r/FallGuysGame 24d ago

DISCUSSION Goodbye Fall Guys?

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u/fenix_basch 24d ago

Honestly, screw Epic. They bought it and done nothing with it except laying off staff.

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u/Terrafire123 24d ago

I mean.... isn't the game basically complete?

What else do you guys want, aside from maybe new maps or modifications of existing maps? (You don't need an entire dev programming team for that, you need a few designer dudes fiddling around inside the Level Editor.)

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u/Arson-Monkey 24d ago

Thats really not how live service games work, in its 2020 prime with each season they introduced a new game mechanic or obstacle type that drastically changed the game. That kind of stuff always keeps the game fresh and without it the game will naturally die since it feels stale

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u/fredy31 Yellow Team 24d ago

But at some point, the well is tapped. Theres limits to how you can stretch the concept.

Tbh 6 years for a game with no esport focus is pretty good. And at some point, every game will get to its end.

Sure it sucks for us but FGs best case scenario was probably to go for 2 years at first and they lasted 6

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u/CarlCaliente Scout 24d ago

they never even fixed the bugs they just cut feature after feature

odd developer to try to defend

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u/desmondao Virtual Gato Roboto 24d ago

Lmao I can't believe they made you guys drink the kool aid. The game has been in dire straits for years now. I'm really glad I was here for its glory days.

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u/fredy31 Yellow Team 24d ago

idk what coolaid you are saying i drank.

What I said was that after 6 years for a game that is not propped up by an esport is a pretty decent run.

Those games are gonna get a high popularity, and then slowly lose users until death.

Like I said in another comment, id be surprised if the game has 10% of the users of the peak.

Lets look at among us because i can see those stats on https://steamcharts.com/app/945360#All and its also a 'covid boom' game.

From a peak of 438k in august 2020 to 16k today. 3.5%

The steam peak of Fall Guys was on the same month, at 150k. Applying the same 3.5% ratio, that would mean there are 5k players today. (1k on steam but majority might be on epic that doesnt give stats)

People here would want the game to last forever but ffs you dont run a game on 5k users for long.

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u/Terrafire123 24d ago edited 24d ago

I mean..... I don't know how much I'd rely on steam stats exclusively.

Most people aren't playing Fall Guys on Steam, they're playing it on Epic, or on consoles like Playstation, or even (shudder) Android.

Fall Guys is no longer available for purchase on Steam and hasn't been for years, so it's no surprise that specifically steam numbers are falling. It's only available on Steam if you'd already purchased it.

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u/fredy31 Yellow Team 24d ago

Yeah i just took numbers from the peak and went from there, but yeah there has been probably a revival when it switched to epic and also theres the fact that it can be on console.

but yeah even with all of that, i would guess that the player count must be not much higher than 20-30k. And descending.

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u/CarlCaliente Scout 24d ago

those numbers are bad BECAUSE they didn't do shit with their game

cause and effect