How Pixel Gun 3D Lost 98% of its Players 

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This was deserved but unfair, If they kept a game at the best they could of kept a long term game but ended up leaving a salty taste of the whole community, they could of even made more money without this greed.

Sad times. I miss the days I was able to post tons of Pixel Gun 3D videos all the time. Can’t do that anymore unfortunately as few people are interested in the game nowadays. But this was a great video! I enjoyed it a lot. I highly doubt this game will ever get to the state it was 6-8 years ago, but I do know there is still a market for fun, arcade-y mobile FPS games like this. People still genuinely enjoy games like this, and you just need a better development team that’s more future-focused than what we have right now. As you said, innovation is key - don’t just hop on trends and expect massive long-term success!

I really got a pixel gun 3D ad while watching this video 💀

This game really brought out my competitive side, I loved being a sniper and playing with players at slender forest/heaven garden. I left the game for a while and returned for the nostalgia. They had removed many old maps and there were a lot of new things, like event weapons and battle royale? It was a bit overwhelming and hard to compete with og players when you're at a very low level. It's sad to hear this from a game I used to enjoy as a pre-teen.

Played this game as a child and I’m almost 90% sure when I played it there was little to no microtransactions. I remember fondly playing the story mode, it’s a shame to see how it has fallen off since my childhood.

A thing I might add is that the game ends up being so overwhelming for newer players. As a newcomer you have a limited range of weapons, if you load into a multiplayer match you are most likely to face so many players with a ton of weapons with different effects you don't even know the counter of

Worst part is they never finished the story mode 💔

I remember getting the weapons "Golden Friend" and "Prototype" really early in the game in some free loot boxes and my friends got all jealous, now everybody has these weapons and they are not even that good anymore

As a Pixel Gun OG, I remember falling in love with this. I would come home everyday from school and I would play it everyday and not knowing when to get tired of it. I had lots of great times and memories. Then, I came back in 2017 cause my cousin introduced me to it, and I started to play again and the state of the game right now, its sad to see how it fell off dramatically. Thank you Alex, Rilisoft or Cubic Games for being there for my childhood. ❤

this game was my childhood I've stopped playing it for almost half a decade but the memories stand and I will always remember the good out of it

Love ur video's, doing research for statements you make and come to a logic conclusion. Thanks a lot I had a lot of fun watching the 3 videos you made. Keep it up and dont feel pressure making new videos, cause we dont have high expectations.

I used to play Pixel Gun 3D all of the time with my brother. I remember those days, back when the autmatic-peacemaker was actually good. I had really good weapons and I loved the modes... I started losing interest when the monetization started expanding and growing among the lobby screen. However, I didn't mind it too much at the time. I played it almost every other day until they added the "battle royale" mode. After then I started to really lose interest as well because of the increase in monetization. I loved the game, I loved watching people like LosGaming (now 'Los'), and I will forever cherish those memories. R.I.P Pixel Gun 3D... ❤

The downfall of Pixel Gun 3D serves as a reminder of how crucial it is for game developers to listen to their player base and adapt to changing expectations.

I remember playing this all the way back in 2014-16. There were hardly any microtransactions, the campaign was fun, and it was simple fun. Went back to the game sometime last year and was shocked. No campaign, millions of pop-ups, everything that I hoped wouldn't be there. PG3D is a sad tale of greed and I wish it wasnt.

I stopped playing pixel gun and I’ve forgotten about it for a while until this popped up. Thanks for making this video to remind me of it and also to explain what went down!

1. Micro transactions. 2. Unbalanced weapons. 3. Unfair matchmaking 4. Micro transactions 5 Micro transactions 6. Micro transactions

I miss this game in its prime days.. I remember making a ton of my own custom skins, grinding on the 2x the xp and coins and finding hidden gems. The prototype being the got tier of snipers. Uploading videos about it, now I can see what the developers were truly after. It’s disappointing to seeing my childhood game go downhill..

