Is this game dead?

[Apple.Seed]

Is there cross-play or something that I am missing?

[DarkLeafNinja]

it is cross-play but for the most part it's dead in ranked. lobbies have people standing around for the most part.

[Fish]

Depends on your region and time of day.
NA and Asia/Japan are the most populated regions and typically have no trouble for match making as long as you're not playing during a time while people are asleep or at work/school.

I've heard Europe or some other regions can be very spotty.

There's a free edition that grants you access to most of the online features. You can simply give that version a try to see how it is in your region before deciding if this is something you wanna stick around for.

[cuhrayzee]

Devs tried REALLY hard to kill it and it seems like they finally succeeded.

[DarkLeafNinja]

Originally posted by cuhrayzee:

Devs tried REALLY hard to kill it and it seems like they finally succeeded.

makes sense since they are braindead after all, look at recent tourneys there is just new ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ top tiers in there it's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring that they can't make a game that isn't full of BS. game is so trash right now there is nothing but tier ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[記憶の果て]

Found ranked match pretty easy for me (asia and jp server), the lobby 1 is usually full during peak time as well. The gap between each update though took forever but it's Cygames, they known to take their good sweet time just to walk one step.

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

Originally posted by cuhrayzee:

Devs tried REALLY hard to kill it and it seems like they finally succeeded.

makes sense since they are braindead after all, look at recent tourneys there is just new ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ top tiers in there it's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring that they can't make a game that isn't full of BS. game is so trash right now there is nothing but tier ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You hate the game for year but still keep playing. Could you perhaps a tsundere?

[DarkLeafNinja]

Originally posted by 恋夢:

Found ranked match pretty easy for me (asia and jp server), the lobby 1 is usually full during peak time as well. The gap between each update though took forever but it's Cygames, they known to take their good sweet time just to walk one step.

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

makes sense since they are braindead after all, look at recent tourneys there is just new ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ top tiers in there it's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring that they can't make a game that isn't full of BS. game is so trash right now there is nothing but tier ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You hate the game for year but still keep playing. Could you perhaps a tsundere? :gbvs_lyria:

no i just love to suffer, i also wish the game get's good at some point but unitl that happens i will continue to spread hate.

[Gloom]

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

Originally posted by 恋夢:

Found ranked match pretty easy for me (asia and jp server), the lobby 1 is usually full during peak time as well. The gap between each update though took forever but it's Cygames, they known to take their good sweet time just to walk one step.


You hate the game for year but still keep playing. Could you perhaps a tsundere? :gbvs_lyria:

no i just love to suffer, i also wish the game get's good at some point but unitl that happens i will continue to spread hate.

Are there any fighting games you consider good? Personally I think there are several fair criticisms, but I enjoy the game regardless.

[Rufus MF Albarea]

Originally posted by Gloom:

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

no i just love to suffer, i also wish the game get's good at some point but unitl that happens i will continue to spread hate.

Are there any fighting games you consider good? Personally I think there are several fair criticisms, but I enjoy the game regardless.

it may be a hot take but un-ironically i still think this game is better than strive, and i mean that with my whole chest

[Gloom]

Originally posted by ProfessorBagel:

Originally posted by Gloom:

Are there any fighting games you consider good? Personally I think there are several fair criticisms, but I enjoy the game regardless.

it may be a hot take but un-ironically i still think this game is better than strive, and i mean that with my whole chest

The character design in Granblue is generally more appealing to me than Strive and I don't have the time or energy to play more than one fighting game at a time while being able to actually improve. So I never tried Strive, but I concur that this game is better than past Guilty Gear games I have played where I only really enjoyed using Jam.

[DarkLeafNinja]

Originally posted by Gloom:

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

no i just love to suffer, i also wish the game get's good at some point but unitl that happens i will continue to spread hate.

Are there any fighting games you consider good? Personally I think there are several fair criticisms, but I enjoy the game regardless.

