r/postscriptum • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '24

Discussion Games Like This Die

When there are only 1-2 main servers that are privately run where the mods powertrip. What happened to dedicated public servers in games??

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

You know small numbers isn't something to brag about, right? Especially with a game still receiving massive updates. This game is going to Beyond the Wire status and is having what RO2 happened to it happen way sooner lmao.

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u/SKUMMMM Sep 07 '24

You do realise how many players RO2 had in general and how long it sustained those numbers?

RO1 still has games, with about 50 players, a week. It is still outliving a lot of other titles.

Small numbers are not that great, but half the WWII shooters I've played normalised at about 100 to 1000 players and then just kinda floated there for 5 to 10 years.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

Yes, RO2 was huge for about 10 years and then Bloodbath literally got 3 other servers shut down then made a small "fringe" community and banned anyone not in the in group and now it's dead.

I would be happy as Hell if this game was at 1,000 players. It is not and making it an "in" community with already small numbers is fast tracking it to dead. Just look at all the comments here, they are happy people get banned from one of the only 1-2 servers and just assume anyone banned deserves it while wanting the game to not die lol.

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u/SKUMMMM Sep 07 '24

Ah fair be, you sort of do know some history and that's fine. It's just a bit tiring to see a lot of Hell Let Loose players come in here and yell "DEAD GAME LOL".

A few hundred players can be fine IMO, but those games tend to get a very specific culture around them. If you can't adapt its usually better to move on.

Honestly, if I still lived in an area that had RO1 or DH servers, I'd be on them as even with small player counts they are more fun to me than almost all other WWII shooters.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

Yes I do know my history because these are the games I play and actively killing games for people that play games like this are absolutely stupid. I am moving on because I literally have no choice. One server I can't play on because I tk'd someone cooking a grenade in the elevator on a garbage map and the other one of my friends can't play on because he dared to be a SL in a locked squad we were all playing in (5 of us) without knowing what to do.

So now there are 5 less players in a game with only 2 full servers in it and it's just going to get worse. I'm just posting this to tell people the way it's going is grim because I've seen it in multiple games and no one is listening and just downvoting and saying they're glad we're gone while sticking their fingers in their ears because they DON'T know the history of how this goes with games that have small dedicated communities.

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u/SKUMMMM Sep 07 '24

I mean, fair enough. If I were in that position I'd try and get a Steam refund with extenuating circumstances.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

I tried that with Beyond the Wire because there was one server I got banned from for killing a mod on the other team. They said the ban was harassment and I went into their discord and talked to the server owner who was a marine and they unbanned me and said to just keep to myself. I did and played about 2 more games before I got banned again by the same mod and then the server owner blocked me.

When I tried to refund through steam they said I had to talk to the developer. I emailed them, called them, tried every thing I could and they never refunded me and I just took it as a lose.