Small game community. VERY small

[ValDorado]

Recently I decided to take a look at WormNet and was disappointed that the number of people playing this game is not even 50. How long does the game have left to live? And what kind of update would you like to release?

[Wolfgang]

i got kinda bored, but i still play some randoms games on ag (like shopper, intermediates, ropers with dibz, funners with peja, corujao, etc) but theres a lot of trolls who insult you during the game for no reason

thats why even funners with random people it start to get me bored xD

[TheWalrus]

I still like the people we got around, fun playing the good hardcore players like sock, blitz, free, saltyk9.  It's 25 years after release, there should be 0 players on wormnet, lets be honest.  Great to see this amazing game still have some life in it.

[Kradie]

i got kinda bored, but i still play some randoms games on ag (like shopper, intermediates, ropers with dibz, funners with peja, corujao, etc) but theres a lot of trolls who insult you during the game for no reason

thats why even funners with random people it start to get me bored xD

This is a sign of maturity.

For me the game's activity has remained more or less the same as funner activities goes.

Competitive side of things: It's basically blitzed vs everyone. This is something Kaleu said some days ago, which is true.

Pure guess: The game itself may seem more dead to people who are into competitive than funners.

[Big Billy]

ye, I'm having websnoop on and joining some games when I feel like it.
And playing serious clanners still is very fun sometimes.
Hard to just stop playing this game for some reason.

And well, when the Update comes in the next century maybe some new players will join from steam.

[Micro]

i got kinda bored, but i still play some randoms games on ag (like shopper, intermediates, ropers with dibz, funners with peja, corujao, etc) but theres a lot of trolls who insult you during the game for no reason

thats why even funners with random people it start to get me bored xD

yeah the trolls take the fun out of games. i mostly still play this game because of friends and new players that want to chat and chill. think for most older players and more consistent ones you just find your community and keep playing with them instead of just joining random games which in effect causes the game community to seem even smaller.

[Wolfgang]

Maybe TuS can have some "random/fun games report system" just to show to the community the Game still have some life and have players enjoying the Game, dunno xD it will work for people who don't play league games for points/ranks

[Kradie]

Maybe TuS can have some "random/fun games report system" just to show to the community the Game still have some life and have players enjoying the Game, dunno xD it will work for people who don't play league games for points/ranks

Funner League? Love it. Or a place that you report good games overall. You would need consent of the other player(s) Imo.

[Wolfgang]

Maybe TuS can have some "random/fun games report system" just to show to the community the Game still have some life and have players enjoying the Game, dunno xD it will work for people who don't play league games for points/ranks

Funner League? Love it. Or a place that you report good games overall. You would need consent of the other player(s) Imo.

yeah in the report page,  it can be the name of the reporter and the list of players of the game (even if they dont on tus) and the chat, and every profile in tus can have a number of games played

some kind of register, because we only saw the number of league games becoming less and same people playing (''nah this game is death''), and why not include the funner games, it maybe will bring more life to the game

PD: this can be useful to know how many players are still around, not only for league

[ValDorado]

And what about Worms WMD? (I personally really like it: there are a lot of weapons, the bots have become smarter, the mechanics of shelters, vehicles, the music is good,the campaign is more fun - everything is just how we like it. But online should be made the same as in WA, because it's hard to find a game that you want.)

[Korydex]

It's 18 gmt now which was usually about prime time but #ag is almost empty like it always was in the mornings is it just a good summer evening or did everyone decide to leave for good this year indeed

[Big Billy]

On the other hand sometimes there are 10games open at the same time on the weekends.

[Chicken23]

Shrinking community is due to the following main reasons iMO:


No secure logins
No official in game ranks
Difficultly in hosting so no new players hanging around
No new updates in a long time
Too many community leagues which splits the player base
Current community league systems - personally I have zero interest in tus because all rounder league means I've got to play rope schemes in playoffs if I qualified. The vision that MI had for merging all the leagues into 1 overall but allowing single scheme playoffs would resolve this.


Then on top of all of that. The old worm players have all moved on to other games which have better versions of the above or address those issues. Even the old school players now in our 40s, they'll play game or watch tv but won't play worms because of the issues above

[Kradie]

Chicken, WA has always been active regardless lack of secure logins and absence of ranks. Nobody today talks about those two things on Worms, and if they do its rare, normally on TUS forums. Hosting has always been a major difficult obstacle, but yet, people have found a way. We have even survived without new update for a decade and activity has always been more or less like now, mins the competitive side of things.

WA is community sustained and thrives of the kindness and passion of others. If you want to make league active, look forward, and form new connections.

To hope for old school people to return is a passing daydream. If a person has enough passion for a game they would continue to play now and then without excuse that league is not enough active.

A new modern TUS would entice old and new people.

[h3oCharles]

i feel like this has something to do with gen z becoming old enough to work now. they are either working, or doing a 2nd tier of uni/college, therefore basically no time/energy to play a mentally taxing game