This. It's extremely wrong that I've seen it advertised on TV over and over but have literally no idea of the gameplay at all.
I find games are the most fun when I'm the one hero kicking all the ass myself. And I hate playing the exact same maps over and over again, I like seeing new places and fighting new monsters of all shapes and sizes, not the same evenly balanced human/humanoid PCs forever. Single player campaigns are where the fun is.
Ascension's multiplayer community lasted for quite a bit, actually. It was surprisingly good and if you ask me better than the single player. It felt like it had a lot more care put into it than the latter.
It had some pretty big balance issues, most notably Poseidon-aligned characters being stupid overpowered and swords generally outclassing spears/hammers/gauntlets, but it was fun all the same. I really appreciated how they continually added free game modes, weapons and maps to it too.
According to steam stats the player count for Battleborn is around 4000.
Well gee bill maybe you wouldn't get a roomfull of people trying to appear mature if you didn't only pull kids in to test?
Evolve
That's so sad
I wouldn't know how to feel if I even had someone on my friends list that still plays this game. Like, why? They're fucking adamant about getting their moneys worth.
Server fees are tremendously tiny. It's so tiny that Blizzard, with its WoW and B.net, list server costs as an asterisk under "Misc costs"
Their only legacy will be the wraith porn and screencaps of desperate shills.
They brought this upon themselves with poor balancing, focusing ESPORTS out the gate instead of waiting for a community to grow around it, and their disgusting DLC packages. There are not enough reaction images to express how much they deserve this fate.
B-B-B-BUT THEY DEVELOPED LEFT 4 DEAD!!!!
They took that marketing slogan and fucking ran with it. They were banking on gamers knowing who the devs were and buying it solely on that premise. They thought because they made 1 hugely popular game they could jew the fuck out of the industry and people would just take it. Honestly they deserved and even worse fate. All those 100's of awards they won before the game was even released was such a fucking joke. How do you gift an award over a fucking commercial for the product?