Lots of videos like this lately. I watched it whole and I don't think the game is dying yet, there will always be some casual / mobile players online. The easiest solution to all of this is increase the silver rewards across all the content so new players feel "rich" and cocky enough to try out new stuff. Another thing that I personally hate is waiting times. You want to play CD? First you need to find dungeon then PVE then PVP which can become running simulator. HG is a bit better but still, who wants to run across 5 zones to play 5v5? When I login into the game, I want content/action from the get go not waiting/running-horse simulator. For all of these reasons, I enjoy playing arena in albion the most. Even the rewards are non existent atleast I have fun as soon as I login. Good video, hopefully they increase silver rewards so people can actually join/play all of this content.
There is a new player influx coming to the game all the time. It's a cycle. New players come in, other players leave. But in the long run it hurts those players that remain because they need to find new friends to play with. My experience was this. We started as 3-4 back in 2020. Got to 13 people doing small scale PvP with lands awakened roaming outlands. After mist update all of them kinda left the game and are playing LOL. Now it's only me playing solo mists or duo mists with the remaining friend that still logs in. It's fun and all when we play duos or when I play solo, but sometimes you just wonder if it's worth it.
Very well written video Tommy. Can definitely tell you're passionate about Albion and not ready to let it go yet. I hope for your sake that SBI starts listening to it's veteran player base more and does something to keep people interested long-term again.
I have quit Albion online very recently (specifically in Sept 2023) The reason behind it is to stop giving my more time in mmo world and give that same amount of time in my real life for learn and to grow myself I still miss my friends ngl. I was in a good guild where we were doing a lot of contents like blackzone roaming, hellgate, zvz, crafting , transporting and fame farming. I must say the time I have spent with my friends in the game was a gem. I have been playing this game for 2 years And ya zvz is the end game content. It's very enjoyable and very competitive. It's just that I can't get my item back after the death😂 . So ya like people who have real life issue who only want to play for some few hour it's hard for us since you need to make your economy first then you can go with decent sets in Albion online and I was only doing zvz so at some point of time i usually reach empty silver point. Like there are easy silver making tips but it's just I don't want to spend the time in making money instead just want to play the game But ya it's a good game ❤❤❤❤ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The gap between established players and ordinary players is too big. I've run a lot of solo dungeons and it is rare that I get anything useful out of them. Imagine it for an ordinary player. We watch clips of groups doing chests worth multi-million silver and yet that is the reality of less than 0.1% of the player base. A lot of the weapons are bad for PvE and it is hard to switch skills between PvE and PvP all the time. Open world mobs give bad loot too. And the dangers are great for being caught while fighting those. Teleporting back can cost a fortune. I went to the black zone through YZ mists unstable portal. Did a little dungeon and open world mobs. When I wanted to come home to royal I spent over 80k silver. In comparison, when I'm in the red zone I tend to spend less than 20k silver. Fights are often unfair. In the YZ, the gap between the haves and have-nots has never been greater. RU-vidrs showing content spending millions of silver upgrading their weapons is barely relatable to most players. That is mobile-game-style content. Spin a roulette content. The problem is that casual gamers who only have 10 hours to play a week are being priced out of it.
Yes, this is one of the biggest problems of Albion, which is why most players either simply do not enter black locations and remain in yellow and red, or even leave Albion forever and the flow of people leaves after the last update with animal tracking - the flow of people leaving has increased significantly. but this trend began 2 years ago, when the economy was more or less in order, when a bonus could be earned quickly and almost anyone could do it without spending a lot of time a day (then it was worth only 9 million), plus there was more non-lethal activities, solo dungeons were many times more profitable than now, and in general there was no such obsession with black zones and generally an open world with deadly pvp. And after the Albion developers decided to focus only on the open world, content for gankers and PvP guilds in black locations - the game began to die and the game is now slowly but surely dying and at one point there will be a small number of peaceful players remaining in the game who deal with the economy of Albion, who will not go to black locations at all and residents of black lands, as well as players from other games will generally ignore Albion online. Plus in Albion there is no balance between a new player and a pumped up old player, as well as between types of equipment, I have not seen such a disgusting balance in any game as in Albion online
if you a solo palyer go in bz mists with a set that is worth 50-100k and you will make good money trough pve, chests, spiders or pvp/ratting it is not that hard you will mostlikely die often the first few times but its normal when you are learing something for the first time. your real problem is being afraid to die and lose your set but when you go with a cheap set it should not matter if you die.
My experience with the crystal league was alittle different to yours. My guild managed to get 20 people to do 20v20 lethal crystal league at lvl 1 and the first team we went up against was no way a lvl 1 team. They had an amazing comp and completely destroyed us. How can you expect people to learn if they are going up against top teir teams in their first match? The second match didnt go much better and people lost motivation to keep trying. I don't understand why there is isnt any kind of matchmaking that stops lvl 3-6 teams queuing for lvl 1. No wonder the content died.
It's sad to see that your not getting crystal matches =( I know the Roads being dead has led me to play other games. Sadly there isn't much out there for full loot PvP.
