Is this game alive?

[Athenex]

Its been allot of times since I wanted to get absorver but everytime the game seemed death maybe this freeweekend it will live?

[obliviondoll]

It's never been "dead" (except in Asia). It's been SLOW but it's maintained a playerbase sufficient for an indie fighting game focused on 1v1 gameplay. The free weekend has the playerbase in the thousands right now, so it's DEFINITELY not dead at the moment. For the past 4 hours it's been over 2000 players and it broke 1000 about 2 hours before that.

[totty]

It's very much alive. PS4 no doubt has the bigger numbers at around 30k, but with the free weekend, and major major update inbound, the game isn't hurting for players and frankly only has in a couple spots in the last 9 months or so.

I think you'll also find that responses from players playing will be 'yes' and the 'no's from those who left or didn't play much after launch.

[CHICKEN JOCKEY]

no. a game that only has 2k players on a free weekend is a dead game.

[Leora Moon]

Originally posted by nemoMachine:

no. a game that only has 2k players on a free weekend is a dead game.

It's a 1v1 fighting game. You don't need that many players for a game to be 'alive', The game has survived on between 100 to 150 players peak per day for months now, with a recent spike to around 200 before the free weekend, so if it's dead now, it must have been 6 feet under back then. There's a passionate community dedicated to the game, so even if you are in a region with a low playerbase (such as OCE, of which I am a part of), you just have to coordinate with your fellow players a bit more. Regardless, even if it only has 2k players on a free weekend, by your metric, it's still alive for that weekend, which is in part what OP has asked about.

[FGCNN | Nurdell]

Looks like not a lot of people play it - just started, as 2 lvl got put into a match with 48. Yes, maybe I could have played the campaign more but just wanted to try it's online. Needless to say, got beat up but I did take his stock. Yes, give me a break - don't heal between rounds, I don't have magic unlocked.

Edit: duh! the healing is automatical, those were just taunts. Now beat some lvl 30 guy with twitch.tv in his name, by mostly spamming quick attacks and mixing in a few slow ones. So the gear and level doesn't beat skill/beginner's fighting luck. Good to know. The game has a nice campaign with coop enabled by default and I'll be continuing to play it.
Would have never bought it without the free weekend because I have only core 2 dual and the store page says massive i7, yet it runs here.

[Mr Fister]

Originally posted by Athenex:

Its been allot of times since I wanted to get absorver but everytime the game seemed death maybe this freeweekend it will live?

On the Steam community hub if a game has over 300 players at the time it will show the amount of players online on the top left, if under 300 no number will show. This being said, according to Steam this game was "dead" before the free weekend.

https://steamcharts.com/app/473690

[Leora Moon]

Originally posted by Nurdell:

Looks like not a lot of people play it - just started, as 2 lvl got put into a match with 48. Yes, maybe I could have played the campaign more but just wanted to try it's online. Needless to say, got beat up but I did take his stock. Yes, give me a break - don't heal between rounds, I don't have magic unlocked.

Edit: duh! the healing is automatical, those were just taunts. Now beat some lvl 30 guy with twitch.tv in his name, by mostly spamming quick attacks and mixing in a few slow ones. So the gear and level doesn't beat skill/beginner's fighting luck. Good to know. The game has a nice campaign with coop enabled by default and I'll be continuing to play it.
Would have never bought it without the free weekend because I have only core 2 dual and the store page says massive i7, yet it runs here.

Gear is mostly cosmetic, though having around 40+ blunt resist is recommended, and the level difference in terms of HP between 1 and 60 is maybe 2-6 hits. Level 2 vs 48 isn't that much of a gap, it's a playtime difference of maybe 4-5 hours. It's when you get matched with people who have hundreds or even thousands of prestige levels above you that people get somewhat understandably annoyed, but it's a great opportunity to learn since most veterans will be more than happy to give advice and/or beat the crap out of you and expose the flaws in your playstyle.


