The above graph is the player count of Paladins over the past year. Behold more ominous evidence of Paladins‘ decline. That’s not the only statistic we are looking at, however. That’s certainly healthier than some other multiplayer games I play, and a solid multiplayer game can thrive on much lower numbers. At peak hours, Paladins clocks in at almost 14,000 players, according to Steam Charts. Paladins still has plenty of players, don’t get me wrong. While not all hope is lost, there are a few solid reasons why I fear for the future of Paladins going into 2021. The pandemic has not made things easier for anyone, but things were not easy for Paladins to begin with.Ĭonsidering the state of the Paladins playerbase, and previous patterns in Hi-Rez’s game development, I believe I’m right to worry. I’m sure they’re doing their best in the current COVID-19-afflicted world. I’m not blaming this on the creatives or developers currently working at Evil Mojo. Base building survival game Fortnite was among the IPs first to jump into the battle royale hype train and other IPs have also followed suit including mods allowing similar modes on Grand Theft Auto Online as well as plans for similar modes on Counter Strike: Global Offensive.Don’t worry, this won’t turn into a bashfest. They persevered and continued to grow but again, attracted unwanted attention recently when they introduced the highly unpopular Cards Unbound crafting system.īattle royale-style games is the in-thing nowadays with the immensely popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds breaking records left and right with its unprecedented popularity.
Since release, Paladins was oft compared to Overwatch, and was even labeled as a clone to Blizzard’s highly popular hero shooter. The last team standing wins.Īccording to Hi-Rez, Paladins: Battlegrounds was “designed from the ground up to be played in teams,”. This new mode will retain the main game’s class-based team composition and (yay!) mounts will also be available. From what we gather from the trailer, expect to see several mini-maps cobbled up together to form the full map, enabling different styles of approaches throughout. Once on the ground, players battle and scrounge over the loot scattered over “more than four dozen outposts” and sought for “zeppelins that drop legendary gear” as encroaching fog corrals them into ever-tighter skirmishes. The new game mode, Paladins: Battlegrounds will be free-to play and see 100 players battle it out in 20-minute matches set on – as all battle royale games go – a large map. Another IP joins the battle royale hype train as developers, Hi-Rez Studios announced that their game, Paladins is adopting the battle royale mode and is calling it *drum roll*
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