Obviously Conan Exiles Player Base is shrinking

Taemien · 2023-04-14T11:54:06.209Z

One thing I would point out is with how many players that actually play every day currently, we as individual players don’t have anything to worry about. Right now on just Steam numbers alone, there is a enough players to completely fill a few hundred servers. So if numbers are needed for your enjoyment, then you have plenty of people to play with.

If servers seem empty, its because there’s thousands of them. This is a relatively unique thing to Conan Exiles from my experience. I don’t have numbers on Ark or Rust, but other survival games, I’ve noticed there’s usually less than a hundred servers. If every server was full, or even near full. Conan Exiles would be like in the top 5 games played. Which is unrealistic due to the niche nature of it. Its neither a shooter or a moba.

JJDancer · 2023-04-14T12:49:51.410Z

Pugilist:

It’s a pretty stable player base.

Agreed. Those of us that have been around since EA day 1 will still be here when it shuts down.
Started playing because my ex-BF wanted someone to PVP with him and his buddy. They are gone, I don’t PVP ( On CE ), but I came to love this game, mainly due to the beautiful graphics, storyline, and building.

erjoh · 2023-04-14T13:51:48.217Z

Coty:

Rare specimens

Completely false. Even the largest complainers on here love the game else they wouldn’t be on here. The only ones that are on here regularly that don’t love the game are trolls and they are easy enough to spot as detached and more personal in there discussions with others…trying to get an emotional response for whatever weird validation they need. The rest of us have 1 common goal. Spread the game and keep it active for as long as possible. We all have different ideas and that is where discussion comes in and it gets heated…but I also recenter myself in the fact we want the same thing and love the pushback I get because it helps me get better ideas and it helps the game not go down stupid paths.

erjoh · 2023-04-14T13:56:53.422Z

Coty:

I wonder how many from these “devs” have played their game lately…

They probably play in a bubble much like a large group of players on here that can’t understand how things are on officials. If you don’t diversify your PoV, you will always be behind in understanding what’s going on. However, we need to understand one critical thing between us and the staff at FC, this game is our leisure time while for them it’s their job. I wouldn’t hold anything against them if they don’t want to log in and play this game because it feels like work still.

CodeMage · 2023-04-14T14:12:18.788Z

Coty:

I have not seen a positive thread for…can’t remember how long…

21 days at the time of this writing. It could be less, of course, but that’s the one I remembered seeing.

And guess what? That’s not unusual at all. The forums were better in the past, but not because positive threads were more frequent. No, it was because there were more nice people around.

Some probably stopped playing the game and that’s why they’re not here anymore, but others got driven away by the unceasing toxicity that pervades these forums.

Coty:

Maybe instead of these senseless discussion…how about being “more persistent/more vehement” when it comes to getting the game fixed.

Yes, because we need more “vehement” discourse here and because any thread discussing things you don’t care about is senseless.

See, that’s part of what I was talking about above

erjoh · 2023-04-14T14:39:34.983Z

CodeMage:

It could be less, of course, but that’s the one I remembered seeing.

I generated one 3 days ago because I was expecting the Turanian set to go up as the 2nd month but then got surprised at a new armor release that got me questioning my purchase planning.

Crystalline golem visage looks great Feedback

That armor set in the Bazaar made me doubt the Turian expansion plans for about 5 seconds. Then I came to my senses and got the building expansion because it’s awesome, reasonably priced (as expected with the same price point as the storm glass expansion) and goes with the storm glass so well, but still…good job on the armor. Little too rich for my blood and will wait till it goes on sale but very very nice.

DeaconElie · 2023-04-14T14:49:02.836Z

Well this thread is so far off coarse now I might as well …

CodeMage:

but others got driven away by the unceasing toxicity that pervades these forums.

Not the only thing that drives people away from this forum.

From what I can gather the majority of people that look for, find, and register for a game’s forum do it to complain about the game. So ya, forums for most games tend towards toxicity or over moderation. Both drive people from forums.

Jimbo:

What this community really needs for longevity is a more heavy-handed approach to dealing with these bad actors.

Case in point. I left a discord because of this attitude. I know I’m a pessimistic, cynical, sardonic old curmudgeon; profiles say as much. Doesn’t mean I’m a troll, does mean I don’t bend under foot.

Jimbo:

I’d even accept my own ban if it gets rid of them, since I’ve been fighting their negativity with my own.

Fighting fire with fire just makes a bigger fire.

I have started a couple “kudos to the devs” threads. People don’t like my tone so they get delisted. So much for my positive threads.

So, time for ?

Jimbo · 2023-04-14T15:00:55.646Z

DeaconElie:

I have started a couple “kudos to the devs” threads. People don’t like my tone so they get delisted. So much for my positive threads

When you sprinkle them in between complaining threads and they’re usually dripping with sarcasm, I can only imagine why.

speedice · 2023-04-14T15:07:09.150Z

Regarding the original point of the post, the 20-25 players at any given time of day for the last several months would beg to differ.

Of course, I am on PS5, and those stats are not tracked, so, there’s that.

DeaconElie · 2023-04-14T15:08:14.914Z

I give them as many kudos threads as they give me reasons to give them.

And every one loves Ryan Reynolds sardonic wit

Jimbo · 2023-04-14T15:40:58.958Z

Coty:

the game has never been so bugged as now and players just ignores it or get used with them.

