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Active Player Numbers Have Dropped Drastically On Steam

ShelassaShelassa MMORPG.COM Staff UncommonPosts: 616
edited July 2016 in News & Features Discussion

imageActive Player Numbers Have Dropped Drastically On Steam

Battleborn continues to struggle to find its audience as evidenced by the most recent Steam Chart that shows the average number of players each day hovering around 750. This number represents a 23% drop from the prior month's statistics.

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  • parpinparpin Member UncommonPosts: 220
    there are several other shooter games coming out in 2016-2017 , and might effect battlebron negatively, expect to see some of them die or survive with small number of players, not all of them going to be successful.
  • yonpachiyonpachi Member UncommonPosts: 191
    Well I guess they have become "Battledead" now
  • TintagilTintagil Member UncommonPosts: 214
    Tough break for Gearbox, but after playing OW I'm just not interested in Battleborn. If anything I'll go play some TF2.
  • MikehaMikeha Member EpicPosts: 9,196
    Is this a Moba or an Arena Shooter?
  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671
    Competing with Blizzard has always been a tricky thing, especially if its a fresh release. I did like how SE dealt with it with FFXIV verses WoW on both of their last expansions. WoD came out and Heavensward came out about 7 months later, which allowed most of the majors patches to be out for WoD (only 3 real months of content, so sad for WoD), so FFXIV could kind of snatch some of the WoW playerbase. Maybe if Battleborn had waited for the shine of Overwatch to come off after a few more months.
  • MikehaMikeha Member EpicPosts: 9,196
    edited July 2016
    Game is just not very good. 






  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    It seems that every time Gearbox try to do something outside of Borderlands they fail. Is that a sign that they are not really a good company to be making games? I wanted Battleborn but i wont be bothering with a dead game. They should stick to making more BL games, BL spin off, BL multiplayer, BL etc etc etc until people cant take it anymore and the franchise dies along with Gearbox.




  • KrightonKrighton Member UncommonPosts: 111
    Some very deep thoughts and concepts contained within these pages of text. I'm awe inspired.
  • LobotomistLobotomist Member EpicPosts: 5,980
    Hehe. When I told it will be so few months before release. Because of totally STUPID idea to ask 60$ for the game. Fanboys called me crazy.

    Every time...



  • MoiraeMoirae Member RarePosts: 3,318
    I stopped logging in to steam to play my games due to the forced updates. I have shortcuts to any games I want to play. I use mods with my games, and I got tired of the constant involuntary updates for all my single player games automatically breaking all my saves. 
  • maskedweaselmaskedweasel Member LegendaryPosts: 12,195
    Steam isn't the end all be all of success... the console versions still seem healthy but I don't play it that much these days.  

    I think it did a lot right,  but I also feel they could have done much better.  Melee still feels a little wonky for some characters, and some characters are just... unusable either in PvE or PvP.  Sometimes Both.



  • ArskaaaArskaaa Member RarePosts: 1,265
    hehehe
  • H0urg1assH0urg1ass Member EpicPosts: 2,380
    What blows my mind is that this is Gearbox, which is the same company that makes Borderlands. Borderlands is absolutely filled with interesting and well-loved characters.

    So why the hell they decided to make an ugly-as-sin game with ridiculous looking characters rather than use their existing material is beyond me.  I would absolutely love a hero shooter where I could play Zero, Maya, Mordecai, Dr. Zed, TK Baha, Sir Hammerlock, Scooter, Axton, Gage, Tiny Tina or even Claptrap.  In fact, I would probably rather play that game than Overwatch most days.
  • bartoni33bartoni33 Member RarePosts: 2,044
    I still think the $60 price tag killed it. Only epic games can ask that absurd amount and survive.

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  • yonpachiyonpachi Member UncommonPosts: 191
    Steam isn't the end all be all of success... the console versions still seem healthy but I don't play it that much these days.  

