Monthly membership>yearly .. ?

[Jaden (AceAngel TTV)]

-Buy monthly membership every time a new season starts
-Yes for half the season you wont have the membership, but you can easily beat the battlepass in the first month anyway
-This way you get a "free" battlepass every season without paying for off-season membership for not much of a reward
-The downside is that you dont get access to every hero all the time, but you can buy the ones you want anyway
-17% off for annual pass doesnt really seem enough considering half the time it doesnt really do anything

-if I was the devs I would make it 50% off so it actually makes sense

thank you for coming to my ted talk and let me know if i missed anything

[Octarius]

Buying any form of subscription in this game right now is the stupidest thing anyone can do. I made that mistake on release day and it was my worst investment in 2025 (even though it's only April). If someone has an inner desire to burn money for nothing, then buy a monthly subscription. A yearly subscription doesn't make sense because this game won't live that long.

[Jaden (AceAngel TTV)]

Yeah I checked steam charts, it isnt looking good.
I might just do month to month purely for that reason tbh.
I did buy 1 month when this game first came out which is coming near the end, I REALLY love this game but yeah I dont know if its worth the risk.
The devs seem to be doing everything right so I dont know why the playerbase is dying off, its so fun D:

[Octarius]

Originally posted by Super Jaden (Lords: 12):

Yeah I checked steam charts, it isnt looking good.
I might just do month to month purely for that reason tbh.
I did buy 1 month when this game first came out which is coming near the end, I REALLY love this game but yeah I dont know if its worth the risk.
The devs seem to be doing everything right so I dont know why the playerbase is dying off, its so fun D:

It's simple. It just wasn't fun for the majority. You and a few thousand others like you might have a great time with it, but the rest didn't share that opinion and left. A multiplayer game, in order to survive, has to be made for the "majority" and find a like among that majority. Next Friday is the start of the second season of Marvel Rivals and the release of (much less popular and expected but still) Wild Assault. Next Friday will be the breaking point for Fragpunk as a dying f2p hero shooter. If by some miracle the game has over 13k in peak on April 11, it still has a chance to exist (a poor one, but still). If not, it's gone.

[Jaden (AceAngel TTV)]

I beat the marvel rivals battlepass weeks ago D:
Main reason I got into Frag Punk was because there is so little to unlock in Rivals -_-
I also beat the Frag Punk battlepass.
First time beating 2 active battlepasses, and I didnt really play either more than 2 or 3 games a day, I really need a new game at this point

Wild Assault looks like fetish content I doubt it will do any better than Frag Punk.
Still, if its good ill check it out if its free, i could only find people debating if it would be free or not so idek if it will be- I cant see myself paying for that

Still, I checked out the top 100 active games on steam, shockingly low numbers, 10k is actually a decent number it turns out, VERY FEW games have over 100k, IF Frag Punk can get their match wait times down- possibly by removing some modes or making all the arcades modes 1 playlist, then its a totally fine number of players, maybe not for ranked.

Hell maybe they should either get rid of ranked or get rid of casual, force all the players into one hopper, would halve wait times, im sure some people would rage but at least they would be PLAYING instead of staring at a lobby menu half the time

/rant

[Octarius]

Originally posted by Super Jaden (Lords: 12):

I beat the marvel rivals battlepass weeks ago D:
Main reason I got into Frag Punk was because there is so little to unlock in Rivals -_-
I also beat the Frag Punk battlepass.
First time beating 2 active battlepasses, and I didnt really play either more than 2 or 3 games a day, I really need a new game at this point

I had the same thing. I tried playing Steel Hunters but the game turned out to be an unfinished and unbalanced piece of crap - even for Early Access.

Originally posted by Super Jaden (Lords: 12):

Wild Assault looks like fetish content I doubt it will do any better than Frag Punk.
Still, if its good ill check it out if its free, i could only find people debating if it would be free or not so idek if it will be- I cant see myself paying for that

That's true. This fetish doesn't seem oversexualized in any way, so the game may also appeal to the tastes of "normals". I'm personally waiting for it. I'm also curious how big the furry subculture population will be. Nevertheless, the game may hit rock bottom within a week - especially since it will also get a rebound from the start of the second season in Marvel Rivals.

Originally posted by Super Jaden (Lords: 12):

Still, I checked out the top 100 active games on steam, shockingly low numbers, 10k is actually a decent number it turns out, VERY FEW games have over 100k, IF Frag Punk can get their match wait times down- possibly by removing some modes or making all the arcades modes 1 playlist, then its a totally fine number of players, maybe not for ranked.

Yes, 10k is a pretty good population. The problem is that this game doesn't show any signs of being able to maintain any kind of steady player count. Apart from occasional weekend boosts, we've been losing people every single day since release. We can be happy with 10k on Monday, but on Thursday it will be 8k. And so on and so forth. New players are not coming, old ones are dropping out every day, so the conclusion is simple and the mathematics is inexorable.

Originally posted by Super Jaden (Lords: 12):

Hell maybe they should either get rid of ranked or get rid of casual, force all the players into one hopper, would halve wait times, im sure some people would rage but at least they would be PLAYING instead of staring at a lobby menu half the time

This game should never have a ranked mode, because in its version it is an unfunny joke. On the one hand, any player without hands can get Diamond just by playing. On the other hand, the RNG element of cards undermines any balance and fairness of the game.
Additionally, the cosmetic items in this game are just plain gross and the game fails to attract casual players even with that.

[harbinger of cringe]

They're really just trying to get whales to buy that option, I think.

[F3R]

why did u spend on a year pass when the game is almost dead after 1 mount?

[Octarius]

Originally posted by F3R:

why did u spend on a year pass when the game is almost dead after 1 mount?

I bought it because I wanted to support it. I wanted to believe that this game would be a success despite the obvious signs that it had no chance. Signs I didn't see at the time and didn't want to see. Besides, the initial peak of 114k was optimistic. It was hard to believe we'd lose 100k of that in four weeks.

[Bimmelkaes]

who cares about numbers. Play as long as its fun and pay the amount you want to pay if you say it was or is worth your fun. This game is not like an investment plan for your future riches.

[Pizzashot]

I would not get a year long subscription for a new game, you never know how it will be in a couple of months.