Community Update #5: Week 2

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@Lasastard

What I can say is that I have stopped playing, as has the rest of my “Vermintide” crew. And according to the steam charts, so have about 50% of day 1 players. Granted, some of these may have just wanted to try the game and refunded, or couldn’t run it on their systems. Still, a 50% drop is a 50% drop (in a week, mind you).

I think part of that is burn-out from pre-order beta players. That doesn’t invalidate any point made about player drop off though.

@Duncan1290

That’s extremely common for game launches. At least half of players drop off within a month in the vast majority of releases. VT2 had a curve even worse than that.

That is most likely true, but, Vermintide 2 had a similar curve (check graph in post below).

Mixed feelings about community managers

I agree with many of the things you bring up, but this is not true. Vermintide 2 followed a similar pattern to that of Darktide, but for slightly different reasons. They launched at 75k, dropped two thirds of the player within a month, and dropped below 10k within two months. If that will be better or worse than the current release is hard to tell. [vt2] If I remember correctly the main gripes at VT2 launch were: the many backend errors - FS didn’t expect the large amount of players (and c…

Vermintide 2 also had a lot of the same issues. Loads of technical issues and a hard time incentivising people to keep playing the game after they had gone through all maps on recruit/veteran difficulty. A part of that is also that FS didn’t deliver on promises and that the technical issues took a lot of development time away from what they had planned.