Death of a Game: Rogue Company

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Komentáře • 813

  • @RoyaLotad
    @RoyaLotad Před 3 měsíci +864

    Hi-Rez are so fascinating. I just find it hilarious that their entire business model is based on chasing trends, making their own take on it then immediately letting it rot and die as soon as it starts losing players, and they're not even SLIGHTLY subtle about it.

    • @Boundyy
      @Boundyy Před 3 měsíci +53

      If it isn't Smite they don't give af about it

    • @ProxyDoug
      @ProxyDoug Před 3 měsíci +28

      The most dumbfounding thing about them is how good their games are and are still left to die like that. Some are really fun, just not worth your time the way they want it to be like Divine Knockout.

    • @harrylane4
      @harrylane4 Před 3 měsíci +7

      At least they’re honest about it I guess 🤷 I respect a company that’s open about being scummy just a pinch more than I do one that pretends they aren’t

    • @gibleyman
      @gibleyman Před 3 měsíci +9

      they're like the embodiment of ADHD.
      Chase something you find cool and exciting.
      Lose every bit of motivation and interest immediately and chase after another interest.
      It's an almost comical business structure.

    • @nuneselso
      @nuneselso Před 3 měsíci +3

      the sad thing is: their games are actually good.

  • @kingkuroai5387
    @kingkuroai5387 Před 3 měsíci +552

    Hi-Rez releasing subtle bangers and throwing them in the garbage needs to be studied

    • @JStack
      @JStack Před 3 měsíci +22

      Easy to build, hard to keep alive and fresh

    • @grayearly3116
      @grayearly3116 Před 3 měsíci +22

      Yeah my theory is that everything they release is just to cover for smite losses so they operate it all on an extremely narrow margin and the second it dips into the red, they pull funding.

    • @amourdior8444
      @amourdior8444 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Theyre the worst in terms of games tbh they all suck except smite

    • @kingkuroai5387
      @kingkuroai5387 Před 3 měsíci +13

      ​@@amourdior8444can't agree man, paladins, dko, realm royale all had major potential but were DOA since they had no plans to update past release. Unless it's a pack of skins for money, there will be no substance. They added a total of 3(?) new gods to dko before deciding the money wasn't flowing hard enough

    • @El_Chucky99
      @El_Chucky99 Před 2 měsíci

      @@JStacknot hard at all, it was marketing and actually fixing the game that killed rogue company

  • @RufusKyura
    @RufusKyura Před 3 měsíci +2204

    Oh look, another Hi-Res game that got shafted, who could have seen that coming? lol

    • @Ronbotnik
      @Ronbotnik Před 3 měsíci +163

      quick, invest into Smite 2!! lmao

    • @Dracowinges
      @Dracowinges Před 3 měsíci +12

      Wait, what...oh dear..

    • @Justajones
      @Justajones Před 3 měsíci +36

      Never invest in a high res games

    • @JasonNZ42
      @JasonNZ42 Před 3 měsíci +39

      @@JustajonesIt was fun while it lasted though. That being said, a shame the community lived up to the name of the game

    • @Schrau
      @Schrau Před 3 měsíci +18

      Start the clock on Tribes 3.

  • @ITalk69
    @ITalk69 Před 3 měsíci +452

    Loved playing this game, I think I owned all the cosmetics it offered besides the competitive stuff, and yeah seeing everything slowly stop was enough for me to believe that the end was near. Not to mention, that they just retweet plays of the week on their Twitter and that's been their feed for the better part of a few months. There's just absolutely nothing going on right now.

    • @vesmoper
      @vesmoper Před 3 měsíci

      Meh

    • @Primorion
      @Primorion Před 3 měsíci +6

      why would you just burn money on a game that isn't fortnite

    • @masterace9543
      @masterace9543 Před 3 měsíci +13

      ​@@Primorion why would I burn on fortnite when theres other games, arguably better, out there 😐

    • @Aaaayup
      @Aaaayup Před 3 měsíci +5

      Sucks because I had literally maxed out every gun and was having a lot of fun then got a little burnt out but the new season was like a week away so I was still hype. Then I seen the timer just go away and they didn’t add anything

    • @YouCanCallMeIz
      @YouCanCallMeIz Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@Primorion Such bait, much wow

  • @armorbearer9702
    @armorbearer9702 Před 3 měsíci +631

    Ouch! It sounds like Rouge Company constantly tried to expand without bothering to fix and polish what they already have.

    • @DmytroBogdan
      @DmytroBogdan Před 3 měsíci +21

      "Rouge" Company 😂

    • @banishedepsilon1802
      @banishedepsilon1802 Před 3 měsíci +12

      Typical Hi-Rez...

    • @jdaze32
      @jdaze32 Před 3 měsíci +14

      Every hirez game ever smite just is lucky

    • @Mavvvzz
      @Mavvvzz Před 3 měsíci +1

      Pubg strat

    • @timothymoore2966
      @timothymoore2966 Před 3 měsíci +5

      Smite is literally only alive because of arena and console. They tried to make slash 4v4 who is running things? Slash was created because siege was so bad. Horrible company

  • @ViewtifulJae
    @ViewtifulJae Před 3 měsíci +903

    Such squandered potential . Like a year and a half ago this game was brimming with potential

    • @aersla1731
      @aersla1731 Před 3 měsíci +5

      How did the video just premiere but this comment is an hour old?

