MORE DEAD GAMES: What Went Wrong?
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- I once again explore the reasons why many of the games I've made videos on are no longer thriving.
This is the 2nd video in this series, so if a game that you wanted me to discuss isn't here, it's probably in that video: • DEAD GAMES: What Went ...
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dead channel 💀
That's 🧢
Ur the best, man
Ok
Spittin
You forgor 💀
built my channel on Rogue Company, then switched to Battlefield 2042... I'm not good at this
Rogue company had potential and could comeback if they changed a lot of things but it's really sad that your here saying this
Underrated comment.
Oop
Still love you either way bro
Try a game called ready or not
A little bit more than a month later:
“Fall Guys is going Free to play!”
*spikes upward higher than Octane’s pad can send you*
And dying instanly
@@damy2433 nah it's still going smooth
@@AceeBrawlStars indeed
And releasing on xbox and switch
game died already
It’s ironic how quickly the fall guys segment got outdated…
They just announced they are going free to play and a level editor!
I’m hyped about it
Really that would be dope
Who knows they might rise back from the dead and playable again
and also that its on switch and xbox
Macro can see the future
The long awaited sequel, something none of these games will ever have
so true
Broo lmao
You didn’t need to hit them like that
Ah yes. FALL GUYS 2
overwatch 💀💀🥶
I love spellbreak, my poor baby :(
I get why it died though. The general gameplay loop was great, but DARN was it complex to learn. Rip Spellbreak, would abuse flying again
i never even played spellbreak also i love me punch please have my children
I loved it and got really good at it. Me and my friends thought it was gonna be the next big game but with literally no updates and the matches becoming filled with bots because it couldn't find players. The game got stale and super super unsatisfactory when I'm not doing anything but fighting AI. Same reason I quite fortnite at a point
@@Taexer yea, it sucked when fortnite added bots. You would get 10 kills thinking you’re good then instantly get lasered by a try hard builder. It felt like they were trying to make you stay by giving you easy kills
Yeah we could tell from your Spellbreak vid (or at least, I could tell) that you did love Spellbreak Punch. Its cuz of you I started playing it myself. And I miss it.
I loved spellbreak, the graphics were really nice and the gameplay was unique and refreshing. Sad to see that it's closing servers soon.
I just got into the game and one day I was playing with my brother watching over my shoulder and he told me that it was being "canceled "
They had a really DOPE idea for a classic competitive shooter game :
Team combos with elements/ Skill oriented gameplay (specifically with the ice gauntlet) / really good movement options as a 3rd person shooter / really strong PVE potential.
And they decided to make it a battle royale which is the worst game mode for spellbreak.
Why ?
Just think a minute. Team combos with elements
I love it to the reason they are dead is because they didn't update it for like two years and the updates we did get were like super minor
Reply 5
Honestly, I wouldn’t really call Fall Guys “dead”. It’s definitely not in the spotlight anymore, but I and many people I know still play it. It’s a fun brain-off game, and even if it’s not where it was before, 10,000 players on average is not what I would call dead. The game still has a playerbase.
fr i play it with my friends everyday we sweats lowkey lol
And it’s going free to play this Tuesday and releasing on all platforms finally, So it might make a good comeback.
@@Las3Ms_ it did u predicted right
Only reason is mainly the huge boom it took. The core gameplay is actually quite pathetic but funny colored bagels on multitude so yeah,that’s why.
Fall guys bench
I’d like to consider dead games as games that you can barely find matches in and that have a very small player base. Fall Guys and Rogue Company are still updates frequently and has tons of players returning every day
I went to play Rouge Company like 6 months and had to wait like 5+ minutes
@@itzhamison1591 How fast you find a game is pretty dependent on the server you play on. I play on the EU servers, and I always find a game within 30 seconds in most modes.
I personally don’t think Rogue Company is dead. It’s just not that popular, and I think that’s mainly because Hi-Rez don’t promote it enough. Rouge Company has a lot of potential imo, the developers just need to make the right decisions. If they don’t, the game will die. I hope not, because I do love the game.
@@MrUnknown-wo3zo oh for sure its not a bad game. Played it in closed beta and for sure enjoyed it. Just kinda fell off
Yeah
that's meaning is probably the more true meaning. when most players call a game dead, they usually just mean it isn't anywhere near as popular or mainstream as it once was.
I honestly think that spellbreak will be as close to an avatar game as we will ever have at this point
isnt a avatar game coming out
actually ones allready out lol
@@djari18extra no there r characters from it in games and there a fan made games
@@djari18extra name?