Here’s my take on this: I used to play this game a TON around 6 ish years ago. I tried coming back to it years later for some nostalgia and to recreate the fun I once had, but I was overwhelmed. I got a million pop ups in my face, and once I got though it all I found a million different weapons and items to pay for, with tons of new terrible features that obviously weren’t very innovative. I played a match and got killed by sweats, partially cause I no longer had any idea what I was doing since I was playing the battle royale mode that previously hadn’t existed. This game is just boring and pay to win now, and is sweat infested. It’s EXTREMELY overwhelming for any new players to try and learn this game, as it was for me when I returned.

I remembered playing this non-stop since 2016 and watched my school friends playing this since 2013. It was fun but what made it stale was the P2W feature with microtransaction, unbalanced level match, trophy loss (has been removed), and mostly greedy features. Now that it's going to be released on steam for PC, I want to give it another shot whether it has changed to a better state or not.

I grew up on this… prolly my first ever shooter game too… I wanted to take a trip down memory lane and reinstalled it and was extremely disappointed and sad to see how my memory was shattered by greed

As a retired PG content creator I tried to add something unique to my videos so that I could promote the game further. But after seeing the true path the developers choose to follow, I quickly stopped uploading. There is no communication between the community and the developers. All their "communication" gravitates around damage control.

As a recently retired content creator, I absolutely agree with everything you said. It’s kinda sad that our childhood game ended up like this… Btw thank you for using my clips at 5:30 lol

had to subscribe just cus you made 2 vids about the things i want to know the most

as a retired Pg3d gamer, i honestly miss the old days. Miss how everything was back in the old days. I was a 2012 player retired around 2019. miss the good old days.

One of the reasons I stopped playing was when they removed the ability to grind out the zombies mode for coins. You used to be able to get 10 coins a round after a certain round, which seriously helped with grinding for weapons you wanted if you didn’t want to pay the money for coins. I’d sit for 20-30 rounds and make good amounts of coins. Once they removed that, things seriously fell off. Micro transactions, lack of care from the developers, etc. I miss the game, many found memories from my childhood playing with my younger brother.

I remember playing this game when it was in its first early stages, maps like “Utopia, Pirates, D-Day” were huge and blew up and had everyone hooked and then they slowly started removing everything and made it consistently worse. Like when at one point the best gun was the ray gun and then you made that gun seem like nothing 2-3 months later compared to the new weapons you crush the work people do and the time they cared about giving.

first time new sub here but 100k subs in 3 vids is the craziest ive ever seen gg bro

i just got of csgo and i see ur vid what actually happened to fearless and then i watched it all and now i watch this im subbing keep up the good work

Hi, a pure F2P with 6 years of knowing the game here! I totally agree with some aspect of the video, where devs are only focusing only into making even more money, but they do put a little bit of efford into slightly improving the game. It’s really sad seeing my favorite mobile shooting game going down like this, from a fun and enjoyable to money-grabbing game… I can only hope for Cubic Games to realize what is happening to the game and actually have some space in their heart to put the game back to its glory

I was a player from 2013. The game was playable from the low class phone. No money was spent and you could easily top in rankings. Also the sniper laser was the most OP gun at that time because the name tag was visible when even behind the walls. Also the map glitches were fun exploring. I miss the old days.

Wow this is a well made video and I can’t wait to see more

Maybe if they didn’t make it pay to win. Also the amount of trollers and hackers are stupid. I played today to try the game out again but right as I loaded into BR everyone immediately died. And 1 person got all the kills.

As a player who played when it first released, the game early on was more fair and not full of spamming weapons every second. The concept when it released was interesting because as mentioned in the video it was a fps game that people can play on their phones. Idk if cubic games and the earlier dev are a different team or not but I'd say the downfall started when it became cubic games game (if that made sense)

Once they nerfed the Arena, giving way less coins in order to encourage you to spend more. Back then I was able to get all the weapons after grinding the Arena. The most OP weapon was still that purple sniper that shoots through walls and the redstone machinegun(?).

Glad This Blew Up. Good Video.