Then quit, seriously. Get the hell out of here and quit wasting yours and my time.

You come here solely to whine, even in your response to being called out for that, you continue to whine. If you truly hate the game that much, stop playing. Go outside.

Coty · 2023-04-14T15:40:59.248Z

Jimbo:

Almost as if the flood of trolls coming in and declaring this forum a haven for bashing the game and the devs might have chased people away, creating a downward spiralling echo chamber of hate.

Connection lost.

Coty · 2023-04-14T15:42:03.314Z

i dont hate the game, i like the game.

I just dislike Funcom. Great ideeas, poor implementation.

“Connection to the server has been lost”.

CodeMage · 2023-04-14T15:46:25.541Z

DeaconElie:

Not the only thing that drives people away from this forum.

No, but I was talking about nice people, and the toxicity is the main thing that drives them away.

What’s left are people like me and you and Jimbo and, well, you get the point.

DeaconElie:

Doesn’t mean I’m a troll, does mean I don’t bend under foot.

I suspect that @Jimbo is giving the word “troll” its more recent, and arguably incorrect, meaning. Used to be “troll” referred only to those who deliberately and knowingly engaged in certain behaviors. Nowadays, it encompasses a lot more.

Not saying you are a troll. I’m saying that not every troll will recognize their trolldom according to the newer usage

FWIW, @Jimbo is actually right about how the forums should be managed if we wanted more people like @anon83039162 around here.

But that’s a huge “if”. My guess is that Funcom has to weigh the ideal of “decent community” against the practical necessity of having an official forum “for everyone”. So don’t worry, you can still enjoy the pride that comes from heroically not bending under the oppressive foot of polite discourse

DeaconElie:

Fighting fire with fire just makes a bigger fire.

It often does. That’s why I’ve been posting much less lately. But hey, I’m not as good as I would like when it comes to sticking with a decision like that.

Coty · 2023-04-14T15:55:00.047Z

CodeMage:

the toxicity is the main thing that drives them away.

No mate. Ignorance and incompetence from Funcom’s community devs is what drives players away.
Their incapability of receiving a bug report and properly send it over to the dev team.
They cannot receive a bug report without asking the players help…And after the first automated reply, silence. And the game moves forward. This is what drives players away.

But as this thread wants to point out, The game is doing good!

And as Jimbo said:

Jimbo:

Get the hell out of here and quit wasting yours and my time.

SnakeBitezzZ:

wannabe funcom employees with stokholm syndrom who get not listened to in real life

Have fun lads

CodeMage · 2023-04-14T16:10:46.446Z

You know what, screw trying to stay away because I’m not nice enough. I’m gonna get some shіt off of my chest here.

Coty:

Ignorance and incompetence from Funcom’s community devs is what drives players away.

Exactly many of you people are going to line up to prove that you can’t read?

At what point did I say it was toxicity that drove players away from the game? I said that the toxicity on these forums drives the nice people away from these forums.

Here, I’ll provide proper emphasis:

The toxicity on these forums is driving the nice people away from these forums.

Hopefully this will give a slight pause to the next joker dying to ignore what I wrote when they quote me to prove a completely unrelated point.

Coty:

But as this thread wants to point out, The game is doing good!

The thread is trying to point out that people who keep saying this game is “dying” and that the player base is shrinking are full of crap. And they are, because the long-term data never supports their claims.

Coty:

SnakeBitezzZ:

annabe funcom employees with stokholm syndrom who get not listened to in real life

Have fun lads

Quoting a forum user who literally never does anything here but intentionally and deliberately troll any thread they hop on to? Yeah, if any proof was needed that you’re trolling too, that would be it.

Jimbo · 2023-04-14T16:24:52.546Z

Coty:

CodeMage:

the toxicity is the main thing that drives them away.

No mate. Ignorance and incompetence from Funcom

I’ve seen toasters with more self awareness than you

erjoh · 2023-04-14T16:40:28.317Z

Coty:

Ignorance and incompetence from Funcom’s community devs is what drives players away.

LOL! Yeah sure. Keep telling yourself that those new players on noob river never came back because they couldn’t kill a sorcerer in the Kurak dungeon they never went to and had nothing to do with the fact they were raided to oblivion well before then or they were literally harassed for days afterwards.

But CM was correct in that his point was about the forum and that was obvious.

JJDancer · 2023-04-14T16:54:10.821Z

Wow this thread went to hell fast. I took a few months break from this forum because I was just being irritatingly ugly about a few things people said, and I knew it was irrational for me to be upset about it.

What I learned is to ignore a lot of negative people and just not reply to their trolling. Putting the worst ones on ignore helps.

mynotaure · 2023-04-14T17:28:46.406Z

JJDancer:

What I learned is to ignore a lot of negative people and just not reply to their trolling. Putting the worst ones on ignore helps.

Good reasoning.
There are enough reasons in life to have insomnia without having to add unnecessarily.
He has a saying in my green regions: “The Crapeau’s drool never becomes the white dove”. The trolls, heaters and others we find them on all the forums, so I think that you have to put it into perspective
. We love Conan Exile even if this one has some defects, if it does not please certain. That won’t prevent us from continuing our life. too bad for them