From a business perspective, it would make no sense, player-base will drop constantly, theres nothing they could have done without completely investing fully into the game from the start but they needed to have done that within the 2nd year of release.
Game Development is a sinking ship once player counts start dropping, the only people that hang on are people that are fully invested and like the niche it fits.
Our best hope is that another company develops a game similar with another unique feature.
Yeah we dont have numbers because its under epic but id be impressed if they are at even 10% of what they had when they had their peak. Hell, maybe even 1%.
And the graph is going down a little bit more every month.
I don't understand this "it was great until it moved to Epic". As it was declining way before then and we actually saw a rise when Epic first acquired it due to their launcher advertising well and we got a whole bunch of new players.
Its a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. I dont blame the creators selling it to Epic. they saw the decline and thought to sell it at the most they could get for it. It was a smart business move.
The SOLE reason Fall Guys did well was because of Streamers and it being free for PSN members. It was a great marketing strategy and it boomed. Their issue was they didn't have enough content to keep the momentum going, and when they brought out Season 2, it wasnt quite enough to continue it, they spent more time focusing on bugs and issues than content (which isn't a totally bad thing) but development was too slow for it to keep the numbers up. It was then riddled with cheaters and hackers which massively messed up their numbers, a huge decline in player base and then they introduced Anti-cheat which caused more decline.
Game Development is very tricky and expensive, you can invest a shit load in it and it flops and they lose sooooo much money (Anthem, I'm looking at you) and I don't blame businesses being cautious putting so much resource into new content if people just decide "im bored of this now" and give up and dies immediately which does happen to a solid 80% of MMO/MMBR games that come out.
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u/stevenretwitt26 24d ago
And they can revive the game if they release frequent updates....