Player Count Rising as Expected

[jubal77]

Oh sorry my bad I didnt look at the correct numbers. Player count is rising for I:R and we will see how it goes.

[reiryc7]

Sorry what? EU4 has 1/3 the players of IR?

Right now I see 1600 ppl playing IR and 15k playing EU4.

[zorkman]

The fact they have got increased player base means they are doing something right, though the game still lacks depth. I want more than a simplified paint mapper.

[jubal77]

PDX 1.0 games are simplified map painters. Even EU4 was one. I edited my main post. That was my bad.

[David McMurdo]

It just needs to spike higher and retain that playerbase. I was shocked the other day when I looked at the playercount for Age of Wonders: Planetfall, It has plunged dramatically since release. Right now there are 772 people playing. That's kind of surprising because it had a great launch. Wonder what happened there. I mean I know it's not Paradox developed, but it was still published by them, and player reviews were pretty positive.

[jubal77]

I know that is the whole point behind " we will see how it goes". I imagine that PDX didnt expect the player count to remain high but they were happy with the sales numbers. People tend to jump from game to game these days. I liked Planetfall a lot. But it was shallower than this game was at release in variety. Game also has a fantastic base to build on though like this one does.

[arcain]

I see 1,8k players, which is not impressive for a major update.

[jubal77]

I mean it is. Its 4-5x what it was before. And those are the numbers on day one during the work day for the US.

[David McMurdo]

I played it for a bit earlier. It's fine, but I never really had a massive problem with the game anyway. It's just been really hard to retain my enthusiasm for it. Knowing that this big update was coming that completely changed the game killed any motivation I had to play it. I'll return to it at some point.

[Cass]

One week and will be the same 3-400 as before, the game is still just map painter.

[jubal77]

I always laugh at "just a map painter" line. As if it is a negative to be what all other games in your genre are.

[reiryc7]

Originally posted by jubal77:

I always laugh at "just a map painter" line. As if it is a negative to be what all other games in your genre are.

Some would like the game to be somewhat historically immersive as opposed to a map painter with a historical skin on top. Whether or not this is a reasonable desire is debatable but from my point of view, certainly understandable.

[jubal77]

Thing is I have yet to see a cogent argument against the historical immersion of this game compared to the others in the genre with proper context to make apples to apples comparison.

[reiryc7]

Originally posted by jubal77:

Thing is I have yet to see a cogent argument against the historical immersion of this game compared to the others in the genre with proper context to make apples to apples comparison.

I'm pretty sure one doesn't need to compare to another game to determine the historicity of this game based upon on its own merits.

[Siegfriedfr]

Originally posted by jubal77:

I always laugh at "just a map painter" line. As if it is a negative to be what all other games in your genre are.

The problem with IR is that beyond the skin, it never tried to make you feel like you're in antiquity.

There is no flavor to the game, it feels like a simplified EU4 mod with pretty graphics.

[Frondator]

Originally posted by jubal77:

Thing is I have yet to see a cogent argument against the historical immersion of this game compared to the others in the genre with proper context to make apples to apples comparison.

Rome Total War (the original) obliterates this piece of garbage. "But it's not apples to apples! Special pleading! REEEE!" Just watched Republic of Play. Game is still early access.