Is there a reason for the low player count?

[Nathan AMG]

I've heard good things about this game, however, the low player count is putting me off from purchasing it. Am I missing something?

[shadow82]

Let me take some popcorn to see how folks are going to defend that.

[reorim]

Funny, as there was a topic not long ago with someone complaining about too many players. He said a lobby with 40+ people would be too much.
There is usually no trouble in having complete grids with the daily races.
But if you want more seriousness, there should be no trouble finding a fitting league either.

[Aysedasi]

Originally posted by shadow82:

Let me take some popcorn to see how folks are going to defend that.

Or better still, just ignore the troll.

What low player count? Depends on your view of low and what time you drive.

[speccycat]

The game does a very good job of concentrating the player base into the daily and other races, so even if player counts seem low compared to other games the amount of people in the races are very high. Yesterday I registered for a daily beginner race (which happen every 30 minutes or so) and there were 500 people registered, leading to around 26 splits of 20 drivers which is wayyyyy more then enough and even enough to end up with very good matchmaking against your own skill level. You will have no issue having multiple splits on basically any race with all the beginner races having >10 splits. And the player count is only growing and with recent investment into the game its only getting better and better.
So in conclusion yes I think not getting it would be a mistake!

[Nathan AMG]

Originally posted by Aysedasi:

Originally posted by shadow82:

Let me take some popcorn to see how folks are going to defend that.

Or better still, just ignore the troll.

What low player count? Depends on your view of low and what time you drive.

How am I a troll? I've asked a very simple question as I want to purchase it, however, the low player count is an issue.

[Aysedasi]

Originally posted by Nathan AMG:

Originally posted by Aysedasi:

Or better still, just ignore the troll.

What low player count? Depends on your view of low and what time you drive.

How am I a troll? I've asked a very simple question as I want to purchase it, however, the low player count is an issue.

My apologies, I wasn't referring to you, just our resident disgruntled troll who pops in here to give us the benefit of his 'wisdom' from time to time. ;-)

As speccycat says, there are actually now a lot of players out there. I just took part in a beginner race at Le Mans. I was in split 5 of 12 - on a Thursday afternoon.

[DC2Dixon]

Originally posted by Nathan AMG:

Originally posted by Aysedasi:

Or better still, just ignore the troll.

What low player count? Depends on your view of low and what time you drive.

How am I a troll? I've asked a very simple question as I want to purchase it, however, the low player count is an issue.

What numbers would you say are good? The game is only behind Kunos titles and Iracing for player numbers. Think it averages around 2500 at peak times atm where as games like AMS2 is back to about half that.

Most races have plenty of splits so fail to see the "issue" myself. Having played since release, even when numbers were 600 at best, there were still plenty of people in each lobby at good times for European players. At night over here obviously numbers will be low.

[Ufo]

the answer is simple, there's a lack of content since it's the wec simulator and private lobbies are missing (for private championships for example).
It will never become a game with a massive player base for the reasons I just mentioned, but I’m sure that in the future there will be new ways to expand the content (for example, new cars like the Genesis for 2026 or the McLaren hypercar).
People are gradually moving over to LMU, especially for the GT3s (which we know is one of the most played categories).
Besides that, the reason why there might not be a large player base (this is relative and subjective, as someone already told you, lobby's are full) is because Studio 397 is still paying for the mistakes made with rF2 (in my opinion, unfairly), and is therefore judged negatively by people who haven’t even played LMU.

Btw the game is awesome and it's growing month after month. If you’re into simulators, don’t even think twice, and don't look at the numbers, just buy it. It’s an absolute joy, and the player base will only keep growing.

[trtab]

15 min ago.

acc 1641
lmu 949
ace 159

heh. being that LMU is early access and ACC has been around quite a long time, and on console too, it has plenty of publicity.

These are very good numbers for LMU.

[DC2Dixon]

Originally posted by trtab:

15 min ago.

acc 1641
lmu 949
ace 159

heh. being that LMU is early access and ACC has been around quite a long time, and on console too, it has plenty of publicity.

These are very good numbers for LMU.

Looking at steamDB, ACC still averages around 4000 players daily peak and LMU has been hovering around 2500 since the last update over a month ago. Raceroom averages below 900 players, RF2 700 if its lucky, and AMS2 is around 1200 players. Sure if we compared to Forza or the F1 games maybe those numbers would look bad but racing sims never draw in huge numbers really. Only AC and Iracing see well over 10,000 players at any given time.

For the most part there might be 4-5 races going at any given time (not including private or subscription based championships) so even 500 players can give enough numbers to fill most lobbies.

Not really sure where people get LMU has low player numbers? For the type of video game it is, numbers are very good for a EA game like you say. ACC took many years to build its player base and to even feel like a good driving sim imo.

[BadWallFlower]

It depends on a individuals perspective of whats a low player count, and what time of day your checking the player count.

Your original post claiming a low player count, was at 6:40am in UK. most people in europe are asleep at that time.

The Steam charts show the daily player count is ok
https://steamdb.info/app/2399420/charts/#1y

[Aysedasi]

It's one opinion. Not one that I share.

[Oxodius]

I have only been online a couple days but found no issues with the daily or event population.
More dc/sync issues.

[FeedMe]

Originally posted by Nathan AMG:

Originally posted by Aysedasi:

Or better still, just ignore the troll.

What low player count? Depends on your view of low and what time you drive.

How am I a troll? I've asked a very simple question as I want to purchase it, however, the low player count is an issue.

I don't think the player counts is low for a dim racing game.
The vast majority of the online players at any one time are in the online races driving.
Every beginner rave I sign up to has over a 100 people participating often over 300. You compare this to any of the main SIMs and their ranked races and lmu comes out looking good.
Even compared to iracing these are good number for a series but of course iracing has far far more series that player base are spread over and intermediate and above races tend to.habe 3 splits on avg..
Still more than enough players to have very good competitive racing