Babylon's Fall Steam Player Count Crashes, Dropped To 1 Concurrent Player Just 2 Months After Launch
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TOP PATRONS
[CIPHER]
- Joseph Lavoie
- Mick
[BIG BOSS]
- Coopster
- Devon B
- Jonathan Ball
- Sarano
[BOSS]
- Charlie Galvin
- Gerardo Andrade
- Michael Redmond
- Peter Vrba
- Time Dragonlord
[LEGENDARY]
- BattleBladeWar
- D Kurtti
- TacoBell Call911
- Theron Webb
Damn right!
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Lol.yea.yepp.
The developers won't even keep it alive
@@jamescorey3516 Never know that Babylon's Fall can be alive since it was so fallen from the start 😂
The True single player experience
Lolllll
Absolutely legendary comment.
That comment up there deserved an Oscar!
ok, best comment I've seen in a while
Lmao
Banging for that one guy. He gets a whole developer team to design a game exactly how he wants 'Based on player feedback'.
Godly comment 💀
ikr
and then is this one guy some bot
@@KiteDrache Most likely the bot of the dev team.
"based on player (singular) feedback"
Literally everyone: "NFTs suck! We don't want them in our games!"
Wall Street: "NFT market is collapsing _HARD."_
Squeenix: Considering investing in NFTs "This looks like a great idea. Let's do it!"
LMFAO facts
They didn’t just consider investing mind you, they went ALL IN. This was literally right before the crash too, so they sold studios and put countless amounts of cash into it only for the market to totally crash like two weeks later lol
What I find hilarious about the "live service" fad, is that companies never seem to understand the logistical nature of what they are asking for. There are only so many ppl playing video games and even fewer playing specifically live service games. You can not expect to have 100 different live service games with healthy populations.... That just isn't feasible or realistic to expect. You would have to top other live services in order to pull their audience away from them and into YOUR live service.
So you better be damn sure you have a better game than the competition if you are even gonna fucking try. Otherwise just do not do live service..... Pretty fucking simple. Everybody out here trying to be GTA Online levels of successful when they make worse games than even that of Destiny 2, the most successful live service outside of GTA Online.
Ridiculous....
No kidding. These companies are acting like they can replicate the initial runaway success of games like WoW without putting any actual effort into it.
Not only that but SE is basically cannibalizing their live-services. Babylon's Fall has to compete with FFXIV, Marvel's Avengers, Outriders, all also Square Enix's live services. Nobody will be able to keep up and waste money on every live service square enix puts out. So these services will eventually try to kill each other for a player base. Square Enix was insane trying to implement live services for every one of their games.
Your statement is such a brutal truth I really wonder why companies thought initially they could saturate the gaming scene with these type of games and think they would succeed, like...really?
@@davidm.schreckii1426 .the promise of a constant stream of revenue for little to no effort, if i were to guess why
They don't care how few people actually pay. If they catch a few Whales they can justify it.
There are people who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on FIFA microtransactions. They are only 0.0001% of players but companies will focus massive efforts into enticing them and only them.
Respect to that one player; the overall situation must suck for them.
It's sad
At least he is the best player playing? Idk
They should get a special achievement added to their profile from the developers.
@@iaqh "You've unlocked: Last Man Standing"
to be fair it's prolly a dev or beta tester.
2023 is going to be the year developers have to specifically state “Our game has zero NFTS” to gain our business.
Yes please let it happen
But we're sure to get instances of that where, a few months later, they'll add in some sort of NFTs. Look at how many games did that with microtransactions. Don't doubt how much certain publishers desperately want NFTs to become an accepted reality
Didn't a few devs already do that earlier this year?
I've been warning people that this will be the mentality of game companies since the E3 announcement of Xbox One and EA's usual shenanigans during that time, people laughed at me back then but now they just seem to be in denial or just ignorant of the principles that came before.
@@revolverswitch Too many people just didn't care back then, just give me my games. A lot has changed since then, it's nice to see people so vehemently opposed to NFTs. Just wait though, this is only more pushing of the line on what people will accept, just as has always been the case with game publishers since the words "horse armor" were first uttered
The message from the developers at 5:00 isn't for their customers, it's for their shareholders so they don't panic-sell their stock.
Ahhh that makes sense. 📉👨💼
I was about to say that any shareholder worth their salt would actually find funding a sinking ship a pretty dumb idea. Then again, the game got greenlit so I don't know what these guys are on.
