobby for about 10 minutes for it to be populated by bots....wtf, then when I do find some damn players its always the same ones wtf is going on is this dead already!?!

[Ninethousand]

Yeah, and yet people believe we have 20k players!

I have been playing with the same people for the last 10 games again, always a full lobby, but always people i "know"...

Few hours deeper into the night, and the "am i shadowbanned?" threads will start again -_-

[ReaperOne1Two2]

Yeah, something isn't right. I just got this message despite me 100% playing with randoms and repartying after every match. With 20k+ players that shouldn't be remotely possible.

https://i.imgur.com/zDdt8En.png

[Sirmattington]

yeah, earlier today I was getting "no players found" message when searching for a game, god knows whats going on, I read it could be a server error but it would have a server error code. apparently 20k + and this is happening either something is lying to us about player count, or its a bug in the game/server, if its the latter they need to tell us so we can at least be patient :\ otherwise we're all just speculating about ♥♥♥♥.

[2cide]

https://steamcharts.com/app/1607250
no

[JKArtorias]

I've not gotten No players found message after the maintenance at all. I used to get it between 6-10am every day. For some reason only ever at that time.

Maybe its region maybe its shadow ban. ♥♥♥♥ if i know lol

[ReaperOne1Two2]

Originally posted by JKArtorias:

I've not gotten No players found message after the maintenance at all. I used to get it between 6-10am every day. For some reason only ever at that time.

Maybe its region maybe its shadow ban. ♥♥♥♥ if i know lol

It's unlikely to be region related as U.S East is normally highest for most games.

[Grimno]

Zero issues here

[JKArtorias]

Originally posted by ReaperOne1Two2:

Originally posted by JKArtorias:

I've not gotten No players found message after the maintenance at all. I used to get it between 6-10am every day. For some reason only ever at that time.

Maybe its region maybe its shadow ban. ♥♥♥♥ if i know lol

It's unlikely to be region related as U.S East is normally highest for most games.

I'm EST as well. Kinda weird you're having issues.

[Nio]

team bug, try starting without inviting anyone.

[CDI Mario]

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

Yeah, and yet people believe we have 20k players!

I have been playing with the same people for the last 10 games again, always a full lobby, but always people i "know"...

Few hours deeper into the night, and the "am i shadowbanned?" threads will start again -_-

Could it be the same people all died and left the game at the same time then requeued at the same time?

[Ichikawa Hikaru]

it could be the "region" you're in, im playing in JP Region, i did hear that EU Region is dead

[^_^]

I think this might be some kind of shadow ban que system tbh. It's hard to tell, but they're are talks and theories that you can get put into a loser que. I had similar issues even ranked which made the game easy same with ranked matches. It seemed to have fixed itself after awhile though regardless of when I played. The theory is that there's a punishment for clicking on results until you are spectating another team because you're quitting before your team is dead.

I can't confirm the validity of all this because even my anecdotal evidence isn't sound. Something to be mindful though cause I don't see why I would have the issue early on and then not so much later when the player numbers don't have a significant change.

[Senichiro]

i think soon cause of lag of content every 2 month

[Ninethousand]

We are at 8k players right now. New low if you don't count the time where the servers were offline!

I highly doubt that many people will ever see the next content patch...

[Onetel2]

Until last week, people were calling this a "shadow ban".

However, everyone playing this game experienced instant queues after the maintence with buffs and nerfs last week.

Shortly after, we had another maintence for a bugfix.

Even on release, the game allowed for instant queues as well.

But every few days, 90% of steam discussion talk about long queue times. I think it's just a matter of how long the server has been running. No other way to see it.