You know its a hood day when Kalex uploads

I remember when I had played this game on it's early stages, multiplayer. The chat box was always really active. Interacting with other players had been a constant thing in every server you joined in. My time playing that game had been on and off, deleting and re-installing the game again and again. It had been a cycle and eventually, there came a time when no one was chatting. Not a single chat from any player even when I had tried sparking up a conversation, no matter the server and mode, the players were no longer as interactive as they had been initially. Interacting with various players had been one of the entertaining aspects of that game, so it was quite sad when that fun aspect disappeared

As a retired competitive pg3d player, this video is honestly the most accurate thing I've seen.

Jesus I havnt played PG3D in so long. Ima be honest, I completely stopped playing once they put battle passes and a battle royale mode in, I’ll forever cherish the memories I made on it tho

They removed heaven Garden 😭too

As a max level player that had 100+ mythical craftable weapons, its sad to see what became of one of my most beloved games of all time. So many memories, lost to pay to win and microtransactions. Really sad.

I found this game really early, and I remember getting online after school every day where there were a few available lobbies that would have mostly the same players I would play with every day. Then, one day, it just boomed, and all those players that i became really close with were just gone in the void of the massive player base. The game became a lot more fun, but it was kinda sad at the same time because I became close with that small group. I deadass still remember there usernames 10 years later.

i come from the fearless video and i usually hate people that beg to subscribe but after watching two of your videos i see great potential in this channel and really want to see more upcoming videos. Keep it up put dont become a perfectionist either ;)

I actually don’t remember how I stopped playing that game but it will forever be in my heart and it made childhood

I was able to witness the downfall first-hand. I stopped playing around the time they started giving content creators shout outs (so well after battle royale was added). I realised my guns were doing no damage and i had to constantly spend gems i didnt have just to keep up. It started going downhill after they made the movement change and then it had a slow decline ever since then. The game was so fun and its community was so chill. You could hop in your favourite youtubers lobby and play with them for hours but no one does that anymore. An older player would easily notice the P2W changes which just makes me salty. i would do anything to bring back those times but its too late now, the greedy developers dug their game into its own grave

Another main problem pixel gun had was the level system. It didn't only made almost every gun 1 shot you, it also made your guns more and more useless because it armor levels. Not only that but OG players were already in the high ranks making them fight against those overlevelled players.

damn amazing work keep it up!

Who else remembers Universe 7 clan? God I loved that clan, the clan wars were always insane and so enjoyable I remember at school a few friends that played were like how did you get into Universe 7 that’s the “best clan in the game” due to it being consistent on Number 1. It was a wonderful experience while it lasted!

I remember playing this game six years ago, and getting most of the strong guns, the custom avatar feature was fun too, I genuinely enjoyed the story-mode campaign despite the story being very scatterbrained(I mean, what do you expect from a minecraft shooter game anyway). Somewhere along the way I lost my access to my original account, forgot about the game in a long time, then recently I visited again with a new beginner account, and I was met with a game I couldn't even identify.

I remember playing this in primary school, but what made me stop was that in multiplayer games you would be placed in with players who had objectively better gear who could one hit you and would take many hits to take down, just felt unfair

This is what’s happening to clash royale right now

as a og player back in 2014-2017 was when the game was at its peak and you didn’t have to upgrade every single weapon now the game is just pay to win which is kinda sad considering it’s just a money grab new op weapons come out, u buy them and more new op weapons come out and the list goes on.

I feel like an OG watching videos like this. I remember playing it between 2016 and 2017, and occasionally played it in 2018 and 2019 for fun. Seeing the downfall was sad.

I'm really sad to see this game go down. It was one of my favourites as a kid. I remember rocking the OG maps like Pirates and nuclear town and grinding for the laser gun. I left the game in early 2019 and I redownloaded it in July this year. I was actually so shocked to see all of this pay2win crap getting spammed in my face. It's always sad to see a company turn to the dark side, but after this I don't even pity them. They massacred my beautiful boy.

