This game is still alive? And is receiving updates while the newer iterations aren't?

[Sharkle_Bunwich]

Alright, help me understand. I played this game a fair bit back in the day. I heard about Dungeon Defenders 2 but heard it wasn't as good so I didn't really bother looking into it.

I realize on my Steam news feed this game, the original, has a Halloween event going on now as an actual new update. Alongside it, some goofy Presidential 2024 DLC. I see there's a new game, "Awakened," that released in 2020 that hasn't had an update since July. Dungeon Defenders 2's last update was some low effort Wizard 101 crossover in September. Yet Dungeon Defenders 1, a 13 year old game, is getting all the maximum effort content still?

What is going on with this franchise? What are the devs doing? I need the lore.

[Mez Koo]

I didn't play 2 but that's mostly because it seemed like another free to play microtransaction hell but after 2 seemingly flopped they tried to go back to DD1 to milk it.

Eternity was a terrible attempt at a "remaster" (it got delisted so that should be a hint) and Awakened tried to be a remake with "fresh gameplay" but felt unfinished and had so much less content than this one that people didn't bother.

Now after a community team kept DD1 afloat with community patches and Redux I guess the came back to squeeze more money out of it.

I totally forgot about Going Rogue which was another attempt at a DD1 remake, it is kind of sad.

[toasted]

TLDR: the dead remasters (Eternity and Going Rogue) did suck, but DD2 and DDA are way overhated. This game has an active community, and were able to convince the devs to allow community "staff" to host events, which quickly snowballed to more and more updates/content.
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essentially, they made DD1 so well that there is a pretty good sized group of people that still play this. while their attempts at remastering (Eternity and Going Rogue) were very lackluster and were quickly dismissed, they made DD2 and DDA. DD2 is much closer to an MMORPG than the "dungeon crawler" (kinda) we know today. While it is (in my opinion) much closer to accurately "remastering/a sequel" than others want to admit, the MMORPG vibe turns people away (I loved it, and there arguably a larger/active community for DD2 than DD1). As for the most recent, Awakened, I personally loved the game. It remastered it exactly how I would've liked, as well as put a very fresh "modern" spin on it while also adding a great amount of new content that still brought up the nostalgia. It did not get nearly popular enough as I think it should have, and very quickly died down since the community was very toxic at the time, and hard to find people to play with.
Overall, I would genuinely recommend playing DD2 as well as DDA if you are looking for a fresh "grind" and relive the nostalgia but with updated graphics/mechanics, but DD1 is definitely more than enough if you want to stay with what you know, and continue to grind on it.

[Fluffy Kitty]

Is anyone else though getting annoyed with the constant updates, we have had like 6 in the past three days and it's not as if it's optimised and patches easily so you waste around 30 minutes waiting each time.

one a week would be preferable