Why The Paladins Playerbase Never Grows

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[@bosees6583]

Another thing that destroys me is to see people on kasumi lvl 50+ defending her by offending and being toxic, kasumi is currently the biggest problem for me really lol

[@bts_fan21yurtsever32]

same that's one the reasons I stopped playing as much

[@jasonmension3979]

Kasumi actively does to paladins, what overwatch just spent a year fixing about itself, why did paladins look at ow use the fact they're flanks are funner and the games less counter pick oriented as marketing and go "let's add a champ that shuts down flanks hard and is countered hard by the most boring champs like vivian so theres more counter picking" lol the same stuff I used to praise paladins for is now what I praise overwatch for. Not to mention ow has come out and said they're gonna fix moria by adding more utlity to her kit which the reason moria has so much less utlity then all other supports is she has no human error when fighting people which is why her dmg is so low and she has no other utlity really so if they're gonna fix morias with adding more utility they would prob need to change her auto aim so overwatch litterally just cleansed itself of everything kasumi brings to paladins not to mention they removed hard cc almost entirely from ow while kasumi brings 2 forms of cc, one being an old form of cc that was removed due to the community hating it so much on torvald and the other was only ever put on ults for good reason I like to think kasumi is everything bad that ow cleanses from itself and all that bad had to go somewhere so kasumi is just everything ow shred in a single champion being inserted into paladins lol

[@SocialExperiment232]

@@jasonmension3979literally Amen to this comment. Paladins is making the same mistakes overwatch made 5 years ago in this stupid character.

[@guizhongs]

Me too. I was an every day player and when Kasumi came out, I played a couple weeks and haven touched it again. She was the nail in the coffin for many people I think.

[@LusioEcarts]

So far and for me I don't have a problem with Kasumi cuz I play mostly ranked. Even when they release her for ranked play too.. she will be often banned. The other problem in ranked is rather champs like Caspian (a good player can wreck with him) or Androxus who still hits like a truck.

[@jj4cx423]

Back in 2016, I was in love with Paladins. They have characters like Evie, Bomb King and a competitor to Pharah which is Drogoz. I used to think Paladins would rise up and level with Overwatch. It's just sad to think that it has been 5 years ago since I've thought of that. Paladins to me is like an ex-gf that I truly love but passed away

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

Yes indeed im still miss old Paladins Was so fun Payload i miss youu 🥺😔😔 Also they need to *DELETE KASUMI*

[@frafracheesy8531]

Yeah I loved unlocking new heroes and I particularly liked bombed king and there were less cheaters

[@sway_onthetrail]

Both games are just so bad now honestly. I tried to play OW like a month ago, feels miserable compared to before. Tried Paladins again a couple days ago and it feels like nothing but bad changes has happened. People who didn't play Paladins back then don't know what they missed. Used to be a great game.

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

@@sway_onthetrail sadly....its true I can say if they bring back thos events and specially payload will be great again Speciall if they delete kasumi Also feel almost the same thing with TF2 nothing has change but still good

[@dawnfox2003]

@@sway_onthetrail overwatch on asian server takes 15 mins to find a match in overwatch 2 the game feels dead altleast in paladins i get a match in less than 2 mins

[@phrogr]

If they added play of the game back i would play so much more its insane

[@vistington3145]

Ikr, the endings are so abrupt

[@daantheuwis8452]

@@vistington3145 i feel like its still not as abrupt as overwatch ending. Its play of the game and all of the sudden youre just in the main menu.

[@r3yl3n73]

@@daantheuwis8452 huh?

[@Miguel-vv9hd]

Kill cam too

[@brennanshea5545]

Wait, they REMOVED play of the game????

[@LICH_REAPER]

My thoughts are to make it a stable, playable game, not release new champs so often, add a story mode, and mostly ADVERTIESE. I have NEVER seen a paladins advertisement EVER. I found out about it when it came to switch and popped up on the eshop. If it wasn't for that I don't think I ever would have discovered it. They don't have any ads so nobody knows it exists! I think that alone would hlep the player base so much.

[@StarlightMagician]

Another person that only discovered Paladins via switch Eshop. I originally only bought it to hold me over until Overwatch was announced, and found myself enjoying it (even if I joined around Koga's Revenge, when Master of Arms still existed). Nowadays, I don't think I can bring myself to play it at the moment, ESPECIALLY when they added another character that required no aim other than just looking in the enemy's general direction (as if Lian wasn't already bad enough).

[@m.s2829]

@@StarlightMagician tbh lian isnt that bad her presence and her basic shots have a skill celling to consistantly do dmg

[@queendeborah14172]

THANK YOU

[@StarlightMagician]

@@m.s2829 I'm glad they at least toned down the Auto aim for her, but I still can't help but be annoyed when I die to it anyway.

[@ryanjohnson781]

Ads aren’t gonna save a game with mediocre graphics, horribly annoying bugs that takes months to fix, and an over reliance on micro-transactions to keep your attention. Paladins is dying.

[@valdranne]

I think people are missing the big picture here, the real problem is every match is a 3v4 because of how many leavers there are, there is basically no punishment for leaving a match and I haven’t seen a notice about somebody I reported being dealt with in YEARS. It sucks having to carry 1-2 bots every game and if the only healer or tank leaves its gg unless the enemy team also has bots

[@SocialExperiment232]

This plus the cheaters. There’s no integrity to the game. If you had a football league that had teams who suddenly lost a player and never replaced him, or has a player using steroids, or one who took the drug from limitless and now can’t miss any shots (kasumi) no one would watch the game cause it wouldn’t be about the skill of the player anymore they basically have a luck based game here where the stakes for winning are dependent on random uncontrollable factors rather than who plays better, That’s what’s happening to paladins. There’s cero competitive integrity in this game which demotivates players who like to compete.

[@Hannah-wd8pu]

THIS! all of this!!!!

[@Ally5141]

@@SocialExperiment232 "e-sports ready!"

[@phatmilkers2074]

Bro I'm a console player and have to admit that i get disconnected from about 3 games outta 20 maybe, so i have to close the game, launch it again and wait forever for the loading screen to load the game... and then we're half in the math already... problem here it fixing these shit-ass problems

[@reapercaster7799]

But if you tell someone they are buttcheeks at the game, you will get banned for at least 2 weeks.

[@D0s3_Gaming]

I quit paladins because of kasumi. I was playing Vora and using every movement tech known to man. I was tracked perfectly and then died to 1k damage through a wall. I quit the game, opened steam, and uninstalled with a face made of stone.