I remember playing this game and made some friends that I still chat with sometimes, use to bug out of maps and bring pvp guns to sandbox, also the spam gun trick before it was patch. those were good days

I share the same sentiment. Played this game back in 2013-2014ish, heck maybe even a little later. Things were super fun and I remember being fairly good, too. Then I came back a few years later and found all of what you said. Pop-ups, pay-to-win, the fact that you pretty much HAD to buy in game currency to keep up or be any good, and the fact that the campaign STILL wasn't finished. Very disappointing.

for me personally, the game was already going downhill when they introduced gems. You could buy the best guns in the game by just playing, grinding survival arena, and it would take a lot of time but it would pay off. When they added gems, they removed the possibility of obtaining those grindable coin guns by changing their currency from coins to gems. That killed the whole point of grinding the game for me, thats when i quit.

Greed is the downfall of every game company at some point.

I can't remember exactly when I started, it was very early on but I remember having the option of using the weapons unlocked in the campaign in multi-player, I stopped playing a couple updates after they introduced turrets and mechs. I tried getting into it back when br was all the hype but after seeing how they took away the campaign weapons in multi-player and how underpowered the defaults were compared to everyone else in the lobby, I gave it up. 9.0 was my favorite update after years of grinding but it only went downhill from there

The days when I came home, went in my room, opened up PG3D on my tablet and using the laser cannon in Deathmatch were so satisfying. It’s crazy how now most newer gen games rely on making money instead of listening to the fans or pouring their heart out to recreate the fun

man i remember being in the olden days of pg3d where there were barely any p2w stuff, sweaty people and it wasnt repetitive, but these days pg3d is quite the opposite. i will always miss the old pg3d days

Aight Boys Lets Play PG3D again

i miss this game so much, spent so much time in highschool playing it in a private community known for sniper duels in pool map i think its called sword snipe or something. good times

I’ve been playing the game for 6-7 years now and I’ve seen it change significantly over the years, as many others here can attest the same. Over the years I got better as I can attribute the majority of my mobile FPS skills to Pixel Gun 3D, however I temporarily left the game when they introduced OP weapons with little to no chances of obtaining them through gameplay…it frustrated me as skill didn’t really matter anymore as long the other team had more players with weapons that can knock you out in one hit. (At some point I decided I was going to rank number 1 in the survival arena, which I did with a score of approximately 800,000.) That did change when the developers made it possible to obtain those weapons of interest through ad watching, coupons, and battle pass rewards without having to spend any money…so then I was able to obtain enough OP weapons to level the playing field and I was racking up k*lls once more. It once again became the sole mobile FPS game I would always play, until the sheer number of guns and pointless updates they’re adding into the game started to take up way too much storage space on my iPad. So as of 2023, I decided to abandon my old account (it sucks the developers didn’t make it possible to transfer accounts) and made a new account on a new device. As of late, the developers also decided they were going the halve the rewards you would get from watching ads. As if they couldn’t see the writing on the wall at this point. I am still playing the game as it is probably the only game I have some level of consistent proficiency, but I am not confident about its future lest something big changes.

It’s been around a few years since I last touched the game… I had no idea it even reached the point of p2w. This is sad for a game I very much enjoyed 24/7 as a younger adult. Thank you for making this video. It’s a shame the game will never achieve the massive popularity it once did

The fact that I got a pixel gun ad before this is pure gold

It's wild to see how this game became so loaded with microtransactions and in the state it is. I had a lot of fun back then when it was just three chapters and didnt have the gem currency in place. Multiplayer was not as hyper competitive and usually there was some level of chat activity. sometimes people would just give up on objectives briefly and just talk and mess around during the match without killing each other. Sad that I wont ever see that kind of experience again

