NS2's Steam Hub Discussion
CrushaK
Join Date: 2012-11-05 Member: 167195Members, NS2 Playtester
Join Date: 2012-11-05 Member: 167195Members, NS2 Playtester
…is not doing the game any favor. Many players will check out a game's Steam Hub out first before they make a decision about buying the game, since it's directly accessible from the store page.
I remember myself pondering about whether or not I should buy Miner Wars when it was on sale. One quick glance at the Steam Hub revealed that the game seemed to have some awful latency problems and was just not fun to play, so I refrained.
In NS2's Hub will you mostly read about OP aliens, cheaters and massive performance issues. It's nice to have this forum here where devs stay in contact with the community and discussions are somewhat civilized due to having a lot of veterans around where who can disprove balancing issues as L2P and so on.
But it is not what the majority of people will see. Instead, they will see a bunch of uneducated first impressions on the state of the game.
I remember myself pondering about whether or not I should buy Miner Wars when it was on sale. One quick glance at the Steam Hub revealed that the game seemed to have some awful latency problems and was just not fun to play, so I refrained.
In NS2's Hub will you mostly read about OP aliens, cheaters and massive performance issues. It's nice to have this forum here where devs stay in contact with the community and discussions are somewhat civilized due to having a lot of veterans around where who can disprove balancing issues as L2P and so on.
But it is not what the majority of people will see. Instead, they will see a bunch of uneducated first impressions on the state of the game.
Comments
The only thing that will 'fix' the talk over there are fixes in the game. Right now we BADLY need balance and performance fixes, but they're giving a content update instead. I really hope that they don't wait too much longer. NS2 has shipped over 300K copies, yet I only see maybe a thousand people in game anymore.
Current players:
1,631 Natural Selection 2
1,551 The War Z
Oh jesus, that just ruined my day.
How is this possible? With all that bad press? Are those numbers faked they must be. What the ****?
The problem is though, most people do use reviews, metacritic scores and forums as a guide to buy or not to buy. It's a bad idea and just watching some YouTube footage of a game is a much better indicator or heaven forbid, go to a buddy and have a look at the actual game. But no, people are... Easily influenced by bad sources
WarZ is addicting. It's fun.
Just has like, terrible management. Compound this with a terrible fanbase that came from DayZ - you get some amazingly horrible press.
It's a fun game though. Just has severe hacking issues.
NS2 is too complicated for normal gamers. My friends almost refuse to play NS2 with me, because it's basically too difficult for them. They don't feel like trying to get better, when they can just play WarZ or some other shooter that is way easier to play.
Qft