The Live Service Model, ladies and gentlemen. Truly, the future of gaming.
and the corporations rejoiced! *... surprised pikachu face*
but when they see a disastrous game that is impossible to update throughout the time?
I blame fortnite and pubg and gta online those games have ruined the whole video game landscape every game company is trying to copycat their model of greed.
Seeing live service games fail brings joy to me. Hopefully game publishers get it through their thick heads that LSGs are not worth it.
@@brandonrice1124 don't forget no man's sky.
Obviously if Babylon's Fall had more NFTs it would be doing great now.
no. stop it.
Yeah obviously.
Indeed, SE failed to see the new trend. Should've made a ton of those NFT to save the sinking ship
@@superfalloutmario9642 Yes. They should have some funni monkey NFTs =^)
"If you are going to be sarcastic you should say so, so there is no confusion."
Adrian Chase/Vigilante
I personally use a handy sign, so people know.
That one concurrent player must have a soul of gold for putting himself through this mess.
It was me.....dont judge
Nahh it's the developer themselves! Bahaha
@@johnnyflannigan136 Man there are better things you can do with your time ... You could try something like... Drugs
It's probably a whale that spent over a thousand dollars and feels like he has to keep going
It's called stockholm syndrome
Companies : "Players do not want linear single player experience anymore."
Steam Player Count : "But... there are only 1... or should I say, single player in this *cough* Live Service *cough* ."
It wasn’t about the redundant “SP games are dead” it’s about how a company can churn out such a incomplete and garbage mess.
Technically player still don’t want linear experience, they want either relaxing games or hardcore
When people say that a game is dead when it really isn't, just show them Babylon's Fall.
I don't enjoy watching games failing so miserably, but sometimes they need to. To send a message to the publisher. I doubt SE will get it though.
Theyre just gonna blame Elden Ring like evryone else lol
*Insert Hardwired to Self Destruct lyrics*
Square wants to turn this comment into an nft
Of course not. They've been running a lot of their franchises into the ground trying to turn them into action RPGs. They did it to Front Mission TWICE within a decade.
Same here. It's just not funny anymore
I can't stop laughing at how much karma is hitting Square Enix right now; serves them right for chasing after NFTs, cryptocurrency, and microtransactions (RIP Chocobo Racing) 😆
Yeah and they sold so many famous ips like tomb raider, all for nft scams.
The child in me cries when remembering how much I love Squeenix games
The adult in me laughs at how much they are paying for their stupidity and greediness
It’s time for an acquisition just like how Activision blizzard is in a state of crisis and Microsoft saved it until next year square ENEX is next on the list to change
@@TalesZuliani Worse for me. I remember back when they were Square. Super Mario RPG was my first Square game.
What karma? It’s Plantinumgames that is gonna take a bigger hit. Square Enix is just the publisher. Plantinumgames were the ones who wanted to expand on live service games and they even open a studio i Tokyo for it. I am still waiting for Bayonetta 3. At this rate, if their next project isn’t gonna go well, they will be in deep trouble.
It's like all these dumb as companies looked at Anthem and was like, "hold my beer."
No, they all looked at Fortnite, and said. "It cannot be that complicated! Let`s rake the greens in...."
Not understanding why this game is successful in the first place. And that this kind of audience has only limited time. Playing that game already binds them to that game.
Babylons fall dropping to one player is just absolutely beyond embarrassing. I highly doubt that they wanna pump out seasons worth of content for a player base that’s non-existent.
That player ended up in a game format of "I am legend".
PS: Square selling all these IPs are great news. Someone else may actually do something with these franchises. Square soon will start pachinko business.
You can say they're becoming the next konami. (?)
At least Konami should be seeing more concurrent players with their pachinkos.
Also remember it could always get worse
that player ended up being going the route of overlord, I just hope they don't get trapped in babylon's fall that would be a horrible experience
*sees an nft poster*
"WHAT YOU DOING OUT HERE FRED!"
I've been saying this for years: Square Enix is a detriment to themselves and the developers they hire. There's insanely more risk to work with Square than publishing your own game at this point
It's not always the publisher that makes the final decision for awful games that flop. A lot of the time it's just the developer's fault. Platinum has said in interviews that they wanted to get away from doing licensed games just to survive. They placed their bet on Babylon's Fall to be a recurring revenue stream for themselves. Platinum games courted Square Enix to publish this game. Square Enix was just greedy and dumb enough to do it.