    • @Crota0100
      @Crota0100 Před 3 měsíci +36

      ​@@aersla1731 You can comment on a video before it premieres.

    • @rawallon
      @rawallon Před 3 měsíci +8

      Said everyone about most of hi-rez games

    • @sunburst8810
      @sunburst8810 Před 3 měsíci +4

      no it was not. it was generic f2p slop only played in SEA

    • @addiemarieruhome
      @addiemarieruhome Před 3 měsíci +5

      Right? Honestly this video made me want to play it kinda

  • @coolcc1t4h
    @coolcc1t4h Před 3 měsíci +344

    Hirez really is one of the worst companies in gaming in terms of monetization and also just development imo. Also anyone remember smite tactics? I swear that existed for like six months.

    • @nuzx6612
      @nuzx6612 Před 3 měsíci +53

      Pretty sure divine knockout didn’t even last 5 months

    • @celoteck
      @celoteck Před 3 měsíci +8

      Wouldn't say in terms of monetization, they never had any kind of p2w in any of their games that I'm aware of and the prices for what you get seem ok even tho they got more expensive over the last years. Yea there is some crap like not getting enough gems from one battle pass to buy the next one (at least in smite) etc.
      But yea, it really sucks that I love smite so much.
      They always copy a trend and honestly the basis for those games is nice with some really cool concepts and new ideas... and then they think "oh, were not THE most successful game right from the start, let's just throw it away"... well at least they say "let's throw it away and focus on smite" but it still really sucks.

    • @DmytroBogdan
      @DmytroBogdan Před 3 měsíci

      Not the worst, you're just overexagerrating. But some decisions are weird to say the least

    • @4m4n40
      @4m4n40 Před 3 měsíci

      They’re like an equivalent of a game mill, which I think is the name for another company ran by scummy idiots.

    • @mrblooper1994
      @mrblooper1994 Před 3 měsíci +10

      ​​@@celoteckpaladin's OB64 (I think it was called) was hell hole of a p2w scandal wdym?

  • @MartianTerror17
    @MartianTerror17 Před 3 měsíci +141

    Rogue Company was the game that brought me back to playing online. I hadn't played online multilayer since Left 4 Dead 2 and I loved this game. Sad to hear this news.

    • @MaZaki721
      @MaZaki721 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Fr man this game was so good it had so much potential

  • @Bossmaney
    @Bossmaney Před 3 měsíci +114

    Rogue Company carried me during lockdown 🥹

  • @1100ms
    @1100ms Před 3 měsíci +31

    What actually killed this game, at least it's budding competitive community, was a single update: Arms Dealer. This game had a surprisingly good competitive community around it, with nightly/weekly cash tournaments for the demolition mode. The balance of the game however hinged upon balancing the abilities with the 2 weapons available to each Rogue. Similar philosophy to something like Siege or Overwatch; stronger ability toolkit, weaker weapons. This facilitated interesting team comps and stable counterpick metas that lent actual depth to the way this game was played. By 2021 the game was struggling to grow owing to the slowing updates and Hi-Rez's toxic brand recognition, but it had a solid competitive community keeping it afloat that would likely have sustained it until they could commit to larger updates, if ever.
    Arms Dealer introduced the ability to use any weapon on any Rogue, an obvious attempt at selling more cosmetics at the expense of the entire competitive scene. Instantly you saw the same 5-7 Rogues with the same 2 weapons in every high-level lobby. With no remaining consideration for team-comp around good utility and strong weapons, coupled with the already slow pace of updates, the meta stagnated within 6 weeks and even the most dedicated content creators in the space were looking for the exit.

  • @SirIzzyBlack
    @SirIzzyBlack Před 3 měsíci +42

    I thought I was going to learn about another game I missed out on, but a few minutes in I remembered that I played this.

  • @TheRockNatural
    @TheRockNatural Před 3 měsíci +100

    The question is, do you often have the impression that modern online games are dying too quickly?

    • @A1stardan
      @A1stardan Před 3 měsíci +41

      That's what the companies prefer. They make a lot of money, don't have to put in the effort as much as singleplayer or campaign dlcs, just cosmetics. Then when the servers shut down, those costs are reduced too. And repeat

    • @snuron
      @snuron Před 3 měsíci +7

      That's what a live-service game is.

    • @BozsoGabor
      @BozsoGabor Před 3 měsíci +8

      This is why if you spot live-service just avoid it like the plague.

    • @VioPLayable
      @VioPLayable Před 3 měsíci +8

      @@BozsoGabor That's what you say but if a game is not live-service the playerbase complains about a lack of updates. Look how quickly multiplayer games that aren't live-service die. People got accustomed to getting a game then receiving monthly updates and the ADHD has settled in. years ago we were able to play a Call of Duty game for 500 hours straight despite it not getting a single update after release, and today if a game doesn't receive an update for 2 months it starts dying. Hell, Titanfall 2 died almost completely despite being a fully delivered service and the only thing that brought it back to life recently has been an update.

