Game is slowly dying - not growing

[Narski]

This is my opinion and critique of the game having played the last several worlds.

Let me start by stating the content additions are great and moving in the right direction.

For a 2 player dev team, this game really is a masterpiece despite its flaws.

The quality grind is amazing, as well as all the things available to do.

The game however, is slowly dying as a whole due to the fact that this game being so punishing from the pvp aspect of it. I understand and love the combat in this game, but when your telling me, that 4 people can literally wipe 1 month 10 hours a day of progress on a whim, theres a serious problem with that in attracting any new players to the game.

I understand Jorb and Loftar want pvp and not for it to be like minecraft, however, minecraft has a net worth of 1.6billion for people allowing them to host their own servers. Think about that, theirs still pvp in minecraft, just let us host our own servers. This is long over due for us and your pockets $$


Until this is a thing, I think im done, burned out for good. It's been good haven.

[VDZ]

The game however, is slowly dying as a whole due to the fact that this game being so punishing from the pvp aspect of it. I understand and love the combat in this game, but when your telling me, that 4 people can literally wipe 1 month 10 hours a day of progress on a whim, theres a serious problem with that in attracting any new players to the game.

This has been the case since at least 2011 though. The game has grown a lot since then.

[ErdTod]

Last world game hit record playercount on the start of the world. This time it wasn't more, but not much less either... The permanent loss of everything due to pvp might be something that can be done better, but the game is doing good IMO. I like HnH for it not being super-casual like fricking every modern game there is nowadays. But that surely lowers J&L's incomes.

[jock]

I have had sever talks with jorb about this and it is a consideration.

[Sevenless]

Peak was 1250ish players? We're running at 1150 currently after 3 weeks. This world is actually doing better than previous ones in terms of player retention.

End of last world took a serious hit in playercount, some people attribute it to winter season specifically. Couldn't say myself.

[Clemence]

Dude, you got a lots of slots for a lots of toons, and for sure enough food and curio for them to grow together, if for you the death of a toon is the end of the game you just do it wrong.

[MightySheep]

totally pointless thread

the population is growing every new world, thats just a statistical fact, opinions dont even enter the picture in this regard

so youve invented this death of the game and arbitrarily decided whats the cause of the made-up death of the game? OK lol

The game has become soo much less punishing than it ever was in the past, it could not get any more carebear than it currently is without becoming the worlds most boring Facebook-tier farming simulator game

[MrBunzy]

Player Population :chart_with_downwards_trend:

[Headchef]

totally pointless thread

the population is growing every new world, thats just a statistical fact, opinions dont even enter the picture in this regard

so youve invented this death of the game and arbitrarily decided whats the cause of the made-up death of the game? OK lol

The game has become soo much less punishing than it ever was in the past, it could not get any more carebear than it currently is without becoming the worlds most boring Facebook-tier farming simulator game

Correct for most part except that it could get more carebear but let's not speak too much about it before it becomes reality

[Lyrroth]

quality bait