The problem is NFTs would only "help" a small minority who play the game as a job.
Otherwise it won't help anyone.
Its almost like a state lottery,
@@zztzgza You're not wrong at all, but since we absolutely know that Sqaure gets heavily involved with their developers (hence their heavy involvement in Avengers and it's shady business practices), they most likely happily agreed with Platinum here. Not saying Platinum is innocent, but SOMEBODY at the company should've stepped in and say that it was a bad idea. There's no way nobody didn't do that
@@GoodlyPenguin the qa team more than likely did that but, nobody listens to them.
@@Patrickf5087 crypto games are just feudalism.
Game Publishers: Single player games are dead!
Players: Time to take things into our own hands
*Looks at Elden Ring*
I can just imagine that one player trying to matchmake for hours 💀
That dude's like "Man, matchmaking takes a while..."
the 1 player on twitter showing that its him was hilarious
Link????
So even developers don't want to play their shit
@qtsssim what? im just a lowly guilty gear player. my channel is proof
I was just playing Guild Wars 1 last night, and I was a bit surprised that there was more people than before. Granted, there was the anniversary event but its a really old MMO. To have a game this brand new fall to just one player while a 2 decade old MMO is still pulling some people is embarrassing.
Just a reminder to everyone, this game was made my Platinum Games, known for one of the most influential character driven action games of all time and a brilliant series featuring everyone's favourite Nun in skin tight leather, a series would say is when they peaked.
I believe Humpty Dumpty was pushed off the wall instead of falling by accident, we all know what happened to Marvel's Avengers, I blame Square Enix for 80% of this shit-show.
No..it was the developers that made the shit game. It is not a good game with horrible micro transactions it is just terrible game in every way
@@samgoff5289 The developers aren't the ones who decided to scrap the game they were making and force it into being a live service deep into development, SE management did that. The devs didn't get a say in the matter, they wanted to make a single-player action game and were in the process of doing so until they were FORCED to change the entire game's design. The end result sucks because they had to hastily slap it together to get it out on time.
I prefer Metal Gear Rising. And you are correct why would they assign a studio to make a game outside their wheelhouse.
It would be like Fromsoft making Fortnite/PUBG clone.
Yeah if they could pull it off it will make a shitload of money. But anyone with any sense realises that they make Soulslike it's what they know and it's what they're best at.
Don't get any ideas Namco that wasn't a suggestion.
I do believe they've been treating Babylon's Fall a spiritual successor of Anarchy Reign with storyline. But since they're collaborating with Suq my Nixnix and their obsession for Fortnite wannabe, then we got this shitty game.
Greed. Greed never changes.
I wonder if that 1 concurrent player is that guy who made a steam review claiming they'd keep playing it to the end because they genuinely like it.
They're on Twitter I think
Samething happened with me and Lawbreakers...
That one player could be a beta tester, for all we know.
"IS THE CONTINUING SERVICE IN DANGER?
No"
Bruh you have ONE player! Lmao
Denial of facts over denial of service.
You know its bad when it makes Marvel's Avengers numbers look good.
Not gonna lie, that made me wince
The ‘1 concurrent player’, turns out to be ‘Let Me Solo Her’ (“Where’d everybody go?”). Any thoughts on the merits of the sentiment being expressed, that Square Enix’s recent ‘fire sale’, is designed to make them an attractive purchase for a major player (Sony?)?
I miss the days when games were made out of passion and pride.
Now it's CEOs pushing developers to monetize every inch of a game.
And now it's only made from "pRiDe AnD aCoMpLiShMeNt"
Stuff like this has always existed just look at early atari
And man if you think games have no passion anymore damn you must be out of touch because just look at elden ring
I feel a sense of pride and accomplishment :)
They are. By indie developers.
We found the most bored player EVER. Imagine being the last person playing a game.
I don't think it's boredom. I think he has a plan, a bold plan. But getting isekied also needs luck.
He’s probably enjoying the quiet time. Like Doc Ock in No Way Home.
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@@voidphilosopher42 .out of all places to be isekaied, not my first choice
@@ShadowsWrath4 overlord?