True last time i almost died to 2 rats teaming up for chest while i was not even in super high gear (8.3 or 8.4) only 6.3 yet they teamed up. Luckly bracers mobility saved me.
I "quit" Albion on Oct 2021, and it was in quite a decent state! 10s gates had recently been added and faction warfare was thriving. Solo mists seem, at least to me, to have been a terrible mistake. Albion is not a solo game and corrupted dungeons had already filled that gap. Duo mists is a content folks have been longing for and I think it was done right. I believe it gave you and your friend something to do in the open world when your guild wasn't online. I also have a positive view on the changes they did to the open world. The hideout cores (or whatever they are called), the mini bosses to incentivize small scale brawls, all that content was carefully designed to try and fulfill a single purpose. Hats off!!! I can see where the decision of removing CLC came from. While it does reduce obtainable season points, it does so for every guild. And the top guilds would always cap that amount anyways (after a cap was added). Their idea was probably to drive attention to all other sources of season points. As a bonus, they got rid of that 1% mafia paying real life salaries for crystal players. The decision seem to have backfired, but maybe it's a phase they are willing to go through in order to curate the player base. There were lots of people who would never do open world and just hang around in town/HO waiting timers. Perhaps SBI could have improved on other content before taking this step, but it seems like a natural move to make if their long term goal is to focus on open world content (which they explicitly stated multiple times it is).
im more of a solo player guy but the main problem i’m finding myself in is that i don’t know what to do and what to spend my silver on. I could even buy a mammoth but i don’t need it and i don’t want to use it. I invested a some silver in crafting and i’m gonna finish the axe tree but i don’t really see a point to start a new one. Unless it’s for personal use of items
if you are a solo player, play mists bz if you are new to bz and fear losing your set go with cheap sets until you are comfrotable with being in bz and doing pvp. if you want a good weapon for mists i can tell you some battleaxe, deathgiver, prowling staff, 1h spear, fists of avalon, fire staff and bloodletter.
@@baumapfel4463 thanks mate. I guess i understand why lot of solo players play mist. Sometimes very frustrating having to face multiple enemies. I’m having a very good time with b axe pretty insane
Basically, SBI repeating history in total disregard of their old school player base. They did in the past to solo dungeons, consecutively repeated mistake to hellgates, and currently repeated mistake to crystal league. These are 3 of the BIG contents of what makes Albion being Albion; and they are dying (or already dead).
is albion dying? NOT. Albion is already dead. As one from of the biggest crafters in this game with about 25b craft fame I cleary see that amount of items which are not sold out in market orders because of lack of players online or amount of player who owning siilver for regearing sets is so low, I have too many stacks of all kind of items in each tier and upgrade and dont see point crafting even more because there is no way to sell them untill 2025. After mist update and x.4 almost everyone unistalled. Most people dont see point login to the game, too many nerfs happend, too many wrong things have been done.
and new players are hard to get silvers. look at bz all area got dominated by veteran players and rz also dominated by pk that always chase new players that farming there.
@@maimora7995 Make pve too easy was their first mistake, may system of upgrade mobs over time isnt bad idea but amout of fame from them is just a joke, it should be only like +10% each upgrade not x10 or x20 fame, we all know why they made pve so easy, why people can up 100 specs in 5-7h, they were greedy for gold sale because people needed cradits and silver for 120 specs, some people got tricked and bought gold but most dont even care, they stay on 101 specs but because pve is so easy everyone run with 100 specs there is nothing to grind so they ganking with 20 people instead of spred them for pve party and pvp groups. Also too many nerfs happend to the silver farming from solo dungoens or group dungeons, if people cant make silver by simple activity as pve they cant even think about pvp and regear after loses. Mist was also bad idea for the game overall, x.4 was just retarded idea, no one wanted that but we all know why they did this, to punish people with 8.3 masterpiece collections destroy their silver invest. Noboway want play a game where 5h of gringing dungeons bring u like 2.5m a single 8.4 kill or rat in mist can bring u 30m...thats so dump. Also as I see people doesnt want to fight vs shapeshifter weapons at all and nobody want to face x.4 avakened weapons thats why nobody want to login anymore.
albion lol legends have it that the devs are still planning to add another version of 1v1/2v2 content. SBI money comes from the zvz swipers and pve gamers, so that's what they're focusing energy into.
I was a guild master in Albion for 3 years and I can confidently state I have a better handle on what new players go through than 99% of players and even the devs to some extent The lifespan of 95% of new players is 1-2 months. They play - they start getting fame - they want to pvp - they begin to pvp and they get eviscerated. Some will ask what happened and learn why they failed but most won't and they stop logging in. The ones who take the time to learn why they are dying so often learn about the difference in IP of a new player and a veteran player. They learn how expensive PVP is and they try crafting until they learn about the cartel before they stop, they try gathering but get ganked so often they give up on that too. After a couple weeks of struggling to make personal income in game they give up and stop logging in. This game has peak ZVZ content but its chosen weakness being that it grinds through new players is going to be the nail in the coffin one day if their marketing team ever slows down.
