Dead game

[Bomber Rex]

The devs killed it by nerfing small dinos like dilo utah but keeping rex and tyrants the same. They also broke gttc. And new content is dead. All this while you are bleeding players, not a good combo. And now the result is a dead playerbase full of nothing but role players and people that afk to farm skins. Only 1 dm server populated and im seeing its struggling with its players now. It used to be full players in that server all day round now i see half the server at non peak hours.

Welp GG this game had a good run lol but now its dead. Good bye old primal carnage I miss you. The good ol primal carnage the original where it was the go to dino game and the future was bright with primale carnage operation genesis being waved at us. But it came crashing down when PCE came out. PCE stayed alive for about a year and after that it clung on for another and finally fell. With basically only 1 dev working on this game and simple patches taking weeks or months to come out I can safely bid this game and a successful and upcoming series good bye. Ahhhh the nostalgia. Rip primal carnage.

[Hornbach Loungeset]

uhm, yes, the game is dead.

[raphi]

You forgot about the Toxic people.

[Rywal]

Originally posted by raphi:

You forgot about the Toxic people.

No one cares. "Toxic" people exist in every single online game and community.

[Bomber Rex]

Originally posted by raphi:

You forgot about the Toxic people.

IMO i don't see much toxic people in this game. Yea there are a few but its like that in every game that is online.

[Grimeth]

Yep the game is just about dead, the only servers that will be up will being the free roam, since no one (Except a few of us mains) likes to play human, it’s just sad that dinos don’t realise it’s the humans that makes this game fun.

[Duck with a Tux]

I'll put my 2 cents in here.

I was a fan. Primal Carnage being one of the first games I bought when my pc finally was upgraded by my brother from an old Pentium 4 cube I had. I bought this game along with Depth, Dota 2 and CS: GO. Suffice it to say, I had so much fun with the game. The game was never competitive for me (had other games to fill that void), it just had that pull on me being a homage to Jurassic Park and dinosaur games in general.

I wasn't I admit an amazing player, I could certainly dominate with some of the classes but not all (was terrible with the Pteranodon). And yet in spite of this, I could not stop playing. My favourite mode being GTTC. In my opinion, Primal Carnage started the "Dinosaur Game Renaissance" Period which saw a surge in dinosaur-themed games like The Isle, Dino D-Day and Ark: Survival Evolved. The game was fun, the atmosphere it had sold it for me. The maps were really good and playing either faction had its own enjoyment (I could list so many great moments but won't s oas not to extend this post any longer than necessary).

I was like a lot of you excited for Primal Carnage: Extinction and sure I've played it on and off over the years but I think it goes without saying that it is a game that has had a large decline in its playerbase. It was a buggy mess and still suffered from many of the balancing issues the first game had. Sure there were updates but it does to me feel like all they did was put a slab of new paint over the original game and just made it run sleeker.

Unfortunately (and this is gonna sound controversial but bare with me as I make my case) it is a game that whilst did introduce new content catered too much to modes that it was never truly meant to cater for to begin with and that is mostly Roleplaying. Yes we got other modes like survival but hardly anyone played it after a few months. I feel like another problem it has is that this new content lacked proper promotion. Go back to the original primal carnage trailers and see how much promotion was put into it. Not to mention that when GTTC was announced with its own trailer, do you see how much hype was generated from this? Sadly the devs team didn't really do anything to promote their new content further beyond the main game.

Furthermore, the fact that they resorted to relying on skins which in turn mean microtransactions shows that this is a game that naturally will decline in playerbase because people are not going to fork out extra money for cosmetics if the base game is not fun to play anymore. And this is not even accounting for the fact that we were promised other content too such as a new Charger class (Ceratosaurus), as well as Primal Carnage: Genesis.

So what does this mean in the long run? I'm sad to say it but unless the devs are able to get this game some much needed help, it will go extinct like its namesake. This is sad because I like many of you played this game for the love of it. It has a great concept that is still relevant even today (and especially with the release of movies like Jurassic World 2 etc).

I've noticed that even the Primal Carnage forums have been shutdown which tells me even more that this franchise is on life support. I don't know if the developers at LukeWarm are reading this but if you are, please seek some help.

[Bomber Rex]

Originally posted by Hamour Skinner:

I'll put my 2 cents in here.