That one guy could be just a Reviewer "I finished Babylon's Fall so you don't have to"
Playstation and Platinum games both wanted to push out more live service games. Hopefully they'll eventually learn
PlayStation could actually make half decent live service games with a good budget and some help/supervision from Bungie. Plus not all live services are bad - the same SE made FFXIV which is arguably the best mmo game I have ever played.
@@anishbasak3117 Any big company "could" make decent live service games but they won't because it requires to much time, money and effort. Hence why for years now it's been complete flops. FF14 is an mmo it's to be expected with Mmo's but even within that genre the launches are bad to where the community has to wait 2-3 year till things get fixed. So yeah live service games just need to stop. We live in a age where triple A studio's want to make as much money as possible and as fast as possible. Their mindset won't work for the live service structure.
If this isn't a clear sign that we need more live service games with battlepasses, i don't know what is!
It is THE business model of the future!
You forgot the /s
I'd be good without live services as a whole, thank you very much.
But I guess battlepasses are GENERALLY better than most shit you see around.
@@theRealSlimGordon To this day i fail to see why people buy battle passes.
It's a regular fee you have to pay to get time gated content you then have to work for...
"We give them FOMO and make them work for it too"
It's just a concept i'll probably never understand, it just seems absolutely ridiculous...
@@MaverickHunterXZA Exactly! Battle passes are also a dirty trick to try and monetize the same content twice (or more) instead of selling a DLC.
Well yes and no, what battlepass do is gating contents and keep players in check.
However, in recent years, they become something like additional mini game or rewarding to those who have more time playing games.
Gaming already reach the general audiences and now they start to sink again into smaller groups. You have more selections of things to play. Single player games always has an end so those who want to spend only to play one product will need to find more environment for them.
We technically don’t see a lot of B2P one time games nowadays rather than something with dlcs. The tech is the same, only the contents are different. Hence the best games are the ones that live longer than having a short cycle and need to pump out often or ppl just bore and leave.
It’s interesting that online service games are better communicate than single player titles. You can hate that ppl are buying into those f2p with micro transaction games but they all have some points that it can roll big or small with a high risk than traditional gaming market demand.
Pretty much, if a single player title fail on launch. They might just get half of the way through for the next big thing (advertisement might work but not as you can get cheaper prices and stuff).
The only genre that should be a live service is mmo, which apparently with how social media work nowadays. I would take that a yes because you can technically play games on your fucking phones.
Video games aren’t restricted by platforms anymore but more of personal interests. Then gambling start to show up because it makes good profits.
Pretty much, I wouldn’t say that gaming is changing but more that ppl are getting old and have their own references of ways to play something. If UA-cam or Twitch start to ban ppl for X Y Z. Then you probably into the similar situation with modern gaming and the internet. Can’t trust any or take it as face value for every action you need to spend online for.
Dude I really hope they bring back the Legacy of Kain series. It's clear Square was never going to if they sold Eidos and Crystal Dynamics. Those of us that were huge fans of the series have been waiting for what seems like forever for another Legacy of Kain game. A Soul Reaver 1 and 2 remake would be sick.
Ahhh I see you're a Man of Culture as well. 😌 At one point I hoped Nosgoth would succeed as a game, BUT they never released it. Perhaps for the best. As for Babylon's Fall ? ...Vae Victus.
Just checked steam charts and it's now hit zero 😱
To be fair, the only Bab's Fall fan has to sleep at some point
@@MapleMilk ROFL 🤣
It's impressive how quickly this game got the plug pulled. I've never seen this happen before
Didn't help it came out around the same time as Elden Ring.
@@Mortiz21 Not an excuse. If it were a good game that could stand on its own legs, it wouldn’t have less than a 10 player player base.
Battlefield died quite fast too. 2021 year of shit games.
@@HM-wn2in Not everything is bad? We've had some bangers this year along with some more later this yr.
Even Anthem managed to glide along on its broken wings for longer. This is just a nosedive. It's remarkable.
Babylon's Fall... fell.
I'll see myself out.
The real life Babylon didn't fall as hard as this game.
The loneliest single player experience in gaming…
I’m thankful about second guessing it. Was looking info on it since it was on my wishlist and boom.
The player count dropped more harder than the fall of Babylon.
Legendary comment that will be remembered more than the game itself
What a fitting name for that game.
"Players can cooperate to tackle the games various boring missions"
Get them on false advertising for that one
*Player can operate by themself to tackle the game's various boring missions
Funny enough is I accidentally pre-ordered the deluxe edition of this when I was trying to get elden ring. Both had golden artwork and I wasn't fully paying attention until I saw it installing one day. So I had to go back to buy elden ring.