I enjoyed tekken 7 quite a bit and i had never really played a tekken game up until then, soul calibur series i really like even if that also has some BS but it was more tolerable, also played P4 arena and blazblue a lot back on xbox but not really feeling like going back to those at this point, Enjoyed strive back when it launched but not anymore. this game has the potential to be really good to me but it's just too much BS that happens during matches that makes me question what in the hell the devs are doing, i can take losses but not if the reason for the loss is pure a$$.

[ArcKnight]

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

I enjoyed tekken 7 quite a bit and i had never really played a tekken game up until then, soul calibur series i really like even if that also has some BS but it was more tolerable, also played P4 arena and blazblue a lot back on xbox but not really feeling like going back to those at this point, Enjoyed strive back when it launched but not anymore. this game has the potential to be really good to me but it's just too much BS that happens during matches that makes me question what in the hell the devs are doing, i can take losses but not if the reason for the loss is pure a$$.

I think what you're feeling is developers catering to spectators more than players. Viewers like flashing lights and big turn-arounds and the game's quality is actually not that important in that regard.

I actually had to give up fighting games for the most part because the quality overall has continued to go down instead of up. I've learned to play just for fun because there's no point investing too much into these games because the developers don't seem to care as much as the players about a good playing experience. Not to mention how much the games are changed post-release. I don't play Strive at all but it's a way different game than it was at launch. If you liked an older version, tough luck.

To be fair, one cannot write off fun as a bad experience so as long as it's at least fun to most people, mission accomplished I guess. However, if you're not having fun, remember life is much too short to spend time on things that do not benefit you in a positive way.

[kumokiri]

this game won't really last too long considering not just the game balance, but the core gameplay as a whole

nevermind the really bad balance and belial never getting nerfed, note the systems in place that punish defensive play awfully hard (i hate the brave system) and incentivises more active offense and mixups, also doesn't help when you have risk-free gameplans for some characters, otherwise you need good reaction time

sure people like to see "more exciting" explosive gameplay but the way they designed this game feels more of a stress inducing experience that forces you to play one way

seeing how we drop in player count hard about like roughly one week after updates or dlc (on steam normally 3k peak dropping to 300-400) really shows this game can't keep casuals despite this game being more "beginner friendly"

really like this game but it's hard to recommend playing long term
very pretty looking typical trademark arcsys kusoge

[Rufus MF Albarea]

Originally posted by Gloom:

Originally posted by ProfessorBagel:

it may be a hot take but un-ironically i still think this game is better than strive, and i mean that with my whole chest

The character design in Granblue is generally more appealing to me than Strive and I don't have the time or energy to play more than one fighting game at a time while being able to actually improve. So I never tried Strive, but I concur that this game is better than past Guilty Gear games I have played where I only really enjoyed using Jam.

im kinda more referring to the balancing of the game, if we were to use a analogy, if granblues balancing is comparable to a clown show, strives the whole damn circus

[MARegulus]

Originally posted by ProfessorBagel:

Originally posted by Gloom:

The character design in Granblue is generally more appealing to me than Strive and I don't have the time or energy to play more than one fighting game at a time while being able to actually improve. So I never tried Strive, but I concur that this game is better than past Guilty Gear games I have played where I only really enjoyed using Jam.

im kinda more referring to the balancing of the game, if we were to use a analogy, if granblues balancing is comparable to a clown show, strives the whole damn circus

Gawd, THANK YOU. I won't take a bullet for this game's balance issues, but I jumped on board even with the waning fanbase because Tekken 8. SF6, and GGST are WORSE in terms of balance. Seriously. I can fight 60% of the cast on any given day in this game. I gave up when I had to fight the same three characters over and over and over in the other games I listed. "Just git guuuuuud!" No, I'll go play a game where 90% of my matches aren't Ken/Akuma/Gief/Nago/Nago/Nago/Nago/Leo/RAM/RAM/RAM.

[Dazeychain]

bought it during the sale and tried finding a match on a friday evening (NA) and nothing...i'm right under the 2hour mark so i'll probably refund it. it's a shame, game seems fun