*Goes to search for Interstellar Marines* http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ Not even in the list with the last game having 1000 players.
Most people that prefer FPS can't stand MOBAs such as myself. People getting bored of a game means a slow decline, this decline looks fast to me. There is absolutely no reason for player counts to drop after summer this year when it has increased every other year before this unless something is really wrong. And that thing is Valve removing community servers from quickplay. On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Rudy Bleeker <[email protected]> wrote: > Team Fortress 2 is now almost 7 years old. That means it's player base > has also aged. Those who played it often in high school/college when > they had plenty of spare time might have graduated, gotten jobs and > something called a "life" and simply gotten too busy to play TF2 on a > regular basis. This, together with the release of new FPS games like > Interstellar Marines, and plenty of MOBA games to virtually kill > others in a competitive or casual manner (including Valve's very own > Dota 2), might account for the slow but steady decline of concurrent > TF2 players. It's still having it's occasional ups, but I think we'll > see a downward trend on the whole. > > This is just a hypothesis of course, but I'm speaking from the > experience of myself and my friends, who used to play TF2 a lot but > don't anymore, as much fun as it used to be. When we have time to play > a game in the evenings it's usually Dota 2 nowadays. > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Robert Paulson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Are you fking serious? The kind of players that play FPS like TF2 have > very > > little overlap with mmos. If you have actually watched player counts > like I > > do, you would know this. The release of Mists of Pandaria and Guild Wars > 2 > > pretty much had 0 impact on the TF2 player count. > > > > The TF2 collapse has been happening since February and Wildstar just > > released 2 days ago... > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Lyrai <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> There's Wildstar, which just came out, and is an MMO. Final Fantasy 14 > is > >> apparently doing very well, and just had a minor content patch. Both of > >> those are things I'd blame for loss of player count, before this Chicken > >> Little screaming. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > >> please visit: > >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > -- > Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. > - Floyd Dell > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >
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