Logged on today and saw the new major Order. Did we fuck up so badly Was the enemy so treacherous that we needed a MO on holding planets that were already ours or is something big coming (again)? What do you think/know?
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I suspect current drama has severely impacted player counts and we’re been getting a series of MO’s that are meant for the previous, higher amount of players.
I certainly haven’t been playing as much since the debacle.
I suspect the PSN requirement was just put off temporarily and they’ll ramp up efforts soon since Sony recently touted their earnings to investors for the quarter, now they’re free to make mistakes and problems.
Yeah, last night during US prime time, it was barely 100k. Huuuuge fall-off from peak numbers, but those are pretty low given the general commercial success of the game.
Sony may single handedly kill this game off.
I think their design philosophy is also probably playing a part in dropping player counts. The progression treadmill is severely hindered by their wish that weapons be weak to encourage players to depend on stratagems. Their passes are filled with lackluster guns and armor that isn’t really all that different from what players already have. They add a few new stratagems here and there, but not nearly enough to keep people grinding for new ones.
I would argue that a sizeable number of players can only grind out the same missions over and over with little tangible progression to show for it for so long.
That plus their ever growing pile of technical debt.
It seems too easy.
I suspect there will be a big offensive push on those planets that will challenge our liberation of them.I would expect to see more failed MO due to what everyone said here plus the natural player count decay. A weekend high of 40k concurrents should be when it stabilizes.