Hey all, retired PG3D player here. Started playing the game at around 2015, stopped at around 2022. When I played the game for the first time I was incredibly young, and the memories made from playing the game made its way into my little treasure trove. Took a long break from the game in 2018 for personal reasons, and picked it back up in 2020, and in that time, the game had really changed. During that era, the 3catspam playstyle was meta all around, and the game devs had started to become incessantly greedy. But I played it anyways, learned the metas, got some weapons, and finally put the game to rest due to burnout, and the incredible lack of balancing the game had gained. Kind of unfortunate really, the game had so much potential. Thanks for reading, have a great day/night

Me and my friend back in elementary school used to play this, We just loved how fun and simple it was. I specifically remembered me being so excited to unlock the "Fast Death" which at the time was a pretty great pistol that you could get and which you could upgrade. It went from a normal rapid fire standard pistol, to being able to be upgraded to a cool and better diamond one. By just leveling up and earning in game money from 2 or 3 games. It was simple to level up and just have fun. When I returned to the game during 2020 I was very disappointed. Not just because I had a new account but to see how much it had changed. All those fun weapons I got were either extremely nerfed or extremely buffed and hard to get. The fast death was an extremely lame, already diamond, slow firing "rapid fire" pistol. The Golden Desert Eagle you could get by simply earning in game money was also a very crappy starting pistol, and lots of the og weapons and maps were gone. This game falling apart was very sad.

I remember grinding for a weapon called "prototype" because i would get killed by this weapon so often that i had to have it

I began playing in 2015 at the age of 13 or something... I was level 21 when I dropped off. As a guy who isn't really into FPS... The game was somehow really fun. I really enjoyed chatting with others in the lobby. The fun part about the game for me was getting killed while trying to chat with someone, or going after that one guy who was talking trash or just being annoying. What I'm trying to say is... That it was fun, because it felt alive.

As a former PG3D player, I enjoyed the game alot when I was younger. Ever since they started adding more and more overpowered weapons and items, I couldnt keep up anymore and I feel as the game became more “pay to win” rather than just casual grinding and having decent pvp battles with other players.

Its so nostalgic to remember playing in the trunk of my neighbors’ mom’s car with my old best friend. I realized the game had really experienced a fall from a golden age when i returned a few years later (~2014 all the way to ~2021) and saw the absolute clusterfuck that the homepage for the game had become. With the pets, base, battle royale, and all kinds of crazy weapons i cant think of it as anything else but overstimulating, especially compared to the once beautiful scenery of the maps and there only being around like 20 weapons to use without being instakilled by whatever sweat bought the latest best item in the game.

I remember playing this when I was 7... I'm nearly 18 now, and I still play a few matches every now and then just bcz of how much I truly loved and appreciated the game back then... it's so I can feel satisfied for playing something I started playing a little over a decade ago. When I miss it, I play it, but no more grind; not worth it. We just gotta move on, sadly, even when it's something you loved/still love. In life, sometimes you need to make sacrifices... well, in this case, it's not so much of a sacrifice anymore, unfortunately

Personally I think PG3D died incredibly fast once the 3 Cat Spam meta started getting popular. A lot of sweats came into the game and ruined it. The crafting parts for the weapons that were originally in the chest were now craftable, which ruined the whole point of collecting them. Getting them in the chest was super fun and had a good feeling.

I remember dominating the space lobby with the purple laser gun and that's even before we had extras like jetpacks or even the other world story mode etc. One of the most fun game I played as a child. It's just simple and perfect, No need for other words

Can you pls post more just started watching you and I think you can go far

Just got my first pixel gun ad in over 5 years

Man was this my childhood. I remember me and my clanmates would share around hacked iclouds that had all the guns unlocked and have hacked skins with colors that weren't available in the skin editor. I used to pump hours into getting better at the game but stopped playing in like 2017 wild that was almost 7 years ago now.

I cried inside watching this the nostalgia hit me like a brick. I tried to get back into it but I couldn't transfer my account across platforms. Furthermore, after this video, I think it's time to let old things rest.

Bro I remember spamming the one shot sniper and tree launcher on paradise resort. In like 2016-2017. I miss it.

