What is your "dead online" threshold?

Just when do you consider a game dead?

I play some games quite a bit with a few hundred active players, and my friends all say the multiplayer is absolutley dead. :confused: Not according to me!

How about you?

Probably 500 players and no active matches at any given time, 1000 is fairly slow I guess but not entirely dead. Dead assumes there's no pulse at all, rarely does any game not have at least one match a day, i'd say that would still be alive but I wouldn't expect a quick match.

As long as the servers are up and I'm able to play it its not dead to me.

I'd say it depends on the type of game. If its a major game full of modes and maps and stuff, then at 500 or less 80% of those modes and maps won't be touched in favor of the standby favorites, and it will be hard to find a server with people who aren't hackers or level one million.

With games that are smaller in scope or more indie, 500 is actually pretty decent. Payday for example, tends to only have about that many players a lot of times, but its hard not to find a match or get some players in a level and difficulty of your choosing, because its a smaller indie game with simpler choices.

There are about 0 people playing shattered horizon online on any given night.

Without being literally dead?

There are about 5 people playing serious sam 3 online on any given night.

Not even 500, just a couple peeps at my favorite servers. In Q3, there was a small community of less than 100 peeps in version 1.30 that I cared about. Same goes for the RA3 mod in 1.32. When you get into the really tight-knitt niche mods like InstaUnlagged CTF with railjumps, you start to really rely on networking to set up games rather than expecting someone to already be there. Clans provided an incentive (clan battles) for setting up matches. When that community collapses, I consider the game dead.

Of course in modern games, it depends on the genre. What I described above somewhat applies to an FPS like COD4, but for an "MMOFPS," as I like to call it- like Battlefield BC2, I expect a much larger number of players because.. well you're supposed to get the full war experience.

When I can't find a decent sized lobby consistently.

I'd say when there's less than 2, 000 or so worldwide players, because it makes matchmaking very lengthy sometimes. *coughhaloreachcough*

I'd say when there's less than 2, 000 or so worldwide players, because it makes matchmaking very lengthy sometimes. *coughhaloreachcough*

Bigboi500

If it takes me more than 5 minutes to find a decent sized match then I consider the online mode dead.

Honestly anything under 5,000 seems pretty much dead to me.

I'd say when there's less than 2, 000 or so worldwide players, because it makes matchmaking very lengthy sometimes. *coughhaloreachcough*

Bigboi500

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I'd say when there's less than 2, 000 or so worldwide players, because it makes matchmaking very lengthy sometimes. *coughhaloreachcough*

DarkLink77

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I'd say when there's less than 2, 000 or so worldwide players, because it makes matchmaking very lengthy sometimes. *coughhaloreachcough*

Bigboi500

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[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] There are more than 2000 people playing Team Slayer alone at any given time in Reach. :?CaptainAhab13

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="Bigboi500"]

I'd say when there's less than 2, 000 or so worldwide players, because it makes matchmaking very lengthy sometimes. *coughhaloreachcough*

Bigboi500

[QUOTE="CaptainAhab13"][QUOTE="Bigboi500"]Not when I was playing last night. It was around 1,200. The other modes were in the low 100s.DJ_Headshot

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[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] There are more than 2000 people playing Team Slayer alone at any given time in Reach. :?DarkLink77

Dead online is when i cant find a single player playing online.. that only happened when i played Gears of War 2, there was nobody playing that game

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="Bigboi500"]Not when I was playing last night. It was around 1,200. The other modes were in the low 100s.

Bigboi500

Any game on PS3 that isnt Call of Duty or Battlefield.

The ONLY exception being Uncharted 3/2, but those arent anywhere near mainstream.

Killzone, nobody plays. Sometimes you cant even get into games on Killzone 3 because people arent playing, and when you do its NEVER a full game. According to the Killzone 2 MyKillzone page there are 22 logged in players playing Killzone 2 right now :lol: (ive seen that number as low as 2 before).

