Is this game dead?

[trashhh"Zootubke]

I just randomly found the steam page of this game and im impressed. I would like to invest some time in game, but im afraid that it's dead already or will be dead in a moment. Can u tell me more? Is it like hearthstone where u can drop every card or u have to buy cards etc.?

[Roland the Thompson Gunner]

The game isn't dead, but developers try very hard to kill it. Nevertheless, it is the best CCG in WW2 setting and it still has decent playerbase. As for cards — you can craft them or buy booster packs (with in-game or real money). Also the game has achievement system which rewards you with packs and in-game money, but be prepared for rough start because a lot of people have complete or almost complete collections.

[gaoyuan.ray]

You cannot drop the card, except it is a gold one. All cards can be collected through completing every days' mission even it should be slow. However, the player is decreasing now. All data is here.
https://steamcharts.com/app/544810
Hope you enjoy the game, I like its background but hate the unbalanced cards design.

[Hisendam]

The game is developed by a small indi company that seems to have serious problems setting up a professional infrastructure. E.g. the mobile release was originally scheduled for early this year and was postponed to next year (if it will ever happen at all given all of the missing stuff like reconnect features, regional servers etc.). As the game is only playable via steam, you can find a pretty excact player number here: https://steamdb.info/app/544810/graphs/

[Complex Strategy]

Originally posted by Hisendam:

The game is developed by a small indi company that seems to have serious problems setting up a professional infrastructure. E.g. the mobile release was originally scheduled for early this year and was postponed to next year (if it will ever happen at all given all of the missing stuff like reconnect features, regional servers etc.). As the game is only playable via steam, you can find a pretty excact player number here: https://steamdb.info/app/544810/graphs/

Do note covid19 shut down a lot of the world for several months so it's likely that really messed up the planned schedule for what they were going to release. Seems unfair to just say it's the devs fault for stuff getting delayed during these times.

[Hisendam]

Originally posted by Complex Strategy:

Originally posted by Hisendam:

The game is developed by a small indi company that seems to have serious problems setting up a professional infrastructure. E.g. the mobile release was originally scheduled for early this year and was postponed to next year (if it will ever happen at all given all of the missing stuff like reconnect features, regional servers etc.). As the game is only playable via steam, you can find a pretty excact player number here: https://steamdb.info/app/544810/graphs/

Do note covid19 shut down a lot of the world for several months so it's likely that really messed up the planned schedule for what they were going to release. Seems unfair to just say it's the devs fault for stuff getting delayed during these times.

Well it might depend on the level of professionality. I am working at a software development company with round about 1200 employees and we did not experience any real problems keeping our productivity up with most people working from home.

[Deadbridge]

What you wonder is if you have to wait for next oponent? No you dont =) 60s tops at almost every moment at the week. At most waitingtime reaches 90s, where you will be offered to battle vs AI, if you try to match at very late nights european time (like 1am on a tuesday). If this ever occour - dont choose to play vs AI - Wait five more secs and there is always a match waiting for you. =)

Second question about if this i a p2w? I bought a "beginners set" with 10 packs for 19dollars. Its not needed but based on how much I imidiately loved this game it felt right to sponsor. Some mention the grind as slow but I would rather say its absolute perfect. Its not that hard to grind one pack / day if you fulfill daily quests. Or you can always do as I do - Grind up to a draft =) A draft costs 1,5 packs (grind money) but you will get alot more playtime for what you buy. At worst, if you 0-3 and fail hard on a draft you will still get one pack and probably 2 grindmoney (it means 1,2 packs at worst when you pay 1,5packs).

If you like hearthstone you should try this - its better ;)

[Complex Strategy]

Originally posted by Hisendam:

Originally posted by Complex Strategy:

Do note covid19 shut down a lot of the world for several months so it's likely that really messed up the planned schedule for what they were going to release. Seems unfair to just say it's the devs fault for stuff getting delayed during these times.

Well it might depend on the level of professionality. I am working at a software development company with round about 1200 employees and we did not experience any real problems keeping our productivity up with most people working from home.

It’s impossible to truly tell unless a dev straight out says it. However, based on my understanding it’s a pretty small group of people (I think like 15 or so) and an even smaller group of actual devs so even if some of them could work from home, some of them not being able to could really mess with them developing.

