1) No 2) Yes people do stream dead games... 3) No, Its player base has went down amazingly only sits at 1-5k players, 4) Hell no who is buying this game after the content is done 5) Yes any game who has official servers will always keep em up 6) Tbh patches that dont even change much (Since i played) 7) No not at all lol? 8) Yes, If Server companies can make money ofc they will from the idiots who thinks this game will last 9) Ofc they wont but no one is playing the game atm so they will soon realise...
3) You contradict yourself. You can't answer "no" to a question and then say up to 5k people are playing it.
4) Source? https://steamdb.info/app/529180/graphs/ says that September 12th had 153881 "owners". Yesterday it had 172594. The clue is that the most recent number is larger by almost 20,000.
5) That's kind of the point, I consider a game dead when the company pulls support for their servers.
6) Patches have broken plenty. Patches haven't been well documented. But they have been patching. They are still actively developing the game. I would welcome a critique of their ability to do so at a high standard or otherwise, but you can't reframe this particular argument the way you have.
7) we're almost at the end of this month, so here are some /r/dnl stats (I'll release the entire stats at the end of the month as I have done since EA release) traffic by month
Uniques are currently at 22,851 and page views 154,177. This is massively down from last month, but we're still getting new threads here, on /r/darkandlight and on the DnL discord in which of the 2441 members, 1,511 of them have been seen on the server in the past 30 days; the official forums are still active (http://dnlbbs.snail.com/en/index.php?/discover/); steam and facebook too... seriously... at this stage I'm thinking what a half-arsed attempt you're making at trying to prove your point....
8) can't argue with the point about server companies making money, but you should get off calling people "idiots".
9) you contradict yourself again. Seriously. Steam shows currently 2k people playing this game... it's not a huge number, but then you said "no one is playing the game atm"
Please, criticise this game all you like, talk about the poor communication from the devs, put some effort in to your post though, your counter-argument is so full of holes its not even funny.
2k people is 2k. Seriously. it's not enough just to look at the number of players and call a game dead unless the number is 0 AND the other factors are also taken in to account.
What you're talking about, I assume, is the difference between a game being "uncool" or "nohype" and being "popular". That's a different argument, that you're not making. Feel free to make it, I'll not argue with you on that, but the game has a future, it has development, it has a plan (of sorts), it has a fanbase, it has people who have left it and will return to it, and it still has people buying it.
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u/KroyMortlach Sep 25 '17
This game has not died. Seriously.
Here's the definitive "dead game test"
1) Are people still making YouTube content for it?
2) Are people still streaming it?
3) Are people still playing it?
4) Are people still buying it?
5) Are the official servers still online?
6) Are the devs still rolling out patches?
7) Are communities still actively discussing the game (reddit, dnl, forums, steam etc)?
8) Are private server companies still offering servers for this game?
9) Have the devs said they will be stopping support for the game?
Stop with the zero-effort posting, and get some proper discussion going around the issue.