Purrcious just like to repeat points discussed in IRC with Wimpie.
BM needs to improve the new player experience so that recruitment can be translated to player retention.
More Discussions here is highly encouraged:
https://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,7902.0.htmlAnd finally some stats:
As of September
BM registered players: 419
Weekly Activity: 256
Daily Activity: 124
Text-based browser games has been in decline the couple last years, playing a lot of them and everything seems to be suffering in playerbase. This is probably highly affected by the fact that most people trying to kill time has now mobile games at their disposal.
More stats:
/r/browsermmo : 591 subscribers
/r/pbbg : 441 subscribers
/r/webgames : 93,579 <-- this are games with graphics though
A lot of the pbbg & browsermmo play games that doesn't have a limit on the time you can spend on them which is mostly called stamina or timed which battlemaster is; so we're really looking at a very niche market now.
This isn't a post to sound pessimistic but more about how to approach the matter more intelligently.
Battlemaster might have to really innovate or adapt to break to other audience.
