Whole world waiting for Once Human

[侍Kage]

Hype is incredibly big, what are your thoughts about this?

[Sacred)(Rhaine]

Originally posted by 侍Kage:

Originally posted by GSPOTxJESUS:

Whole world = only the people in this forum.

Super wrong, actually whole world. Every gamer is very excited to play since it's the best f2p survival mmo game to date. You should be excited as well because you are in the whole world category too.

Not a high bar tbf.

[xClypto]

Originally posted by Gyson:

Originally posted by Tomatokek:

yeah people dont understand this and its hilarious.

It's not that they don't understand. It's that they don't care about the same things you do.

For some it's a wipe in every way that matters. Certainly for me, once a developer requires the player to create and level up a new character (again) to experience the next part of the game they have effectively killed any sense of attachment to that character (and along with it, any immersion in the game world).

Our characters now simply become tools we use to chase down the next set of FOMO unlockables introduced with each season. I am no longer enjoying a game or immersive experience, we are instead mice chasing down the cheese in the maze.

Being able to hoard some of my acquisitions from each maze-run doesn't really make it any better, it just makes the mouse feel more like a pack rat.

I think that is where people are really clashing on the seasonal wipe ting. To some, like myself - I dont care about a building. Ive made several different ones and still favor my first. I also favor my spot in Meyers market and refuse to move to the higher zones.

CBT2 was better game play wise but if a person never played any CBT but did play the demo I could see why they think its good the way it is as well. Im still playing, Ive played a lot of games that wipe progess. Some I can play after a wipe, some I cannot. Rust, can do. Vrising, cannot.

Thinking on it, I have no attachment to my characters in rust. Does OH have a character save/blueprint system? I dont recall but that may be required as Id want to keep my settings for that at least.

[Gyson]

Originally posted by nickydo:

21,000,000 pre registers, i would say that's pretty impressive. Looking forward to it but not expecting to get in tonight though.

Again..

The concurrent player count during the demo peaked at only 19K. The demo was also only playable on Steam, so it's not a case of those numbers not catching people going in through a separate launcher because that wasn't an option for the demo. For reference, 19K is less concurrent users as V Rising was bringing in on the same days the Once Human demo took place.

The truth is this game is nowhere near as popular as it was a 7 or 8 months ago, not even remotely close. It was a very different (better) game back then and the hype was through the roof. People were paying real money to buy keys to get into the closed beta. And I suspect people were also creating multiple registration accounts in an attempt to improve their chance of getting an invitation - all of that likely contributed to the multi-million pre-registration count.

Also that figure is global, and includes China and mobile. Wuthering Waves had over 30m global pre-registrations.

[Gyson]

Originally posted by xClypto:

Originally posted by Gyson:

It's not that they don't understand. It's that they don't care about the same things you do.

For some it's a wipe in every way that matters. Certainly for me, once a developer requires the player to create and level up a new character (again) to experience the next part of the game they have effectively killed any sense of attachment to that character (and along with it, any immersion in the game world).

Our characters now simply become tools we use to chase down the next set of FOMO unlockables introduced with each season. I am no longer enjoying a game or immersive experience, we are instead mice chasing down the cheese in the maze.

Being able to hoard some of my acquisitions from each maze-run doesn't really make it any better, it just makes the mouse feel more like a pack rat.

I think that is where people are really clashing on the seasonal wipe ting. To some, like myself - I dont care about a building. Ive made several different ones and still favor my first. I also favor my spot in Meyers market and refuse to move to the higher zones.

CBT2 was better game play wise but if a person never played any CBT but did play the demo I could see why they think its good the way it is as well. Im still playing, Ive played a lot of games that wipe progess. Some I can play after a wipe, some I cannot. Rust, can do. Vrising, cannot.

Thinking on it, I have no attachment to my characters in rust. Does OH have a character save/blueprint system? I dont recall but that may be required as Id want to keep my settings for that at least.

There's a line about character pinch data being preserved, which I am assuming is hopefully a save of our character customizations. It was not present in the beta or demo, but that is what they have been advertising as one of their seasonal positives. It would be a real chore to have to recreate the character's appearance every 6 weeks.