[@jasonmension3979]

I feel you brother, I'm a vora main and spent years mastering her tech to the point her movement is second nature to me and now it's all useless against kasumi. Ive always been able to over come everything. Even koga mains who cleanse half my dmg and lians who hit me out of the air with a single button but not even lian can hold a candle to how badly kasumi fks me up.

[@SocialExperiment232]

@@jasonmension3979agreed. I love hearing all the people that used to hate Lians aim bot now love playing kasumi. It’s so dumb. Mobile characters depend on that human error for their survivability. Now you see everyone playing Tyra and Vivian to try to control the damn ghost bitch. We truly live in a society.

[@jasonmension3979]

@@SocialExperiment232 it's sad because the one thing paladins has that no other game has is it's crazy mobile champs, anyone who's played the game long enough either plays other games like apex and cod or they only play paladins and play vora evie or one of the other super fun mobile champs, I mean look at every major content creator for paladins, they all say the same thing that if vora or evie was removed they would quit so obviously paladins has something special with their crazy flanks, and overwatch cant even make flanks that crazy because their hitboxes are less forgiving so having such crazy mobility in overwatch would be to op but in paladins its fine, so you legit cant get the vora or evie experience anywhere else so the fact they would add a champ that ruins that fir new players is just terrible, like idc how much people tell me I'm just bad at vora because I cant beat kasumi as vora (even tho I would like to see them try vora against kasumi lol) but all that aside, how is someone supposed to learn these champs? Like if I was to try and get someone into paladins I would show them the super fun flanks yet I dont think they could enjoy the flanks now due to kasumi. It's just such a bad idea, like this is worse then ow ignoring genji because at least ow had other things going for it but I legit think the best thing paladins does is its movement, even when I play dredge I run the knockback build on his bombs and use that to move around because in no other game can you pick any champ almost and give them crazy mobility lol even the supports move around like crazy so adding a champ that's purely auto aim inna game like this has to be hands down the dumbest thing you could do, like I get lian to a degree as her auto aim is kinda balanced by her having one of the more harder to hit primaries in the dps class and I only realised this after watching my friend learn to aim better through playing lian because while yea he got easy value but if he wanted to bring any more value he had to get good at landing her normal shots which overtime he actually started to not care about lians auto aim and now the auto AI just kinda helped him which then when he swapped to cassie, he quickly learned her and then became a cassie main. But kasumi just teaches you nothing, like what does someone learn on kasumi? Shes so brain dead that she even makes lian seem like a good champ 😂

[@SocialExperiment232]

@@jasonmension3979 for real!!! I feel like playing kasumi makes a worst player because they get used to relying on the auto aim and they’ll never get any better. Also I’ve played a lot of Lian and I agree with your friend her primary is more difficult than people think and even more so her presence shot which is how you truly get value out of her if you land those. But kasumi makes no sense as a character in a SHOOTER that can’t miss SHOTS. I’ve been saying it was a terrible idea since her kit was announced and everyone told me I was being dramatic yet paladins keeps bleeding players because of her. I’m not sure I’m completely with you on the no mobility characters cause I main echo for damage in ow and her mobility is so op. I’m half way across the map, behind six walls, in a second. I would compare her mobility to Evies since it’s omnidirectional. Also my favorite supports are kiriko and lucio who are super mobile, tho my favorite is Ana ironically lol. Even the tanks you have monkey and Ball and doom who have insane mobility. Anyway sad sad game man they need to just remake it completely. Also advertise if for crying out loud I’ve never heard of a company making a product and then not telling anyone about it. I pay for social media ads for my art and they’re not that expensive I’m sure they could shed some “skin” dollars on that but they refuse. Putting money on divine knockout and the game died in like 3 days. Just a mess of a company I wish someone else would buy the rights to paladins and bring it to its proper glory. For real if I was a billionaire one day one of the first things I’m buying is the rights to paladins.

[@jasonmension3979]

@@SocialExperiment232 yea, someone tried telling me kasumi is a good entry champ but she really isnt because she relies almost entirely on human error which means as a kasumi you could be just completely ass at the game and then start realizing your ass and maybe theyll even question why they're losing games which is typically how most people start learning to get better but then theyll face a team that makes tons if mistakes and get crazy value and be like "oh nvm I was just having a bad game" as they just got lucky and killed some players that made mistakes rather then actually making plays, like if you dont wanna learn mechanical skill to even the most basic degree then go play a moba lol the whole reason paladins is great is that it's a moba style game for people who like first person shooters that take mechanical skill as well as moba like skills. Without the mechanical skill it's just a moba and kasumi is the first hero or champ I've seen that takes no mechanical skill at all besides walking I guess and timing your button with a sound for your mine, which they also just buffed her mines by making her auto lock on the feared target which was the only "skillful" thing I could find in her kit that just like evie you had to be prepared for what you're gonna face after teleporting, but now its bascially auto aim for her auto aim on a feared target that cant fight back which is by far the most frustrating thing I think I've ever faced, it gives hogs hook a run for its money with how little power it gives the victim of that horrendous ability to fight back lol and I didnt say ow has no mobility, I love echo as shes my main on ow but I wouldnt say she has as much mobility as evie or if you are able to achieve as much mobility it's often at the cost of your speed as you start drifting closer to the floor and becoming an easier target while evie is an actual fighter jet and vora with her max movement build with reset cards makes her litterally never touch the ground and on top of that every champ almost has a build that gives them some form of movement, like if you just take the basic movement heros from both games. Genji and maeve it shows the perfect difference in how much mobility is in each game because maeve is like genji but with 10x more mobility, although genji does have wall climbing but compared to maeves mobility I just dont think it compares still because her prowl is like wall climbing on crack 😂 but echos mobility is prob the best and closest to paladin like mobility which is prob why both you and me main her lol but imagine if echo was in paladins, she would have a talent that gave her even more mobility like maybe an extra dash after her dash into flight lol or extra flight time.

[@DrMemeTheTherapist]

Absolutely 0 advertising and not being new player friendly. That's the main issue

[@johnathanstark5076]

I just got gold Evie today, and I can definitely say Kasumi is a massive problem. Completely destroys the flank class, to the point that no matter how good your movement is you’ll always be punished for being close to her. There’s even times where I died behind cover because she managed to activate her tear right as I got behind a wall. I also believe another massive problem is that Hi-Rez ignores the community. I understand not everyone has the best ideas. But if your whole player base has a collective opinion (good and bad) then it should be noticed.

