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12/3/2022 7:15:05 PM
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If they had numbers showing the player population was so low, would you have been prepared to accept being out voted by people that are like “sure, remove Rumble”?
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Just because it had a low player count doesn’t mean that players would have voted for it to be removed. I think that a majority of players would agree that a free for all mode should always be a mode option.
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Maybe they’re trying to invoke the “McRib effect”, and increase the player population when it’s around by making it more rare. It would be dumb if it really is about just having less options and icons cluttering the UI. Because it offers a very different style of PvP that isn’t shared by any other playlist. I don’t care about it, but I know others like it. Just like I enjoy Gambit from time to time and other players can’t stand it and don’t play it.
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The thing about the rumble playlist is that it never had the issues that the larger ones did. Minimal match making time and more reliable network connections (at least for me) were normal. If there were any negative effects from a smaller player count then I didn’t see them. I think the real reason they are making it a rotator is so that if the new comp changes fail then there won’t be another place to play except for 6s. Take away the “safe place” for PvP mains and they got to go somewhere. Bungie would want the numbers to show that “More players have logged on for the new comp updates then ever before blah blah blah”, and with the playlists consolidated there would be fewer alternatives to leach numbers. A bit of a cynical take, sure, and possibly wrong with the fact that rumble’s player count is normally small, but if Bungie has shown us anything it’s that they care about the numbers.