Again it’s all speculation but I don’t think it’s that unfair to say a small Indy dev has to delay because of something like COVID.

[Lensar]

I'm in third place overall right now. If that isn't a sign of a dead game, I'm not sure what is. :p

[Berni de Balle]

Originally posted by Deadbridge:

What you wonder is if you have to wait for next oponent? No you dont =) 60s tops at almost every moment at the week. At most waitingtime reaches 90s, where you will be offered to battle vs AI, if you try to match at very late nights european time (like 1am on a tuesday). If this ever occour - dont choose to play vs AI - Wait five more secs and there is always a match waiting for you. =)

Second question about if this i a p2w? I bought a "beginners set" with 10 packs for 19dollars. Its not needed but based on how much I imidiately loved this game it felt right to sponsor. Some mention the grind as slow but I would rather say its absolute perfect. Its not that hard to grind one pack / day if you fulfill daily quests. Or you can always do as I do - Grind up to a draft =) A draft costs 1,5 packs (grind money) but you will get alot more playtime for what you buy. At worst, if you 0-3 and fail hard on a draft you will still get one pack and probably 2 grindmoney (it means 1,2 packs at worst when you pay 1,5packs).

If you like hearthstone you should try this - its better ;)

[Keyser Băsoze]

I definitely had more fun with it a few months ago before the actual full release, I think the balance and matchmaking were better then and you had a chance to get something out of PvP matches, maybe because there were more people still learning it, now as a new player the PvP is simply not worth playing because it's impossible to win anything, so you end-up just grinding to put some cards on the table and reach some number goals that give you modest rewards. And there isn't much of anything else in there.

It's free, so try it, but not really worth the time I think. When / if they release the Mobile version there's probably going to be a surge of new players for a while, but overall I don't think the game will get anywhere.

[Hackelgeorg]

I had quite some fun in the last seasons with pvp/ranked. But this season matchmaking is absolutely ridiculous. I got to FM easily with my 3 nations where I have the right elites. But with the other nations its currently impossible to get to FM for me with a W:L rate of at least 1:3 while I was easily able to reach FM in the last seasons with all nations. I am usually on par with my enemy and then getting drowned in elites.
WIth the seemingly low player count matchmaking is currently just broken. I have given up to reach FM with all nations and just do the daily missions.
Also the decks I am encountering are getting more and more frustrating with most of them being brit commando/HQ hp regen ,rush or resistance decks.
Those are just my 2 cents.

[Kane]

Originally posted by Riot:

I just randomly found the steam page of this game and im impressed. I would like to invest some time in game, but im afraid that it's dead already or will be dead in a moment. Can u tell me more? Is it like hearthstone where u can drop every card or u have to buy cards etc.?

Game isnt dead. But... Just like you I just started out a week ago. I advice u to leave it. Its full of rusher decks. You'll be playing against the same decks again and again.

[Lensar]

It's like their UI dev quit after the game launched.

Maybe they've been focusing on the campaign stuff, but it seems like no one in the dev team has any love for the UI. Changes in officer club rating/ranking points isn't shown after match, while they put tons of effort in buttoning up the achievements and daily reward notification system. When you have over 2,000 users that make it to the officers club each month, there is zero excuse not to focus on improving the OC experience.

Perfect example of the lack of love: The stupid end-of-turn countdown has been broken from day one. Anyone who plays the game, sees the mildly annoying issue where it not properly reset at the end of turn/end of match, and carries over to the next turn/match. Is it a blocker bug? No, of course not. It's just mildly annoying. But to any dev that is actively playing the game each day, that's the type of annoying quality of life changes that devs bug the ♥♥♥♥ out of their pals to fix. And therefor, gets fixed.

So either their UI guy/girl left, or that none of the devs with any influence play the game regularly.

(Who really knows? Maybe they've been hard at work on a full UI rebuild that will come out any day)

[Garuda]

Originally posted by Lensar:

I'm in third place overall right now. If that isn't a sign of a dead game, I'm not sure what is. :p

Gratz for being 1st place atm!!! :-)
However it is still the beginning of the season. If you can remain in the top 50 until end of season, I will be truly impressed!

[Spursy]

its dead because they added a campaighn mode so i cant find any players to play with lol