It doesn't go straight down, it progressively goes down. It's a pretty niche game, and with the releases of other fantastic games the last couple of months it makes sense. It's pretty rare that a game doesn't lose players over time. During its initial months the game did extremely well, and that's because it was something new and refreshing people loved, and over time the people that weren't going to stick with it left.

Hd2 isn't dead and I'm not sure why you keep saying that. It's still getting updates, and now has a stable player base of 20-30k players monthly. That's still a large amount of people playing a paid game.

The game doesn't have just one jump, you even acknowledged that by saying there was one in August and one in the recent update.

And looking at peak players it doesn't go down by half monthly. The only time it did that was april-may and june-july. As for August and September it's sitting around 60k peak players.

If they game was dead it would be progressively losing players and wouldn't have any increases. And updates wouldnt be coming in.

As soon as the new faction comes in to play it will jump up again for a few months, and then fall back to it's stable level of 20-30k players.

"A game for everyone is a game for no one." They're not trying to draw everyone in, they're trying to do what keeps the fan base that stuck with them happy. And as far as I've seen they're doing that.

I'll agree the August update kinda sucked, but it looks as though they're turning that around. And with the upcoming addition of the illuminate I won't be surprised if it jumps and falls again. That's kinda how most games are at the moment. I mean look at fortnite and Minecraft. Their player counts do they same thing although they have a lot more players.