What happened to the playerbase?

[Neo Black]

I left the game for two months and player base dropped to 300 at best? Where are all people?? I know Streat Fighter 6 is came out but please don't use that as an excuse.
I hope people will not abandon it...

[AN EVIL WITCH NEED TREATS TOO]

Idol Showdown is what we call a "discord game", its not abandoned per se, the player base is just centralised into one or two communities. 300 at best is actually amazing for a game of this size, look poor DnF. Millions more dollars in funding and they scrape by at barely 19 players daily.

Idol Showdown is gonna live on for at least one more month.

Edit: I just checked the data and compared IS to several other games and IS is actually in the big girls league, with player numbers alongside Skullgirls, Granblue, UNI, Guilty Gear XRD 2, etc. That is incredibly impressive. This game is very not dead.

[Harley]

The game was hyped because it was a free fighting game. People played it and realized it's based off idols and not many people fit into the idol AND anime fighting game niche. It's surprising the game even has 300 people playing. Game is good but, aesthetics are for weebs and no serious fighting game player will take this game seriously.

[Neo Black]

Originally posted by CHAINKUNAI ELF♥♥♥♥♥ (PISS)(ING):

Idol Showdown is what we call a "discord game", its not abandoned per se, the player base is just centralised into one or two communities. 300 at best is actually amazing for a game of this size, look poor DnF. Millions more dollars in funding and they scrape by at barely 19 players daily.

Idol Showdown is gonna live on for at least one more month.

Edit: I just checked the data and compared IS to several other games and IS is actually in the big girls league, with player numbers alongside Skullgirls, Granblue, UNI, Guilty Gear XRD 2, etc. That is incredibly impressive. This game is very not dead.

Speaking of Discord, do you know any server? Because I searched here and on Discord but found nothing. I even thought about creating one by myself because honestly it's such a shame, especially if it's amazing as you say compared to other game.
I wanna help players to find each others so, yeah I did it: made a Group on Steam and a Server on DIscord just in case really didn't exist before (probably just me who missed them).

[Neo Black]

Originally posted by Harley:

The game was hyped because it was a free fighting game. People played it and realized it's based off idols and not many people fit into the idol AND anime fighting game niche. It's surprising the game even has 300 people playing. Game is good but, aesthetics are for weebs and no serious fighting game player will take this game seriously.

Yeah, was one of them, knew nothing about Hololive, always wanted to watch a stream but never felt in the mood to spend 6h to watch somebody I don't even know. Then this game came out, started to watch some clips, eventually got into it. Still like the game for what it is, mind you, good fighting game.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Neo Black:

I left the game for two months and player base dropped to 300 at best? Where are all people?? I know Streat Fighter 6 is came out but please don't use that as an excuse.
I hope people will not abandon it...

fighting games that are not in the biggest of franchises generally dont keep much of a playerbase once their newness wears off.

[卡玛丘诺]

GAME SUCKS

[Neo Black]

Originally posted by Kamachuno:

GAME SUCKS

Your opinion
I wonder what culture you must have to think that THIS sucks.

[AN EVIL WITCH NEED TREATS TOO]

Originally posted by Neo Black:

Originally posted by CHAINKUNAI ELF♥♥♥♥♥ (PISS)(ING):

Idol Showdown is what we call a "discord game", its not abandoned per se, the player base is just centralised into one or two communities. 300 at best is actually amazing for a game of this size, look poor DnF. Millions more dollars in funding and they scrape by at barely 19 players daily.

Idol Showdown is gonna live on for at least one more month.

Edit: I just checked the data and compared IS to several other games and IS is actually in the big girls league, with player numbers alongside Skullgirls, Granblue, UNI, Guilty Gear XRD 2, etc. That is incredibly impressive. This game is very not dead.