    • @Seven-pu5wj
      @Seven-pu5wj Před 2 měsíci +1

      thats just the industry. competitive online games tend to have players that only focus on grinding 1-2 games. a game needs players who view your game as their first or 2nd choice. not their 5th or 6th.

  • @Rabi2in
    @Rabi2in Před 3 měsíci +103

    I LOVED this game and i'm so upset with what happened to it. I put in over 1000 hours and got really good at it. It was the most fun i've ever had in a video game, i'm really sad it got shafted :(

  • @caleb8364
    @caleb8364 Před 3 měsíci +162

    I played this game so much on release but overtime my interest dwindled especially the time when they added loot boxes

    • @lifeofrjh
      @lifeofrjh Před 3 měsíci +7

      Loot boxes are fine, as long as they aren’t providing an unfair advantage or affecting the core gameplay and everyone is on a level playing field I don’t see why they shouldn’t be able to make an income stream On a free to play. How else are they going to pay the bills?

    • @theFORZA66
      @theFORZA66 Před 3 měsíci +8

      ​@lifeofrjh its a trash and manipulative monetization scheme. No one is saying you cant have an income stream. But dont be scummy about it. Let people directly buy what they want, at least in a rotating shop like helldivers

    • @ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it
      @ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it Před 3 měsíci

      tell that to blizzard. their lootboxes were amazing. your black and white logic is trash@@theFORZA66

    • @pr107
      @pr107 Před 3 měsíci

      they have both you brainless twat. Now go guzzle something white and milky@@theFORZA66

    • @THawkMedia
      @THawkMedia Před 3 měsíci +4

      Loot boxes were free and got you old battlepass content, so honestly didn't mind them

  • @DanGodofThunder
    @DanGodofThunder Před 3 měsíci +180

    A few thoughts, because like you, I've been dealing with Hi Rez's bullshit for a long time.
    1. There's also Alacrity Studios which is the in house artists for Hi Rez projects which you didn't mention. Rogue Company also spent some time as its own independent company before being folded into Evil Mojo (Which actually, I thought was just Paladins until now). My understanding is that there are substantial tax incentives in the state of Georgia to start up film and media businesses. This, rather than its reputation for bullshit and stupidity, was what I was told was the primary driving force for creating multiple companies and turning Hi Rez into a holding company. I am of the opinion that "Hi Rez's reputation is shit, so let's mask it with smaller companies" was not part of the decision making process, because that would imply that senior leaders (Hi Erez!) think that their reputation is shit.
    2. Because Smite has been their most (only) profitable IP, them killing it off to create Smite 2 will likely not be abandoned. If they abandon Smite 2, and kill of Smite 1, where does Hi Rez get any revenue whatsoever? While yes, this is Erez Goren's pet vanity project, it still has to keep the lights on somehow. That's why Hi Rez has been so quick to pull the plug on games like Realm Royale, Rogue Company, and Prophecy, which was an Auto Chess game that died before it got to a closed beta. They've been trying to replace Smite 1 as their main profit generator for at least six years now, and when it becomes apparent that won't do it, they cut and run.

    • @RoboZombie777
      @RoboZombie777 Před 3 měsíci +4

      I actually have a quick dumb question re: what the deal with Hi-Rez and Prophecy is
      I dunno where I heard this but for whatever reason, I was under the impression that Smite was the game that Erez was the least involved with, which coincidentally is probably why it's by and far the most successful game they've ever done, but also part of the reason Erez keeps trying to launch other games in hope of making another hit. Cuz, you know, it's not a great look on him personally.
      Prophecy's website claims they spun out of Hi-Rez in 2020 and are an "independent company." Again, I'm under the impression that what basically happened is that after massively bag fumbling Realm Royal by pivoting it's whole design to a fortnite knockoff and thus killing it and pissing off the rest of the management there, Erez was basically given a deal where he would no longer run Hi-Rez day to day while still being the majority shareholder. In return for quasi leaving Hi-Rez, Prophecy would be given to him directly as his own little pet studio. Can you confirm or deny that's basically what happened?

    • @Ashen_Night116
      @Ashen_Night116 Před 3 měsíci +9

      Don't forget the games that came before SMITE, Tribes and Global Agenda died for SMITE.

    • @DanGodofThunder
      @DanGodofThunder Před 3 měsíci

      @@RoboZombie777 i am unaware. Sorry.

  • @DoktrDoom
    @DoktrDoom Před 3 měsíci +20

    My dad used to work at Hi-Rez on this game. From what I recall, he said the team was great, but it seemed like the work was just all over the place. People kept getting moved from game to game. When he left was when there were plans to update Realm Royale again a few years ago, they were moving people around a bunch because of that.

    • @abudorayakobu
      @abudorayakobu Před měsícem +1

      They should have had teams for seperate games honestly. It's what EA does. Once a game is dead there is no revival.

