Honestly it was kinda wack how fast people started saying the game was dead. I barely even had time to figure out if I liked the game before twitter started trying to convince me it sucks. Glad the fans are still out here
There’s totally a larger discussion to be had about how much “this game is dead” actually makes it reality. There’s a lot of weirdos that desperately want a game to be dead for their own personal reasons like more people playing their game or because they don’t have fun with a game so they don’t want FOMO while everyone else enjoys it They suck, but I love this game and ima keep rocking with it for as long as I can find matches at 12 AM before bed lol
I think the Steam reviews had unfortunately a big effect on the Steam player base before it domino effect-ed onto PSN. Originally when PC players were screaming about how dead it was, I didn't believe them since I had such great matchmaking on PSN. Then in late August I starting getting matches with the same people over and over. Either way, I'm still playing the game. Games don't die until you let them
@@amiasg9305 Word! I have my fun with it every week. Its understandable that many feel like it’s not worth the price tag in reviews. If I was looking for something else out of the game besides online matches then I’d be disappointed too But the people that scream dead game just because they don’t like something are all sorts of weird
Lmao yeah been so busy playing I forgot I haven’t done a DNF guide in a while Going to be bouncing back and forth with DNF and persona guides till I finish all the characters Can’t wait for the Top 8 at CEOtaku!
I'd say overall, as you said, the real issue is the lack of communication, rather then the patch itself. I meme'd with everyone else when it dropped, since morale was low and it felt like quite the low blow for a game with seemily no future. But the patch absolutely did consider what *should* be changed for the game's future, rather then what the peanut gallery wants, which is the right course of action long term. But it does make me curious how shakey the game's future is gonna be from now on, we do know now they plan a patch in December with an intent to "buff everyone" what that entails we don't know, and frankly it's... a little worrying, I mostly like Strive's balance, but it's patches have had a lot of cases of rich gets richer for bizarre reasons, and I hope DNF doesn't take such a route. I can only imagine the intent is more so to open up options for the roster as a whole for situations such as blockstrings and jump ins, given they are the situations most have issues with, my biggest issue with the game is definitely how crap it feels to move around (I play Zerk since his mechanic works around this somewhat) but we'll have to wait and see what they change.
Yeah they shot themselves in the foot with poor communication but it’s looking better honestly. I’ve followed their communication channels closely and there’s a lot of positive signs for the future. I trust Eighting with buffs honestly. That’s what they did between Beta 1 and Beta 2 and all those characters were super balanced on launched for the most part. Biggest outliers were the characters that weren’t in the betas. Swiftmaster being too strong and Launcher being weaker than she should be for example. And for those wanting deeper system changes, the rhetoric of the recent announcement definitely seems to imply they’re looking to satisfy those players as well!
their #1 design philosophy: Launcher is and always will be the weakest character in the game. We balance our game around pro players and can't figure out why we lose 90% of our userbase within a month of launch.
Well, yes I doubt they will ever make Launcher a “good” character because that would be a very not fun game to play. But the method of balancing isn’t why they lost players. There are many other factors
Honestly it was kinda wack how fast people started saying the game was dead. I barely even had time to figure out if I liked the game before twitter started trying to convince me it sucks. Glad the fans are still out here
There’s totally a larger discussion to be had about how much “this game is dead” actually makes it reality.
There’s a lot of weirdos that desperately want a game to be dead for their own personal reasons like more people playing their game or because they don’t have fun with a game so they don’t want FOMO while everyone else enjoys it
They suck, but I love this game and ima keep rocking with it for as long as I can find matches at 12 AM before bed lol
I think the Steam reviews had unfortunately a big effect on the Steam player base before it domino effect-ed onto PSN. Originally when PC players were screaming about how dead it was, I didn't believe them since I had such great matchmaking on PSN. Then in late August I starting getting matches with the same people over and over.
Either way, I'm still playing the game. Games don't die until you let them
@@amiasg9305 Word! I have my fun with it every week.
Its understandable that many feel like it’s not worth the price tag in reviews. If I was looking for something else out of the game besides online matches then I’d be disappointed too
But the people that scream dead game just because they don’t like something are all sorts of weird
Happy to see you doing videos again for DNF Duel! Hoping you're having a great time watching it ao CEOtaku
Lmao yeah been so busy playing I forgot I haven’t done a DNF guide in a while
Going to be bouncing back and forth with DNF and persona guides till I finish all the characters
Can’t wait for the Top 8 at CEOtaku!
I'd say overall, as you said, the real issue is the lack of communication, rather then the patch itself. I meme'd with everyone else when it dropped, since morale was low and it felt like quite the low blow for a game with seemily no future. But the patch absolutely did consider what *should* be changed for the game's future, rather then what the peanut gallery wants, which is the right course of action long term. But it does make me curious how shakey the game's future is gonna be from now on, we do know now they plan a patch in December with an intent to "buff everyone" what that entails we don't know, and frankly it's... a little worrying, I mostly like Strive's balance, but it's patches have had a lot of cases of rich gets richer for bizarre reasons, and I hope DNF doesn't take such a route. I can only imagine the intent is more so to open up options for the roster as a whole for situations such as blockstrings and jump ins, given they are the situations most have issues with, my biggest issue with the game is definitely how crap it feels to move around (I play Zerk since his mechanic works around this somewhat) but we'll have to wait and see what they change.
Yeah they shot themselves in the foot with poor communication but it’s looking better honestly. I’ve followed their communication channels closely and there’s a lot of positive signs for the future.
I trust Eighting with buffs honestly. That’s what they did between Beta 1 and Beta 2 and all those characters were super balanced on launched for the most part.
Biggest outliers were the characters that weren’t in the betas. Swiftmaster being too strong and Launcher being weaker than she should be for example.
And for those wanting deeper system changes, the rhetoric of the recent announcement definitely seems to imply they’re looking to satisfy those players as well!
@@JayPhoenix Well, I'm sure the game will be fine, here's to the future.
their #1 design philosophy: Launcher is and always will be the weakest character in the game. We balance our game around pro players and can't figure out why we lose 90% of our userbase within a month of launch.
Well, yes
I doubt they will ever make Launcher a “good” character because that would be a very not fun game to play.
But the method of balancing isn’t why they lost players. There are many other factors