Hey, at least you got a fancy paperweight for your troubles.
2042: We’re hemorrhaging our players
Babylon’s Fall: Hold my player count
A toast! To yet another Square Enix live service game biting the dust!
*Another one bites the dust!*
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Postal 4? Bad? ... Perhaps, but the developers are wholesome and the community around it is funny.
Also gee, it's almost like live services are a bad idea. Hard to believe it was made by platinum games. Did they let the intern make it? How does the studio that made Bayonetta, Nier Automata and Revengeance put out such drivel?
Postal games always gets bad reviews from the Critics. The only bad Postal game is Postal 3 because it wasn't made by the original team. Postal games are made for certain audience. Not every likes that type of humor. Postal 4 is made by the original team but on a small budget. The game still needs a lot of work but I find it fun.
Postal 4 will get good in a couple of years. At that moment what works feels worse thant in Postal 2. NPC AI is somehow worse, gore is worse and optimization is non existing.
Considering Postal 2 is still getting updates i have no doubts about that.
But my primary point was just that hate or love Postal, the team behind it is great. Then again, i might be biased as i have spoken to Mike Jaret before, and just their general behaviour around fans.
I'm just waiting for Postal: Brain Damaged
I love the postal series, I was mighty hyped for Postal 4, but it's unplayable, sadly, if anyone tells you that Postal 4 , then it's probably because the performance, not the game itself
This is why I utterly hate live services, they all go down eventually, popular or not. At least with a single player game you can enjoy it even if you're the only person in the world who does so. This 1 person is going to get booted from Babylon's Fall after Square will obviously shut the server down soon.
Seeing Square Enix fail is just beauty, I feel bad for Platinum Games for having to get involved with them and having their own vision being destroyed by a greedy company that has no interest in making games or making games fun.
Square Enix will blame anybody but themselves
Well, for a greedy company that has no interest in making games fun, Square-Enix has been releasing some pretty fun games, these past years.
@@Ukaran "Past years"
Yea well, some of them being pretty good or just fine. There is no denying that there has been good from them but all of that is going away.
Otherwise me and many others are not gonna look forward to another Square Enix game if they are gonna keep doing shitty practices.
@@NewHollowEarth In 2022 alone, Triangle Strategy is amazing, and Voice of Cards 2 and Stranger of Paradise are both very good games. Square Enix releases a ton of games (like 10+ every year, before they sold Crystal Dynamics & Eidos) -- some are good-to-excellent, some are not so good.
I'm not sure why "Seeing Square Enix fail is just beauty". I'd rather see them just cancel all their live service games besides FF14, drop the NFT plan -- and wildly succeed with great games like Nier Automata, FF7R, The World Ends With You, Triangle Strategy, etc.
@@sonicmania9993 I ain't gonna lie, Square Enix can be good when they can be. There is no denying that they have come out with some good stuff, but I just feel like we are seeing a huge decline and are more caring about the quantity instead of quality most of the time and having to implement shitty practices like Live Service into their games which you are right, if they get rid of all of that. They could redeem themselves just a bit, but refused to acknowledge the actual issue that many people call them out on and instead just blame it on their developers.
I like seeing companies like Square Enix fail because it's karma and should've listen to their communities, what I do hate is seeing these companies having to have a decline because it shouldn't have to be the way it is but oh well.
@@NewHollowEarth Well, I guess we can find a point of agreement then: that we hope Square Enix corporate realizes that live services, NFTs and that kind of stuff aren't the way to make great JP Square Enix games. The news lately hasn't been so great in that regard, but I'm going to hold out hope. Pretty sure FF16 will be bonkers amazing, and some other good games coming too.
Obviously they want to make big money (just like any big company), but hopefully making **great games** in the future is also important to them... and they've got many developers working for them (both internally and in paid-for-hire projects) who know how to make great games.
The loading screen for the game is just the remaining one player's likeness playing over and over again like the Gigachad montage
I'm so proud of gamers, not all trash gets guaranteed success anymore. It's a shame CoD is still as popular as it is despite how shitty it is but we'll get there!
If the microsoft acquisition is to go by, then CoD's not going anywhere soon.
