The Hack and Slay Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem launched extremely strong on Steam in February. However, almost all players are gone now. The team has plans on how they want to bring the fans back.
How is Wolcen doing currently? The action RPG was released on February 13 via Steam. As you can see from Steamcharts, it amazed a lot of players at launch. In February, 31,746 players played Wolcen at the same time. The peak was even at 127,542 players!
However, by March, this number had reduced to less than half. Now, in the past 30 days, only around 1,803 players are online simultaneously on average.
One can say that Wolcen has almost lost all its players within three months.
Wolcen has its problems
What is the reason for this drop? Wolcen already struggled with problems at the beginning. These manifested in connection drops, servers being unreachable, players losing items or even characters in online play, and bugs increased after Chapter 2.
The developers have been working hard since then to improve the Hack ‘n Slay. However, players still complain about bugs. Furthermore, the endgame with city building cannot motivate for long. And fans have to wait a longer time for new content.
How do the developers want to bring players back? The team announced some time ago plans on how they want to take care of Wolcen. Initially, there is a phase of improvement and optimization. Only thereafter will new content be released. Patches are planned until July.
- May – 1.0.14
- June – 1.0.15
- July – 1.0.16
With the update 1.1.0, which is supposed to come after 1.0.16 at an unspecified time, a seasonal event called “Chronicle” will come into play. Additionally, the update 1.1.0 will bring the following:
- New damage types in the skill modifiers
- A revision of damage scaling
- Improvements to the Gate of Fates
- Search functions in the passive skills tree
What is Chronicle? The seasonal event introduces a world that is only available for a limited time. You create a new hero that faces challenges in this world and thus obtains special items.
Content follows, but too late?
What happens after? After the update 1.1.0, further content is expected to follow, including the next chapter in the story. However, these contents do not yet have a release date.
What is the problem? For almost the entire summer, there are only bug fixes and optimizations. Only no earlier than August will the first new content follow. Will the fans hold out until then and will the seasonal event be enough to encourage players to return? It could be possible, and one would wish for a kind of second spring for Wolcen.
Until the Hack and Slay Wolcen hopefully gets back on track, you can still check out other action RPGs. For that, you should best read the MeinMMO list of the 9 new Hack and Slays coming in 2020 to bridge the wait for Diablo 4.
