Fatshark, do you understand what player retention is?

[Pirx]

here’s a bit a wrote some time ago on differences between darktide and traditional fps:

Worst Experience in Darktide?

tbh it’s easier to check 6 boxes than to pick the essential and synergic skills on a tree. most players were rather inexperienced and the power level was overall lower. also, i had not played vermintide before, so i was not familiar with fatshark’s combat system, and although i was an fps veteran, that didn’t translate so well into darktide. strafing for example is continuous in classic fps, but in darktide it’s a limited number of discrete dodges, and this didn’t get into my head so easily. …