Xbox Multiplayer Population

[Eenova]

Summary: Bannerlords Community is almost completely dead I’ve played Mount and Blade for almost 5years now and I’ve never seen it this dead before even as a example Warband right before Bannerlord when yall took it off gamepass had more people playing the game Recently this game will reach a maximum of 25 players

In my opinion this is due to the servers being subpar when you released it onto Gamepass (I couldn’t load into multiplayer for 3 months during this time period for the same reason)

Another reason is almost all Warband players which could have helped develop a similar community as Warband all left due to differences in the fighting mechanics (however small they may be)

I’m not trying to paint you guys a bad company I love this franchise and I want it to succeed

I know what I may suggest would be major change for the company but the game needs a major mix of for it to succeed from here on out (and to make yall money for Mount and blade III)


(Solutions)
-Make the game free and however cheesy it might sound bring out a Fortnite style item shop for players to buy cosmetics for their characters

-Make the multiplayer free and have the campaign be buyable (Similar to Halo Infinites system)

-Release custom servers for players to change to settings of (Ex. Add bots, Remove TK, Increase or decrease player counts,) anything like that just to justify adding custom servers (Players could even pay to but these servers (Increasing Revinue)

-Add A competitive Duel server with ranks and things like that due to a lack of Competitiveness among new players (They may care more about their duel rank and want to get better bringing more players to stay and bringing old players back

-Have a Tournament For controller players to compete in for cash prizes (This may be the cheapest and most possible) for this would bring many campaign players over to Multiplayer and would bring droves of old players back to the game

I know what I’ve said is very ambitious but every person I’ve talked to has agreed with my ideas and I believe you would have the communities support in acting out my suggestions

Even if you don’t do any of my suggestions please be atleast aware of the inactivity of the game and hopefully try anything to help increase the population of multiplayer on Xbox and PlayStation (they are having the same problems we’re having if not worse)


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[I-Gronk-I]

I like the idea of making multiplayer free on console

 

[k86]

Summary: Bannerlords Community is almost completely dead I’ve played Mount and Blade for almost 5years now and I’ve never seen it this dead before even as a example Warband right before Bannerlord when yall took it off gamepass had more people playing the game Recently this game will reach a maximum of 25 players

In my opinion this is due to the servers being subpar when you released it onto Gamepass (I couldn’t load into multiplayer for 3 months during this time period for the same reason)

Another reason is almost all Warband players which could have helped develop a similar community as Warband all left due to differences in the fighting mechanics (however small they may be)

I’m not trying to paint you guys a bad company I love this franchise and I want it to succeed

I know what I may suggest would be major change for the company but the game needs a major mix of for it to succeed from here on out (and to make yall money for Mount and blade III)


(Solutions)
-Make the game free and however cheesy it might sound bring out a Fortnite style item shop for players to buy cosmetics for their characters

-Make the multiplayer free and have the campaign be buyable (Similar to Halo Infinites system)

-Release custom servers for players to change to settings of (Ex. Add bots, Remove TK, Increase or decrease player counts,) anything like that just to justify adding custom servers (Players could even pay to but these servers (Increasing Revinue)

-Add A competitive Duel server with ranks and things like that due to a lack of Competitiveness among new players (They may care more about their duel rank and want to get better bringing more players to stay and bringing old players back

-Have a Tournament For controller players to compete in for cash prizes (This may be the cheapest and most possible) for this would bring many campaign players over to Multiplayer and would bring droves of old players back to the game

I know what I’ve said is very ambitious but every person I’ve talked to has agreed with my ideas and I believe you would have the communities support in acting out my suggestions

Even if you don’t do any of my suggestions please be atleast aware of the inactivity of the game and hopefully try anything to help increase the population of multiplayer on Xbox and PlayStation (they are having the same problems we’re having if not worse)


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Bannerlord is dead because Captains is dead. Non-warband players find the custom modes to be a less fun chivalry. On the contrary what you want are ai bots that whine and cry when you kill them.

Take words needs to do a great many things, but none of your ideas here would be of benefit to Taleworlds, Bannerlord, nor their community. Devs please close this basket cases illogical rantings.

 

[Eenova]

Bannerlord is dead because Captains is dead. Non-warband players find the custom modes to be a less fun chivalry. On the contrary what you want are ai bots that whine and cry when you kill them.

Take words needs to do a great many things, but none of your ideas here would be of benefit to Taleworlds, Bannerlord, nor their community. Devs please close this basket cases illogical rantings.

I appreciate your response please let me know if you find any ideas yourself I would love taleworlds to try them out we could use anything

 

[I-Gronk-I]

Bannerlord is dead because Captains is dead. Non-warband players find the custom modes to be a less fun chivalry. On the contrary what you want are ai bots that whine and cry when you kill them.

Take words needs to do a great many things, but none of your ideas here would be of benefit to Taleworlds, Bannerlord, nor their community. Devs please close this basket cases illogical rantings.

Bannerlord is dead because Captains is dead. Non-warband players find the custom modes to be a less fun chivalry. On the contrary what you want are ai bots that whine and cry when you kill them.

Take words needs to do a great many things, but none of your ideas here would be of benefit to Taleworlds, Bannerlord, nor their community. Devs please close this basket cases illogical rantings.

You don’t enjoy the multiplayer because you don’t want to take the time to get better, you just want to button mash and not have to earn kills like you do in chivalry. Secondly, lots of people enjoy captain and have parties to get games set up which happens at all hours of the day. The community is not big enough to get games with randoms at all times of the day so that’s your own fault, it’s not dead.

