Far Far West : why are the daily player counts SO LOW, why did you stop playing or what would you change to make the game more fun
I find it crazy that Far Cry 4 (i used to play a ton) that came out in 2014 has more players on the daily count than Far Far West, which to me is a whole lot more fun and I have played since April 2026.
The reasons are unknown as you cannot ask players that stopped playing the game but my theory is that 1) the beginning of the game is a blast with very few negatives and it gets steller reviews still to this day shown as videos on Utube. But as we progress to Hard difficulty and Very Hard or Nightmare, it becomes not as much fun. I get that NM should be a challenge and my take is that IF your character and weapons are prestiged to level 5 and you have 50+ hours in the game, you should be able to work as a coop squad of 4 and complete 90% of your NM missions, as this last 10% shows there is room for improvement. Doing NM SOLO is a whole nother thing, my completion rate is about 3% and failure rate is 97% so the pressure SOLO is way to much. Then there is the flawed programming where some NM games are relatively easy and others are a total insane amount of pressure. In addition there are things I absolutely hate and are NO FUN at all. 1) the elite prowler teleporting side to side when hit with 1 bullet is unacceptable and the fact he teleports TO ME, even when I have a high ability to bunny hop away from him instead of when they first introduced him (june 6th update) he didn't teleport to me is unacceptable. 2) Evil Raptor had a ton of complaints about the snipers being more than 1 in the air and targeting you at the same time, so they removed that, but after Frost update they added it back in so I have video of 8 snipers following me at the same time, this is un-acceptable. 3) then there is the Kamakazi spam, I have seen 50 comming at the main objective at the same time, no one will survive 50 Kamkazis. 4) I had a Nuke enter the Sigil I was playing (hard to notice with all the action) blows up and ends my Solo NM run and they enter the Extract all the time, they should never be able to get closer than 100 meters from extract or enter a Sigil. Playing on Easy/Normal/Hard is not challenging for a NM ready player but VH and NM can be way to crazy. IMHO the programming should have a limit on how many Litches spawn near any player (say 2) and how many elites spawn during a storm (how about 1 at a time with a delay between spawns). Too much "pressure". Healing bottles should not be allowed to be dropped after I pick 1 up, and better yet, I should get 3 healing syringes instead that dont require me to stop while bunnyhopping and carefully get a pick up, its way to time consuming and dangerous to get a heal.
BUT enough about me, WHAT ABOUT YOU? why do you think there are only 1K players currently. Did people get bored from too much repetive tasks? It seems to me that to complete this game and level up at least 2 loadouts to prestige and open every map (doing all the side quests) it takes about 60 hrs, so if the million people that purchased this game played that long there would be a ton more players. SO I dont believe its boredom. It really is about how much fun you are having or not. What to you is fun and what is not?