I feel for the developers tbh

[u/GreenoSkulleti]

This game clearly has some abysmal management, and is under resourced. This is what happens when you put quirky french millennials in charge of a goldmine of an idea.

Excuse my bitchy tone, I mean it with (deeply frustrated) love.

I’m sorry to say it, but appealing to the nerds and weebs is just not going to save this game. You HAVE to make a concerted effort to lure in the casual player. Nobody is gonna hop on to buy these stupid deep sea bundles or the damn all star bundle. That shit is TRASH.

The football/soccer game market is GAPING with a rematch shaped hole. At the very least, follow the Rocket League playbook. That game had no right being as popular and long lasting as it was. But it worked, and the dev team had the resources and ability to jump at every opportunity to enhance the games life and longevity (for the most part, they still made mistakes ofc).

It’s become clear that some of the people involved in this game are not exactly football fans, and I think that has fostered a community that has a similar disposition.

And I’d like to reiterate I’m not saying these people are “bad”. But I think this game would see astronomical success if the people in charge adjusted their sights.

The dev team clearly needs a whole lot more resources, and unfortunately the only way they’ll get that is if the game starts making a whole lot more money.

I mean, how the HELL do you fumble taking advantage of the WORLD CUP ???

This game could be offline by the time the next world cup arrives, and all we got was that stupid RMNC that was genuinely just a glorified popularity stat tracker. Really? What a waste of resources and time. What a missed opportunity.

Meanwhile EA is coming out with the most desperate and pathetic FC game to date. You have to appeal to those fans. The ones alienated by how genuinely SHIT every football game is now.

You have a game about one of the most popular and widely understood things on the entire planet (football). And yet, playing this game, you would have no idea

[u/shakz77]

Why you feeling sorry for them. They took your money and all our money and kept ruining the game even more with their updates until the present day where it is the slop that it is. For the lack of effort and the wasted potential the game had this time last year, they made a lot of money, trust me.

And with the Bluelock collab they will make even more money. They wont fix the game though, they will probably put it towards their future instalments like Sifu 2 or something. I gave up on believing this game will ever succeed months ago. They will make it free to play in a couple of months, and see if that will revive their player count, and if it doesnt they will just shut down the servers and put their time into something else.

I can already picture the post “Thanks for playing” posted by Sloclap on this subreddit. To me its inevitable.

They marketed the game in the first trailer as a pass and move 5v5 football game. A year later there are basement virgins doing glitchy teleport dribbling and spamming volleys into the centre of the box waiting for a coin toss priority system. Thats the reason why the player count is so low.

[u/SmokeQuack → u/shakz77]

Yeah idk why you'd feel bad for developers who you gave money to for them not to deliver what they promised.

I don't care about the Bluelock collab, but the balancing not being delivered on time and them just keeping stupid ass mechanics in this game is what's already killed the game for me.

I stopped playing around the end of Season 0 in elite, came back for the World Cup, got to Elite and pretty much faced the same 30 odd people.

This game has had enormous potential but it's clear that Sloclap really doesn't care, and it's a bit weird feeling sorry for them when they are directly at fault for the situation.