Almost no players online?

bought the game but I regret that now

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I didn't know the sins trilogy, but i saw game play movies and I thought this game would be awesome to play online. Do I like the game play very much in skirmish I bought the game manly because of the multi player but it turns out that the community is very tight and small. So when I want to play online there is almost no one to start a new game. How do I find people to play with? cause I don't wanna wait 2 hours to start an online game. And yes I know this is a Beta but this is not very promising for the final release.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

It's closed beta with only people willing enough to pre-order. Once open beta hits, it should pick up a ton. 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah I've stopped playing the beta until they release a new patch

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

meh, It's a beta you need to preorder for for a game which half of the c ommunity are dedicated single-player gamers.  I'm not particularly surprised the servers aren't packed.  Especially considering only 1 of the 3 factions are currently playable(I can tell you I'm completely disinterested in playing TEC).

 

Honestly I think it's a bit of a stretch to have any worries about the playerbase of the game based on the current state of things with so many mitigating factors which contribute the the small number of players active.

 

 

If you really want to play some multiplayer, try rounding up some people you know.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Thats the hard part I don't know anyone who plays this game. I just hope more people will start playing online when the game is released. Otherwise the money I spend on this game can be considered a donation to the developers cause I like their work and I really hope they will make a part two very soon.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting remcowr, reply 4
Thats the hard part I don't know anyone who plays this game. I just hope more people will start playing online when the game is released. Otherwise the money I spend on this game can be considered a donation to the developers cause I like their work and I really hope they will make a part two very soon.
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Sins is a great game for online multiplayer PvP, but sadly it's an unknown gem.  The game has always had low player counts for online multiplayer but there are normally several 4v4 and 5v5 games every day on the Diplomacy expansion.  I've even played in three 5-on-5 games on the Beta and I haven't spent much time there.  Presumably the final release of Rebellion will be at least as popular for PvP as the Diplomacy expansion is right now.  So, in all likelihood you'll eventually receive some value for your money.

It's far too early to say much about what the final release of Rebellion will be like.  The current online multiplayer player counts on the Diplomacy expansion were negatively affected by technical problems that the original "Vanilla" game had early on in 2008 and also by the game's exclusive availability on Impulse (when the Entrenchment expansion was released).  Those problems have long-since been corrected.  Also, Sins was not available on Steam until the Diplomacy expansion was released.

I really do hope that Stardock figures out a way to market Rebellion to the RTS online multiplayer PvP crowd.  I really do get the sense that most of the people who play RTS PvP know almost nothing about Sins and have no idea how great it is.