@Movies101 theres a game from 2009
Not dead games, but ones that reached their peak at some point and now have a consistent, stable player base. Not every game needs to maintain its peak popularity for all of its lifetime
Go play spellbreak and the re-think the stable playerbase comment
@@DESTINATION-TV go play rogue company and re-think the stable player base comment
Bro,Spellbreak literally shuts down💀
@@nestormelendez9005 but it still has more players then spellbreak
@@DESTINATION-TV very true but not much
I love watching videos like these seeing how outdated they became because of the game returning and it's cool to see how a game I joined after its re-spike once went threw a tough journey of almost dying.
surprisingly, paladins isn’t dead and has over 10 thousand players on steam alone. it’s not popular but it certainly has its own fanbase
Doesn’t fall guys have more of a playerbase tho?
@@iswiftyfox8997 paladins has a little more on steam but you also have to account for other platforms
Tribes dying was also completely Hi-Rez fault. They straight up abandoned it once they saw how much Smite was raking in
I can confirm that, in fact a new update is dropping today
I honestly feel that Paladins is here to stay.
I feel like there’s big lines between a “dead game”, “diehard fan base”, and “super popular games” that you don’t really see
As said by TheRussianBadger
"To the credit of the negative nancies, the game was a buggy mess, from somethings being another thing to laugh at, to more deadful ones. But this is just battlefield to me! When has EA released a polished launch product?! Since bad company two!" -Basically
People call Titanfall 2 dead but we literally made the game again because EA/RSPN wouldn’t. So diehard fan base is where it shall sit.
They are all different though, you can't define a dead game... well a dead game if there are players willing to stand up for it, unless the fact is evident that the game hasn't been doing so good in terms of always having something to do, like the original Gears of War, and the 'line' of super popular games... I don't even know what that points out. Like macro said, the games you speak of "Diehard Fanbase" have longevity, and have at least sustained for a 'couple' of years while games like these don't have it.
I feel like spell break would really benefit with a reboot, maybe having a story based setting or maybe a wave fight set up. That could get you into the mechanics of the game so you understand the basics against A.I. and then you can play on a pvp setting after getting the hang of it. But I loved the art style and feel of the game, just Earth always was used and it was just imbalanced with no incentive to change up play style. On numerous occasions I thought of going back to it, with now that not being a case at all, but the one thing that turned me away was that if I was going to play. I couldnt do it casually.
Fall guys part aged like milk
I wouldn't call Fall Guys "dead" more or less dying or less popular. This because you can still get into a match pretty quickly and also updates a still being churned out by the devs
I wouldn't call 99% of "dead games" dead, to be honest, but the internet does love its extremes...
Exact same thing with Rogue Company
@@notrod5341 True, me and alot of other still play Fall Guys and get hyped for updates and come on you really can't call a game with 13k+ concurrent players "dead"
He literally said that it is "dying" not dead
@@Rabi2in rouge company is six feet under my guy
Ah yes, the return of the dead games series. Also that song at the start was fire
Yeah
i agree, it reminded me of some of Mr saftey's older songs from 2010
Reminded me of early macro
The fall guys claim aged like milk💀
4:33 someone predicted the future and it got a huge comeback
Kinda........
Man, I miss spellbreak, it was so damn good and fun really sad what happened to it
Spellbreak was really unique and extremely fun
remember playing it with my cousin, was sick
Devs don't support it. They go absolutely silent for months. No battlepass, no new map, no colabs, $20 for a skin and no story update.
Yeah what’s your favorite gauntlet? Mines wind.
@@elilynch9006 Toxic/poison. Yes, I'm an asshole that abused stealth as hard as I could.
Shoutout to those niche online games that nobody liked but still kept an active community
you should do the rise and fall of the titanfall games in one video and break down exactly how the game was defeated by the hackers. Just an idea.
They aren't defeated though tf2 is going strong
@@LexiLex912 I mean like tf1 is basically completely unplayable and tf2 is kinda hanging on a thread and the only ones left are usually the big fans
I have over 20 days played on rogue. It was fun back then until it started getting sweaty and then I completely dropped it. I got sad when it died because I have so much on the game
Personally, I think Rogue Company is still doing just fine. Its not too hard to find a match and it still feels pretty good.
Yeah RoCo has a steady player base. I think what's throwing Macro off is the high skill ceiling. He's used to games like Apex and as a result he find rogue too difficult and "clunky" when in actuality combat flows once you master it.
@@phant0mshad0w56 I agree. And there's nothing wrong with that, it's just that everyone has different taste in games.