Speaking of Discord, do you know any server? Because I searched here and on Discord but found nothing. I even thought about creating one by myself because honestly it's such a shame, especially if it's amazing as you say compared to other game.
I wanna help players to find each others so, yeah I did it: made a Group on Steam and a Server on DIscord just in case really didn't exist before (probably just me who missed them).

japanese server:
https://discord
gg/t8XZjmSwAt

worldwide server:
https://discord
gg/SvjkJQwE

[Neo Black]

Originally posted by CHAINKUNAI ELF♥♥♥♥♥ (PISS)(ING):

Originally posted by Neo Black:

Speaking of Discord, do you know any server? Because I searched here and on Discord but found nothing. I even thought about creating one by myself because honestly it's such a shame, especially if it's amazing as you say compared to other game.
I wanna help players to find each others so, yeah I did it: made a Group on Steam and a Server on DIscord just in case really didn't exist before (probably just me who missed them).

japanese server:
https://discord
gg/t8XZjmSwAt

worldwide server:
https://discord
gg/SvjkJQwE

Thank you

[Neo Black]

Originally posted by CHAINKUNAI ELF♥♥♥♥♥ (PISS)(ING):

Originally posted by Neo Black:

Speaking of Discord, do you know any server? Because I searched here and on Discord but found nothing. I even thought about creating one by myself because honestly it's such a shame, especially if it's amazing as you say compared to other game.
I wanna help players to find each others so, yeah I did it: made a Group on Steam and a Server on DIscord just in case really didn't exist before (probably just me who missed them).

japanese server:
https://discord
gg/t8XZjmSwAt

worldwide server:
https://discord
gg/SvjkJQwE

uhm....can't find them lol

[pseudo]

Originally posted by Harley:

The game was hyped because it was a free fighting game. People played it and realized it's based off idols and not many people fit into the idol AND anime fighting game niche. It's surprising the game even has 300 people playing. Game is good but, aesthetics are for weebs and no serious fighting game player will take this game seriously.

People will play anything as long as it's fun, I really doubt this is the reason.

What is more likely is the buggy state of the netcode after pekora came out drove people off (lobbies crashing, sound disappearing after some matches, etc.) That and this game doesn't really feel like a highly balanced "take it seriously" title so people probably returned to their main game after playing this a bit.

More updates will come and I'm sure the players will come back too.

[Deathraven13]

That's the fate of most FG, there will always be a decline then new players will have a hard time because their opponents may be too strong and stuff so they'll change games.

[Neo Black]

Originally posted by Deathraven13:

That's the fate of most FG, there will always be a decline then new players will have a hard time because their opponents may be too strong and stuff so they'll change games.

Ah, that's true! Most of the time I spend up to 40 hours learning the game and one or two specific character but Online usually end without even landing an hit with the opponent punching you around till you die, but it get fun after a while especially if you don't give up.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Neo Black:

Originally posted by Deathraven13:

That's the fate of most FG, there will always be a decline then new players will have a hard time because their opponents may be too strong and stuff so they'll change games.

Ah, that's true! Most of the time I spend up to 40 hours learning the game and one or two specific character but Online usually end without even landing an hit with the opponent punching you around till you die, but it get fun after a while especially if you don't give up.

it helps if you already have a history with fighting games, so you just have to learn the specifics of any given game.

then you just have to learn the BnB combos with your chosen character(s) and you can actually end up winning some of the time.

i got into a bunch of franchises really late, myself, so i know it's discouraging to go online and get your ass handed to you. but, like any skill, keep t it, and you're sure to do better.

[jarheadavacado]

Originally posted by Neo Black:

Originally posted by CHAINKUNAI ELF♥♥♥♥♥ (PISS)(ING):

japanese server:
https://discord
gg/t8XZjmSwAt

worldwide server:
https://discord
gg/SvjkJQwE

uhm....can't find them lol

https://discord.gg/SvjkJQwE (The link themselves dont have a period)
Like some have mentioned, Idol Showdown is mainly active on private lobbies from discord which explains the lack of public lobbies.