Read this before buying Ravaged!

i don't even see it on steam stats http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

I received Ravaged for free because i played during the beta, and the game itself isn't really bad but It's impossible to enjoy a multiplayer game when there aren't any players.

When i was playing, a few months ago, there were usually 30 players online.

Also, it sucks to see that a mod is trying to hide the failure that this game has become.

There used to be some players on Sunday/Weekends. But over the week it was usually about 4 players on 1 server (or even less). Rarely getting better (but they left pretty soon).

Game's shit. I got the beta and played it[thought it was shit, 3 servers with actual people, heavy lag, and no tutorial or anything], and the beta actually turned into a full copy of the game.

The game is so dead that they had to give the game to everyone who participated in the beta.

The game is pretty much dead. Shame. I won it and wanted to play but there were like 3 serves with 2-3 people on each.

For a product of a Kickstarter, it dampens the crowd-sourcing enthusiasm.

I am gonna look if anyone plays It hold on please. I will try to come back with a screenshot of the server list.

Should we just make fun of them? Everybody, go to their forum and post something like that. No harm can come to you.

On the off chance somebody wants the game anyway.

wow i posted a thread saying game is terrible and not even a minute latter its GONE ! they must be siting on them forums waiting for people that want to tell the truth. game fkn suxs big time..

edit : i got banned from the discussion threads becasue i said the game is dead.. retarded developers

Yup, thats our eram

Seriously, what's wrong with you? You even post on a forum completely unrelated to the game about it? A bit neurotic. The devs of Ravaged are actually pretty cool, and you got your answer why they deleted your threads. Get over it. They have events every week (where you can play with the devs, ask questions and make suggestions about future improvements) and keep releasing DLC (good free DLC with a lot of new content) absolutely for free. Plus they really try to keep the game alive by sending free keys to various people (all former beta testers for example). When you keep in mind that it's a small dev team and that the game wasn't very successful it's not exactly what I would call a bad developer.

I don't think it's ok what the mod did there (especially without telling you why he locked the threads), but you haven't seen the amount of trolls who were active on the Steam forum for this game (especially after the free weekend some weeks ago). There were 'people' (aka trolls) who would constantly rant about how much they think the game sucks as if it was their only purpose in life.

Ravaged is a fun game, I've played it quite a lot. I can only recommend it to anyone interested in online shooters. The gameplay reminds me a bit of UT2k4, only with a tiny bit less madness and slightly more realistic guns. I haven't played for some weeks, but the last time I played there were still 1-3 servers with enough people to play every day. Only in the evening of course, but that's when most people play anyway.

Censorship. Trying hard not to fail since dawn of time.

Or just buy it before reading.

Screenshot of Server Browser window taken just now.
Game does not seem to be 'dead', but with populated servers
Edit: with populated Servers I don't mean all servers are occupied, but some servers have people that still play the game.

Developers not knowing what their mods are up to is not uncommon. This has become a problem on Steam after the discussions areas were added, as devs can now give full rights (locking, deleting threads; temporary and permanent bans from the specific discussions area) to whoever they want. And we all know how good people are at handling power.

That aside, Ravaged is probably the least polished game I've ever played. Still kinda fun though.