@@phant0mshad0w56 I mean game is clunky at times. Matches sometimes take ages to get flowing
Yes, am been grinding Rogue company since you can get cool skins
Facts
I really wouldn’t call fall guys “dead” or “dying”. The game still has a dedicated fanbase. also the biggest reason for its decline is because of among usz
Same thing with Rogue Company (except the amogus part)
If a game only has a dedicated fan base, then it’s dead to the public or average person
@@gaditsetiawanmulya74 nmms xd
@@YoMateo. if u don’t spam people
U won’t get subs
Do it without it
@@YoMateo. this also isn’t a fortnite channel so stop
Macro literally called it on fall guys going free to play and adding a map maker
Uuuuuuuh hi, Fall guys is literally come from the Grave 🗿
Map maker, crossplay, crosssave, and Free to play
This looks nice
I remember being in Rogue Company's closed alpha under NDA and thinking "man, theres potential in here, hope they don't fuck it up" and then it released and I remembered its a hi-rez game. Its still kinda alive but there's certainly a lack of anything to keep me engaged compared to other FPS I play.
I still play it even now but yeah it's pretty dead kind of like Paladins
@@ianlove4876 11k concurrent players (not even including console and epic games players) isnt dead
@@exotikals116 hmm I guess the matchmaking is just being annoying still I guess
The term "dead game" should be reserved for actual dead games like Lawbreakers, Battleborne, and stuff like that. 😅 These games are still alive due to the fact they have there dedicated playerbase albeit a lower playerbase. Although I agree I don't think these games will ever come back into the spotlight, they still deserve new players as some are pretty fun.
@Emily An I understand a lot of people had that issue. I had no server issues. My personal problem with rogue was the constant people who leave matches with no backfill and you're stuck with a 3v4, 2v4... Ruined my rank experience. But the casual modes were still fun enough like battle zone, real enjoyed that one.
BTD Battles is the perfect term for a game still thriving, albeit quick games only have 2k people playing
poor lawbreakers, i loved that grappling hook
I would personally call it a zombie game or dead man walking game
Exactly he's full of it
macro:"not winning once every 20 games SUCKS"
me(with over 2k games of apex and not even 100 wins): welcome to my world
Me with 2.6k games and only 200 something wins 🤝
Legitimately some of the best times I had gaming were on spellbreak :/ such satisfying combat, tons of potential for flashy kills, high skill ceiling allowed for crazy outplays. So sad where it’s at now.
The only reason I stopped playing is because I would search 30+ min without finding a match. Just lack of updates and pushing away the core player base really did it in
My favorite part of that game is the spell interactions. Kinda cool to make your fire pillar green with poison
Plus also it was a very unique idea.
Just something different than your normal battle royale games but sad it didn't hold up.
Light a candle for the games we lost,
May the future be brighter.
Problem with Rogue is that the servers are really unstable, and whenever there's a rogue that's too good, they leave them as is instead of nerfing, opposite of R6
Thats not true lol when's the last time you played?
@@heavenly2k Yesterday, and the OP is right. The servers are unstable as fuck
@@heavenly2k When the last time YOU'VE played?
@@OfficialDiffy yesterday fam .
@@heavenly2k then you’ll know that the servers are fucked and Hi-Rez don’t care about certain Rogues😂
I love the new editing style
I actually like Spellbreak. It was just a new twist on the battle Royale genre. But the last circles were just always so bad to play.
Still sad to see it gone
The problem i saw was even the spells some were barely used for good things like rock
I really enjoyed Spellbreak, that one hurts to see fail.
WE NEED A SERIES FOR THIS DUDE
Spellbreak had SOOO much potential
With Rogue Company, i enjoyed playing it with a few of my friends a lot, but we eventually started playing Warzone and Fortnite a lot and kinda forgot about it. We were pondering what to play one day and we remembered it, and when we went to play it, They had COMPLETELY destroyed everything going for it. Guns has more bloom and the TTK was faster. So now you could only hit shots if your lucky and you died in 2 bullets. Looked it up and turns out they had changed and reverted it multiple times. We havent played since.
loved the intro lol
Spellbreak will forever be my favorite game that never popped off. I can’t argue, it is hard to get into, and I was lucky that I was there since the early days and was able to grasp things when everyone was learning -even after leaving for a long while and coming back nothing has changed so I didn’t need to learn anything. I wish this game became something and I still enjoy hopping in and playing alone or with friends for a laugh, but there’s a reason I play more fortnite than spellbreak even though I personally like spellbreak more. It’s just a content thing
Spellbreak was easy to me.
Safe to say the game is dead 😅🤣 shutting down
Great video macro! Thanks for the amazing content!
