-26000 players last month, what happened?

[Cartermanmcd]

Hi there, its been a while, as college came back and i got hired at my new job, i stopped playing battle bit last month, but i come back and see "the game is dead" check steam charts, over half the players left in august.

What happened? did the Dev's mess up? did people lose interest?

[guillermoelnino]

They banned everybody enjoying proxy chat.

[Phalanx]

School came back, jobs came back, early game hype died off, other games came out, people achieved their ingame goals, etc.

[Cartermanmcd]

Originally posted by Phalanx:

School came back, jobs came back, early game hype died off, other games came out, people achieved their ingame goals, etc.

I dont think its that simple, taking a quick look on steam charts, i've found that other popular steam games dont fluctuate as severely after summer/holiday season. (specifically gmod and black ops 3)

most lost maybe a few thousand, but not over half the playerbase in a month. (unfortunately, thats how much 2042 lost in a month)

[Dysthymic Aphrodite]

Because a lot of people are cheaters (shocker, people cheat when one of the worst anticheats is put into a game) and get banned, a lot of people spout racist ♥♥♥♥ as a "joke" and a lot of right wing conspiracy theorist types seem to play during the night ,which leads to arguments that end with people getting banned.

[guillermoelnino]

Originally posted by Shattered Reality:

Because a lot of people are cheaters (shocker, people cheat when one of the worst anticheats is put into a game) and get banned, a lot of people spout racist ♥♥♥♥ as a "joke" and a lot of right wing conspiracy theorist types seem to play during the night ,which leads to arguments that end with people getting banned.

Like I said they banned everybody enjoying proxy chat. It's so unfortunate that us 99% have to cater to y ou 1%ers sensitive sensibilities.

[★ BiGG FuNGuS]

It's because the games not fun. The maps are bad. The progression is slower than a snail. It's your generic Russia vs America kind of game and it's filled with about 10 hackers per server. Once you've played a few games, you've pretty much seen everything so there's no point continue playing after that.

[Vivianite]

maybe search "what happened" instead of making a new thread repeating the same questions

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Overwatch 2 Artwork page in Steam is enabled again that's why

[ɢᴇʀMAN]

Play a few rounds and you'll know what happened.
It feels like half the team is at the end of the map and sniping and everyone else is sweating.
Hardly anyone talks and when they do it's some kind of toxic crap.
The cool guys who made jokes are no longer there.
The next update will bring archiving and weekly tasks. So more people will sweat in.
I think it won't be long before more players will leave because of it.

The game has simply lost its fun and ease.

[fenrif]

Originally posted by Phalanx:

School came back, jobs came back, early game hype died off, other games came out, people achieved their ingame goals, etc.

"Jobs came back?"
Nice cope kid, but jobs don't go away for the summer.

[Cartermanmcd]

Originally posted by ɢᴇʀMAN:

Play a few rounds and you'll know what happened.
It feels like half the team is at the end of the map and sniping and everyone else is sweating.
Hardly anyone talks and when they do it's some kind of toxic crap.
The cool guys who made jokes are no longer there.
The next update will bring archiving and weekly tasks. So more people will sweat in.
I think it won't be long before more players will leave because of it.

The game has simply lost its fun and ease.

This seems like the most likely answer to this problem, toxicity was a problem from the start and the devs really didn't do anything until it was too late. The problem was only multiplied by FaceIT Controversy and the epidemic of cheaters and sweats.

[AHordeofBunnies]

The honeymoon ended. People played it long enough to see the flaws and realize they were too deeply embedded to be completely fixed. Example: the healing system that is so inefficient that a medic is better off ignoring downed teammates 90% of the time because they are needed in the fight

[FuturesEye]

Besides school, work and change of seasons being the reasons for a drop in player count. I don't think the discussion of cheats is valid. I have yet to run into a cheater. I've played 150 hours so far, about to be prestige 2. I think the problem is people run into players that are just better than they are and automatically assume cheats. That isn't a dig, just an observation, as I have yet to actually find a cheater in game. Instead of learning and improving like back in MW2 days, they will opt to click the report button or stop playing the game entirely. People are too soft now and lack the motivation to get better. Granted it is a Robloxesque FPS we are talking about but still the point stands. A shame really.

[FUMA 420]

because they throw random ass numbers eg. weapon clapping asscheeks from 0.91 to 0.91,5 and call it update. They nerf everything litle whiny asses want , no support progression , sniper glint visible from other galaxies, nerfing heli XDDDD, instead of making ar's usable they nerfed all smg which still ♥♥♥♥ you up if you use ar etc etc

[Cartermanmcd]

So im gonna conclude, the game lost its largest fraction of players, not because of one reason, but a variety.

- Devs missing the mark in terms of what the players actually want and just doing whatever they please
- Failure to communicate
- Censorship instead of freedom of speech
- Poor handling of community behavior
- Cutting costs in the worst ways possible

So TLDR, Devs brought the game back to square one without actually helping the community out, somehow made it worse in the process, more than 50% of the community left as a result.