Dedicated servers that enable seasons

medea_fleecestealer · May 13, 2018, 6:36am

Anvil:

What you are saying makes no sense as seasons are completely optional - if you don’t like it - don’t play it, you are not losing anything. On the other hand, seasons with dedicated servers to prevent cheating and item duping are a much craved feature by many players. I have seen many streamers as well as my friends say they would play the game only if it had good multiplayer (dedicated servers) with an option to play and compete in seasons and a viable trading system.

It is unquestionably one of the most important things they could add to their game to attract more player attention and make the game be viewed more seriously. It is even more important than any new game mode or mastery. It is a core feature that simply cannot be missing, not to mention the fact that seasons would allow more controlled new content injections

GD has always been a single player game with a bit of multiplayer added on. The devs have given their reasoning why dedicated servers aren’t happening many times.

Any news about implementing closed servers??

There are no plans for closed servers.

Not financially viable for a primarily singleplayer game, especially not for one that doesn’t rely on microtransactions to make profits.

Alas, you vastly overestimate how many players actually care about multiplayer in ARPGs, roughly 10% of the audience. It’s like saying Skyrim needs secure servers cause it’s 2017. As for safe gaming…I don’t know about your room, but when I play games singleplayer in my office, it feels pretty safe.

When you buy a copy of Grim Dawn, you could play it 2 hours or 1000 hours, from a business perspective it makes very little difference to us. If we had closed servers, now the player who plays for 1000 hours is considerably more expensive for us, and will continue to be for as long as they play.

At that point, introducing microtransactions seems like a no-brainer to off-set those costs.

I think we’ll be sticking to our (already successful) plans.

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56388&highlight=servers

And when the game gets mentioned in the same sentence with PoE and D3 by a reviewer I think it’s being taken seriously. Iirc it correctly “At a time when the ARPG market is being dominated by Grim Dawn, PoE and D3 …”.

Yes, there are plenty of players who like seasons and dedicated servers. But there are also plenty who don’t want such things. Different games for different people. If we all wanted to play the same thing the games market would be very small - and I’d find it very boring personally.