[@valdranne]

Here’s how you fight Kasumi: you cant run, you HAVE to fight. You can walk in a straight line if it helps you aim because it wont change her hitting every shot. If you hit all of your shots 80% of the roster can 1v1 her and win because of how slow her TTK is.

[@johnathanstark5076]

@@valdranne 1800 gets destroyed in 3 attacks and a slash, can’t fight her like that until late game when you stack haven and veteran. Best tip is to play from a distance and then use my ult to trap n kill her when she’s half

[@Chernogorath]

As someone who was a massive Tribes ascend fan, I can let you know that hi-rez does not listen and will kill their game before they do.

[@johnathanstark5076]

@@Chernogorath Every game associated with Hi-Rez has died because of them. Rogue Company, Paladins, Realm Royal, etc. Same format for each game. Make a phenomenal game, build a loyal community and then ignore the game to chase the next product. Love Evil Mojo, it sucks that they have to depend on such a lazy company /:

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

It is dude Kasumi its the reason why people are leaving Paladins FUCKING AUTOAIM its so anoying to know that she is like the 2nd come of the *OB64*

[@sleebysleeqy]

my brother got me into paladins back in July and I fell in love with it, but I wondered "how come I never heard of this game until last year?" and turns out there's barely any advertising for it... I came from a huge ow burnout and paladins felt kinda fresh and fun, or at least it did until it turned out into who has the best kasumi

[@marcejad2599]

Yes, i discovered paladins when a friend told me about he played overwatch. I didnt have a good pc back then, so i decided to search a game similar, and i found Paladins. Is my favorite game since 2019. I hope the players thing get better.

[@machine_m3ssiah]

This. I've always wondered why some games like Rules of Survival which is a PUBG from Wish and Valorant that is a re skinned CSGO are so much popular than Paladins when I honestly think Paladins is a much better game and is also free-to-play.

[@sway_onthetrail]

Wish y'all could have experienced this game back in the day. I played from like 2016 to early 2020 and it was truly a masterpiece game with so much potential. I tried to get back into it a couple days ago and the video nailed exactly how it felt to me; hollow. Giving it like a week of play time to see if I come around and am just maybe being nostalgic but man, the state of the game saddens me. It was thriving 4 years ago.

[@DKingFisher]

I have 6500+ hours in this game and it really pains me to see this game getting closer to its doom every day. It really is painful. This game has huge potential. Has nice gameplay and competitiveness. The biggest issue for me now are the cheaters. I am from SEA server and almost 1/5 match, there will be cheaters. Some gets banned and some never gets banned. It's so frustrating and upsetting to lose against kids using aimbots. The highest priority for hirez would be to put money into developing better anti cheat software and add moderators who can ban cheaters LIVE. The next step would be, taking ideas and opinions from veteran players of the game on how to improve the game. In my opinion: 1. Get rid of cheaters 2. Fix game breaking bugs 3. Fix the servers 4. Champion balance changes 5. Add lore/story and make a manga/short video on them 6. Bring back MVP 7. Bring back kill cam 8. Reward for reaching master or grandmaster 9. Reward for reaching top in global 10. Share skin concept(future skin) to player base (so we don't get absolute abomination skin, Raums skin last patch) 11. Appreciate the content creators 12. Hire/pay big streamers to play this game(obviously after fixing bugs) I am sure Paladins will be a hit game if Hirez can fix the problems I mentioned above.

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

And of course you forget about -DELETE KASUMI from the game And im agree to they need to make more lore but you know.....they are not ActiBlizz or Epic

[@fntatn]

6500...

[@DKingFisher]

@@fntatn Yeah... I really love playing this game.

[@fntatn]

@@DKingFisher I respect a man who can play Paladins this long

[@dirty-deeds-done-dirty-cheap]

the game was really unique back then. i got too addicted to it. stopped and quit cuz of champions like vora and that tiget dude and also removing killcam

[@backstrokesf7560]

no advertisement is a big problem aswell

[@TheRoseBoy11]

I remembered that game being HUGE when the game first got promoted by streamers and got hundreds of thousands of people watching and eventually playing it at the time.

[@TwoEzDragon]

I've been a long-time player since early 2018 when I discovered the game. Stuck with it through the good the bad and the broken. I've always just sort of accepted the bugs and the jank and carried on trying to enjoy the game. But around when Azaan came out I began to just not have fun at all, not to mention the random bugs that would lock you out of the game for a few hours or randomly send you back to lobby in a match. Months of no fixes was really the straw that broke the camels back and I haven't bothered to play since September of 2022. Will always love the game and the champion designs but the gameplay itself just doesn't feel fun anymore, which is unfortunate because I really loved the game and pour so many hours into it.

[@Sami-xx7gc]

The only reason why me and my friend stopped playing this game is because of the balance issues. Playing against andro and Kasumi every game is just not fun. Bugs are bad too but tbh they're the smallest issue for me, at least on console. Evil Mojo just doesn't know how to balance a game, that's what ruined it.

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

Indeed my dude Kasumi must be DELETED from the game or They CHANGE her weapon for something like maeve OR make her a M E L E E champ But im more like They need to *Delete Kasumi*

[@yaboi_othaeron1291]

Kasumi genuinely made me hate the game and I have never quit a game because of a character. She is probably the most unenjoyable character to face

[@BitterAndSour]

One good overhaul and marketing campaign and they can really get Paladins going.

[@lesbianwars]

The playerbase shrunk as soon as they let the real payload mode vanish. (The real payload mode where you just push your payload through the whole map, it was great back in the day; both teams had the chance to push their payload one time).

[@queenlolo1384]

Payload was literally gutted because no one played it. This is the community worrying about dumb things. An actual game mode that was popular was End Times, yet no one ever brought that up.

[@nolanyeager2754]

I wouldn't say Kasumi is my direct reason for quitting Paladins, but she is 100% the thing preventing me from coming back.

[@magythemage]

This aged like milk before the playerbase grew

[@travis7569]

I love Paladins- I think I'll be playing it till it's deleted. But I'd love it even more if Hi-Rez actually cared about making it into a better game. I feel like all they care about is trend-chasing and money-saving. It's really sad too because it feels like Evil Mojo is definitely passionate about the game/trying their best to improve it

[@SenjoHanma]

Same opinion, I will still tryhard in new season just like ive been every time, if i will get ranked bronze with this ranked system, then i just can't continue playing

[@vampiremike6764]

What they need to make is a story mode. we need more story of the characters. and more game modes. and fix the bugs🦗

[@tyv414]

Funny how Paladins sent me a survey on why I haven't played in 3 months. Pve would bring me back instantly.