I not watched the video yet but i may say that when mist update published i decided to quit even as a veteran player because i knew that was gonna be where the gamble mechanics snowball and will ruin future of the game. I was hella right, they did not stop; almost done everything we argued with my friends and never look back.
If the percent of people on Steam and native client is constant, then this is as good information as any other when analysing relative numbers. One can expect that if the Steam population is falling, the native one falls too.
Same meta, same 1-2 dominating type of build and others meta is getting boring over time. I wish we had balance changes like LoL does. I think, with gacha type awakening weapon shit creates big snowball between newbie player and veteran player. It takes so much time in this game to actually get some shit done by sbi. Took them so much time to come up with zoo weapons(mostly already existing design in game or outside of game) and tracking. I was playing a lot of cds and mists in the past but it is slowly turning to login only for guild/group content(zvzs, orb and vortex, open world, castles etc.) and log off. I used to make youtube videos about fights i had in mists per 4-5 day but nowadays there is not enough player pool to have fight and content.
For me, I think its dying cause of the added server, I loved when I still played it when it still a single server game, players interacting with the world, pvp and other content are so evident at that point
Game went downhill when they added 120 specs. Nowadays people either avoid content or run 4.1 or just stomp everyone with 8.4 awakening weapon 120 spec 2000ip shit, no outplaying there. God job sbi
the game is good but there are many problems... the contents for new players are few and most of them too difficult. the contents for solo or duo players are very few and poorly made, for example the myst, it doesn't have an IP block. You always find the same combos, mostly healer + dps which are too advantaged and consequently it is really boring to play, not to mention the sudden lag that forces you to use a VPN, these are just some of the problems that personally annoy me the most
albion end game is just a big snowball u always see bilionaire pvp player destroy newbies in every pvp content bcz dev's dont know how separate early/end content for player so they always run or try with most cheap build looking for profit ;(
@@Despond Explain how this is not true? Because every time I start a new character and go to the mists to farm (in yz) or the abbey there's always some t8 as_hole who wants to ruin lower IP players grinding. What about the rz and getting ganked by 10+ people? I bet that doesn't happen and isn't true as well, huh? What you're not going to do is gaslight people and say it doesn't happen and invalidate how they have perceived things just because it doesn't happen to you :). IP caps used to be a thing, and they need to bring them back. There is no reason a t8 should be in the same mist as a t4-5.
@@uhh_duh I agree with most of your overall point, but 1 small point of order: To me, the entire abbey is an objective. The number of players inside cuts down on my loot and ff just by their presence. I view anyone inside as a player contesting my objective. I don't grief new players at mist camps, but I'm 100 kos all players in YZ Abbey. I can understand wanting IP cap, but they aren't here and I'm not billionaire. I'm grinding my prem and I'm wearing 8.3 to do it.
i also feel the decline of players, made alot of friends from this game but sadly alot of them are now shifting to other games and new players hardly stick to it due to prem. its hard for them to earn and its a 50/50 decision for them weather its worth it or not.
new player are hard to survive cuz veteran players dominate the game. also there is no new content for played it. hope they add new mission content for players so new players can easy get a silver.
SBI killed Albion by turning it into an overdone hype machine and catering too much to a new playerbase. Nobody is going to stick with a game if it lacks consistency in the gameplay loops that they enjoy. Here's a few ways I noticed the game changed without care for the repercussions. 1. Way too much content spread: the dozens of different instanced content just thinned out the player base too much. They should have taken more steps to slowly add different content while removing less favorable ones. This is what makes each mode "dead". 2. Killing ganking: they made it way too easy to escape small gank groups (mount hp, poison changes) and left everyone to the large groups that have always existed. Open world content always felt the most natural and was the original foundation of this game. 3. Fame inflation: I remember when players who put thousands of hours of game time to reach #1 pvp fame were instantly overthrown as #1 by the Slayer corrupted dungeon players... of course veterans who didnt enjoy corrupted dungeoms were going to leave of they had no way of keeping up and were passed within days of corrupted dungeons being out... These last few years felt like Albion was making a big hype push to get a solid playerbase and then sell the company out, because I dont see any care for the stability of the game. This isnt League, so please fuck off with the instanced content spam. This is an mmo, but it certainly doesnt feel massive.
Btw sry my language. Broken hitboxes, bad ping, useless new activities like - SBI: Oh doggys take this bone "abbey for chests, boring tracking what much good for groups(now new one track like solo dg chests xDDDD), taking a lot mechanics from eve online and fck up it's cringe a lot. Ava hideouts and wars died cos "main hideouts" broke it. Faction wars but still not reworked and its just boring like yeeey let's run 1h on bandit and forgot about fw xD zero interest activities, expect hg 2*2/5*5/10*10 BUT IT'S LIKE MOBA NOT SANDBOX!!! A lot of weapons useless (or died) and easy to replace other meta/better weapon. Shapeshifters too op cos can do a lot DMG without form, again SBI fcked up. This game only for new players who can say woah what a nice world and throw it after 1-2 months😂. Btw love like SBI manipulate drops and spawns for new activities patch to make more online in this activity xD but after just abandon it. No loves to funs from sbi, only 100$ skins and 10k fame daily book xD