    • @DoktrDoom
      @DoktrDoom Před 25 dny +1

      @@abudorayakobu They do. But people are constantly moved from one team to another, and they’d been constantly starting up new projects (or reviving old ones), which requires, again, moving people around. Was just too hectic. Apparently like 6 months after he left there was a massive restructuring and a lot of people were let go.

  • @sinisterterror6950
    @sinisterterror6950 Před 3 měsíci +44

    note that doctor disrespect mainly played the game because he got paid for it.
    HI-rez made a partnership with dr disrespect, the doc would advertise the game during his streams, and hirez would pay him.
    doctor disrespect mentioned in a stream received a lot of money to advertise the game.
    once the partnership stopped, the doc stopped playing the game.
    hirez probably lost a lot of money because of the deal, and could be a reason why they put the game on maintenance mode

    • @Yamivenum
      @Yamivenum Před 3 měsíci +8

      they did he got banned and they couldnt promote it on twitch because his face was all over it

    • @5150_Designs
      @5150_Designs Před 3 měsíci +13

      Doc did get banned on Twitch and you couldn't even use Docs skin while streaming or you'd get banned also. Doc screwed this game big time with his bathroom recording move

    • @DmytroBogdan
      @DmytroBogdan Před 3 měsíci +3

      Saying game "attracted" big streamer is so naive...
      Hi-Rez payed big steamer to promote their game - that's how it should be said

    • @PawpiChoolo
      @PawpiChoolo Před 3 měsíci

      @@5150_Designsbathroom recording?

    • @Kaos0310
      @Kaos0310 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@5150_Designs Doc didn't screw this game, this game screwed itself lol. This game would be thriving if it launched as a BR and f2p from the start. Hate it or love it, BRs are the way in today's age, MP got boring AF.

  • @Simte
    @Simte Před 3 měsíci +36

    Wow, I didn't know this game was abandoned, it wasn't long ago when all those streamers where pushing it everywhere. Really good detective work as asual

  • @Guarrow
    @Guarrow Před 3 měsíci +63

    I disagree when you say that it felt « cheaper » than Realm Royale. When I first booted it up it felt like a huge surprise, the game was smooth as hell with pretty great gunfeel for a 3rd person shooter. Didn't felt like a HiRez game and it was a huge surprise on that regard.
    I've never heard the complaint about the stiff animations, and honestly ? You're right. They are quite a bit stiff. I think people didn't noticed because we played PUBG and it was even worse in that regard. But besides the stiff animations, the movement was pretty fast and reactive, that's personally why I had no issues with not having more « realistic » movement, I'd rather have my character move fast than realistically.
    I also disagree when you say it had no identity. The gameplay in itself was actually good. It basically was a more casual CSGO with the shop system and movement, with a 3rd person topview that actually worked GREAT because you could swap the camera's side and your character would actually hold the weapon differently. So you had no « left side advantage » like in Fortnite for example, of your character taking half of your screen like in Warframe.
    But I'm glad you pointed out the Epic Games store thing. It feels like a death sentence at this point. To me it's a major point of why the game didn't succeed. When you launch your game on Steam tho it was already available elsewhere it's never going well

    • @nerdSlayerstudioss
      @nerdSlayerstudioss  Před 3 měsíci +19

      Maybe it's because I played loads of Gears of War, Global Agenda, and Max Payne...it just feels like it pails in comparison to all of them in different ways.

    • @nestormelendez9005
      @nestormelendez9005 Před 3 měsíci +12

      Compared to other hi rez games it was high quality compared to other games in general yes it felt cheap

    • @Ashen_Night116
      @Ashen_Night116 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@nestormelendez9005 Global Agenda was a Hi-Rez game, and Rogue Company was straight up inferior to Tribes: Ascend in literally every single imaginable way.

    • @nestormelendez9005
      @nestormelendez9005 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@Ashen_Night116 yyyeeeeah no

  • @whitechoco705
    @whitechoco705 Před 3 měsíci +31

    Best 3rd person shooter hands down sad this game died.

    • @Fbacurau
      @Fbacurau Před 3 měsíci +6

      Agree

    • @Aaaayup
      @Aaaayup Před 3 měsíci +9

      Agree. The shoulder swapping combined with the rolling gave this game so much potential. All they had to do imo was add a new map and a new op every couple months and I’d probably play it for years

    • @OrionDawn15
      @OrionDawn15 Před 3 měsíci +1

      That's debatable, but I'll be willing to settle with *one of the best.*

    • @Aaaayup
      @Aaaayup Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@OrionDawn15 just curious what else is up there?

    • @OrionDawn15
      @OrionDawn15 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@Aaaayup I think Helldivers 2, the Gears Of War games, Warframe, MGSV, Risk Of Rain 2, Star Wars Battlefront 2(classic and modern... when I play them in third person) deserve to be up there.
      Personally? I also quite like Binary Domain, The Division 2, Spec Ops: The Line, the Resident Evil games and Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet.

  • @profane_random
    @profane_random Před 3 měsíci +8

    From what i've searched, Prophecy games isnt part of Hi-rez anymore, it says on its website that "In the early months of 2020, we officially spun off from Hi-Rez as a fully independent studio."