[Gon Freecss]

Originally posted by FallenActual:

And no matter how much prep the devs have and preemptive knowledge of launch we will still have server issues somehow in 2024

because companies will always try to give the absolute minimum to function

[Dyrhos]

low aspectation as always.. there are high probability the game will have some sort of pay to win mecchanics and/or the devs will do some bad moves and the game will die in less than a year

[Skrammel]

Originally posted by Gyson:

Originally posted by 侍Kage:

Hype is incredibly big, what are your thoughts about this?

The concurrent player count during the demo peaked at only 19K. The demo was also only playable on Steam, so it's not a case of those numbers not catching people going in through a separate launcher because that wasn't an option for the demo. For reference, 19K is less concurrent users as V Rising was bringing in on the same days the Once Human demo took place.

The truth is this game is nowhere near as popular as it was a 7 or 8 months ago, not even remotely close. It was a very different (better) game back then and the hype was through the roof. People were paying real money to buy keys to get into the closed beta. And I suspect people were also creating multiple registration accounts in an attempt to improve their chance of getting an invitation - all of that likely contributed to the multi-million pre-registration count.

People began to abandon this game in droves once the 6 week seasonal reset schedule was announced. It was not popular news when it was first broke to the community, that's why the developers created Eternaland between CBT2 and CBT3 - as an attempt to satisfy everyone's concerns while still pushing forward with an unpopular plan. It didn't work.

Since then the seasonal model has helped turned every aspect of this game into a sad joke. It's why the progression feels meaningless, it's why the game is so ridiculously easy, it's why they literally provide you with food, drink, and medicine through a daily claim menu in what was supposed to be a "survival" game, and it's why you have little pokemon creatures warping around gathering more materials for you each day than you could probably use in ten seasons.

Everything in this game is now designed around pushing you through the content as quickly as possible, as if the world is ending in 6 weeks, because it is.

I get it.. some of you played the demo and had fun. Maybe some people aren't aware, but Once Human used to have a lot more depth and was much more challenging. It more closely resembled those earlier videos on the Steam store page, and was a lot more fun to play. People are unhappy with the direction it has gone and the extent at which a seasonal model has decimated what could have been a great, long-term MMO.

If it was not f2p i would never touch it, but i will give it a chance, but if you are right, then it will be dead in 2 weeks : )

[KuroCat]

I was until I found out there's a wipe system. I'll play for a few weeks but once that wipe happens I'm done until they change it or remove it altogether lol

[Gon Freecss]

pay to survive game.. need to keep hydrated to survive, hydration last 1hr per use. Buy 10 hydration packs for 1200 human pentos, $20 for 1000 human pentos

[TimsGamingDen]

Originally posted by GSPOTxJESUS:

Whole world = only the people in this forum.

21.000.000 registrations atm on their website for the ingame extras ;)

[Cartermatic]

Originally posted by Gyson:

Originally posted by xClypto:

I think that is where people are really clashing on the seasonal wipe ting. To some, like myself - I dont care about a building. Ive made several different ones and still favor my first. I also favor my spot in Meyers market and refuse to move to the higher zones.

CBT2 was better game play wise but if a person never played any CBT but did play the demo I could see why they think its good the way it is as well. Im still playing, Ive played a lot of games that wipe progess. Some I can play after a wipe, some I cannot. Rust, can do. Vrising, cannot.

Thinking on it, I have no attachment to my characters in rust. Does OH have a character save/blueprint system? I dont recall but that may be required as Id want to keep my settings for that at least.

There's a line about character pinch data being preserved, which I am assuming is hopefully a save of our character customizations. It was not present in the beta or demo, but that is what they have been advertising as one of their seasonal positives. It would be a real chore to have to recreate the character's appearance every 6 weeks.

wouldnt let me quote your original message saying only playable on steam, but im pretty sure ive played on teh launcher in every test just fine

[aisukasama]

only the people in this forums

[Sloky]

ded gayme

[Cannavore]

never heard of this game til watching streamers playing today . . . and im pretty in the loop

[I-Got-Worms]

I like V Rising,