Dwindling numbers online

[drinklime]

Something needs done. Online player numbers, once high, are now low. It's hard to find a match. We need a patch or marketing effort to get players back. Looking back at EA UFC 1, this was need one. Marketing tactics, while noble, may not be enough. Patch needs released.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Something needs done. Online player numbers, once high, are now low. It's hard to find a match. We need a patch or marketing effort to get players back. Looking back at EA UFC 1, this was need one. Marketing tactics, while noble, may not be enough. Patch needs released.

I saw 10,000 online the other day. Obviously not all of those are playing at the same time, but still. In UFC 1, I'd see about 3500-4000 anytime I got on. A lot of the casuals will start falling of soon, but that's to be expected.

Now as far as finding game, I've actually had issues when I try unranked lately. Not many people there. Ranked seems to be where everyone is at.

[Bigg Cee]

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it's just depends on the day and time and if there are any UFC ppv's or fight night shows that day.

That is usually when you see a spike in online numbers.

[Boiler569]

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Saw Ranked #s hit 10k last night which was the lowest I'd seen post-launch

But not bad numbers for a Monday night 5+ weeks post-launch....

Not GREAT numbers obviously...

My question is this, and maybe a Dev can answer??

In Ranked, it shows the # of fighters online. Does that include fighters in UT? Or just ranked?

I put about 80% of my time into UT...so if this # doesn't include UT fighters, it's definitely under-representing the community, as I know a lot of ppl stick with UT over ranked

[JRed529]

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Join a league!!!!

[chapmandachamp]

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all the players r in div 1-3 in UT mode making new fighters but imma sip my tea...

[Boiler569]

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all the players r in div 1-3 in UT mode making new fighters but imma sip my tea...

lol sad but true to some degree

Luckily most my fighters are division 5 now....OVR 77 vs. OVR 85s or so, but not too big a deal....

...but my wrestler at OVR 71 is in Division 3 going against OVR 80 types .... that sucks... so I feel your pain :/

I'm having a lot more fun in ranked recently though. All of a sudden the gap between OVR 88 and OVR 92 isn't so big when you're used to 6, 8, 10+ OVR gaps in UT lol

[Jedi Jitsu]

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double coins had to have boosted the numbers up a little? even though not everybody plays ut. maybe a double coin weekend when a decent event is on would pull some people back

[SwedishTouch76]

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lol sad but true to some degree

Luckily most my fighters are division 5 now....OVR 77 vs. OVR 85s or so, but not too big a deal....

...but my wrestler at OVR 71 is in Division 3 going against OVR 80 types .... that sucks... so I feel your pain :/

I'm having a lot more fun in ranked recently though. All of a sudden the gap between OVR 88 and OVR 92 isn't so big when you're used to 6, 8, 10+ OVR gaps in UT lol

Lol. That's a good point. I'm so used to giving up 7-10 points in UT. Even when deftly applying the Swedish Touch it sometimes isn't enough. I made it to lvl 4 in ranked then stopped as I know 6 and above is try hards....

[aholbert32]

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We are a month and a half in and I saw 13k online this morning on ps4 which doesnt see bad at all.

[drinklime]

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yes i was pleasantly surprised this morning very good news

[Gohamster1]

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Ive seen it as low as 5k before...also does anyone know if EA Sports or another sponsor would host a live venue tournament? I think this could boost players interests seeing it on a bigger stage than just youtube videos. Get it involved and interactive like fifa does. It wont be as big but you gotta start somewhere right?

[Boiler569]

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Ive seen it as low as 5k before...also does anyone know if EA Sports or another sponsor would host a live venue tournament? I think this could boost players interests seeing it on a bigger stage than just youtube videos. Get it involved and interactive like fifa does. It wont be as big but you gotta start somewhere right?

Gamestop held a Fight Night Round 4 tournament in 2009 in many of its stores which was pretty awesome. If you win at your local store, you go to a district store (think of it as your 'city' store) --- if you win that; you go to regional store (nearby States) --- final 16 went to Vegas --- it was pretty awesome

Unfortunately, EA UFC community is a lot smaller, sales aren't as high as fight night, plus retail stores like Gamestop have definitely lost some of their luster the past 5-10 years due to online shopping + Digital sales.....not sure if we'll ever see a similar 'real life' tournament anytime soon ;( ;( ;(

[Gohamster1]

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Gamestop held a Fight Night Round 4 tournament in 2009 in many of its stores which was pretty awesome. If you win at your local store, you go to a district store (think of it as your 'city' store) --- if you win that; you go to regional store (nearby States) --- final 16 went to Vegas --- it was pretty awesome

Unfortunately, EA UFC community is a lot smaller, sales aren't as high as fight night, plus retail stores like Gamestop have definitely lost some of their luster the past 5-10 years due to online shopping + Digital sales.....not sure if we'll ever see a similar 'real life' tournament anytime soon ;( ;( ;(

Is there a way to maybe get EA Sports to maybe do a test run? They have tournaments for all types of games....its strange no one would hold anything for this one

[Boiler569]

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Is there a way to maybe get EA Sports to maybe do a test run? They have tournaments for all types of games....its strange no one would hold anything for this one

I just think there isn't enough $$$ or interest in the franchise right now :/ HOWEVER the sales for UFC 2 were much better than UFC 1. So maybe if we can keep up the momentum, and UFC 3 is a big success, we'll be able to move back in that direction

EA *DID* do something called a 'live broadcast' for EA MMA back in 2009/2010 which was really fun.

No prize money or anything, but a couple dozen fighters ended up being able to fight with real people commentating (including Frank Trigg lol); everyone who played the game could watch it in real time, and it was archived too. That was a really fun experience.

EA MMA sold less than UFC 2 I believe...and obviously technology has gotten a lot better in the past 7 years or so (i.e. bandwidth and what not)...so I bet it'd be pretty easy for them to add that feature in UFC 3. I really hope they'll look into this type of community involvement as you're right, it is really fun and does help build the community as a whole

Here's a couple fights from live broadcast (first is semi finals; last URL is finals I was part of, unfortunately it was pretty laggy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoXYZ0c3iYE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69ypXEcst8

Here's a hype video I put together that got me onto the card lol everyone on the EA Forums could enter in a 'hype video' and they picked the best ones and that person could fight --- they did a LOT of these Live Broadcasts not just a cuple ; you can find most on their old channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCicHcvqCJzlU47iPQxo6bBg/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=0