  • @dkoiop
    @dkoiop Před 3 měsíci +7

    Something else that not many know about is that the initial people who built the game got let go early on. And it left the people who took their place scratching their heads at how to update, change and even fix bugs for the game. This is why many bugs were hard to fix and things like aim assist being bugged took them months to fix. They also were working on a FPS mode that was scrapped early on too.

  • @yaoshan5069
    @yaoshan5069 Před 3 měsíci +27

    Glad to see you got your channel back

  • @JustMaxim37
    @JustMaxim37 Před 3 měsíci +5

    one small detail I did enjoy in the game was the intros to matches. the characters walking with it going from one to the next saying who was playing em.
    The rest of the game was fine really had no complaints as far as I can remember.

  • @Subpar1O1
    @Subpar1O1 Před 3 měsíci +8

    I remember playing Rogue Company for hours with my friends. It was genuinely fun, it just didn't do enough to keep players around imo. Maybe it's because we jump between games regularly but every time we got into a RC phase it felt like we had already experienced everything the game had to offer in the first few games

  • @TheFictionMan
    @TheFictionMan Před 3 měsíci +2

    Glad you got your channel back!

  • @jeremyraymond1306
    @jeremyraymond1306 Před 3 měsíci +6

    I love this series! Extremely well edited and I love the commentary. Keep it up!!!

  • @GreenShellGamer
    @GreenShellGamer Před 3 měsíci +16

    I feel like this video could have been 5 seconds. "It's a Hi-Rez game that's not smite."

    • @kyotheman69
      @kyotheman69 Před 3 měsíci +1

      smite 2 comes out, first probably dropped as well

    • @767corp
      @767corp Před 2 měsíci

      👍

  • @TheMrFishnDucks
    @TheMrFishnDucks Před 3 měsíci +4

    Gotta keep it real with you, had no idea it existed. Nice video. Keep up the good work.

  • @Carlisle-mn3fv
    @Carlisle-mn3fv Před 3 měsíci +7

    I started playing at the tail end of S2 up until the beginning of S7 (S4 being my personal favourite) and I can genuinely say that this game had so much damn potential to be great, I’ve met so many amazing players and content creators but sadly dumb decisions that’s literally NOBODY asked for kept being made. Content creators kept dropping like flies due to lack of content updates, players dropping off due to terrible servers and glitches.
    The Hi-Rez curse is real and will continue till the end of time.

    • @hitofuuki
      @hitofuuki Před 3 měsíci +1

      Pretty much same as you. Plus, one comment from me that wasn't really touched here - balance issues, especially when they decided that every hero can use every weapon from allowed class. Which led to rogues losing their identity and stuff like Lancer running with Arbitrator (for non-players: arbi was your typical 2-shot shotgun with huge dmg on close shot with terrible reload, once at the time, and slowly. Lancer has a skill so whenever she rolls around, she reloads her weapon instantly and also the fastest hero around. Go figure). It took them about 3 or 4 seasons to finally nerf this interaction, and there were tons of more issues. So yeah, that also happened.

  • @dudemanjr8589
    @dudemanjr8589 Před 3 měsíci +8

    Divine Knockout is a truly dead Hi Rez game that only lasted 4 months before the plug was pulled. I’d love a death of a game video on it.

  • @kavinh10
    @kavinh10 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Hi-rez is the video game equivalent of the dad who went to get milk and never came back.

  • @nicodemuslee
    @nicodemuslee Před 3 měsíci +3

    im surprised you didn’t add this, but for many people the biggest factor in this games downfall(besides the obvious lack of support) was a seemingly NONEXISTENT anti-cheat. even back in 2020 this game, at least on console, was free reign for aimbot and wallhacks. seemingly every single match had a hacker, it didn’t even need to be ranked, and kicking them required such a monumental effort from the entire lobby that most people just left games over. and over. and over again.
    I, along with many other people, would’ve stuck out longer for the game despite its lack of content if the hacking wasn’t so abundant. It was on the same level that Modern Warfare 2 lobbies are at in terms of hacks…..but the difference being one game came out the year prior and the other a decade prior.

  • @imvge
    @imvge Před 3 měsíci +15

    Didn’t even know it was this bad. Had a lot of fun with this a couple years ago :/

  • @MarianScheul
    @MarianScheul Před 3 měsíci +11

    WERE GOING ROGUE WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @Predash051
    @Predash051 Před 3 měsíci +2

    UR DA GOAT FOR USING THE DETECTIVE CONAN OST IN THE END ❤❤❤❤ LOVE IT

  • @dariyushkaranjia8749
    @dariyushkaranjia8749 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Man I miss this game. Had so much pro potential

  • @rigorob4711
    @rigorob4711 Před 3 měsíci +1

    this was a good game to play with the homies in between other games and when ranked first came out we grinded it out.. sucks to see it fail years later

  • @SauceDemon16
    @SauceDemon16 Před měsícem +1

    This game had so much potential that it gets me pissed that it’s pretty much dead, tdm is the only was to get go matches. This game had me in a chokehold for like a year.