[@gronkmane]

Make it easier to unlock all characters or bring back the og champion pack (all current and future champs)

[@tougeadventures2076]

The little bits and pieces of story we have right now is so good wish there was more

[@rainofkhandaq6678]

Take handle taking Ls move on. No hand holding. Also, story would be lame. This lore doesn't need an ending.

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

You forget to say That they need to DELETE KASUMI from the game

[@mwapesamala848]

They should make all skins unlimited and put them up for sale. Use those resources to improve the game

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

Indeed they need to As they need to *DELETE KASUMI*

[@Marcxxds]

I stopped playing Paladins because of Kasumi ! Is it because I'm playing Maeve and whenever I use my speed to protect myself, I always get hit and die -_- I hate Kasumi🤬

[@Katevce]

I got an email from Hi-Rez that had a survey asking me why I left. I don't know if it's an automatic thing or if they genuinely want to gather data on why players are leaving the game. I just hope that maybe this game will get it's second wind and get back to at least 10,000 players at some point.

[@shinababes]

It's an automatic thing. They send it after no activity for a set period of time.

[@Katevce]

@@shinababes Ah damn that sucks.

[@ProvenOW]

I'm gonna be honest I've been playing overwatch for 2 years and in the past year I've hated it. Even season 1 of overwatch 2 was garbage. I've been playing paladins a week after season 2 came out for ow2 and I've been having way more fun. To assume that all of the paladins player base is moving to overwatch is just wrong. It's not a good game at all. The balancing can be compared to paladins if not worse because the tank role makes the game unplayable. It's whoever has the best character and that team wins. With paladins I feel like you can just pick whatever and have a fun casual experience as opposed to overwatch. Maybe it's just cause I'm a doom player and that's why I hate the game cause he's garbage lmao. But I've been enjoying Raum in paladins a lot. Everytime overwatch 2 is just disappointing I'll always come back to paladins. This game is so much fun.

[@zsideswapper6718]

Doom isn't garbage anymore tho

[@ProvenOW]

@@zsideswapper6718 well if you haven't being keeping up he got a nerf 9 days after he got buffed at the start of season 2 that made him even worse than season 1 so. It takes awhile to explain but just know he's got a worse punch cool down that screws with his movement and on top of that he's charging powered up punch way less and if you do charge it you're charging a punch that's got an even shorter stun and worse damage than before. The only thing from the buffs that he kept left over was his regular punch stun and his passive overhealth. I honestly think they need to stop fuckin with power block and punch and start buffing slam because being a punch bot is boring af.

[@zsideswapper6718]

@@ProvenOW Ohhh that sucks

[@ProvenOW]

@@zsideswapper6718 yeah but its fun pulling things off even in masters because people just let their guard down

[@starfall9462]

The cauterize change also made the game rly unfun for me and my friends, it feels rly sucky to be a tank or healer in any game that lasts longer than 5 minutes and the flanks and dps characters were quite depending on buying caut before so now they can get their life steal and protection items earlier on which makes them even more annoying to deal with. I Think if they were to keep this caut system it needs to be changed in some way to be more healthy (for example caut based on % of damage dealt so that its not enough to just hit one bullet that deals 100 damage and instantly put the enemy on life support). Kasumi i find rly fun to play and i think her attacks are quite unique but I think the damage and stacks ramp up too quickly, if they want to keep the auto aim they need to tweak the numbers, i think its also not unreasonable to make the stacks deplete and go down if the enemy hasnt been damaged within the last 1-2 seconds as that requires kasumi to constantly look at you and attack only you

[@machine_m3ssiah]

Back in 2016, I worked at an internet cafe as an attendant, and since it's so busy during the daytime, I would only play offline games where I can pause the games. Then a time came where my boss decided to open the shop for 24 hours. On the first few days of the night shift, I finally convinced myself to try an online game (I literally never once tried an online game before, not even League of Legends that is constantly being played in the shop). I looked on the internet, found Paladins and I looooooved it so much. I've told my friend to play it too so we can go to rank together and we did some time soon. 2 years later, a new battle royale game called Rules of Survival was starting to get really popular. My customers aging from 6 to 15 years old plays it everyday. But, some weeks later, I've successfully persuaded them to try Paladins too after I've showed them some gameplay. 3-5 kids started to play it everyday, I even partied with some of them and got the Mad Scientist Pip. Ive actually thought I've made a (small) change both to the kids and to the game. I mean, I've just added 5 people to the playerbase and I was hopeful I can do more, but it was just all over in under 3 weeks. The bugs, the crashes and the most dreadful of them all, the server lag, made them lose interest quickly. They reverted back to either Rules of Survival, League of Legends and Roblox. I seriously think Paladins can be bigger than what it is currently today, and I can't wait for Hirez to make this game better so I can suggest this to people or to my friends again in the future.

[@jasonmension3979]

There was also the fact that the reason even people who owned overwatch like me chose paladins was because the supports all had great movement, the flanks were better and best of all it felt like you could main your champion or hero, and no matter what you faced, you could always over come it on paladins which you could not say the same about ow1, I am an echo main and I hate junkrat lol yet on ow1 i had more hours on junkrat then echo because of how often I had to swap to deal with a mei, torn, sym or bastion but in ow2 I have like 70 hours on echo and the next one is kiriko with 8 hours lol but this is what I used to praise paladins for that I could main vora every game in casual and it felt encouraged even since I cant see what the other teams gonna have in casual so I just picked what I felt most comfortable on every game and that was always vora but now I'm being told to just not play vora because shes countered and that I should play tyra If I wanna get around kasumi, and that the games a counter pick oriented game but it never used to be this bad and I wouldn't even have called it a counter pick oriented game, not to mention kasumi actively ruins the game for flanks and the most fun supports like pip and lilith. And the funny thing is, thats what overwatch2 fixed about itself, They made it so flanks are funner, they made the game less counter pick oriented and even use it as a marketing strategy and while most supports are actually worse, kiriko and lucio are actually better and I would argue feel better then the high mobility supports in paladins since everytime I try and play lilith or pip against a kasumi I cant really move around much which at that point why tf am I playing pip or lilith? That's their whole thing is they're fun to move around as lol So in my opinion kasumi is the last nail in the coffin for this game, as kasumi actively does everything to paladins that overwatch is trying to fix about itself, it's like paladins seen overwatch crawl out of a hole and decided they would jump into that hole with a single addition of a champ lol the games prob dead anyway but I just wish I could enjoy vora till the bitter end at least but sadly I cant.