The intro is just gold
Macro, can you please discuss about Jump Force? Btw love your content
I think it would be interesting if you also talked about games with dead game modes such as Fortnite Save the World and Apex Legends Arenas.
Arenas isn’t dead?
Honestly i still think Rogue Company holds up pretty well, and I still think it's got a chance. The game it's plenty of qol updates, and has a pretty active community. And it's pretty clear the devs are passionate about the game. I think it can bounce back with enough love and care
Certain guns and to test each out is a pain in the ass lol one of the reasons I didn't play much aprt from the fact that there's too much run and gun in a game where your movement is defined by the characters you play.
True and enough exposure because as noobs you could get lost because characters are locked to
@@judson5203 huh I’m confused? Are you saying it’s confusing for new players because the characters are locked? And with the first paragraph are you saying movement or your play style is defined by the rogue you play? And the whole there are different weapons from each rogue cuz like you can just steal your enemies or just go to the training ground. Maybe I’m dumb idk I can’t rly understand anything your saying……
@@djsuperqueen1248 well I haven't tried out the range recently or for that matter in a year so I might be outdated it was just the reason I stopped playing, and yea some rouges have some movement abilities right (I think so forgive me if my memory is so bad) I'm talking about them
true i still play and enjoy it
The end punches for each game had me rolling 😂😂
Your intros are literally fire
I really enjoyed Spellbreak but it just took so long to find a match. Even if it's not a 'good' game, if enough people play it and it doesn't take forever to get into a match, I think it'd be more enjoyable. But then again, if it isn't a 'good' game, people wouldn't play it in the first place.
Amazing song for the intro 🤣 im not one of those FIRST people dont worry macro
Man, that fall guys segment really didn’t age well
Spellbreak is honestly really interesting, it's one of the most unique BRs out there and creative. I'm suprised they didn't add new gauntlets/combos with each season.. like at least a new element every 6 months, maybe cycle some of them so people are forced to learn more variety.
I love when you play dead games on Twitch
One of the best series
That intro is a banger bruh
I was bobbing my head with the intro.
I remember when MCC was dead post launch.
Wasn't Fortnite nearly dead at some point?
I wish Fortnite was dead
@Marcy Wu Master chief collection
Heck even apex was considered dead compared to fornight.
Spellbreak also suffered from developer ego. They thought of themselves as being too high and mighty for the community and they were not transparent at all with communication
I personally still play Rogue Company and honestly think people I know didn't give it a fair chance. Like it constantly updates, gives free rewards just for logging in, has cool cosmetics (which adds new voices). Also, it's free.
Okay I’ll give you that it’s incredibly underrated and people (no offense) like macro are kinda I don’t wanna say biased but unfair. Like he said it has a “weird pay to win system”, when games like rainbow six siege or apex legends do legit the exact same thing but when rogue company does it it’s a problem? Which is odd despite people liking those two games a lot. But rogue company is a literal hot unbalanced mess.
Simply put it was too sweaty and honestly toxic
@@brayanfavela9423 all games are toxic and it’s so easy it’s not sweaty I mean I have seen people get mad for not getting ten kills in the first match but then you play games like val and rainbow 6 and your like 🤷🏾♀️
At best it’s alright, and I’ve been playing on and off for a few months at a time since the first month of closed beta. It’s gotten better but it’s still got a lot of issues, especially if you play on Switch because Switch players are a joke to Hi-Rez. On Switch you can’t play anything above 4v4 (Overwatch is 6v6 and RoCo can’t do that for some reason), the game crashes repeatedly just trying to run like normal, you can’t rejoin matches anymore so if the game crashes you lose all your exp and challenge progress, and forced crossplay between PC and consoles is garbage (again, especially on Switch).
@@bekkfxst Yeah it's definitely gotten worse recently so my original comment didn't age well 😅
What a cool intro song😂
The thing is fall guys is not dead I think they still have a really have a dedicated fan base and I heard they are going to revamp it on the 15th of may
That’s actually really nice to hear must’ve played that game for a long time but gave up on it because updates were so slow
I think you're being a bit too optimistic
Dude fall guys is dead
@@BurntDVD noit is not
Its not dead but player base is tiny now and no one watches on twitch
The Intro song is actually one of the best songs of yours.