  • @extinctparadise363
    @extinctparadise363 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Such a shame, because as simple as Rogue Company is, it still plays so well. One of my favorite shooters. Once you got the mechanics down, it was such an incredible rush to play. There were some crappy overpowered things but even those could be countered (insert Phantom here.)

  • @SabiFGC
    @SabiFGC Před 3 měsíci +1

    Great video homie you should do VEILED EXPERTS next.

  • @TheScepticalThinker
    @TheScepticalThinker Před 3 měsíci +3

    Hi Rez studio is a good example of that trendhunting without having an real established identity, is never really good for the longevity of your company.
    Nice video dude!

  • @RexcorJ
    @RexcorJ Před 3 měsíci +1

    Finally time for that Need for Speed: World DOAG? Felt like it already happened, but I'm cautiously looking forward to it. Man, how time flies... that might be the second title I have a personal connection to that's been featured on this channel.

  • @KingSmerk209
    @KingSmerk209 Před 2 měsíci

    Yooo the atmosphere of that intro!! I love it

  • @iamboody
    @iamboody Před 3 měsíci +2

    Good to see you got your account issues sorted.

  • @majorzero5385
    @majorzero5385 Před 3 měsíci

    I like surprises and you did it again :) Good Job :D

  • @Sourheart
    @Sourheart Před 3 měsíci +3

    I was definitely into this game for a while, but with Hi-Rez games they never go above a certain level of quality and always have some accompanying jank that eventually makes you quit.

  • @elyrienvalkyr8167
    @elyrienvalkyr8167 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Imagine how many people would have played their game if they hadn't taken that scumbag deal with epic games

  • @Bread-kun
    @Bread-kun Před 3 měsíci +1

    I mean leaving hi rez to become a lead on hunt showdown is a pretty big glow up tbh.

  • @High5gh0st
    @High5gh0st Před 3 měsíci +2

    i feel like i can’t trust games anymore for these exact reasons. i’m scared to put time into a new game(especially a free one), when there’s a huge possibility it won’t be fully fleshed out

  • @crazyBloodmonkey
    @crazyBloodmonkey Před 3 měsíci +1

    i remember playing this game a bit on my switch. it's been a bit but i felt like i was gonna play it again one of these days. but apparently not as my version doesn't even exist anymore lol.

  • @zerotymn
    @zerotymn Před 3 měsíci +3

    “ That’s rough buddy. “

  • @AceRayZ
    @AceRayZ Před 3 měsíci +1

    The Detective Conan/Case Closed music at the end was unexpected

  • @Pa-bl0.
    @Pa-bl0. Před 3 měsíci +1

    I didn't even know run the jewels did the soundtrack, until I actually listened to the music and sorta realized the style of the music

  • @Bearasites
    @Bearasites Před 3 měsíci +1

    As someone who’s played Smite for the past 10 years. “Classic Hi-Rez” was enough to sum up this video.

  • @CheeseWorks-vj4yi
    @CheeseWorks-vj4yi Před 3 měsíci +7

    This game could have been huge.

  • @josesosa3337
    @josesosa3337 Před 3 měsíci

    Love the channel

  • @Moostar95
    @Moostar95 Před 3 měsíci +1

    The last time I've played this. It was early in the morning. Playing a starting match and out of no where. A young Japanese woman was screaming her lungs off. Quickly muted her, finished the match, and Uninstalled.

  • @judgegrumble
    @judgegrumble Před 3 měsíci +4

    After Global Agenda and Tribes: Ascend, I swore off Hi-Rez.

    • @TheKnightOfSmite
      @TheKnightOfSmite Před 3 měsíci +1

      Swore off Smite as well after S10, community still eats itself and they think they're in a situation to make Smite 2

  • @CheeseWorks-vj4yi
    @CheeseWorks-vj4yi Před 3 měsíci +2

    Are these videos getting shorter intentionally? Great work NerdSlayer.

  • @SuperPatinator
    @SuperPatinator Před 3 měsíci +1

    Me an my best friend played this game so hard, we both have the platinum trophy. Yes, it is a clone and kinda generic, but it really hits the sweet spot between casual and very strategic/tactical. The mechanics like shooting your guns and your abilitys felt very good and solid. And also it mostly felt balanced. We both loved it. But we also noticed towards the end, that it was very hard to find matches. So it was obvious that not a lot of people shared our love.

  • @Azuruh
    @Azuruh Před 3 měsíci +2

    This is the only game I've played where I'm just single handedly slamming the other team every single match without fail cause of the matchmaking

  • @GalaxiaShadow
    @GalaxiaShadow Před dnem

    I'm sad this was abandoned, I used to play this game on daily basis around 2021 or so on the Xbox.

  • @SATANAMA
    @SATANAMA Před 3 měsíci

    Great video! 👍🏽

  • @abelprice7679
    @abelprice7679 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I played this game from beta and still play it to this day. I still really enjoy it. They lost alot of players when they canceled the LAN competitions. The "pro" players had twitch/YT audiences and when they bailed they took their viewer base with them.

