Its already dead. I can see how the devs wanted to make some more bucks to keep the servers running and all that stuff. Me and my friend had to wait 10mins for a match yesterday...
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Hunt: Showdown 1.0 appears to be coming to the Epic Games Store (update: not true, dev responds, see threadmark)
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not dead at all mate? lol. It's about to come out of early access as well.
The fuck? Why would you say such a stupid thing?
It isn't dead and will launch out of Early Access soon
i play all the time, eu region and its more than fine. matchmaking takes a min at most. Each game instance only has 10 players so its not like you need crazy player counts like PUBG.
If you're interested in the game I'd buy it now, it can be had via humble bundle (steam key) for 17.99 currently
Hunt: Showdown is brilliant fun
Up to 10 players, in teams of two or solo, drop into a decently sized map. You're never told if you're alone, nor how many other players you're up against. It is left ambiguous. Every player in the match has 60 minutes to do...whatever they need. The map is populated by assorted monster types...
www.resetera.com
pop into this thread to read about it
never had issues finding a game (about 4000 peak players at the moment with an upwards trend)
population will be meatier on full release too :-)
ill informed ass post
It's currently on sale on the humble store for about half the price it's going to be on launch. I highly recommend it, my favorite game this year.
The most stupid thing would be to release the game on all platforms as a gold 1.0 version and only update the EGS version with additional stuff in the future and use that game as a test for their Rocket League plans. So yeah, guess they'll do that most stupid thing.
I guess it's dead because there isn't 30million MAU right? The game has a healthy community lol.
This game have like a 4k population daily with 10 players needed for a game. It's not dead in the USA at least.
Yeah, if I was Valve I'd penalize all these companies that use Steam as a PR / Beta test platform that then go EGS exclusive.
Fuck Epic.
Fuck Epic.
Hunt: Showdown - Steam Charts
An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.
Doesn't seem that healthy to me tbh
You do realize Valve is neither an international authority, nor is it providing a public service out of the goodnes of their hearts, right? They are getting paid 30% of the money from every copy sold. Which is money they are going to keep, no matter if and where a game goes afterwards.
Hunt: Showdown - Steam Charts
An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.steamcharts.com
Doesn't seem that healthy to me tbh
A steady stream of 2.5K people playing a early acces game with 10-person-matches sounds pretty healthy to me. What else do you need other than enough people to easily matchmake with a variety of different players?
To be fair, Steam has been selling the game for 18 months and, by all accounts, it's sold a ton. Valve have made a lot of money from Hunt Showdown. It's not like they've been giving it away.
Every developer should have the right to remove their product for sale from any store for any reason. You don't see Apple penalising bands if they take their music off iTunes for whatever reason.
Really? approx 500 more daily players it seems like so no it really is doing just fine. 2500-4000 players daily is not a bad metric. Like what is healthy to you?Hunt: Showdown - Steam Charts
An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.
Doesn't seem that healthy to me tbh
I mean healthy as in the player base is there and aren't going anywhere and will be sticking with the game. once again a peak of 4400 people for this month is really good.
Right. An 'early access' game that not even in 1.0 release right now that's using the playerbase for testing purpose. Then the developers say 'sorry guys, you have to move over to the shitty EGS store if you want to play the full release and get patches. My bad, but we gots paid!' Fuck that.
And should Valve have the same right if it's all fair? Don't they have the right to say that if you're listed on the steam store and use our platform for PR / early access, you have to sell here for a determinate period of time?
did you read anything in the thread? it's not an epic exclusive
I would say to wait and see what the situation with Hunt is before deciding on this worst case scenarios. Seems a bit cart before the horse.
I can't imagine developers/publishers being happy at all with that situation. Valve (or any other store) shouldn't be able to hold games hostage and not allow them to be removed from sale. They don't own the rights to the games, they're just a storefront.
You can't penalize someone for taking their stuff off your digital store lmao
If anybody tried that nobody would ever put stuff on that store
If anybody tried that nobody would ever put stuff on that store
When you put it that way, it makes sense. I guess compared to other more successful multiplayer games, the metric may seem low, but if the community sticks around, it's fairly decent.
Right? Not to mention that there's nothing Valve would gain from it, especially not in terms of optics.
I agree, what I'm trying to say is that Valve should lock in a contract saying that if you want to be listed on our store and you use our services, you have to sell there as well, no advertise then pull like they did with Metro, Anno 1440, etc. Selling on other stores as well is totally fine.
Word from developer
Yeah they're already doing their best move (guaranteeing pre-orders if they pull them off the store)
Anything else and that's gonna cause some heat
I agree, it's $20 on Humble store people! Gonna double in price in a month.
now everyone buy a copy of the game
Yeah it's a little low but like the games always had a concurrent 3000-5000 and then when it f2p weekends it goes to 10K so it's been pretty healthy for a game like it.