Why did this game die?

[Ronin]

It was a ton of fun and RO2 kept a 1000+ player base (good for a hardcore niche game) for years up until RS2 released... This game had/has so much potential and was so much fun on release, what happened? Where did everyone go? Devs should have released on console and kept supporting it with content. There's literally no other Vietnam FPS out, this game is/was unique...

[DeepSpace]

Yea its too bad and cherry on top last update ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up voice chat

[Franss the Coffee Addict]

some get burned out, and whenever new players buy this game they probably end up on one of those mega servers if they dont know how to use server browser

[Mark]

personally, because the only active servers i find most of the time are sh1tty campaign mode, and the few that use territories rotation cycle through the same 4 maps (hue, cu chi, mekong/dong ha, and f-ing firebase georgina)

[Prkln tunari]

That's sad as is RO2s death. Those were the times 10 years ago when the game had its golden days....

[poop]

horrible community is one contribution, cant count the amount of times in the past 2-3 years ive ran into people that make me wonder why we're here in the first place

[DeepSpace]

Originally posted by poop:

horrible community is one contribution, cant count the amount of times in the past 2-3 years ive ran into people that make me wonder why we're here in the first place

This game was legendary in its golden age but the game being abandoned is why it died out. Had nothing to do with a so called community in an online game. If anything with these online "communities" is wrong its the problem of toxic wannabe commissars calling everbody nazis

[Heresy]

The voip was always ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up but its just wild now. I will be in a server and hear not a single player in my server like they are all muted and I cant hear them but I can hear 1 or 2 players from another server....

This happened last night I was tripping out because the guy was talking to his squad and mentioning objectives that were not on the same map i was playing. Eventually someone from my server who I couldnt hear talk for whatever reason started talking to this guy on the other server.

I tried leaving the game i was in and joining again and i could still hear just 1 person talkign who was on another server it was totally ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up.

[Hooten]

Because people don't play games, they consume them. Every multiplayer game has the same fate. Launch, consume, move to the next trend.

[poop]

Originally posted by DeepSpace:

Originally posted by poop:

horrible community is one contribution, cant count the amount of times in the past 2-3 years ive ran into people that make me wonder why we're here in the first place

This game was legendary in its golden age but the game being abandoned is why it died out. Had nothing to do with a so called community in an online game. If anything with these online "communities" is wrong its the problem of toxic wannabe commissars calling everbody nazis

woah buddy, i agree with your final part, but pretending this games community isnt one of the reasons its not alive anymore is being obtuse

[Garmo]

RO2 was just better in most ways.

RS2 was still great fun but just didnt have that "feel" that made RO2 great.

[Mark]

Originally posted by Garmo:

RO2 was just better in most ways.

RS2 was still great fun but just didnt have that "feel" that made RO2 great.

well, they were designed differently. RO2 was made to be more realistic and slow (you can say "tactical" even) while RS2 is more arcade-y and casual.

[Ishinoyonitsuyoi]

Game died because developers had some disgusting political views and fired staff over the disagreements thereof. They never fixed the bugs or added new content- was always an unoptimized garbage game

[Lexx_Goffman]

Campaign update simply ruined maps and teams rotations PLUS added even more bugs wirthout fixing old ones PLUS ruined VOIP. 95% of servers are campaign mode and most of the territories servers don't use custom maps at all. People in campaign don't get scrumbled after last battle plus no second round, and even if people get in NVA\PAVN ("bad guys" nowadays) team - they just keep spamming Switch teams button to get on US ("good guys" nowadays) side with better weapons.
And of course that UE3 either way too pixelated or way too cloudy graphics didn't get any better over years and I remember that at some point after more modern games my eyes just couldn't endure this mess any longer.

I played since 2016th CBT till campaign update (2018?) for around 750 hours and after update for maybe 50+ hours at max. I really LOVED the game back then, but sadly it only got worse and worse over time and in the end devs simply broke it even further and then abandoned it, which didn't really help motivation to play it further

[Rumi]

Originally posted by heyTony:

Game died because developers had some disgusting political views and fired staff over the disagreements thereof. They never fixed the bugs or added new content- was always an unoptimized garbage game

more like the game died because the developer was bought out by another publisher back in 2019

[Red Shoe Paul]

Once they made voip epic exclusive I jumped ship.