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Banning Hammer
Tal-Romon Legion
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.09.14 20:51:00 -
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I don't know about you, but i do play games after work, and i imagine kids play games after school too. The "summer" excuse was weak too, i only have 2 weeks summer break and kids don't go on holidays for a full 2 months. You always have more people playing in the weekend, simply because people have more time to play.
Hopefully now that the game mechanics are getting better, the aiming is getting more and more balanced, and the matchmaking is starting to work, we will start to see the player-base getting bigger and stronger. |
Banning Hammer
Tal-Romon Legion
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.09.14 22:23:00 -
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Lance 2ballzStrong wrote:17th of September and 1st of October will be the test for DUST... and it's one I predict will show a huge drop in player count.
I don't think so, GTA 5 is going to have little or not impact in Dust 514. The biggest danger have already gone pass:
"FINAL FANTASY XIV"
Next one is BF4. |
Banning Hammer
Tal-Romon Legion
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.09.14 22:54:00 -
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Lance 2ballzStrong wrote:Banning Hammer wrote:Lance 2ballzStrong wrote:17th of September and 1st of October will be the test for DUST... and it's one I predict will show a huge drop in player count. I don't think so, GTA 5 is going to have little or not impact in Dust 514. The biggest danger have already gone pass: "FINAL FANTASY XIV" Next one is BF4. When The Last Of Us came out, the player count dropped badly. Then slowly went back up. GTA5 has 2 weeks of SP, then MP is introduced on the 1st. So basically a month of steady GTA5 gameplay. After that is PS4 in November. DUST will see allot less people from next week Tuesday till whenever / if ever people feel like playing a last gen game. A sub par one at that. Not even hating on DUST, just stating how it is.
In principal Dust 514 still is a MMO, even that we don't really have the MMO part of the game yet. GTA games are always the same, you have fun for about a week and then you get bore with them... so, not really a danger.
Battlefield 4 is a different story, is closer to Dust 514 than GTA 5 is. That is a real danger, but even then, it is hard to compare MMO's with Normal games, two different animals. I personally think FF14 "was" the biggest danger, and Dust survived, just about. |
Banning Hammer
Tal-Romon Legion
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.09.14 23:10:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:FF14 impact was more significant on the PSN stress more than anything. Diablo III did take a notable chunk out though then combining it with the shortly following 1.4 did compound things a bit, but numbers are crawling back up. This is either an influx of newer players getting back in and staying in or old vets giving it another go. Its hard to tell without unique numbers that is not provided (and its a bad dream away from ever happening in any mmo to be made public api accessed)
Yes you right, i forgot about Diablo III.. but by my experiences with Diablo games, the "fun" don't last long, and i still prefer playing games like that in the PC anyway. If CCP somehow can put itself together, and start to deliver the MMO content a bit faster, i can't see why the player-base could increase very fast, very quickly. |
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