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20 years from now, will Worms Armageddon still exist online?
Kradie:
--- Quote from: skunk3 on January 30, 2019, 01:53 AM ---As far as whether or not W:A will have a player base in 20 years... I doubt it. I doubt servers will even be up in 20 years. I'm amazed it's still up and going, to be honest. I barely play the game anymore (maybe once a week for 2 hours or so) and even with the 3.8 update I don't see that as drumming up much activity. Maybe a little at first but eventually it's going to dwindle again.
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Nothing at the moment is dwindling. Worms Armageddon is as active as it was back in 2005, this is if you exclude the league. So nothing is dwindling, perhaps old school players that you wish to hang out with, but nothing else. Update 3.8, will help WA to stay relevant in modern times. It is very significant of a game like WA to get such massive update. We should be proud and glad to have people working their asses off that still provide freshness to our beloved game. Sure, 3.8 will likely not save WA for 20 years down the road, but here's the silver lining; both DC & CS have expressed the motivation to provide incremental update after the release of 3.8, this alone will help the game stand on its feet with the help of its awesome self-sustained community, until the next big update arrives, such as 4.0.
Sensei:
--- Quote from: Kradie on January 30, 2019, 06:15 PM --- both DC & CS have expressed the motivation to provide incremental update after the release of 3.8
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Now it seems you're just saying things to say them. CS told us long time ago he's basically not even working on a game anymore. And few other respected members confirmed it few times within last year.
Don't get your hopes too high up about soon releases after 3.8, and if you do, try not to spread it around community if you're not sure :)
Kradie:
--- Quote from: Sensei on January 30, 2019, 09:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Kradie on January 30, 2019, 06:15 PM --- both DC & CS have expressed the motivation to provide incremental update after the release of 3.8
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Now it seems you're just saying things to say them. CS told us long time ago he's basically not even working on a game anymore. And few other respected members confirmed it few times within last year.
Don't get your hopes too high up about soon releases after 3.8, and if you do, try not to spread it around community if you're not sure :)
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I could had easily left out CyberShadow's name in my post, but I didn't. I know that DeadCode had said he would love to do a string of small updates after the release of 3.8. So I only naturally assumed that CS ''could'' be involved in some form of contact and collaboration on that.
I never said that my claims of update 3.8 were legit, it was pure speculation on my behalf, and it made sense to me. If anyone were effected by my initial calculations & reasoning behind a potential release date of 3.8, then blame not the developers. This is a delicate subject, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Rumors and speculation are normal, and part of the internet. It is important for people to remember to manage their own beliefs and expectations. Otherwise, people will be disappointed. In a hypothetical scenario if I was right, this wouldn't had been an issue, and no one would had learned anything.
skunk3:
--- Quote from: Kradie on January 30, 2019, 06:15 PM ---
--- Quote from: skunk3 on January 30, 2019, 01:53 AM ---As far as whether or not W:A will have a player base in 20 years... I doubt it. I doubt servers will even be up in 20 years. I'm amazed it's still up and going, to be honest. I barely play the game anymore (maybe once a week for 2 hours or so) and even with the 3.8 update I don't see that as drumming up much activity. Maybe a little at first but eventually it's going to dwindle again.
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Nothing at the moment is dwindling. Worms Armageddon is as active as it was back in 2005, this is if you exclude the league. So nothing is dwindling, perhaps old school players that you wish to hang out with, but nothing else. Update 3.8, will help WA to stay relevant in modern times. It is very significant of a game like WA to get such massive update. We should be proud and glad to have people working their asses off that still provide freshness to our beloved game. Sure, 3.8 will likely not save WA for 20 years down the road, but here's the silver lining; both DC & CS have expressed the motivation to provide incremental update after the release of 3.8, this alone will help the game stand on its feet with the help of its awesome self-sustained community, until the next big update arrives, such as 4.0.
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I am massively appreciative of CS and DC for their hard work. That said, I doubt W:A is as active as it was back in '05. Every time I get on WormNET it's nearly dead and the people who are there are just random noobs. I've tried getting on at various times of day and if you take away the idlers and snoopers there aren't many people on, ever. (Unless I somehow miss when everyone is online, which could be the case.)
I don't personally keep track of traffic stats or anything but from my personal observations it appears to me that W:A is continuing the slow decline that it has been on for years now, and I personally couldn't care less about new, random Russian noobs playing. This will always be my favorite game, but what made W:A awesome was the player base... and 99% of the coolest people to play the game no longer play, so meh. I pop on every once in a while to play some RR and various other schemes but I don't feel the urge to compulsively play W:A like I used to primarily because the player base sucks now in various ways.
WTF-8:
--- Quote from: Sensei on January 30, 2019, 09:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Kradie on January 30, 2019, 06:15 PM --- both DC & CS have expressed the motivation to provide incremental update after the release of 3.8
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Now it seems you're just saying things to say them. CS told us long time ago he's basically not even working on a game anymore.
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but
--- Quote from: CyberShadow on January 04, 2018, 07:41 PM ---It is really demotivating to implement a feature or even bugfix, then see it waste away for years in a row in secret alpha builds that only a few people see.
We are in agreement, though, that we need to get back to releasing updates frequently. Hopefully this can become reality instead of another "when it's done" deadlock :)
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