  • @aimalkhan5028
    @aimalkhan5028 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Hi rex will copy a genre. Make it unique but not completely different. Improve on the competition. Then once the game gets big snd popular they ruin it before it gets massive success

  • @juggernaut8791
    @juggernaut8791 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I loved this game when it came out downloaded it on every system I had so I could play it wherever. Fell off after a year of it but man can’t believe they just abandoned it after teasing one of the operators

  • @maxifernandez1760
    @maxifernandez1760 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I remember enjoying the game a fair bit when it launched on Epic. For me, one of the biggest failures from this game is that it does everything just "good enough", there are no bad systems, but there's also nothing it shines on. Also, at least for me, the very basic movement, shooting and the clash between serious weapons and cartoonish characters made it feel like a mobile shooter with better graphics.

  • @supersoldier009
    @supersoldier009 Před 3 měsíci

    oh man seeing this reminds me of veiled experts. think theres enough info out there for a video on that?

  • @METro_KJ
    @METro_KJ Před 3 měsíci +1

    My roommate and I really enjoyed Rogue Company when it first came out and we were locked in our apartment due to covid. But we eventually fell off it just because he was annoyed that he didn't ever improve at it and there wasn't anything about it that kept me coming back on my own. Realistically, it was always just a fun time killer rather than anything truly gripping.

  • @zentun544
    @zentun544 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Apparently being an epic exclusive for 1 year made wonders to this game LMAO

  • @penguixyt3246
    @penguixyt3246 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Its kinda crazy how Hirez is almost a polar opposite of Riot, constantly bringing out games and killing them off where as riot is almost solely a valorant and league company now, with everything else (wild rift, TFT, that visual novel etc) being smaller in both scale (on one end just a port to rhe other end just very simple gameplay)and in team size, meaning that the risk is low and any reward is a positive.
    It really feels like Hirez took all the wrong lessons from their competitors, if they focused on making new content for existing games, rather than just pumping out and killing games until one sticks, theyd be far more successful. I love valorant and league (and heck even paladins), and this game was on its way to joining my permanent games list and competing with both of them for my time, up until the support for it stopped.
    Its really sad tbh as the character design and map design were fantastic. Even though the weapon designs were more generic, those helped the game stand out and have a semblance of an image.

  • @apexninegaming99
    @apexninegaming99 Před 3 měsíci +2

    my main issue with this game was that it felt like each player deserved their own unique campaign and when i found out it was just some online service shit i got turned almost immediately. i think they should’ve created a campaign for the game and had multiplayer as a separate thing

  • @FryeVibes
    @FryeVibes Před 3 měsíci +1

    Played Rogue since closed Alpha. Had a tight community during those times. Then the game blew up and got superficial. And the competitive scene was dominated by 1 team which was wild asf. I just loved making my rogue videos and playing as Anvil

  • @jrozco9225
    @jrozco9225 Před 3 měsíci

    Brooo! How did you make my iPhone have a haptic feedback on the transition at 5:07-5:09?!?!?

  • @BigBenTheDude
    @BigBenTheDude Před 3 měsíci +1

    I remember when they removed the Run the Jewels music from the game, that was when it died

  • @Bat0541
    @Bat0541 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I still play this on and off, it's still fun as long as you just take it as it is, and not expect anything crazy from it. I never expected it to get as much attention as it did when I originally played the beta, but it does feel like it had more potential than it managed to reach.

  • @PRODGOSHA-oh7xn
    @PRODGOSHA-oh7xn Před 3 měsíci

    That come here boy was wild

  • @Bossmaney
    @Bossmaney Před 3 měsíci +3

    You should do a video on Shatterline ❤

  • @alasdairev-g240
    @alasdairev-g240 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I played Rogue Company in last november. Here how the core game was :
    -Good and fun
    here is what went wrong:
    - Different gameplay locked behind insane heroes paywall
    - almost no players and half the team is bot doing weird useless thing.
    - Weird matchmaking. I was winning a lot, then loosing a lot with 1/20 "team mates" (bots)
    I had fun, until i got stuck in being the only real player in my team against a full of real players team

  • @kingblackthorn4195
    @kingblackthorn4195 Před 3 měsíci +3

    It’s genuinely sad that Rogue Company has failed. It was legit super fun and good for a long time :/

  • @ArtistiqueMusic
    @ArtistiqueMusic Před 3 měsíci +3

    Feel like some sentences in this script were too long and it meant you accentuated certain words at certain points that made some sentences sound awkward.

  • @Arda_Aragato
    @Arda_Aragato Před 3 měsíci +1

    It would be interesting to see a similar video for Caliber which is a more realism/military based version of Rogue Company

  • @MacDaddySnuggles
    @MacDaddySnuggles Před 3 měsíci +1

    I remember playing this for a weekend a year or so back. It wasn’t too bad

  • @meluky2253
    @meluky2253 Před 3 měsíci

    I still think this is and always be my favorite shooter game. I play this game with 2 of my buddies and we have so much fun everytime

  • @K4U533Y
    @K4U533Y Před 3 měsíci +3

    I’m still playing this game and love it to death but honestly, the decisions that were made for this game have been ridiculous and such a waste of an incredible game and opportunity.
    I don’t play many games but it seems the ones I do die and end up shutting their servers down. It’s getting frustrating dealing with a modern corporate world trying to suck every cent from our pockets with a potentially great product that ends up being trashed, run into the ground and replaced with another.
    Sad. Just so very sad.

