Empires has been released on Steam!

Discussion in 'News' started by Trickster, Mar 9, 2011.

  1. Empty

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    On release we had one 64 player server because valve ninja updated and nobody had DLLs.
     
  2. complete_

    complete_ lamer

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    It didn't drop off. It was removed. Risk Factions and Railworks DLC are still there.
     
  3. Empty

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    That's because railworks is a massive cash cow.
    Something like 1000 bucks for all DLCs holy fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
     
  4. Grantrithor

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    well the 2 servers are both 50 players and 64 players cap, and custom factor had a bit of players on it. back then, even though there were like a dozen full servers, it was like 32 player cap.

    both servers were filled at the same time, and that has happened like only once in the past 2 years
     
  5. Dubee

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    I was expecting atleast 1000 players.. I mean millions of people prolly goto that home page and we maybe doubled the amount of people that were playing.. I think that's pretty pathetic, specially compared to the 2.0 release, that was impressive. I know steam didn't really give a heads up and were pretty lame about things, like they didn't give a news update like they did for those other mods. But still front page for a few days on the steam home page should of brought more than a server full of people..
     
  6. .:.HeXi.:. emcalex329

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    someone tell me when the onslaught of newbs dies down please
     
  7. f1r3w4rr10r

    f1r3w4rr10r Modeler

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    right THIS behaviour is what lets the mod die
    think a second before you open your mouth
     
  8. Neoony

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    there should be more videos for advertisement
     
  9. LordDz

    LordDz Capitan Rainbow Flowers

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    Yeah, smash up all the trailers for the game on the Storepage? The screenshots doesn't show the gameplay.
     
  10. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    We were front page for about 16 hours, and even then, only visible if you scrolled down, not on the big slideshow at the top.
     
  11. FN198

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    TALK
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    get them to put empires in their newsletter. thats how i found out about empires
     
  12. Vitaly

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    I suppose you could ask the guys you're talking to at Valve to set up the "mods" section that used to be on steam. I don't mean ask on the steam forums either, I mean, just ask them. They're pretty great to customers, I'm sure you could work something out. Just bringing that section back would help greatly with player population in all the mods.
     
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    recon SM Support Dev

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    Try and get a news update and ask them to put Empires in the slide show.
     
  14. Emp_Recruit

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    TBH I'd be surprised if they did this. Steams added a lot since they last did that for mods. I imagine those slide shows are worth thousands a day in revenue.
     
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    We should ask valve for one of the llittle news popups.

    Worst case scenario they say no, best case scenario we gain 10000 players.
     
  16. f1r3w4rr10r

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    need moar serverz!!!
     
  17. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    They did the popup for Neotokyo on their release, and it wasn't even integrated into steam.
     
  18. gezor

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    i really tried it, but ... empires in unplayable atm: griefers driving CV into water or enemy base, newbs stealing tanks or CV, newb comms who have no idea wat to do, teams where 1 half is scout and the other clueless engis, paper heavies, smoke grenade spam in own base, players trying to kill tanks w/ MGs, teammates continuously asking "how to spawn" or "how to get ammo", teams who camp in base and basically wait for defeat, idiots trolling or spaming the chat w/ random crap, noob engis walling off base exit, etc etc

    time for an empires break, i dont have endless patience. i hope in 2-3 weeks we still have 3 populated servers (or more!).
     
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    So basically normal empires?
     
  20. flasche

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    the newbies show the flaws in the games mechanics - we are just too used to them. a lot of them would be easy to fix (possible solutions to each single one have been brought up before), but get ignored or downplayed over and over again.
     

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