Successful sale?

MisterYoon

It shows that the cocurennt players are almost 3k-4k (showing 4100 players at UWE website, while 3000 at Steam.. should steam be right one?)

3rd day of sale and the player amount is keep increasing, and that's what hasn't happened before, even on Gorgeous updates etc.

As i cannot afford to play NS2(because of my old laptop), but i would like to ask you, what should be better on this sale and patch than the former things.

1. Far better optimization since release/Gorgeous?
2. Better game mechanic, although lots of old players complains about it?
3. Otherwise?

Thanks

Asraniel

The latest versions have a much better performance than before. Some people that stopped playing start again thanks to this. Combine that with the exceptional 250 balance changes (imho) that brought back many players that lost interest in the game. Yes some are not happy, but for them there will be some 249 mod server.

So all in all, the game is much better than it was just a few weeks ago, people probably stick around longer because of that. I expect the player count to rise even further when there is a proper luajit + 250 patch blogpost that gets posted on some major news sites, brining back the players that stopped playing some time ago.

SanCo

Too early to say, the monday after this we can start speculate.

KwisatzHaderach

Well, from the amount of ppl playing it is not too exciting, considering the player number after the foregone sales where higher (6600 and 3800, not counting the free weekend). From a commercial perspective? Idk, NS2 manage to stay in the top 10 all weekend, hitting #6 for a good time I think. Of course I don't know what that means in numbers sold, but I recon it produced some good revenue for UWE.

SanCo

Asraniel wrote: »

The latest versions have a much better performance than before. Some people that stopped playing start again thanks to this. Combine that with the exceptional 250 balance changes (imho) that brought back many players that lost interest in the game. Yes some are not happy, but for them there will be some 249 mod server.

So all in all, the game is much better than it was just a few weeks ago, people probably stick around longer because of that. I expect the player count to rise even further when there is a proper luajit + 250 patch blogpost that gets posted on some major news sites, brining back the players that stopped playing some time ago.

Brought back players? Numbers?

Roobubba

Anecdotally, my server list has been huge and full. Mostly due to the sale still going on, which had a lot of publicity, partly due to lots of people giving ns a try again after putting it down. I'm glad it seems to be working!

Lambo