Where did all the people go?

[SpiritTauren]

Where did all the people go? Yesterday night I was trying to play some games in wc3 (and then, attempted to get some ppl in my lobby for testing purpose), the general channel has like below 20 ppl (10-15 at best) at all times.
Is the game dying out??

 

[Stefan.K]

Reforged, I guess...

 

[SpiritTauren]

Reforged, I guess...

Do you mean the game has separate chat versions now? I refunded Reforged after its release, so I'm still using the old one.

 

[Stefan.K]

No. I mean, now if you want to use classic wc3 you still have to download a 20gb from reforged. Unless you use a pirated copy.

 

[AbsolutePsycho]

I'm wondering as well.

Also I just recently realized that again custom games are only seen within one region, and not so long ago we had this:

[1.30.2] All custom games from all gateways are now visible in the lobby browser

 

[MasterBlaster]

I imagine most people who stuck with Reforged or used 1.32 were hoping for some meaningful updates and Blizzard somehow turning the game around, but what they got instead was more than half a year of bug fixes and minor tweaks.

And with the first actually significant update being announced to come "in a few months", I wouldn't be surprised if many of them gave up and quit.

 

[SpiritTauren]

I imagine most people who stuck with Reforged or used 1.32 were hoping for some meaningful updates and Blizzard somehow turning the game around, but what they got instead was more than half a year of bug fixes and minor tweaks.

And with the first actually significant update being announced to come "in a few months", I wouldn't be surprised if many of them gave up and quit.

Man... That's just utterly depressing. I'm a total (and slightly autistic) noob who spent 2 years working on a ultra-ambitious project, while struggling to achieve complex results with just GUI and bits of custom scripts, barely started learning about LUA etc. Then Reforged pops up in January. I was tempted to quit, but decided to man up & finish my stuff. Now after another 1/2 year (even more), when I've finally barely made a somewhat playable game, it turns out, the game's dying anyway =(
Sheesh...
Well, I guess my 6th sense was telling me something, when I titled the project "Feral Despair".
Joke's on me.
P.S.
Master,
Where's your Blaster?

 

[MasterBlaster]

game's dying anyway

Well, there's always hope that once Blizzard gets their sh*t together and actually releases that big patch, some folks will come back.

 

[deepstrasz]

Man... That's just utterly depressing.

Spoiler

 

[SpiritTauren]

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May the Force serve you well, my lord.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Where's your Blaster?

Is this good enough for ya?

 

[SpiritTauren]

I guess so

Is this good enough for ya?

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[Duke]

Just take the Unity pill

 

[SpiritTauren]

Just take the Unity pill

Red or Blue?

 

[tulee]

General channel population is not an accurate figure of how many people are on, since Bnet still scatters people around different channels when they log in.

WC3Maps

This site shows live number of lobbies up (games that have not started yet). European night time still is the most active time for Wc3, since the majority of players are based there.

 

[deepstrasz]

General channel population is not an accurate figure of how many people are on, since Bnet still scatters people around different channels when they log in.

What about ladder?

 

[tulee]

W3Champions

"Players per day" stats for the main private ladder program (still uses Bnet, just limits matching to other people with same program).

Given how the vast majority on Bnet do not use it, the numbers on this private system can give us an estimate that the numbers on bnet must be quite considerable.

 

[deepstrasz]

Given how the vast majority on Bnet do not use it, the numbers on this private system can give us an estimate that the numbers on bnet must be quite considerable.

Thanks.
Around 2000 players per day in melee. That's more than in Custom Games (60 games x4 players for an estimate; even with 10 it'd still be less than half the melee ones).