In the past month, the hot search in the single-player game circle basically belongs to the "Eldon Ring of Law". The high media reviews, the number of players online at most nearly 900,000, the sales volume of more than 10 million, and the excellent quality have all made it praised by the outside world. Many games released at the same time were obscured by it, including The Fall of Babylon.
The developer of Babylon Falls is Platinum Studios, and many players are familiar with the well-known game maker that produced Neil: The Mechanical Age, The Chains of the Otherworld, and The Hunt for Angels. However, their multiplayer online game "Babylon Falls" released this time seems to have chosen both the wrong opponent and the wrong type.
In the few days since its release, the number of Steam players online has peaked at only 1188. The number of daily players online was once less than 100. Such data is unacceptable even for indie games made by "small workshops". Not to mention the platinum studio that has long been famous for developing it.
The underperformance of Babylon's Fall in the market is a bitter failure that Platinum Studios has experienced since its inception.
There are many problems with the game, and the multiplayer online game type alone has actually made many old players less cold. On the other hand, the design of the game itself is not quite in line with the needs of modern players. The official words are:
"Four people online, dungeons together, infinite fun."
The players' experience is that "the stitching is obvious, the online game atmosphere is strong, and the playability is poor." ”
When Platinum Studios first designed the picture of The Fall of Babylon, it was in pursuit of an oil painting-like epic feeling. The results were far from what was expected. Game media outlet Kotaku dismissed The Fall of Babylon as a "clumsy fake." ”
Among the many PS5 games recently released, Babylon Falls has become the lowest-rated game, with an M-station rating of only 42 points, even lower than the 46 points of the optimized and bug-prone Grand Theft Auto Trilogy. OpenCritic argues that Babylon's Fall is only a little better than Pro Evolution Soccer 2022.
As it stands, The Fall of Babylon seems unlikely to have a chance to turn around, but Platinum Studios has no desire to give up. Even for the sake of these fewer than 100 daily online players, they decided to keep updating.
According to the official announcement, the content of the second season of "The Fall of Babylon" has been completed, and the development team is planning to work on the content of the third season. In order to get more players' attention, Platinum Studio also let its golden sign "Neil: Mechanical Age" go down to help link.
For this multiplayer online game, Platinum Studios felt that it could still be rescued.
Looking at past cases, the bad reviews and low popularity after the first launch do not mean that they have been sentenced to death. "Fallout 76", a multiplayer online game, is an example of being saved by a post-update. Of course, "Fallout 76" performance of the lowest fan period, attention and the number of players online, is also measured in "ten thousand" as a unit.
The Fall of Babylon is still a long way off to get on track.