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What is happening to my favorite game? why is it dying so hard?
There's still 22 thousand people in the latest hour. That's hardly dying.
The amount of active players fluctuates over the course of a year. With Summer vacation coming up player count should go up a bit. Despite how some people try to spin it as "OMG, Rust is dying because of *disliked feature*! ", its been like that since it launched on Steam.
Remember: you bought the game and it doesn't have a subscription fee. Nothing says people have to play Rust 24/7. Some people have things in life that take priority, some get bored and need a break.
It's normal, all games fluctuate in players. Plus, I believe people are studying/doing exams right now aswell.
Funny how leaving Early-Access made the player amount drop though. It was constant until then.
I can only assume Garry thought it would be the opposite; that leaving Early-Access would attract more players.
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Hmm its undeniably a downward trend. almost 2/3rds of peak. That's also including the mindless afk hours that people have to play which has at least tripled, the people afking in base or sitting on there roof watching you tube waiting to hear someone run past.. Its not healthy either way . not saying dying, just saying its definitely not healthy.
Other games might be taking some interest as well, Conan Exiles came out of EA not too long ago.
curious - did it occur to you to "do your homework" and chceck what it looked liked in the same period in 2017 or 2016 even?
I think part of the reason it's fluctuating is because of the monthly updates. The weekly ones kept people coming back every Thursday, but now that it's drawn out, people are losing interest. Once the update comes out during the first Thursday of every month players will come back to check out the updates.
I also want to point out that the word "dying" and the word "dead" are two different things, because some of you are talking as if it's the same. I feel like Rust is dying, but it's not dead. It may never be dead, but the feel for the game has been lost when they decided to make the game so grindy that only kids or people with no jobs can play it.
But what do I know?
JUST another repitition of the same thread . restating the same alleged "facts" that are still incorrect,
The game goes through an annual player fluctuation with almost three monthly highs and lows ,
Well ... I came across this very interesting data .... might explain the drop of evil players ....
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no it is because the upkeep and components
The game is dead because alot of people got banned without a reason....me and most of my friends got banned even trying to clean instal and buying new account and rust but still getting banned for no reason including me....im really scared to buy another rust again..gonna wait for a year to comeback
If you've got game banned, any other account associated with your main will be picked up and banned. It's supposed to stop cheaters/hackers from doing as you just said.
yeah i admit i was hacking like 1 years ago and start coming back to game and got 100hours playing and bam got banned....was trying to make sure i will not got banned again using my friend account and then BAM another banned but it was insta ban....so there is no coming back?? at least they have to stop us buying the game from the store or something so we dont get banned again
should have never hacked buddy, consequences will always be there for you. Imagine what those other fellow rust players felt like when you were hacking, anger and sadness when you kept headshotting them from miles away. You can't justify your actions, so you just need to let go from rust.
But for real though you are ban evading and you'll be banned again and again, account after account.
"yeah I admit I was hacking"
"I was banned for no reason"
have fun never playing again
Yep, I am.
Hey buddy...can you please just answer this..
Was it worth it? lul rekt
Goodluck!
if you got banned, you or someone you know are hacking
Literally jsut bought the game and play for an hour and got gameban....i trying to contact eac and apologize for what i did in the past year...wanna play this game again with my friends,i cant live peacefully without this game..ok then im out from here
The number of hackers banned on a daily basis will also definitely drive down the player numbers little by little.
Especially given that they cracked down on scripters and have been improving EAC pretty much every patch for the past 3-4 months.
Don't get me wrong - there is still plenty of hackers out there who have not been caught... but more and more are getting caught now.
My personal "estimate" is that between 30-40% of total Rust pop is hacking in one way or another (from blatent ESP, to little no-recoil scripts toggle) - so think about if 30% of Rust pop got insta-banned for all that hacking - you would definitely see a huge pop drop.
I'd rather play with a small "clean" population, rather then with a bunch of hackers, as hackers ruin the game anyway and make players leave.
"Banned for no reason"
"yeah i admit i was hacking like 1 years ago"
Do everyone a favour and simply stay away from Rust :v
That's because Rust is not fun anymore. It was great before rockets ware added, good before anyone could put ladder on your wall, but now... when you can't even build a normal base... It's just a trash.
It's done. You hacked. Too late.
There are plenty of other games out there for you and your friends to play. Some of them free. Just don't hack.
That is why there are servers for you to go on that disable ladders and twig raiding in general. Simple fix for that. I'm just surprised you didn't mention the crossbow nerf.
Now that I look at the graphic though, it is clearly losing more population than the normal yearly fluctuation in half a year, you can see it's almost the same as June in 2015. In fact it did actually lose more than 50% of the population, comparing to it's highest peak of course. It'd be normal to lose around 25% or around 40%, in some cases 50% but more than that clearly indicates something (When it comes to fluctuations). I wouldn't say the game is dying, especially because 22k people is still a considerable amount of players, even though comparing to 68204 players, 22146 is only around 33%...
What I'm trying to say is, I don't think the game is dying because there is still a big community, a loyal one at that, but the majority are tired I guess? I'd need a few more charts to make a full analysis, but it does seem something went wrong.
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