Part of Tarisland’s big shiny launch of Blight Dragon Elegy was the MMORPG’s arrival to the Steam store, so that means it’s time for us to take a peek to see how things are going and — Oh no. Oh dear.
Yes, the PC-and-mobile MMO appears to have been embraced by Steam users with all of the warmth and welcome of a fart in a closed elevator: SteamDB shows an all-time peak of 213 players with just barely over 100 playing the game on the platform right now, and user reviews have bashed the game into the “mostly negative” aggregate, citing bland gameplay, problems with bots and balance, “awful” battle mechanics, and the feeling of being a direct mobile port.
“My fault for wanting China’s ‘we got WoW at home,'” lamented one such negative review. “Despite its outstanding art style, atmosphere and character designs – it boils down to a mobile game ported to PC.”
Of course there are the usual asterisks to bear in mind with this data, like Steam not being the primary way most players have accessed the PC version (that’s being mostly done through the MMO’s standalone launcher, which has been available since this past summer’s launch) and the fact that mobile gaming is big business no matter how PC players feel. Still, it’s not an auspicious start for this one on the platform that’s primarily meant to reach PC gamers almost exclusively.
