The new MMORPG Crowfall launched this week, but the launch apparently attracted hardly any players. And this despite a relatively large number of supporters investing money into the game beforehand.
What kind of game is it? Crowfall is a new MMORPG strongly focused on PvP. It started its development back in 2015 with a successful Kickstarter campaign and gathered more and more supporters over the years to help bring the game to launch.
The official launch took place on July 6, 2021, at 1:00 PM. The servers were reset for the launch. This means: Even backers who had been able to play during the testing phases of the game had to or could start from scratch again. A large release hype around Crowfall did not materialize.
Apparently few players on the servers after the launch
Update: On July 9, Crowfall’s team commented on the numbers. A first response came through the official Crowfall channel on Twitter, which addressed the question of whether the numbers were correct. The answer was: “We are taking it slow and steady. Our focus is on the quality of the experience we deliver while driving growth. Thank you” (via Twitter).
Creative Director J Todd Coleman also commented more specifically via Twitter. To the question of whether the numbers regarding the player peak were accurate, he replied: “Not really. Registered emails cannot play (we are not F2P)” (via Twitter).
According to Coleman, the peak was about 20% of the active player base, he explained further: “Which means that more than 25% of our backers have already played during peak time (more if you include non-peak hours).”
In the meantime, the bot in Discord has been adjusted. It now uses the paid accounts as a reference size, which according to the bot is currently about 90,229.
Here continues with the original article.
Here are the numbers: In the MMORPG subreddit, user “Lewpac22” shared a screenshot that showed the current player counts on the Crowfall servers. At the time of the screenshot, there were 3,139 concurrent players in Crowfall.
These figures were read by a bot, which is continuously updated in the Crowfall community Discord. As of the current status (July 8, 6:45 PM), the numbers are even slightly lower: 2,433 concurrent players are counted there. Considering the daily trend, player counts are sometimes even lower.
Especially in context, these are very low numbers – particularly regarding the backers who originally supported the game financially. As of 2018, Crowfall officially announced reaching the mark of 50,000 supporters through Kickstarter and their own shop (via Crowfall.com). Even if all currently active players belong to this group, that would be only 4.87% of the 50,000 supporters.
In addition, the bot reports that the current number of players corresponds to only 0.45% of the 489,350 registered users who have created an account as a “Crow” to be active in the forum.
What are the problems? Even before the release, there was criticism regarding the PvP MMORPG Crowfall. Among other things, optimization, the interface, and the tutorial were criticized. The latter was important as it should explain a specific system in Crowfall: The game features multiple running campaigns. Only the “Eternal Kingdoms” form an existing social space. A closer look at the difficulties with Crowfall can be found here.
In the reddit post, a user explains: “I am a backer. Didn’t even bother to download the game. I’ve somehow lost all interest. It just doesn’t look like what I imagined. An MMO without a persistent shared world just doesn’t look like an MMO to me. The Eternal Kingdoms don’t really count” (via reddit.com).
Other users comment that they also expected something different from the game – or simply did not notice that it was coming out now.
Another MMORPG that launches this week is Swords of Legends Online. Will the release go better? You can find tips for the launch of the new MMORPG SOLO here.
