Is the online dead??

[Jonathan Harker]

I want to buy this game, but I don't know how many people still play it

[Argstein]

there is a good-sized community of players that still play the game. only trouble is that the in-game matchmaking system is supposedly region locked, so instead of searching matchmaking in-game as you typically would, you'd have the best luck joining one of the MvCI steam groups and adding players from there and elsewhere to create private lobbies with them since the private lobbies ignore the region lock

a trick is that if you set your Steam Download Region to a well-populated area in the USA you should be able to find matches normally, but you may have some lag depending on how far you actually are from there

[Sp00kyFox]

https://www.reddit.com/r/mvci/

https://discordapp.com/invite/X3K7AN2

[Zero-ELEC]

Not many people play it casually, you need to organize playing to be able to play people. Join the discord to organize better.

Początkowo opublikowane przez asdfwasdf:

there is a good-sized community of players that still play the game. only trouble is that the in-game matchmaking system is supposedly region locked, so instead of searching matchmaking in-game as you typically would, you'd have the best luck joining one of the MvCI steam groups and adding players from there and elsewhere to create private lobbies with them since the private lobbies ignore the region lock

a trick is that if you set your Steam Download Region to a well-populated area in the USA you should be able to find matches normally, but you may have some lag depending on how far you actually are from there

This is wrong. There's simply not enough people to sustain casual matchmaking.

[Argstein]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zero-ELEC:

This is wrong. There's simply not enough people to sustain casual matchmaking.

this is wrong. it depends on your location and the time of day. also it would help if people weren't constantly saying that there's not enough players... then we might actually convince some new players to join, y'know?

[Zero-ELEC]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Zero-ELEC:

This is wrong. There's simply not enough people to sustain casual matchmaking.

this is wrong. it depends on your location and the time of day. also it would help if people weren't constantly saying that there's not enough players... then we might actually convince some new players to join, y'know?

Man, in the past month, the peak was 46 players at once, of which not all would be playing online at all and of those that were not all would be in matchmaking. Those are simply not enough people to sustain casual matchmaking, especially for someone starting out, since the few that are there matchmaking are probably much higher rank.

And sure if more people jumped online it'd be better but having one or two players buying the game, trying matchmaking and getting burned because they're just not getting matches is not going to increase the online population significantly enough to affect said matchmaking.

[Argstein]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zero-ELEC:

Man, in the past month

blahblahblah. as is evident by the frequent "is this game worth it?" topics, people flock here for reviews -- not one or two people, but everyone who is considering buying and knows about the steam forums. and this is what you have to tell them, putting out circumstantial statistics trying to make the game look bad. but you're obviously well aware of what you're doing.

as far as opponents in matchmaking being much higher rank, who cares about rank anyways?? and since when is that not just some cowardly excuse not to try a fighting game?

[Zero-ELEC]

Początkowo opublikowane przez asdfwasdf:

blahblahblah. as is evident by the frequent "is this game worth it?" topics, people flock here for reviews -- not one or two people, but everyone who is considering buying and knows about the steam forums. and this is what you have to tell them, putting out circumstantial statistics trying to make the game look bad. but you're obviously well aware of what you're doing.

"Circumstancial" statistics are all we have when we live in those circumstances. We're talking about people playing the game online and I'm citing the exact figures of people playing the game while connected to the internet. I'm not trying to make the game look bad, man. I don't have an agenda against this game. I wish this game got more content and support.

Also way to be rude?

Początkowo opublikowane przez asdfwasdf:

as far as opponents in matchmaking being much higher rank, who cares about rank anyways?? and since when is that not just some cowardly excuse not to try a fighting game?

... Do you not get that rank affects your matchmaking?

[Argstein]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zero-ELEC:

way to be rude?

thank you, it's what i do.

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zero-ELEC:

... Do you not get that rank affects your matchmaking?

if you're implying that you literally CANNOT be matched against people outside of your rank range, then no i was not aware of that nor do i believe that to be true. there is a 'beginner's league' matchmaking function for specifically that type of searching

[Redblaze27]

This is one of the most dead fighters on Steam in-terms of players playing at any given time, but I imagine you can find alot of people willing to play outside the game.

[Providence 777]

Początkowo opublikowane przez asdfwasdf:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zero-ELEC:

This is wrong. There's simply not enough people to sustain casual matchmaking.

this is wrong. it depends on your location and the time of day. also it would help if people weren't constantly saying that there's not enough players... then we might actually convince some new players to join, y'know?

It's far worse if they join, only to find they've been lied to, and they can't play online.

I love Red Faction, but I won't lie and say the game is alive online.

[Jonathan Harker]

So, the game at the moment only in groups like in discordapp I will find people...Well, I played the game in PS4 and I really wanted to play online in PC, but the future of the game is very dark, is sad, because I like the game more tha UMVC3, and if we know Capcom they can close the servers in any moment...

[Redblaze27]

lol, thinking this game has servers.

[Argstein]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Danteoni:

and if we know Capcom they can close the servers in any moment...

UMvC3 never got shut down, even MvC2 is still going apparently, so why would MvCI get shutdown? it's never gonna happen, MvCI will live forever like santa claus. Don't believe what that DBZ troll says in that other topic, it's just a hoax a bunch of people fell for.

[Zero-ELEC]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Danteoni:

we know Capcom they can close the servers in any moment...

that's not how things work

[Haise]

Yes, the online is dead.