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How long will GoI last? What happend to May players?

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Redorio diVario:
I'm beginning to get a bit worried about the game. I've started playing GoI on April 21 and at that moment when playing usually about 21:00 - 23:00 (GMT+2:00) game had about 80-150 players waiting. In May there was this sudden influx of players caused by YouTube advertisements by known game reviewers. Average number of players waiting at that time was about 400 reaching sometimes even to 1000 or more. But now I don't see them. When I've been playing recently (well I don't play every day but let's say 4 times a week) I've noticed again just 70-150 players waiting. What happened to those players from may? Where are those 1000? Or even 500? And if they left then why?

That rises another, not really pleasant, question: What is the lifespan of GoI? How long will the skirmish mode be fun? Adventure mode is planned on July 2014, right? Does the current game really have content to provide fun for over a year to majority of players? It's normal to say that, as everything, GoI can get boring after a while. I'm already noticing it with my friends. I started to play GoI with 9 friends. After a month only 3 of them are still playing it. Maps are slowly getting known, same with ships. Are there enough ideas for skirmish to be released before Adventure Mode in order to keep the game entertaining?

Because if no, then... is there any pessimist scenario?

Imagine:
After every spurt of advertising, sale, whatever, there will always be a spike in player numbers, followed by a dropoff a few weeks later. People's gaming attention span is always split between many different genres, types, so this should come as no surprise, in fact I'd say that a 1/3 retention rate among your friends is actually a pretty damn good amount. I wouldn't worry about it too much, even if Adventure mode isn't for another year new maps are getting released all the time, and we'll be finding ourselves with a new ship fairly soon as well.

Let me put it this way, when I bought and played this originally many months ago, there was maybe at the most 10-20 people in the lobby at a time, the numbers that are around now are far superior.

PzychoDude:
i can only speak for myself but i'm not playing much atm cuz i wait for a new patch to arrive. could be the same for many people i guess...

Squidslinger Gilder:
Actually the game is a lot healthier than it was when I got it. When I got it back at the beginning of the year you'd be lucky to find more than a dozen people on. Then the Russian invasion hit and sales came. Populations around those times have really jumped. You don't really get a sense of it because the lowbie matches sorta hide half the population from the others.

The patch did impact some. 1.2 has been probably the messiest patch I've seen since I started. Partially because that massive surge hit and the servers tanked. Then theres just retention rate. Out of all the copies I've gifted, at least 2 ship crews worth + my original 4 pack. Only 2 of them kept playing. Rest tried it, then went back to other games. At least one had game ending bugs which crashed his game every time. I told him to contact Muse on it but he's more involved in CS:GO so he just never did. One got in a dozen hours or so then wrote a bad recommendation of it and went back to heavy CoD playing so that tells you a lot about his attention level.

Echoez:
I don't realy write this happily, but honestly, this game will probably never be widely popular despite how much I want it to be. People today just lack the attention span to play anything that requires even half the teamwork levels of GoIO, most will just join in, get owned and leave without even trying to improve cause they are too spoiled by every second generic shooter out there that doesn't require your brain to work at optimal levels to perform well at it. Basically, GoIO is just not as casual as your average game, it sure looks like it, but it isn't. People will just go to their 'main game' after some matches and it's realy sad.

At least that's what happened with most of the people I know, out of the 7 people that bought it, only 2 of them play it anymore and only if I personaly ask them to, so that's enough to prove to me that they aren't realy interested by themselves and just do it to play a game with me, nothing else. One of them said it got boring like anything else 'we tried' and went back to just playing League of Legends like most of them did.

We have been playing that damned game for over a year now and I've already been fed up by how fucked up MOBA games are since DotA 1 for pete's sake, I'm so sick of that game so I'm realy happy I found GoIO at least.

/rant

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