Anything else isnt even worth mentioning. Resistance? :lol:

Twisted broken netcode Metal? :lol: it got to the point where David Jaffe was telling people to do tricks with their router to get the game to work :lol:

Starhawk? I was in the beta when it started, there was only like 13 players. :lol:

D(ead on arrival)ust514? :lol:

The hilarious part is.....even though im trolling, everything im saying is actually true :lol::lol::lol:

It's dead if it isn't reaching Modern Warfare 3 / Counter Strike Source numbers, a.k.a. around 1 million online at any given time.

If you can get into the game you want quickly, it's not dead.

It's dead if it isn't reaching Modern Warfare 3 / Counter Strike Source numbers, a.k.a. around 1 million online at any given time.

arkephonic

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There are about 0 people playing shattered horizon online on any given night.

topgunmv

Awww... please don't remind me. That was such a great game.

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I'd say when there's less than 2, 000 or so worldwide players, because it makes matchmaking very lengthy sometimes. *coughhaloreachcough*

DarkLink77

Its dead for me when I can't get into a game within 2 or 3 minutes.

Most Ps3 MP exclusive titles are what I'd consider a dead zone.

Any game on PS3 that isnt Call of Duty or Battlefield.

The ONLY exception being Uncharted 3/2, but those arent anywhere near mainstream.

Killzone, nobody plays. Sometimes you cant even get into games on Killzone 3 because people arent playing, and when you do its NEVER a full game. According to the Killzone 2 MyKillzone page there are 22 logged in players playing Killzone 2 right now :lol: (ive seen that number as low as 2 before).

Anything else isnt even worth mentioning. Resistance? :lol:

Twisted broken netcode Metal? :lol: it got to the point where David Jaffe was telling people to do tricks with their router to get the game to work :lol:

Starhawk? I was in the beta when it started, there was only like 13 players. :lol:

D(ead on arrival)ust514? :lol:

The hilarious part is.....even though im trolling, everything im saying is actually true :lol::lol::lol:

StrongDeadlift

When a game hits Red Orchestra 2 levels of players.

When I can't find a full match or decent sized match is when I consider the game dead.

Medal of Honor on the 360 usually has around 400 or so players but I never having any problems finding a full match on Combat Mission and Team Assault despite the small community size.

when you can't find a match no matter how long you wait...thats dead. I played that HAWX 2 one hour PSN+ demo not too long ago and found a couple of multiplayer matches online. You never know what is alive either.

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I'd say when there's less than 2, 000 or so worldwide players, because it makes matchmaking very lengthy sometimes. *coughhaloreachcough*

Bigboi500

Wow, thats insane, even Black Ops on THE WII has over 20,000 active players round the clock, and thats after taking a hit from MW3 release. Surprised a halo game is that low :?

When a game hits Red Orchestra 2 levels of players.

Wasdie

I guess when moderately players start to dissapear.

Near the end there's nothing but really good players, scrubs and assh*les.

When you see that you know the online is dead.

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[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] There are more than 2000 people playing Team Slayer alone at any given time in Reach. :?WreckEm711

Wow, thats insane, even Black Ops on THE WII has over 20,000 active players round the clock, and thats after taking a hit from MW3 release. Surprised a halo game is that low :?

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When a game hits Red Orchestra 2 levels of players.

JigglyWiggly_

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[QUOTE="Bigboi500"]Not when I was playing last night. It was around 1,200. The other modes were in the low 100s.

AcidSoldner

Wow, thats insane, even Black Ops on THE WII has over 20,000 active players round the clock, and thats after taking a hit from MW3 release. Surprised a halo game is that low :?

If I can't join a match that's at least three-quarters full or so. Honestly, that rarely happens though. Every games seems to have at least a handful of diehard followers.

I wish Snoopy Flying Ace still had a big community. I dropped it for six months and then barely find anyone. Such a fun game.

When I literally cannot find a server, and when I do, it has 2 people. There have been a large amount of titles that had me playing for long stretches of time when 3-6 servers were the norm. In a sense, I like that better. It becomes it's own little community with regulars keeping it alive.