[@SocialExperiment232]

Literally. They had a chance to up the marketing and get a new player base while overwatch was in a coma and wasted the time and now they’re doing the same errors in character design.

[@starfall9462]

Paladins character design in itself in most cases is much better than ow too, more unique and more diverse kits and they actively try to make characters viable despite their popularity, meanwhile in ow if you dont main cassidy, widow or hanzo tough luck either your character will receive no changes for over a year despite being considered dogshit (symm, torb, old bast) or they will be nerfed to the ground because they are op in one specific meta and nowhere else (genji blade, old double barrier orisa, goats etc)

[@cj550]

.the issue is bad management that thinks they know better than every 1 else even the devs... devs can only do what there told or get fired

[@sedoku5789]

As someone who used to play Paladins and hardcore FPS, and now just play games like BTD6, this is pretty accurate and I can relate.

[@spadeofhearts713]

2 of my friends stopped playing bc of Kasumi. I quit recently bc the nerfs weren’t enough to counteract the fact that she shuts so many champions out of the game completely.

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

Indeed some friends of mine have stop playing it too cuz ...wanna know why? *K A S U M I* *THEY NEED TO DELETE HER FROM THE GAME* or CHANGE her weapon for something like maeve or make her a *MELEE* Champ

[@guizhongs]

I was an every day player until Kasumi. I didn’t play more than a couple weeks with her in the game before I stopped playing. Paladins is still my favorite game, i still defend this game and i want to be able to tell people to try it out because i love it so much. I don’t even like any of the fps competitors as much as paladins. But I’m playing them because Kasumi is such a big problem and also lack up updates. This current season was like the straw that broke the camels back for a ton of ppl i feel. Edit; they should also advertise more. Like, if anything is ever changed with Kasumi I’m sure I wouldn’t even know until a youtuber made a video. The paladins team doesn’t promote anything for the game other than skins. And the skins is a total double “stuck between a rock and a hard place” feeling bc there are people who want to spend $ on the game, but in its current state why spend money on a game that’s on deaths row and could be gone within a year.

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

Yes my dude ... some of my friends that played paladins theynliterally stop playing it because..... *K A S U M I* *THEY NEED TO DELETE HER FROM TJE GAME* or Change her Fucking weapon and make her a *melee* champ or something like maeve

[@mewletter]

Do remember that this game runs on UE3, and a lot of new, current developers learnt UE4 and later. And the spaghetti code in this game is accumulated through cycles of multiple, different developers that the current programming team is having hard time just figuring out, than fixing bugs. And I highly doubt they will rebuild the game from scratch on newer UE.

[@yunjinseyeliner]

As an evie main, as soon as i saw kasumi's auto aim when she was released, I stopped playing paladins, I was not about to be dealing with that lmfaooo

[@xPlatinumGhost]

Stopped playing nearly a year ago and thought about coming back until I saw they added a no skill brainless champ like Kasumi, she makes Lian look legit. No thanks I rather not toss my ps5 into the atlantic ocean.

[@valdranne]

Console? 🤢 yeah you should

[@xPlatinumGhost]

@@valdranne Just say you can’t afford a ps5

[@valdranne]

@@xPlatinumGhost can’t afford? Lmao you could buy 5 ps5’s for the price of my PC

[@xPlatinumGhost]

@@valdranne sounds like cope to me

[@Barusuzin]

Paladins was an amazing game, however with the omissions of Hi Rez/Evil Mojo, the game continued with bugs from years ago, continued with broken matchmaking, and they kept releasing more and more skins until they drowned players with the same old complaints. Hi Rez managed to destroy something that was perfect. And despite having played Overwatch, I still find Paladins much more fun.

[@dabilaroali1037]

I legit stopped playing weekly since Kasumi .....

[@soapandbutter]

I'm sad that Paladins isn't going anywhere, always loved playing it as a beta player. Had a lot of fun moments during it's early development.

[@sway_onthetrail]

Early development was the best. Game started going downhill around the time Furia was released (no issue with Furia, think she's a fine champion, that's just around the time things started getting different.)

[@soapandbutter]

@@sway_onthetrail I remember when the card system wasn't balanced but wasn't exactly broken either, I loved seeing all the wacky builds everyone would come up with.

[@marcejad2599]

I made good friends in this game, I play with them all the time. I don't know what I'm going to do if the game was locked forever, I really hope that doesn't happen.

[@erikrainieri1772]

the problem with modern industries is that most of them are guided by investors who don't know and couldn't care less about making a good product..it's just about profit strategy, not about loving what you do...i'm born in '87, had my first console in '92 and i played ever since. And i've seen gradually growing the number of games with great potential fucking it all for skins or p2w strategies etc etc etc...i know many people thinks "they must have some gain somewhere" and yeah! but i think most of games are just keept as close as possible to the edge between being playable and being a scam for the sake of profit and that just suck. Sucks even more when you see how much companies pays the guys who actually do the job oworking on the game 12huurs a day or even more. It's just a damn rotten world.

[@alehander9473]

I feel as if some are pretty immature. I just got out of a game and i think someone is threatening me privately but im not sure. This community kinda sucks at times and stuff like these would make people want to stop playing

[@SocialExperiment232]

I had a dude once keep sending me threats while I was playing other matches. This went on for an hour even tho I stopped responding. Some people have issues.

[@m.s2829]

@@SocialExperiment232 i am dia5 same 10 ppl all day and funny enough is that 4 out of the 10 are uber toxic.

[@rahulpandey9472]

The game now consists of only try-hards and newbies so this ought to happen as both are pretty frustrated

[@drmarikfox2583]

I’m sure someone has said it already but the skins one is obvious. You said yourself, Hi-Rez doesn’t support them enough so they have to either financially support themselves and/or make Hi/Rez enough money so that they don’t drop Paladins completely like Realm Royale. Probably a similar thing champion releases.

[@tonshaad1230]

Kasumi being nerfed would neither fix these issues of balance nor bring back portions of your player base. Kasumi is not and I repeat NOT the issue but represents an overarching issue -- community oversight (or under sight). Kasumi was created because we, the players, requested someone who would be powerful while at the same time unique diverse, and felt right for the lore. Instead of consistently complaining about her, don't ask for something like her to be added to the game. It's interesting that people complain about her yet find Vora, Azaan, and Caspian "balanced" despite having base kits that just trample over your legacy characters. Hell, even the more recent "newer" champions released since Imani feel bad and neutered when compared to the older ones besides Lilith and Betty la Bomba who both feel like hot garbage.

