About a Future TW game.

[AxiosXiphos]

Bannerlord went top 5 when first released .. but didn't stay there long, when people saw how much depth it had.

Devs seem to be adding features / depth? now ? Hopefully future patches will push BL to what it should have been, a rich, deep strategic war game.

Big drops shortly after launch are normal:

Long-term player count retention is a much better gauge of how much content a game has to offer.

 

[geala]

Ok. What does that have to do with people who wont buy another taleworlds game?

Of course anybody can like or dislike games independently from the view of others. I dislike Red Dead Redemption 2, all the Souls games and several other people's darlings, for example. But the criticism should then be on a personal level. The statistics show that a lot of people may judge BL differently than the poster and at least the pseudo-objective statement/accusation in the cited post that Taleworlds tricked and deceived the players is not self-explanatory.

 

[JunKeteer]

Big drops shortly after launch are normal:

Long-term player count retention is a much better gauge of how much content a game has to offer.

At a statistical standpoint, doesn't mean a future BL3 (or space game) would fare any better or worse or that it has 'more' content to offer than another.
Sandbox/open world games will always have more retention mechanics (repeatable/replayability resets) than something like SW:FO; BG3 will eventually fade out for that very same reason.

BL is still relatively in its own niche and that means it's hitting a different market/demographic (obvious there's overlaps); what can you compare it against? In terms of 'greener on the other side'? Same reason you don't match these kinds of stats of something like WoW against CSGO; meaningless context. Comparing WoW recurring with something like FFXIV, you have something to work with.

Give me the retention stats of Warband 5 years into release vs BL (completed version) after 5 years or with any similar genre-game; factor in population/inflation/generation differences. Then you have a more comparable stat.
Do the people that own/played WB also have BL? Or vice versa? How many hours between them? Is EA shenanigans padding player 'hours' for whatever analysis presentation of theirs?

Surface level stat screenshots have as much 'depth' as the features in this game.