Steam's Deadlock just "officially announced" and "released"...in alpha...CLOSED alpha. You need an invite.
There are currently 55k people playing, with a peak of 64k. Heck, Deadlock had 30k before it was even announced.
Concord still (on Steam) hasn't cracked seven...hundred. Didn't even crack five hundred today, and is currently under three hundred on Steam.
Out of sick curiosity, I just did another comparison. CoD: Black Ops 3 (from 2015) still has 6k+ people playing at the moment, with a daily high of almost 10k. A game from 2015 has more than 20x the players, and 18x the daily peak.
And this is all despite ad campaigns plastering Concord banners everywhere. I don't recall ever seeing a launch quite this bad. I don't even know how they did it.
Reputation of what? Seems these days.. every damn dev team has at least 1 crazy tranny or commie telling off chuds.
You already paid them money so you dont really give them any more money.
I was looking through the negative reviews just now and holy shit, you play this game willingly? I'm trying to remember because it was such a long time ago but I think they got into trouble for some review shenanigans or some such but it seems they've gotten far worse now. Installation size increased to 89gb+ still runs like shit apparently, acquired by TenCent, developers being replaced by greedy fucks, it's like the company is being EA on steroids.
Also regarding not giving them anymore money, well this is where you're wrong because so many multiplayer games even if they originally started off okay are being turned into shameless live services now. Whenever you 'buy' a multiplayer game you're paying access to a live service rather than purchasing anything meaningful and the developers purely regard you as a vehicle for their microtransactions.
It's amazing looking through my steam library and seeing how every multiplayer game I used to be sort of okay with has turned into a total shitshow or is completely dead lol. Unless somebody can convince me I'm not touching multiplayer in the slightest, it's just not worth it.
I do agree it has been going slightly downhill, but mostly because of ICO. The infantry combat overhaul. Basically.. you have noodle arms where you cant steady aim and your vision gets super blurry when bullets go near you. And yes, game runs worse.
My bias against high fidelity games is growing stronger with every release and patch I see.