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Yup.

The overabundance of games is killing great games.

Can’t tell you how many fantastic multiplayer games I’ve bought only to find out they’re ghost towns or become ghost towns soon after purchasing. And it’s because players are so spread out over so many games. 20 years ago these games would have been major successes with a huge player base for years, but they’re dead on arrival or within a few months. It’s a real bummer.

That being said, I’m going to plug Mycopunk. Just got it and it’s great. Like Deep Rock Galactic and Risk of Rain 2 had a baby. We need more players though. Came out in July. Currently on sale. But base price is cheap.

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eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There are multiplayer games from 30 years ago that still have 30 people who play on the first Friday night of each month, and they will put that in their calendar and keep the game alive.

The idea that multiplayer games need huge communities of players otherwise they are “dead” is what is killing multiplayer games.

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- missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  There are three tiers of activity:
  
  Active enough that I can queue at any time of day and find opponents close to my skill level with good ping
  
  Active enough that I can queue at peak hours and find opponents
  
  Need to schedule games via Discord matchmaking
  
  If I really love the game enough, I'll put up with jumping through hoops to play it, but it does get frustrating when the games I like are a lot more convenient to play than the games I love.
  
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- DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I mean I get what you’re saying. I’ve been playing Sven-Coop for 26 years and counting. People are still playing. People are still making new levels for it.
  
  But it’s mostly people on the older side and it’s because it was a mod for a HUGELY popular game and the mod itself used to have a ton of players.
  
  But a lot of these new, good games never get that big following that allow for a small fan base decades later. Or even months later. Because there’s so many other options spreading gamers out.
  
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- janonymous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Maybe smaller titles should enable players to actively communicate times to meet.
  
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Multiplayer games 20 years ago were also built to be more scalable to different numbers of players, and they mostly had bots and such, too. I might push back on how long they sustained huge player bases though. Those games were often sequeled very quickly, and most of the players would move to the next one, leaving behind a small percentage. At least the old game was always still playable for those who bought it, though.

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