[@doomslayer_spyrofan3943]

These specific type of videos are what im watching cause it just makes sense

[@hetnaikoza5171]

Paladians was quite fun for me, Even I used to play it whole day but now I just forgot about it because of Valorant and overwatch 2… It was so hard to find a game in paladians…

[@testeroftheworlds9813]

Before Kasumi need nerf to VII and Strix! Kasumi need only new animation for atacks to make find her fast enough.

[@SocialExperiment232]

Imagine you have a football league where if a player gets injured they don’t replace them (bots, afks), there’s some players who knowingly take steroids (cheaters), some have a ball that is designed to chase the net no matter where you throw it (kasumi aimbot), and sometimes the ground may colapse, or the ball might stick to their feet, or their kick doesn’t register and the ball doesn’t move (bugs). No one would take it seriously cause there’s no competitive integrity to this game. The stakes for winning depend on random uncontrollable factors rather than who’s playing better, which demotivates any player with any sense of a competitive nature. No one likes to lose because of something they can’t control. That is what’s happening to paladins. I honestly thought I would never leave and would play the game forever, but everytime I play I end up in pure tilt, and now it’s been months as months since I’ve picked it up. I’ve been having tons of fun in overwatch. I find that the tanks and supports there are stronger and more fun to play and I feel rich playing a game that actually works. Sorry paladins, it’s not me it’s you 😢 no sorry it won’t work, it’s over between us!. I’m sorry sweetie please move on. Stop emailing me asking me how you can change, we are over!!!! *hangs up phone and looks out the window in paranoia

[@QuantumPurple]

The last time I played paladins, was when they made ame an announcer, that was huge for me, because she’s the best!

[@mariannapapikyan4123]

I left Paladins which release of the Io because game felt boring, I unlocked every character, played every character a lot, played all the possible builds and talents, got all my fave skins, played every mode billion times, reached Diamond didn't want to go further, it was enough for me, I did everything I ever could do, I just didn't feel like playing it anymore Now I'm checking how it is doing every now and then and I truly love the game, this was my first game ever that I played seriously and loved, game that left me with a lot of friends I talk with until today, a lot of great emotions and honestly my most loved and nostalgic game ever and it is really sad to see it slowly die like that RIP Paladins, my first ever game, you are forever gonna be in my heart

[@facupov]

I know there are a lot of videos and posts about this, but im glad everybody is spammin this, i hope Hirez finally understands ppl love this game, and they shouldnt let it die

[@proelitjump1355]

You said everything i wanted to say, i cant believe how fustrating it is to see a game you once loved so much die and you cant do anything about it, it really sucks

[@S0UPIE]

great video, only thing is your mic has a lot af sibilance. consider EQing your mic a bit to remove some high end; you should also consider getting a wind screen/pop filter. keep up the content!

[@Born2beSlicker]

The reason why we think there are more people working on skins than bugs is because skins are faster to make and more obvious to see as players. Skins and cosmetics is also how they make money. Between chests, event passes, new characters and digital bundles - to consistently ship stuff so it can generate revenue, you need people to constantly be producing stuff for the content pipeline. Bugs and engine improvements take longer to implement and because it’s a small team some of those people also need to work on UX functionality, character functions and making sure new stuff can get into the game. So that slows things down. However, the highest number of players and spending is when a new character drops with a new season update. So they need to keep producing them, which slows down bug fixes even more. It does actually make sense in a twisted way and it’s no mystery.

[@strawb3rrymilky]

I just miss the feeling of playing paladins in 2018

[@Garnet2567-b7l]

I just played Paladins yesterday, i really didnt thought that they're more toxic players than the other games i play.

[@E.D.C.IGames]

I used to play this game back in 2017 or 2016 I don't remember when it was released, it was kind cool back in the day and it was a free option different from Overwatch

[@thatonegirl1007]

I agree with you said in the video, paladins isn’t the same anymore. I used to play paladins alongside overwatch but started to stop playing both due to staleness. I’ve played paladins a few times since then for fun with friends and it’s sad to see how it’s turned out. I don’t think hirez will do much since their main game is smite which gets more money due to all the skins and collaborations, as well as more players and has a more active competitive scene. I wish they would do more for paladins as it had potential. On top of ow2 being out even though ow2 isn’t that good, it still has the competitive system that gives you something to work towards. If paladins was as good as it used to be I’d probably still play it as much as I used to back then. Ow2 is just less back which is why I play it and if it didn’t have competitive I wouldn’t play it at all. I wish paladins didn’t have to fall like this.

[@calledtim_]

I just started playing paladins again 2 days ago and I picked kasumi cuz she's new and I didn't know her. I really like her not because of the auto-aim, but because of her tp and her disappear which can be used to outplay the enemies so hard. got 5 or 6 clips within 2 days of playing her. But now as I've seen all the videos about kasumi I don't even know anymore if I should still keep play her. might just go back playing imani or vora, they both are fun to play

[@DabbeliuJR]

I think they‘re focusing more ob skin because hirez wants them to, I think Hirez wants to slowly kill it and still get some money with the banger skins that are released

[@jachymchaloupka1022]

I just like paladins, I used to play it when I was like 12 yo. and now one year ago, I came back to the game and even my friends started playing it with me, I enjoy it even more than before, maybe because I have some skill at the game and I can teach my friends a littlebit, who knows when I will stop playing it, but rn its my favorite game.

[@AndrewC79]

Couldn't have said it better, "why are there more people working on skins than actually fixing the game?" I can't even play my main Rei anymore because of the incompetence of this game. Ik Evil Mojo is trying and they don't get the resources they need but we need to blame SOMEONE for the state this game is in. I've never seen a game this badly mistreated before. Paladins had SUCH great potential to be a decent game, I'm so disappointed with what this game has come to. They need to nerf nerf nerf Kasumi and stop making characters now, it's definitely hurt the game. For those who don't know, Rei got absolutely ruined this recent patch, her healing is bugged af up to the point where she's just unplayable, give her a few bot games and you'll see just how much this game and some characters are neglected. Idek if they'll fix her, even if they do next patch that's 3 months that Rei players had to wait to play the damn character properly again. It's the goddamn bugs and the matchmaking imo that kills Paladins, the matchmaking can be so garbage. (I was going to say more but it would be too much to read 😂)

[@villagerc7130]

I don't play Paladins at all, but everyone in the comments saying that they stopped playing because of a character called Kasumi reminds me exactly of what happened to Overwatch when Brigitte came out.