We will not likely live long enough to see gaming get there. As long as there are bros that don’t know jack about the industry, Call of Duty and Madden and FIFA will go on in some form until the Fall of Man
Actually cod seems to be going downhill as well. Not as fast as square enix, but still on a decline
@@compositeembryo7186 Just because Vanguard disappointed doesn’t mean that Modern Warfare 2 won’t sell like crazy, just wait and see
@@LasagaMan I don't really want it to go away, I just want it to get better.
Loving this latest trend of games failing as it shows that gamers have had enough of the BS.
If they are making changes based on player feedback, imagine the power that one user holds.
Lesson for Sony; Do not invest in games' exclusivity if you don't have input on.
You'd think that after Godfall that they’d be more cautious. Hell, I wonder how much they had to spend to keep the Spider-Man DLC for Avengers a playstation exclusive. I somehow don't think they got their money's worth.
But actually Sony loves live service games, and sees them as the future too. Didn't you hear Jim Ryan bragging about the 10 different live service games that Sony Studios (first-party) are currently working on? He said it acting like gamers are supposed to be excited about that and think Sony's the best.
@@sonicmania9993 It is tragic to watch Sony change for the worse. The PS4 got such a great library of microtransaction-free, single-player games. This helped to make the PS4 an ongoing success. It looks like Sony are happy to sacrifice all of this for microtransactions and live services.
Respect to that one player who's still playing.
he is a legend
@@nunosanches3693 or just stupid
@@nunosanches3693 They should give him God Mode before the servers shut down
Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky, an RPG from fifteen years ago has had 206 peak players in the last 30 days. That Babylon’s fall doesn’t even reach that is… yikes.
Falcom games are timeless masterpieces.
THAT game has Nostalgia.
Hey Yong! It's 'paltry' not 'poultry'. Love your work, been here since the MGS5 days.
I hope, someday soon, we can enter a new era where games are made with honesty and goodwill, where they're already finished, rather than being released with hardly anything to begin with, so developers can sporadically update it (coughNintendocough)
Not going to happen as long as games are controlled by ceos and investors that don’t know anything about games and only care about money. Also Nintendo makes decent games but they’re a pretty shit anti-consumer company lol
That era is already gone
Hmmm... Perhaps...
Yeah. We had that... it was called the 2000's... and then some pepple decided to support this garbage and we are now where we are with no way back...
Nintendo is the least worst of the offending parties. Most of their games are complete out of the box and their DLC's are at best optional...
I miss the days when video games were treated as an art form and made with such care and passion for the world's and stories being created. Makes me sad to see the industry taken over by greed alone.
Not that it's perfect, but this is why people are defending Elden Ring with all of their might. It's exactly what you described!
Superman 64, bubsy 3d, ride to hell, cheetamen, catwoman. Don't forget about the 1983 video game crash.
@CymTyr I'm just waiting for it to get pirated
Remember all those ET catridges in the desert? This has always been a thing.
Indie games are at least doing the right thing.
Outriders was the weirdest one. It was designed as a live service game and released with virtually no monetisation. The live service elements made the game a massive pain in the arse and contributed to fairly lukewarm reviews and square got nothing out of it.
Outsiders was never a live service game. The devs themselves said that.
Heh... outriders could have been HUGE.
I saw this on my phone earlier today, and I laughed my butt off.
This one was always going to tank, it was obvious.
An appropriate name for that game.
Indeed
Just like Abandoned.
Much more fitting than it being called a ‘live’ service.
That one player be like:
Ayo where's everyone? Y'all are missing the fun! Come on! 🤟🏻😎🖕🏻
Overlord irl ^^
@@NeonNightmares Oh yeah, the main character was the last player online if i remember correctly.
I mean, isn't this unprecedented? I really can't remember any game releasing within the same year statistically showing that there was a single playing the game. Has that ever happened before? Because if so I can't think of it, this literally might be the most unsuccessful videogame ever produced. It is impressively unsuccessful 😅
I wouldn't he surprised, how would we know if it released to little fanfair and died quickly.
you should check The Culling 2
it's not unprecedented
There was that one Amazon game I can't remember the name of that did so badly it went back into beta and then unreleased. There's literally 0 people playing it right now.
Lawbreakers: "29.99, none of that 60 dollar bullshit."
Respect to that 1 person still having the guts to play the game.
Especially when you consider the game has zero balancing for player numbers, it expects you to have 3-4 players, so this one dude is dealing with a huge slog of spongy enemies.