The intro was lit
Okay but the intro is a bop
7:35 except for waluigi 🥲
Really hoping games like spell break can make some what of a comeback, but that's just hoping
Hyper scape servers are shutting down soon, it won’t come back
Hyperscape shut down like 2 weeks ago
spellbreak is possible...
ubisoft gave up on hyperscape tho :(
@@gunyosha4387 damm, thats a shame
@@fenexus404 no,not at all...the game will be shut down.. :(
That song at the start 😙👌
Macro should mention hawken in this series. It was a hidden gem
Hyperscapes was such a good game but it died cause it couldn’t handle the playerbase 😢
I went and played it again the other day and it’s so fun but the problem with it is lobbies have like 7 players
Nah, it died because all weapons were hitscan, letting veterans annihilate noob, not enough variety and the way the “safe zone” worked was very annoying
It was the 1st game that I wanted to commit grinding at got highest rank 1st season. A few months later and i could barely find games anymore. Sad times
I’m sorry but Hyperscape was annoying to play and way too tactical for me. Battle royales give you multiple ways to play, but Hyperscape was more or less forcing you to play it safe all the time, which I just didn’t enjoy
@@stupadoop no it wasn’t
Everyone pushed everyone
It was about playing aggressive
The fall in Twitch viewership for the Overwatch 2 beta is genuinely hilarious
i love the song lol
fire intro
i kinda like the beat
When I played 2042, I had no bugs or annoying issues. Although I could see that even though the game was dying super fast, it was just chaotic overall when playing against so many other people.
Yah same with me! The only issue for me was the specialists but other than that I had almost no bugs or stutters
Same, my only problem was when flying sometimes i would hit invisible walls or pass trough buildings
Macro, I dont know why or how, but when we played spellbreak, we played 12 games and won 11. For some reason we were on top of the world for that session. Haven't touched the game since
Because the game was and is full of bots
good vid. for spellbreak the devs have been silent for 8 months and ended season 3 early. season 3 was a bust due to the changes in levitation hoping it comes back. they should of added some limited time modes.
that intro unironically spits
I think if fall guys becomes free to play and finally comes out on Xbox and switch it could make a comeback and if they make a huge tournament it would become great again
They just made huge announcement for free and xbox and switch 21. July and also new playmaker that will come in like a half of year.
Spellbreak is such a fun game, it hurts that the game is dead
Heavy Metal Machines (PC, Xbox One/Series X, PS4/5) would be a probably fun one to cover. Had a blast with it myself up until a good couple months ago, they stopped adding new content.
the song's bussin'
Spell break was such a cool game, I loved how all the magic worked and interacted with each other shame the game never changed which left it to die
Block n load was one of my favorite games, but the developers just left the game came back after some years added a new character made it a 4v4 rather than a 5v5 which ruined the game for me and left again
Honestly I was pretty decent at Spellbreak and I played it a lot (mostly the poison gauntlet) and im thankful for it because it introduced me to the larger battleroyal gameing community but i Don think they minimal player base (and longer Que times becase of that) inadition to the low updates were really what killed at and I whould love for it to come back hopefully after learning from there past mistakes on the title. And if it did come back I'd try it out again.
I absolutely loved Knockout city when it came out! And I even was skilled enough that I reached max rank in ranked. But the overall lack of new consistent content, and things to grind for is what eventually lead me to take a break, and try other game titles out there.
Tmnt are now in the city
everybody be talking about a game dying nobody be talking about a game crying games have feelings too you know..
i would love to see coverage over "The Darwin Project" one of my favorite games of all time that was killed off due to lack of funding and macoing
I have the intro as my wallpaper to remind myself to watch the new macro vids
Macro u are a legend❤️
Dude Rogue company dying was the hardest to accept, I remember playing the beta and having so much fun but after a while it just started to get a bit stale.
It just got out of beta tho
it isnt even dead thou
I’m not gonna lie, I had such a blast playing rogue company and spellbreak, I thought it was very fun and I liked it a lot. I knew that the games were gonna die sometime but I still loved them. (I don’t play either now)
Try to play Spellbreak one last time(it will be gone forever on January 9th)
Lol I forgot that new world even existed, was hyped for like a week
that song at the beginning kina slaps ngl
Fall Guys will most likely have a playerbase skyrocket once the free to play release hits, and the crossplat, I think it'll do well
Well, We have some hope now!
Aaaaand... yep, it exploded again
It’s cool to see how most of the things he talked about with fall guys are coming true
0:00 I remember I was watching a football/soccer match and one of the teams had a chant that had exactly the same beat as this
And it’s like a really famous team in the club World Cup final
I hope the concept of spellbreak lives on even if the game itself doesn't.
Man I really miss hyperscape I wish that it could last a little bit longer
Another f2p battle royale what’d you expect
Same 😔
Spellbreak was a very original and creative game. It can't be taken away from us.
It is 😔 i will forever miss the game
that intro is kinda fire tho
The intro was kinda fire.