[@Illandarr]

What made me quit Paladins was a combination of 2 things ; caut going from 90% to 75% and getting plat rewards and being put in silver the season after despite reaching masters

[@Hannah-wd8pu]

The biggest problem is the toxic player base and the quitters, especially in Ranked. They join and throw the match on purpose for any number of reasons. Didn't pick the character they wanted you to play, you lost the first point, they are just jerkoffs. It's infuriating waiting 15 mins to get into a ranked match to have one ass quit immediately. You can't win at that point but what option do you have but to suffer through the match. There is no forfeit button or punishment for those who throw games on purpose. None. I shouldn't keep getting paired with people I report for being toxic quitters, or terrible players. I see the SAME names each night, of toxic players that spam racist shit in chat and throw matches. So I either take a deserter or play a game I know they are going to quit. OF course, player bases are dying due to this.

[@Marvelous_Jared]

If Paladins had the polish Overwatch used to have, it would be the superior product. Playing as Support actually feels like you have more of an impact in this game.

[@radicalcentrist4990]

Well I admit that the only reason I used to play this years ago was because it was basically free to play Overwatch. But I didn't stay with it for long because it was so unpolished and apparently still is.

[@lukajovicic2530]

i really miss a gae mode they added like years ago for a limited time where you needed to score a goal with a big ball, remember making full MS Maeve and winning that like crazy, really miss that gold days.

[@RichieRage]

RIP paladins... you'll be a good memory

[@ryldy787gekerz9]

00:10 its me 6 years ago good old days :(

[@whatevername6553]

me and my duo stopped playing because of how big they made ranked decay, the same thing is happening in overwatch right now and I just can't be bothered to grind my way up back to diamond/master with low elo players mixed into my lobby, not that I care how good they are but it's mainly their attitudes. It's done to force your players to play more and it actually does the opposite and makes people care less because they're a certain rank/elo but the game intentionally lowers your rank to make you get it back despite being in the same lobbies and with the same players from the season before, I just don't have time for that horseshit. people in Paladins and OW been emboldened to not care and troll more since they know their rank is BS. I stopped playing around the time atlas came out so it was sitting around 20K concurrent daily players.

[@christopher1932-w4k]

Personally i played paladins in the beta and bought the founders pack and put my time into it. I was there when the game came out for real but honestly the thing that made me quit was the skins and the way they added characters without personality that where hard to understand without reading into what they do. I stopped playing the game and moved to overwatch during GOATS and double shield and had more fun there. The characters that paladins started with are amazing and easy to understand and i wish i could get back the game they had in the beta.

[@opauloantonio]

haha I can't believe you mentioned Spellbreak, I spent the entire year of 2021 just playing it and started playing Paladins only at the beginning of the last year when most people completely stopped playing Spellbreak. I'm kinda sad because it seems Paladins is also slowly dying and it looks like I discovered it too late but I'm still having a lot of fun with it and hope for the best. This weekend is the last days of Spellbreak so I jumped back into the game and played a bit with some other returning players, everybody saying their goodbyes, it looks like there will be community servers so it is probably not really the end for it, still, it's sad that great games like these can't reach their full potential because of bad management decisions but it is what it is...

[@LylinBloom]

It's sad really. I play both Paladins and Overwatch (2) but I actually like Paladins more. Yes Ow2 is more polished ofc but I find the characters in Paladins more fun and you can do good damage even as a healer and I like playing supports. Problem is, I rarely play Multiplayer games alone, but mostly with a friend for socializing and he likes Ow2 way more and since I like both it ends up being Ow2 most of the time... What I don't like about Paladins is, beside the bugs, the Battlepass system. I actually liked the old one better (don't remember when it was, but around the time they had the magical girl themed one with skins for Seris, Io, Inara & Imani).

[@marshmallow5672]

Man I miss plotg, takes me back

[@cedricaguilar4501]

My experience as a Paladins player (ex-player right now): Join a game, one player instapicks flank or damage, all roles get picked except for tank. Leveled up all tanks to lv 50 or more, Kasumi farms tanks like a mf. Playing feels like a job instead of being fun. What I suggest for fix the game? Honestly make Paladins 2, new engine from scratch withtout major bugs, new modes. One thing I really prefer from OW2 is the ability to change character on the fly, in Paladins I feel I'm stuck and if the matchup is bad the game becomes a chore. If they can't make it so you can change characters, give the possibility to refound credits and pick a different talent any time you want during the match.

[@serviper3908]

Lol completely unrelated to this video but i started playing just after this video came out so yall got at least 1 more😂

[@lovemoneyrocknroll1new519]

That car example was spot on. Paladins is like China, where everything looks beautiful from outside but inside it's just plastic 😂

[@skalforce]

BlackLight Retribuition : Hey ! Are you gonna join me ?

[@timolechicguy]

If they don't want to change Kasumi they can at least nerf savage tear so it won't hit you behind a cover. The skill will still be activated and will be in cooldown but it won't hit the target if he is hidding behind something. This will make it easier to bait her and will give you like 6s or more to approach her without getting bursted with 0 aim. Kasumi without savage tear can't burst fast even with her 5 stacks it takes like 7 shots to actually kill 2000hp enemies, so yh just nerf savage tear and she will be easier to handle. They could also nerf the card where savage tear deals 10% more damage maybe rework it? or nerf it to 2% if you put 5 points. idc tbh I dont even play paladins that much anymore im just saying it for the ppl who still play this nearly dead game

[@sebastiancristaldo6868]

They have 2 OPTIONS 1 Change her fucking weapon or make her a melee champ 2 *DELETE HER FROM THE GAME* [Recomended]

[@horizonblack8351]

Still, lacking of staff makes things worse for them. Not being able to balance champs out, not able to bug fixing, making more gameplay mode

[@Punk_04]

I used to play paladins somewhat consistently in like 2017/2018, the biggest reason I prefer Overwatch to paladins is the pacing, Paladins feel so much more slow and boring compared to Overwatch idk if it's the opponents I'm against or my skill level but I've just experienced much more intense and exciting matches and fights on Overwatch.

[@TheDanielCityHeroes]

I was a Paladins player for a good while. I mostly played Drogoz, Talus, Makoa, and Grohk (some of the others too, but those are my core four). I fell off before any problem characters rolled in, so I know nothing about Kasumi, but judging from your comments, she sounds like the Brigitte of Paladins. The closest thing I have to a reason to why I stopped playing is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, just other games like that getting in the way. That said, here's my two cents on this. Fixing glitches and handling broken characters would really help, but what I think would help more is more variety (maps, gameplay modes, single player content) and more so, more marketing for this game. The most marketing I've seen for Paladins is a bunch of videos from years ago calling it an Overwatch rip-off, which is actually how I even found out about Paladins. The devs need to get their titles in front of people more. You could make one of the best video games in history, but if no one knows it exists, no one's gonna play it.