That one player is a legend. It’d be nice to see who he is.
can one player even be considered concurrent?
now theres one for philolsoraptor
This reminds me of the time years and years ago when I connected to Global Agenda for the first time in so long and only me and 2 others were online.
Today at 2 am it had 0 players.
So how many more of these live service games need to fail until companies realize nobody actually wants them?
It’s actually worse than people not wanting them. There are only a finite number of gamers, and there are only a percentage of those players that are interested in live service games. And most of those people have already settled into one of the decent ones. Like with player numbers, people only have a certain amount of time they can invest into the heavy amounts of time live service games take.
Every time a new live service game is released it’s entering a market already heavily saturated. To release a live service game worse than FF14, WoW and a few others and expecting it to succeed is madness.
Postal 4 is in a unique place where it's Critic score is toilet but it's user score is generally higher and ther eare people legitimately loving that one.
Babylon's Fall being this disasterous sucks and I really hope Platinum comes out the other end of this a better and wiser team then to just take any job from Square-Enix.
Yeah I was disappointed by postal 4 but it’s at worst a 5/10
I'm not doubting everyone saying Babylon's Fall isn't fun, although I haven't played it. I am a little perplexed by all the "bad visual style" I keep hearing. I think it looks good visually. From screenshots, it does look like the graphics are a bit low on detail, but I think the environments and enemies have a really cool style.
I remember when critics savaged Postal 2 at release for things that are praised today.
I'm more hyped for Postal: Brain Damaged than getting Postal 4
I think a lot of gamers go into games like Postal to enjoy a level of stupidity that critics don't appreciate. I haven't played a Postal game since the original, but I think I know what's going on here. I had a game on Wii U called Devil's Third that got savaged by critics for: unoriginal, stupid story, bad graphics, ridiculous violence, objectifying women (apparently not noticing the men in the game were given the same treatment), seemingly aimed at a particularly juvenile mindset... Quite honestly, they weren't wrong, but I absolutely loved the game! It was basically, "Over the Top 80's Action Movie: The Game." A ridiculous murderfest were arms, legs and heads go flying 20 feet while streaming blood, twitching bodies, cheesy one liners, etc. And judging the posts on Nintendo's Miiverse, it seems most people that bought the game did enjoy it. But I suppose if you play games for a living, a game that revels in it's cliche tropes could just be tiring rather than hilarious.
One would expect SE's leadership to be in the position of shitting enough bricks to build a castle with this latest news. Coupled with the collapse of the NFT marketplace, investors have every right to be upset with the direction current leadership is steering the company in. I wouldn't be surprised if several high ranking executives are replaced for the good of the company.
I truly enjoy how the latest AAA game references an empire that grew too big for its own good and collapsed under its own weight. That's what many AAA companies now feel like, too big for their own good, and unwittingly destroying themselves.
I know that single player games exist, but this is taking it the next level
This is what happens when you want to do a "live service" when you are a greedy corporate developer. Platinum Game's used to be good. I can't believe they would devolve themselves to this level. Disgusting.
Hey, when you chronically are running out of money midproduction , you do what you gonna do.
(Sidenote: Platinumgames never had much profit for most of its existence)
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 I expect them to try and put NFTs in their next game seeing how genious their idea with life service was.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Well excuses are like assholes. Everyones got one.
@@MegaManJake That's subject to contract, and what you get on that contract is wholly dependent on their capability. Might makes right still operates in this realm...
@@ChronicSensei Well, sorry to burst your bubble but if you look at PG from a financial standpoint, they aren't doing great. Other than Nier: Automata, the games they develop don't bring in big bucks because they are based on IP's we don't expect to be made into videogames (like Legend of Korra and Transformers) or because how niche their specialty is (somehow hack-and-slash aren't as popular as one thinks of when Devil May Cry exists). They themselves have said it multiple times these past few years they are near to bankrupt pre-Nier:Automata...
This game outdid both Battleborn and Lawbreakers in terms of player drops.
BUT Randy Pitchford posted about the 'Battlep0rn' subreddit on his Twitter. Minutes after it was created. He created it. We ALL know the truth. Same guy who lost a pronflash drive with important company files. 🤪 Sadly, there is no Babylon's Fall 🐔🇹🇭 subreddit. Maybe PG should have tried the Pitchford strategy.
imagine being the team who worked on that game, That must be a real punch in the gut
Yeah i hope they are watched very closely as of right now😞
Definitely not something to put in your portfolio or resume lmao
Interviewer: So why should we hire you?