2:02 nostalgia hit me there

I stopped playing Pixel Gun 3D completely around 2017 or 2018, which were the final good years on PG3D for me. Safe to say, looking at the PG3D now, I miss the PG3D of old. The simple days of playing the basic story, the weapon list and customization being so good, and generally just having fun within matches or even chilling out and chatting with people between matches. But the thing that hurt most about leaving Pixel Gun 3D at the time wasn't the game itself starting to turn sour (though it still stings a bit) or the extensive amount of time put into it on my geekily named "Ohm" player. It was the friends I had left behind years ago. I promised myself I would come back just for my buddies such as Kade and Rogue. Unfortunately, by then, it was probably already too late. And now with hardly anybody playing the game anymore, other than for some nostalgia, it seems like I may never be able to replicate those good times with old friends on newer and better games. Sad to see the game become a husk of its former self, but I guess that's just how all games like this one go out.

Man, I remember the good old days when the game was actually balanced. Powerful weapons like the ghost launcher and one-shot had pretty large drawbacks that forced players to use them carefully. Now, it seems like every new mythical weapon brings an innovative way to one-shot your opponents with ease. It’s just way too unbalanced. My breaking point for this game was this one time when I came up to an opponent from behind and unloaded a bunch of headshots on them with an epic automatic weapon, only for them to slowly turn around and one-shot me with a body shot from a mythical sniper rifle. I stopped playing the game then, and haven’t picked it up again to this day. It hurts to see that the game is just trying to chase trendy things like Among Us and Squid Game instead of innovating on its own core mechanics, and it saddens me that this once beloved game is dying out. Still, it’s getting what it deserves for being so greedy.

This game brought out my competitiveness at a max, I remember there used to be a clan, I was the leader, and officers were elected based on skill, it was so fun.

I got a pixel gun 3d ad while watching this thank you

I don't watch pixel gun content but the algorithm knows what we want.

I miss when the story mode was the main focus and the multiplayer was a side thing to play after finishing the campaign. Such a shame. There were microtransactions back then, yes, but it wasn't nearly as obscene as it is now. I miss it so much.

I used to play this game. I remember Cops & Robbers and Infection. I forgot about this game until a few months ago when I went on my old IPad and checked my games. I went into the game and no one was there.

One of the main problems that affected me was the gun levels. Me and many other players had high level maxed out guns which were good for that time, but as your player level goes up your guns don’t so you have to upgrade them. For higher level players who just want to have fun and use different weapons, this opposed a very big problem. The prices to upgrade these weapons (especially higher rarity ones) is so massive that by the time you upgraded like 1 or 2 of the weapons you would reach the next level. This means as you play, your guns get worse, leading to them being like absolute garbage so there’s basically no point in using the guns you like.

This game was insane in its first few years, multiplayer was genuinely fun, and the story had a strange amount of depth that had me waiting months for the next chapter.

I used to play this all the time and even met friends on there when there was a chill place to hang out. I remembered always waiting for the story chapters to come out. It's such a shame on what happened.

I still go back only for the story it hasn’t changed and it’s amazing

got a pixel gun 3d ad at the end of this video and i almost cried

Seeing this was heartbreaking. That was what my entire childhood consisted of for a certain period. It wasn’t just a shooter neither. It was also a social game to chill, away from all he shooting and you could even create your own skin.

As a player (F2P) who has returned to the game recently (like a week ago), yea I completely agree. I started playing in 2017 but lost my account a lot so now I just have a lvl 39 acc now. While personally I still like and play the game sometimes, the gameplay loop does get boring after at least a week into playing the game. Great video my guy

I remember making so many friends and getting into multiple clans, and hijacking emails to get all the guns for free, but as soon as they added that u can’t spam the weapons that’s when ppl started quitting..

started playing in 2013 , became top 2 sf comp player and top 7 pools player in 2019 when happyprovadim ,alucard king , shloski were in my clan , quit late 2021. miss those days

I definitely can see how their greed backfired. I remember loving the game when I was younger and I remember coming back after a while and really saw how the game changed