Talk:Showdown Update/@comment-27403942-20190817034606

Are you having MP problems?

I wasn’t able to get matches for the recently “completed”* MP Showdown TLE and have found only a handful of other players for the new Showdown TLE. Moreover, I haven’t been able to get an MP match today. Nope, zip, zero, nada. A few players joined, then either the server disconnected or the players did.

I’m in China, and the internet here can be problematic. However, the problem seems unrelated to geography. No players, or GL’s crappy servers have gotten worse?

Seems the answer is both. GL’s servers should synch players more quickly, but one of the other TLEs indicated the number of players has dropped below 5000.

I guess this is what GL wanted - to get what money they could from diehard players by demanding ridiculous resources for new cars while driving away almost everyone else.

GL was trying some good things - a new mode, the world-wide playoff - while confusing to roll out new events. However, since the FLU GL has made it clear if you want a car, you have to be extremely good AND patient AND have nothing else to do all day but play according to GL’s schedule, or (for the 99.9% of everyone else) you’d have to pay somewhere between $60-200 USD if you wanted to “win” a car. The last car I won was the Beast X.

A balanced game is fun for everyone - people with lots of disposable income and those with little; people with lots of free time and those with 10-15 minutes to spare a few times each day. This game has become more and more unbalanced, and it seems to be collapsing.

Anyone see an upside to only having 4000-5000 players left and no MP?


 * How can a TLE be considered complete if players couldn’t race for several hours? Like a 5-inning baseball game or a 65-minute soccer (world football) match.