  • @berserkygaming3190
    @berserkygaming3190 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Bought the game on epic, played around 5 hrs, next day I open the game can't find the SEA server. They removed SEA server without any notification and after that I got stuck with 200+ EU PING. AND can't even refund cause of 5 hours playtime 😢

  • @georgeghleung
    @georgeghleung Před 3 měsíci +10

    Shame. Because if this can be call a dead game, then "The Finals" is also dying.
    Briefly: How dead is The Finals?

    • @zombieslayer7776
      @zombieslayer7776 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Dude no. The finals has had 20k players playing in the last 20 minutes, whereas rogue has had 800 players this month. You need to do some research before you open your mouth.

    • @spartanboosts
      @spartanboosts Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@zombieslayer7776 No one will remember The Finals by the end of the year just like nobody already remembers XDefiant.

    • @georgeghleung
      @georgeghleung Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@spartanboosts This is what I am worry about. Unlike XDefiant, The Finals is fun - for me. For people who like to kill and use combat score over objective score, they can only blame the teammates so much before the loss get to them and claim the game "suck"

    • @xspain9907
      @xspain9907 Před 3 měsíci

      Nah finals update was sick​@@spartanboosts

    • @RongusCongus
      @RongusCongus Před 3 měsíci +2

      ​@@spartanboostsnobody remembers xdefiant because it hasn't come out yet, there's nothing to remember except a goofy trailer and a really fun play test

  • @oniinu
    @oniinu Před 3 měsíci +2

    This video was very educational. I learned that Hi-Rez made other games?? And several games!???
    what.

  • @GalletaGalletosa
    @GalletaGalletosa Před 2 měsíci

    This game was something special, the perfect mix o wanted: One life rounds with third person shooting and habilities, playing this with friends was an amazing feeling of easy to get into but hard to master all the tricks and strategies. We still play from time to time but its sad that the development has ended, still, some of the best multiplayer fun i have had with mates.

  • @MatthiasPowerbomb
    @MatthiasPowerbomb Před 3 měsíci +1

    I played it a bit about a year or so ago. It was pretty fun, at least in that small dose. I haven't gone back to it in quite a while. I wonder if maybe I should while I still have the chance, before it's gone forever.

  • @GucciSniffaR6
    @GucciSniffaR6 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I still play Rogue company, and i have to say i still very much enjoy the game, the thing that kills it for me is the fact thwy force crossplay and cant turn it off, i dont want to play agaisnt people on pc because they're so good and sometimes ive run into people with aimbot or walls

  • @axlcerv7071
    @axlcerv7071 Před měsícem

    I really loved this game and there was a moment where the community was super active and everything felt right.
    It is so sad that in this last 2 years you can't even find a match

  • @nachomontesano4536
    @nachomontesano4536 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I think that we shouldnt disrespect Hi-Rez when it comes to Smite. That game its probably the only videogame franchise that did its thing and its still doing it.
    Even tough it got "released" quite late to the MOBA genre, it managed to find an identity and survive with two monsters owning that market with League and DOTA 2, even to announce a sequel for the new gen!
    But it is true that Paladins, Realm Royale or Rougue Company (this one the most "distinct" out of the others) are examples that hi rez has no idea on how to launch a new game

  • @achanmould2904
    @achanmould2904 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Now that paladins is in full maintenance mode, you should do that one next. Hi-rez's second most successful game

  • @walmartnibba4726
    @walmartnibba4726 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Hi-Rez is such a weird company, they have made some genuine innovation in the genres they hop into. Paladins for example offered a more casual overwatch but at the same time having a skill ceiling so high you would always feel like youre slightly improving. Smite offered some actual fun alternate game modes and again, a casual start with a large skill gap. If only they had people who cared about the games instead of just making back the bottom line

  • @ThatsInsane2
    @ThatsInsane2 Před 2 měsíci

    The use of in game rogue company music was a great touch to the video, it’s unfortunate to the path rogue went down

  • @LyriXris
    @LyriXris Před 3 měsíci +2

    The lack of solid anti cheat kills any fps

  • @Rabbit-o-witz
    @Rabbit-o-witz Před 3 měsíci +2

    Hi rez is like that person that steals joke but tells it in a much less funny way so less people laugh at it.
    Idk how they still exist when their games are so... souless

    • @phabiorules
      @phabiorules Před 2 měsíci

      I’m guessing smite. There are several companies that constantly make questionable decisions, but they don’t really feel the need to change because they have one title that keeps them afloat.

  • @HarumiYu
    @HarumiYu Před 3 měsíci

    I completely forgot about this game, I played the closed beta ages ago that I got the key in a giveaway and never touched the game or even knew it released.