A lot of people are just saying that to give themselves the illusion of control. Like if we all work together EC will suddenly be populated and flourishing or something. But that's completely irrelevant. People play good games, bad games are deserted. "The community" (that's not even a thing btw) is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. What games generate the highest number of insults per minute of playtime? Probably dota2 and LoL. Two of the most played games on this earth. The only people who can make players stay are the devs.
Edit: doesn't mention the Sunrifle specifically, but here's the announcement and apology: View: https://youtu.be/UMr521ymewU?t=2045
Not true. A thriving community can spread the word to people close to them, who can in turn spread it to others. Sales help, a good game sure as shit helps, but chances are people just wanna sit down with friends and take some time off from real life's problems to crush some xenos heads. No offense xenos. (aren't we technically xenos to you anyway?)
"Good" games and "bad" games depend on your own opinion. The most time i cant trust reviews, because they look for other things than me. I dont like BF1 and still other love it, but for me its a bad game and i wont ever play it. Same goes for this game. Some like it, some hate it. Sure devs are important, but there is the same problem. Some like the devs, their ideas and what they do and some just hate it.
We're also just the section of the community that comes here to post about things. I'm fairly certain there's at least 200 of them that pick up the game, play it daily, then get on with life rather than talk about it in forums. Not to mention steam forums are more accessible and readily available.
The majority of game playerbases, no matter the game, generally don't even sniff in the direction of official forums heh.
Actually, playing bad now will increase your chances to win the campaign. They look at prior performance to set the goals.
Yeah, no sorry that's two different things. You might like a buggy, laggy and rushed game (and that's fine) but that doesn't make it good. Personal preferences and/or lack of standards aren't the base on which a product is juged good or bad. An online shooter with no localized servers for example is objectively bad. In 18 years of actively playing online shooters I've never seen that once. It's objectively below standards.
I'd argue that's not "bad", instead it's "substandard". A thing which EC is in many ways. Bad is more subjective honestly.