I was a fan. Primal Carnage being one of the first games I bought when my pc finally was upgraded by my brother from an old Pentium 4 cube I had. I bought this game along with Depth, Dota 2 and CS: GO. Suffice it to say, I had so much fun with the game. The game was never competitive for me (had other games to fill that void), it just had that pull on me being a homage to Jurassic Park and dinosaur games in general.

I wasn't I admit an amazing player, I could certainly dominate with some of the classes but not all (was terrible with the Pteranodon). And yet in spite of this, I could not stop playing. My favourite mode being GTTC. In my opinion, Primal Carnage started the "Dinosaur Game Renaissance" Period which saw a surge in dinosaur-themed games like The Isle, Dino D-Day and Ark: Survival Evolved. The game was fun, the atmosphere it had sold it for me. The maps were really good and playing either faction had its own enjoyment (I could list so many great moments but won't s oas not to extend this post any longer than necessary).

I was like a lot of you excited for Primal Carnage: Extinction and sure I've played it on and off over the years but I think it goes without saying that it is a game that has had a large decline in its playerbase. It was a buggy mess and still suffered from many of the balancing issues the first game had. Sure there were updates but it does to me feel like all they did was put a slab of new paint over the original game and just made it run sleeker.

Unfortunately (and this is gonna sound controversial but bare with me as I make my case) it is a game that whilst did introduce new content catered too much to modes that it was never truly meant to cater for to begin with and that is mostly Roleplaying. Yes we got other modes like survival but hardly anyone played it after a few months. I feel like another problem it has is that this new content lacked proper promotion. Go back to the original primal carnage trailers and see how much promotion was put into it. Not to mention that when GTTC was announced with its own trailer, do you see how much hype was generated from this? Sadly the devs team didn't really do anything to promote their new content further beyond the main game.

Furthermore, the fact that they resorted to relying on skins which in turn mean microtransactions shows that this is a game that naturally will decline in playerbase because people are not going to fork out extra money for cosmetics if the base game is not fun to play anymore. And this is not even accounting for the fact that we were promised other content too such as a new Charger class (Ceratosaurus), as well as Primal Carnage: Genesis.

So what does this mean in the long run? I'm sad to say it but unless the devs are able to get this game some much needed help, it will go extinct like its namesake. This is sad because I like many of you played this game for the love of it. It has a great concept that is still relevant even today (and especially with the release of movies like Jurassic World 2 etc).

I've noticed that even the Primal Carnage forums have been shutdown which tells me even more that this franchise is on life support. I don't know if the developers at LukeWarm are reading this but if you are, please seek some help.

I totally agree woth you, especially on the slap new paint on the already existing game with flaws.

Also pro tip when making a game: Don't release new game modes (unless they are really good and people are going to play them like crazy) when you have a small and declining player base.

I do feel they could have expanded and improved upon on already popular modes like gttc and TDM. I felt like that would be better vs working on Survival and the forgotten game mode aka that one where there is and invisible raptor and humans got to kill it.

[Bomber Rex]

I used to laugh to myself wondering what a name this game had, what if the name Extinction marks the end of the game, that primal carnage is dead. And 2 years later and look, its dead, pretty much.

The game that marked the revolution of dinosaur games. The game that came in a time where dinosaurs would become more mainstream (jurrasic world). The game that was so dear to some of our hearts, is dead. (dead for reasons i mentioned earlier).

Welp GG Primal Carnage. You could have been great, you could have been Primal Carnage: Genesis. You could have been a franchise. But Primal Carnage: Extinction happened and its poor execution and rushed launch has doomed this franchise.

This thread you could say is kinda pointless but i just wanted to express how this game is dear to many's hearts and to see it die like this is just, sad. For me it was - one of the first few games on steam and my pc that i got.

R.I.P Primal Carnage (2014-2018).
And with that i end this and have nothing else to say here.

[Harry Nurpplez]

Originally posted by Hamour Skinner:

as well as Primal Carnage: Genesis.

Correction, was never promised. Was never actually going to be released. Dinosauriac worded it a specific way but "portfolio padder" is pretty much how he explained it. He also said that the open world style that they were going for would even of been a MAJOR challenege even if a AAA dev eam was working on it. Everything usable was put into this game.