Why is the player count so low?

[DaniTheHero]

I expected it to hit 100k+ easily.

[Wrecked...]

Origineel geplaatst door Crescent Dusk:

Soulslike fatigue. At some point, some genres are saturated. Metroidvanias and roguelikes are saturated genres, and so are soulslikes.

Not even close. If anything there aren't enough soulslike games out there. I've been waiting years for another Hollow Knight. There have been games that tried, but haven't hit that sweet spot. I'm waiting for Zelda to make a soulslike. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

[Thanous]

Origineel geplaatst door Crescent Dusk:

Soulslike fatigue. At some point, some genres are saturated. Metroidvanias and roguelikes are saturated genres, and so are soulslikes.

Disagree, rougelikes suck, not enough good metroidvainas , and this is the best souls like I have played.

[Grumpytoast]

Everyone quit at Viper because they didn't know they had to actually grind gear haha. Dudes insane! I might be bad... but it legit took me like 2 hours lol. Amazing game though and the soundtrack is so good.

[🫏Luv4Donkeys🫏]

+1, I just picked it up.

[Alex]

Cause a lot of DNF fans including myself wanted a mmorpg that they spent a decade working on but instead Nexon scrapped it and used what asset was ready to make a soulslike game. Basically jumping on the bandwagon seeing as their many new games flopped hard. Funny how their one mmorpg game that would make them succeed they decide to cancel it but their crappy fighting game that they thought would work out died in a month. Nexon's management is forever stupid.

[Stone Cold Stavros Flatley]

Origineel geplaatst door Alex:

Cause a lot of DNF fans including myself wanted a mmorpg that they spent a decade working on but instead Nexon scrapped it and used what asset was ready to make a soulslike game. Basically jumping on the bandwagon seeing as their many new games flopped hard. Funny how their one mmorpg game that would make them succeed they decide to cancel it but their crappy fighting game that they thought would work out died in a month. Nexon's management is forever stupid.

We could've had an MMO with these graphics filled with buff anime dudes and hot elf chicks? Man...

[Johnathon Fortnite]

Origineel geplaatst door Alex:

Cause a lot of DNF fans including myself wanted a mmorpg that they spent a decade working on but instead Nexon scrapped it and used what asset was ready to make a soulslike game. Basically jumping on the bandwagon seeing as their many new games flopped hard. Funny how their one mmorpg game that would make them succeed they decide to cancel it but their crappy fighting game that they thought would work out died in a month. Nexon's management is forever stupid.

Jesus another nexon mmorpg/live service game? ♥♥♥♥ that. I'd rather a solid singleplayer game with a cool main character than yet another game that starts off fun but ends up pay to win and a complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess of an abortion. There's enough ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mmos bruh.

[Kyota]

Poor marketing.

They have 10k subs on YT.

They have 7k followers on Twitter.

I can go on, but it paints an unfortunate picture.

I'd fire the marketing team. ASAP. As this isn't the first game they've under-sold.

NEOPLE was fairly new in the west. The majority of their success is based in CN.

And yet they did not try to market to the CN audience. Instead they infatuated the idea that westerners would serve as their main audience.

Huge mistake.