    I think it did a lot right,  but I also feel they could have done much better.  Melee still feels a little wonky for some characters, and some characters are just... unusable either in PvE or PvP.  Sometimes Both.
    The console userbase looks better than the PC version, but it’s not optimistic. Some players on console report they have to wait between 2 and 10 minute for matches. What’s worse, Battleborn lead writer and former Destructoid editor Aaron Linde has left Gearbox Software.
  • Panther2103Panther2103 Member EpicPosts: 5,777
    The game isn't awful. I had a lot of fun with it for a bit. They just had an extremely poorly thought out launch. They should have launched it either earlier if possible or way after Overwatch. Overwatch loomed over any game that launched anywhere near it, especially any team based shooter with a lot of characters to choose from, even if they aren't similar.
  • maskedweaselmaskedweasel Member LegendaryPosts: 12,195
    yonpachi said:
    Steam isn't the end all be all of success... the console versions still seem healthy but I don't play it that much these days.  

    I think it did a lot right,  but I also feel they could have done much better.  Melee still feels a little wonky for some characters, and some characters are just... unusable either in PvE or PvP.  Sometimes Both.
    The console userbase looks better than the PC version, but it’s not optimistic. Some players on console report they have to wait between 2 and 10 minute for matches. What’s worse, Battleborn lead writer and former Destructoid editor Aaron Linde has left Gearbox Software.
    I agree with that but to be fair, I played on the XB1 around launch and I always had to wait that long for a match.  I always thought it was a discouraging sign, but I think their matchmaking for console is just really really bad.



  • Xeno.phonXeno.phon Member UncommonPosts: 350
    This must mean that mobas are dead now! /s

    Another great example of saturation imo.
  • BigRamboBigRambo Member UncommonPosts: 191
    That's what happens when you release a identical game to Overwatch almost at the same time, was pretty obvious since day one BattleBorn was going to die with out the need of looking at any numbers, lol.  
  • Octagon7711Octagon7711 Member LegendaryPosts: 9,004
    Moirae said:
    I stopped logging in to steam to play my games due to the forced updates. I have shortcuts to any games I want to play. I use mods with my games, and I got tired of the constant involuntary updates for all my single player games automatically breaking all my saves. 
    You know you can disable updates for the games you don't want updated.  Right click on game in library, go to properties and you will see the update tab.

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  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,386
    Octagon7711 said:
    Moirae said:
    I stopped logging in to steam to play my games due to the forced updates. I have shortcuts to any games I want to play. I use mods with my games, and I got tired of the constant involuntary updates for all my single player games automatically breaking all my saves. 
    You know you can disable updates for the games you don't want updated.  Right click on game in library, go to properties and you will see the update tab.
    Yes you can disable it but I notice it starts updating regardless of me saying not to. This has happened a few times where I picked the option to only update when I launch the game and it updates games I am not even playing. 

    I think every time the steam client gets an update my preferences are disregarded.
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  • FrodoFraginsFrodoFragins Member EpicPosts: 6,050
    edited July 2016
    When did they start developing Battleborn? It seems like Overwatch certainly had an impact on their aesthetics but was that a last minute change by the devs?
  • gervaise1gervaise1 Member EpicPosts: 6,919
    As said it happens and it is up to Gearbox Batteborn to push back - if it can.

    LoL launched a new competition or whatever after OW launched. TF2 has launched something. What impact they will have ... shrug. They have to try however.
  • HatefullHatefull Member EpicPosts: 2,503
    edited July 2016

    Recore said:

    Is this a Moba or an Arena Shooter?



    Lobby Shooter, with a MOBA like mode I played this game quite a bit, but it is easy to get bored when you only have 2 maps per PvP mode and a really short and easy story mode. There is just no substance. They may as well just go F2P and let it die like it is going to anyway.

    If you want a new idea, go read an old book.

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  • DeltoisDeltois Member UncommonPosts: 384
    Shocking, not. OW is game of the year.
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