That said, good to hear that you're enjoying it. I'd recommend getting through the PvE, checking out the tips section in practice mode, practice your combat style's ability and feinting, and then hopping back into PvP. It's a tough learning curve but incredibly rewarding, and us veterans are here to help if you need it on steam, reddit or discord.

[omni]

Originally posted by Luna Wolf:

Originally posted by Athenex:

Its been allot of times since I wanted to get absorver but everytime the game seemed death maybe this freeweekend it will live?

On the Steam community hub if a game has over 300 players at the time it will show the amount of players online on the top left, if under 300 no number will show. This being said, according to Steam this game was "dead" before the free weekend.

https://steamcharts.com/app/473690

how does that means its dead?
dead implies no one plays it
people play it
its not dead

[obliviondoll]

It was "dead" in the sense of not having its playercount shown on Steam because it's below the 300 player threshold. Not in the sense of being ACTUALLY dead. For many games, 300 is a "death" level, because with 5v5 gameplay (common in MOBAs), that means a maximum of 30 concurrent games. With Absolver, hitting 300 players means 5x that number of matches, so 300 Absolver players is the equivalent of 1500 LoL or DotA players Also, it's an EXCEPTIONALLY long match if it lasts 10 minutes in Absolver, so after a loss, you haven't thrown away an hour's worth of effort on a couple of mistakes.

[Prince Vegeta]

https://steamcharts.com/app/473690
I was curious too, looks like it's what most people would consider a dead game.

[obliviondoll]

Originally posted by Outlaw Star:

https://steamcharts.com/app/473690
I was curious too, looks like it's what most people would consider a dead game.

That's because "most people" judge a game on the assumption that it's at least a 5v5 MOBA and recently possibly on the basis of it being a 50+ per match battle royale game. And on those games, 150-ish players as a peak concurrent playercount in a day IS dead. But in an indie fighting game community, even 100 player in a DAY - let alone peak concurrent playercounts 50% higher than that - are considered stable communities where you can regularly find unique opponents.

[Mr Fister]

Originally posted by Seán:

Originally posted by Luna Wolf:

On the Steam community hub if a game has over 300 players at the time it will show the amount of players online on the top left, if under 300 no number will show. This being said, according to Steam this game was "dead" before the free weekend.

https://steamcharts.com/app/473690

how does that means its dead?
dead implies no one plays it
people play it
its not dead

i literally explained that in the reply you quoted?

but i guess what he said...

Originally posted by obliviondoll:

It was "dead" in the sense of not having its playercount shown on Steam because it's below the 300 player threshold. Not in the sense of being ACTUALLY dead. For many games, 300 is a "death" level, because with 5v5 gameplay (common in MOBAs), that means a maximum of 30 concurrent games. With Absolver, hitting 300 players means 5x that number of matches, so 300 Absolver players is the equivalent of 1500 LoL or DotA players Also, it's an EXCEPTIONALLY long match if it lasts 10 minutes in Absolver, so after a loss, you haven't thrown away an hour's worth of effort on a couple of mistakes.

[dLinden]

50~100 players daily isnt really alive.... Just go F2P because this weekend thing isnt going to make it grow after it end.

[obliviondoll]

Originally posted by dLinden:

50~100 players daily isnt really alive.... Just go F2P because this weekend thing isnt going to make it grow after it end.

50 - 100 players isn't really alive. Except that it was consistently 150+ on a daily basis. And that's (still) 150+ in a game where that's more like 1500 players compared with the usual standard people measure your playercount against.

[Mr Fister]

Originally posted by obliviondoll:

Originally posted by dLinden:

50~100 players daily isnt really alive.... Just go F2P because this weekend thing isnt going to make it grow after it end.

50 - 100 players isn't really alive. Except that it was consistently 150+ on a daily basis. And that's (still) 150+ in a game where that's more like 1500 players compared with the usual standard people measure your playercount against.

You are clearly just a fanboy. Stop lieing. https://steamcharts.com/app/473690
Fuccin aye m8 in april they didnt even get to 150 PEAK players let alone avg.