Free Weekend strategy & continued updates for BattleBit

[neat vigil]

Dear BattleBit Team,

First, thank you for the "Operation Overhaul" update. The playtest, which drew over 6,400 players, shows the high interest that still exists.

To turn this into stable growth, I have a two-part suggestion:

Host a Free Weekend with a deep discount. This is the best way to let new players experience the improved game. A full server is the best advertisement and will lead to sales.
Announce a clear plan for future updates. The long break in development earlier showed how important regular updates are to keep players. A visible roadmap after Overhaul is key to retaining new and old players.

These steps together can reignite the community. Thank you for your work.

[tender aurora]

im not sure about the free weekend since that might bring cheaters which could make it unenjoyable for new players, but i havent seen how it went last time they did a free weekend, but i do agree with the rest

devs need to be much more vocal about their plans and involve the community more

[neat vigil]

There will probably be few cheaters.

[neat vigil]

After the free weekend, there will be no cheaters left. Therefore, it is worth spending this weekend for free to attract more players.

[tender aurora]

well i dont know how the last free weekend went so lets judge it based on that

[neat vigil]

I agree. I want to point out that I bought the game specifically because of the free weekends.

At the time, I hadn't played enough to assess the situation on the game servers.

[analog swift]

The playtest was a complete failure retention wise, messing up the first impressions of thousands after so long is the biggest fumble I have ever seen (paid access btw). The peak was 4800 players (in-servers) in the first 30 mins and it snowballed down and down.

Free weekends shouldn't be a thing when you are playtesting shit. It should have been free to play like the pre-EA launch playtests.
old BBR is dead, I can't even call this new version bbr anymore.

[dawn birch]

they showed several times that they can't keep up with roadmaps

[fair bloom]

Suggestion is good if we ignore that the playtest was shit in 50 different aspects and needs a lot of work and the fact that they cannot stick to a roadmap or stick to what makes BBR stand out

Instead we are getting BF with 700 trillion particle effects whenever you break a box and indicators for every single explosive in the game

Cant evem trust them atp to balance anything properly

[tall bramble]

That's sad

[fair bloom]

The biggest gripe was the performance caused by the memory leak which made the game unplayable past 30 minutes on top of the line PCs

[tall bramble]

Can't keep up with a road map, but execute a big overhaul update.

Is that a joke

[fair bloom]

Yeah fun fact they had a roadmap that they scrapped like a month or 2 later lol

But yeah needless to say playtest left a sour taste for a lot of people, with those people likely not coming back again

[fair bloom]

Btw can we really call playtesting via beta branch "paid access"
Sure you do need to own the game, otherwise it was free techically

[tall bramble]

It's desperate, now some parts of mine lean to accept free weekend for gaining some players, even a few cheater

[analog swift]

yea it was free for people that owned the game and spent money

pre EA playtests were free to play for everyone

[fair bloom]

Ik i was in em

Just asking im not sure if playtesting via beta branch techically counts as paid access or not

[analog swift]

majority of people that played already owned the game, but there has to be at least 1 guy that bought it for the playtest

[analog swift]

imo it does

[torpid prairie]

There should not be a single suggestion post explaining an extremely basic marketing strategy (that they've already deployed in the past) that you think the team should use once the update is released.

Wow they should have a free weekend and put the game on sale????? That's such a smart idea, I wonder if this has ever been done before in the history of gaming????

[torpid prairie]

Also liking your own post is insane work

[tender aurora]

fr my thoughts exactly

alzoppenheimer type shit

[torpid prairie]

Rocky you liked his post

[tender aurora]

no i fucking didnt

if i did it was a misclick

i didnt mean to click shit

[ashen sedge]

Who would buy a dead game for the playtest only

Like almost everyone saying that its a dead game online wise, so why would you buy it

[tender aurora]

because you are built different

[analog swift]

people that refunded maybe xd

not many

[tender aurora]

bbr is literally most goated game, not even kiddign

[fair bloom]

Some people still seemed to have bought BBR (not for the playtest necessarily) despite the warnings

[ashen sedge]

Well yeah.. that means those people are known about a risk that this game can die entirely at any time and any moment. Tho chances for its happening are imo under 1%. People could leave the game because of poor communication from devs (that can occur after the update) but not because devs will left the game's development (because they wont )

[fair bloom]

I mean almost the whole playerbase left because there was no widespread communication and a big lack of no updates and content in the game itself
Hell i dont play BBR anymore cause ive done practically everything of note in BBR

Sure i havent gotten a silver or gold skin for any of the guns, but i am certainly not good or insane enough to stick to nothing but 1 gun for 10k kills

I have P10 rank 200, ive done a mid air jamsheed, i have almost all the attachments for all the guns

Ive gotten at least decent with BH and LB

Rest of the vehicles are pretty undercooked and not that fun to use (unless someones idea of fun is staying in the safezone all match)

[ashen sedge]

Half of players left because the hype of bbr was fading away and there was not good, refreshing updates.

Other half left because there was no updates at all for pretty long time. And rest left due to lack of communication from devs

[fair bloom]

No updates and no comms go hand in hand in this case

Once they stopped posting on steam it was joever

[ashen sedge]

True joever was when devcasts stopped

[fair bloom]

Cue in waiting for a bit over for another year until a 4h playtest happened

[dawn birch]

and then another month of silence with no end in sight despite there being talks about the issue being fixed already (at least in theory)

[torpid prairie]

you think the issue is fixed?

[tall bramble]

No Man Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 again ?

[torpid prairie]

redditor who only knows 2 games

[tall bramble]

True, I'm not playing games much

BBR is the only game I've played over 1000 hours

[fair bloom]

At least they were actually updating periodically and ultimately became actually good and playable games

[fair bloom]

Lets not forget the immense lack of official patch notes for anything

Instead still keep the community searching for every single change from a 4 hour playtest

And no "everything might still be subject to change" is not a valid excuse