[@phatmilkers2074]

I think the biggest issue is the costant release of new champions: being so lany in so little time, they don't even have the tile to balance them all accordingly. Also, as a console player, I think the maps should be polished more because it's such a pain to get stuck and stopped in all the corners... Another thing: BRING PAYLOAD BACK!!!

[@lucas-9840]

Its actually been growing recently

[@g4bri3lyr89]

17k on steam

[@titasuzemeckas6585]

Due to bots yea

[@gfsrgyfygu]

I main reason I stopped playing paladins was simply because of character bans they take to long and there is many occasions were I spend like 8 minutes on character bans just for the last person to leave and the time is wasted

[@uzzy1364]

Paladins kits just feel better to play with, and the cards give you so much freedom to tailor your experience. But with all the moment nerfs and awful maps, I just don't want to go back into it anymore

[@ricardoferreira1539]

ive played the game for the first time 4 years ago with a pc with 3gb of ram, an intel pentium with integrated grafics and even tho it was laggy and full of visual bugs, i loved it. watching my play of the game, playing viktor on third person mode like im playing gta was the best time in my life. but now the game is full of bugs, i have a ryzen 5 4600H, 32gb of ram and an rtx 2060 and im lagging more than i used to when i had my 12 YEAR OLD PC. im playing overwatch 2 alot and its been quite fun, but i still want paladins to be playable again, if they fix the servers, the bugs, and bring back old stuff or new stuff, the game is fixed

[@vstarlight__]

Honestly with a budget they could do so much, there's literally one person working on maps. But Hi-rez is known to leave their games if they did not meet their expectations such as what happened with Rogue

[@zeeb2190]

and yet they wasted resources reviving realm?

[@Loreliness]

The reason why playerbase never grows is because of Hi-Rez being a main problem. Removing play of the game, not having esport league anymore just to name two of many other things. Played since Closed Beta through all the mud the company has drag us through, good and bad ones. I planned on going pro and was ready to scrim, but the very same year they announced that esport won't be taking place anymore. This game still has an absurd amount of potential of being one of the best ones, casually & competitive-wise, but only if another, more serious game company buys the game and put in work, love and appreciation. I don't play it anymore, occasionally log in every once in a while to see what's new. Still one of my favorite games ever.

[@WuffieGG]

This whole video can be summoned up in one sentence: They made sure the game would slowly die in 2020 when they announced they wouldn't continue the esports that EVIDENTLY made the playerbase stabilize and at times grow.

[@Tobmoh1]

I mean, the biggest issue with Paladins was them basically having little to no profit for a couple of seasons. Giving away BPs for free and that basically being the ONLY content getting made for the game, could not have been good. On another note. The art team will ALWAYS tend to be bigger, just because it usually takes more people to get all of these things together. Animation, Concept Art, 3D etc etc. Even if HiRez decided to actually dedicate resources to Paladins (getting more programmers) it would take a while before we as players would notice the effect of it. Just because youre a programmer, youd still need to get to know their coding, how it works etc before you can start troubleshooting. THIS was one of the main issues on the DEV side, as the team was constantly getting shifted, but also early Paladins rushed through things which is why PotG was so poorly coded and implemented.

[@TehHuskeydood]

No, the big reason is Hi rez does a gameplay overhaul that no one asked for that completely kills the game for everyone involved. Only to go back on it years later. :) That and shitty management. More people work on skins because if the game is dying they can squeeze out as much money as they can get via skins. Smite had a very strong low point but new skins and cross overs help keep that game a float for the dev team to have more resources to fix their game. But this is normally why this happens in games. To get as much money as possible before it dies

[@rgmoses2189]

Also adding onto bugs as a long time player who's been with them since January of 2017 Iwould like to see less work on new champions and more work towards new maps and game modes as I don't face bugs as often as most people make it out to be but most of the time I find myself jumping over to overwatch to play games like total mayhem with drastically reduced cooldowbs and extra health or death match which puts 8 heroes in a special map and the winner is whoever gets to 8 kills first I'm pretty sure and it really helped me get good at doomfist and "Casidy" but I jumped back after they fucked with my mains just to find paladins is just as stale with 50 new champions I still have at level 2 and below

[@Groszkov]

I have dropped this game like maybe 2 years ago so my experience is a bit outdated but about this "Kasumi problem" I would like to notice that kinda every new character in this game is a bit broken at the launch. Like for examole Dredge or this dragon lady, I remember that they were a very easy characters to play and both of them would kill an entire team in few seconds. Also, the playerbase (or matchmaking more accurately) - it might be controversial opinion but back in days there was a huge problem with choosing players to play. Every time I wanted to play a match there was at least one Skye main at level 300 who was just following me or someone else and steals every freaking kill. Although getting frags in games isn't that important but well, it was just annoying

[@D_raticate_X]

As og paladins player who use to play professional on this game am just glad I left sooner then the state of it now thay make good game but always mess it up in the end

[@_dense]

they don't care about fixing the game they know it's dying, the one guy who's job it is too fix bugs can't do anything and they keep making skins because that's how they make money.

[@quingaming8084]

I quitted paladins when azzan came out. I would love to come back to it but, with Kasumi and all the bugs that are still present I don't think I really want to now.

[@nicholaspeterurgero1675]

this might be my favorite multiplayer game. i dislike overwatch because using a controller feels much worse than when i play paladins. it feels so much better on paladins. i also like the voice lines for the characters so i communicate practical commands and be strategic without a microphone. i love the card system, learning more about a character, their strengths and weaknesses in certain situations, and create different loadouts. BUCK, KOGA, TYRA, JENOS. so many great characters. you can also see MIDGAME your abilities and the controls for each, just by holding a button or key. so you can get your bearings and a reminder on what a character is capable of

[@lovemoneyrocknroll1new519]

Paladins bad

[@fellownigerianhere6378]

I think another part of the reason it's not increasing in playerbase like u said is the lack of game modes. The gamemodes in which everyone can play as the same character etc should not be limited time modes. Make them permanent or make new permanent game modes while it wont make the game amazing it will keep things a bit more fresh apart from our basic siege etc

[@trippy_maskow]

i used to play, very often tbh. but stopped after the server issues became a massive problem to me. I live in the uk and use Europe servers. I tried others but none helped. Eventually I stopped because I just couldn’t have fun if it was so laggy that i couldnt even move properly. I have good wifi so I didnt and still dont know what the problem is.