 

[BeadierFiddle82]

My fav idea Is the item shop, there are SO many armor pieces in campaign that can be brought to multiplayer, I would pay to get the crowns of all the factions for my character

 

[cruzader79]

Fortnite style item shop for players to buy cosmetics for their characters

Release custom servers for players to change to settings of (Ex. Add bots, Remove TK, Increase or decrease player counts,) anything like that just to justify adding custom servers (Players could even pay to but these servers (Increasing Revinue)

Very interesting points there

Fortnite style shop and other micro transactions would be a great achievement.

Also, Custom Servers like we had in warband are a must, because the day will come when they close the servers.

The real solution will always be: buy more copies to your friends, tell your friends to spread the word, make online content, stream! but stream TDM not the campaign

 

[Vok 250]

The Xbox population is dead for 3 reasons:

1. We didn't get all the maps until the recent December 2024 patch. Our build is still behind PC and PS after that patch though. Why would anyone choose to play an inferior build of the game unless they absolutely had no other option?

2. Game Mechanics and server settings are completely nerfed. We can't vote for maps, no dedicated servers or lobbies for captain, you can't reduce the 5 minute wait time on every match of captains, and each player gets like 21 units at most which is very underwhelming in 2025. On PC you can have huge battles, with no wait times, on the latest and greatest maps, with your friends via the custom server list. TDM on custom servers is the only thing alive on Xbox. Again: Why would anyone choose to play an inferior build of the game?

3. This is the biggest one IHMO. The community is toxic. I played a lot with them while grinding out Butcher and it was honestly the worst. They are selfish, petty, and hate new players. They'll drag matches out running around on a horse rather than taking the quick L (they lose anyway by command points). They'll kick players they don't recognize (AKA any new players). They also spam the **** out of anyone who joins their discord or group chats on Xbox Live. Often the spam is lies anyway and they don't even have a match going despite spamming 4v4 in the chat and party inviting all 60 members every 5 minutes.

 

[Eenova]

The Xbox population is dead for 3 reasons:

1. We didn't get all the maps until the recent December 2024 patch. Our build is still behind PC and PS after that patch though. Why would anyone choose to play an inferior build of the game unless they absolutely had no other option?

2. Game Mechanics and server settings are completely nerfed. We can't vote for maps, no dedicated servers or lobbies for captain, you can't reduce the 5 minute wait time on every match of captains, and each player gets like 21 units at most which is very underwhelming in 2025. On PC you can have huge battles, with no wait times, on the latest and greatest maps, with your friends via the custom server list. TDM on custom servers is the only thing alive on Xbox. Again: Why would anyone choose to play an inferior build of the game?

3. This is the biggest one IHMO. The community is toxic. I played a lot with them while grinding out Butcher and it was honestly the worst. They are selfish, petty, and hate new players. They'll drag matches out running around on a horse rather than taking the quick L (they lose anyway by command points). They'll kick players they don't recognize (AKA any new players). They also spam the **** out of anyone who joins their discord or group chats on Xbox Live. Often the spam is lies anyway and they don't even have a match going despite spamming 4v4 in the chat and party inviting all 60 members every 5 minutes.

Not many people play captains anyways even when the game was new

 

[AoC]

Summary: Bannerlords Community is almost completely dead I’ve played Mount and Blade for almost 5years now and I’ve never seen it this dead before even as a example Warband right before Bannerlord when yall took it off gamepass had more people playing the game Recently this game will reach a maximum of 25 players

In my opinion this is due to the servers being subpar when you released it onto Gamepass (I couldn’t load into multiplayer for 3 months during this time period for the same reason)

Another reason is almost all Warband players which could have helped develop a similar community as Warband all left due to differences in the fighting mechanics (however small they may be)

I’m not trying to paint you guys a bad company I love this franchise and I want it to succeed

I know what I may suggest would be major change for the company but the game needs a major mix of for it to succeed from here on out (and to make yall money for Mount and blade III)


(Solutions)
-Make the game free and however cheesy it might sound bring out a Fortnite style item shop for players to buy cosmetics for their characters

-Make the multiplayer free and have the campaign be buyable (Similar to Halo Infinites system)

-Release custom servers for players to change to settings of (Ex. Add bots, Remove TK, Increase or decrease player counts,) anything like that just to justify adding custom servers (Players could even pay to but these servers (Increasing Revinue)

-Add A competitive Duel server with ranks and things like that due to a lack of Competitiveness among new players (They may care more about their duel rank and want to get better bringing more players to stay and bringing old players back

-Have a Tournament For controller players to compete in for cash prizes (This may be the cheapest and most possible) for this would bring many campaign players over to Multiplayer and would bring droves of old players back to the game

I know what I’ve said is very ambitious but every person I’ve talked to has agreed with my ideas and I believe you would have the communities support in acting out my suggestions

Even if you don’t do any of my suggestions please be atleast aware of the inactivity of the game and hopefully try anything to help increase the population of multiplayer on Xbox and PlayStation (they are having the same problems we’re having if not worse)

Just buy a PC? Overall multiplayer is abandonware.

 

[Eenova]

Just buy a PC? Overall multiplayer is abandonware.

I don’t have 600 dollars + for a good gaming pc if it’s so Willy nilly for you can buy me one