Former Babylon's Fall team member: I helped made Babylon's Fall.
Interviewer: Give us 10 hours to decide
P.S. they never came back
They got mostly paid, don't see how they could be mad at all with full pockets
It would be nice if more crappy games saw pure loss like this and forced publishers and developers to actually have to put effort into games again. Smaller studios and passion studios are the only things holding the games industry together.
I'm thinking that SE didn't sell off the IP's for 300M to go all-in on NFT's. I think they did it to cover losses and may have some credit or funding problems behind the curtain. It was a fire sale, they were a motivated seller, and weren't in any position to bargain for fair value.
I think they had the dungeon siege up as well....did they sell that off too?
Jeez was the one player left Austin from Austin Eruption? How dire....
Definitely getting rid of the live service would save this games life, when I saw the 2019 trailer I was so impressed as it was in the true spirit of platinum games was known for, but then they changed to live service and update trailer saw a major drop in graphics quality I knew then that it wasnt going to end well, such a shame of the wasted potiential.
While i cheered at Square Enix's disasters, i'm really worried about Platinum, i kinda wish some big publisher would just buy them and let them make whatever they good at.
I'm also feel cautious to the other big franchises, still on Square Enix's hands.
Embracer group: "Hey I wouldn't mind making another deal"
The problem is Platinum doesn't care about what they're good at. They care about the money. Trends. Shit that has absolutely nothing to do with why they have an audience in the first place. The wrong people are sitting in the wrong chairs.
Platinum is a company. Not a lost child. Blaming the publisher gets old very fast if they produce one mediocre game after another.
They need to score with bayo 3 or disappear after not delivering quality games
Next time I preorder a game I'm doing it for a physical copy... hopefully it isn't just a case with a digital download code
I can't believe it. I joked about, in another video, about the calling of "The Culling" to join it in the simultaneous player count record. But I had no idea, at the time, that it would really achieve it. Not to mention, so fast.
Keep in mind most of even that initial number is probably reviewers doing their job
There should be more people playing it out of sheer curiosity from having seen coverage like this.
With the game so expensive, I don't think many people believe it's worth it.
It's not a free game you know...
Are you that one player? You are just trying to get other people to play it with you. aren't you?
The games title just fits so well
"I can't even get so much more than 1 Customer!"
-Plankton
This is the first game I've ever heard of that dropped so low. I feel like there are other games out there that deserve to fall off a cliff more than this one.
it's only this low because of steam maintenance, it usually hovers around 60. Still low, but people run with misinformation and circlejerk about it
@@thomascallaghan6444 i think it has less players than wurm online lol
news article: last babylon's fall player starved while waiting in lobby
Hey any plans to cover about the server outage of the Dark souls trilogy on PC?
Oh hey, that might've been that one guy I saw in the lobby after I went offline
Looking at the steam page, I can instantly see one fairly big reason the game tanked as hard as it did... They're charging above full price for a live service game, complete with the option to pay quite a bit extra for a "deluxe edition" and markets an in-game cash shop.
I would not be surprised if a lot of people looked at the price tag and nope'd out of the store page.
You know, when you switched to this new thing I wasn't really into it, but as you carry on I am finding the Schadenfreude Channel you have created is strangely compelling. am resubbed now, and following along, so lets see where this goes. Cheers mate.
I didn't even realize it was exclusive.
I'm not sure if this thing ever got marketed at all. I sure as shit didn't hear about it until people started talking about how it bellyflopped onto concrete.
I feel bad that bought into this, sounded like a cool idea. Id demand a refund from square enix. Paying full price for a game that was literally balanced to be played with other and doesn't scale down for single player is upsetting
Everytime a live-service game dies, Destiny 2 absorbs its essence.
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For real though, we meme about dying games all the time, but it is depressing because those are the efforts of developers, artists, programmers, and they want the game to succeed. Shame that sometimes all it takes is the direction of a few for a game/franchise to fail.
Like somebody said though, sometimes a game NEEDS to fail for the studio to realize they fucked up.
It's funny that this game has so little players, but the game The Binding of Isaac Rebirth (a game that was released Nov. 2014) still has 11-16k players in a 24 hour period.
I hadn’t even heard of Babylon’s Fall before this video.