This. As Sodapoppin so finely responded as a streamer:
clips.twitch.tv/ProudHorribleJackalDerp
Wow, this guy has 2 million+ subscribers lmao. Maybe that is going to call Taleworlds attention? MAYBE? ONE DAY?
Apparently they considered Warband's multiplayer to have 'failed' because I guess it did not attract a huge fanbase. These were the context of their words, but this dates back pre-bannerlord beta when players REALLY were heated about Classes, skirmish and the lack of battle mode.
You know what I think? I think the devs of this game have an outdated idea of what is fun to do in a videogame, you know LoL and that type of game is succesful and makes people addicted to play because they have cosmetics, because ranked is VERY engaging and it gives you loot and money and those stuff that make you keep playing, but Bannerlord has nothing of that in order to keep the players playing, its just a dull matchmaking with no progression rather than badges, and sorry, but badges are dumb boring and who gives a real crap about them. This has been said before but didnt they pay attention to mods?
Look at the amount of people playing this potato looking game? How is this not a success? PW was THE idea for a game, but noo we have to copy every other game in the market, instead of giving an unique experience, they attempted to copy others and they obviously did it wrong. You know if they had given that streamer guy a PW mode right away he would have been hooked, encountering people online and interacting in stupid or funny ways explodes in the internet, since you can react every single time and you have a character to play, if they had given invasion PVE where he needs to stick with other players without worrying about getting good and getting ThEm BadGes he would have instead FUN.
I'll repeat, the multiplayer in this game is the most uncreative thing I've seen in my life, its dull, boring and I have no doubt it will be dead in a matter of months unless they actually start doing something interesting and listening to the community. No offense to any hard worker in this company, do not take it personal, but this is the most devoid of life multiplayer game I've seen that shamefully had the potential to be amazing, but you might as well throw this multiplayer to the trash.