Well, I have enjoyed Brink and it was fun as hell, but today I told myself there is life, if not other games beyond Brink. I stayed up 2 hours waiting for a game tonight, and as much as all of you will argue with me, no one showed up the whole time whilst I tried to do campaign. I know that the DLC is free but with my current income, I cannot afford to keep games, I have to trade in games to get games, and even though it pained me very deeply, I took my Brink in today for store credit. I was so frustrated when I turned it in, not because I only got a little money for it, but because I turned in a game that I knew would never be finished. I knew this game had so much going for it, and I know most of you will keep playing and good for you. All I wanted was to keep this game alive, but lets be serious it will not. Don't hate me forum, i love you all and I love Brink and i will get it again when I have the money, but for now I will spend my time playing other games and trying to get over it.

Dont blame you. If you are financially struggling, consider an alternative to buying games---> rent them. i swear gamefly has saved me hundreds of dollars. specially it has saved me from buying what are some of the crappiest games out there.

That is a problem too, I looked into Gamefly and that it still something i can not purchase. My gaming experience is few and between games, I have a very limited game library. I maybe own five or six games, and this was one game I saved up to buy. I did not regret my decision, my theory of buying games was wait a couple of months and checks reviews and game player response, the only other game I have done that with was Bioshock 2.

Hey to each their own, and I don't blame you for trading it for another game, especially if you are strapped for cash right now. Just know that if you ever do have the free money to pick it up again, die-hard fans like me will still be playing still I'm sure. It's unfortunate that you couldn't connect with other users, but just earlier today I was in a few 8v8 human standard matches earlier on the 360, so there are still some people currently continuing to play in online matches.

Anyways, I hope all your other games treat you well OP, it's never fun to see another player leave the game's community, but it it happens. :cryvaultboy:

It is not just online games, it is campaign. Where is everyone?

I think most of the fan-base that plays Brink fairly often does so on the free play objective/stopwatch modes. I have to agree though, finding games for campaign with other real players can be a bit hard at times.

Yeah no doubt!!!

I think my biggest error was playing games with people before I finished my campaigns.

You're 100% right. Even these forums are kinda dead, doesn't bode well for the game. I joined a clan to increase longevity, and it's working, I'm playing a few hours a night and a good 8v8 game is still one of the finest online experiences i've ever had, despite the myriad problems this game has. I'm approaching level 20 again now though, and I struggle to see purpose in it. I waited so long, I wanted to love it, I DO love it, but when I'm trying to find a game for half an hour, then a 'Migrating Session' prompt appears and throws us all into seperate yet identical games, the problem starts again. I'll keep Brink, and I'll play as long as I can find a good game. But when the matchmaking system is so poor, even clan players have trouble getting a game together, what do you expect us to do?

Bethesda, Splash Damage, I love your game. Please make a sequel, and please fix all of these problems. This game won't last much longer, let's hope it spawns a successor.

Ok... let me give you guys a quick story here... there was an xbla title that to me was awesome... reminded me a lot of computer fps with its twitchy controls and its high lethality ... a lot of people hated it for those reasons so the community dwindled... eventually the only plalist/gametype you could find games in was TDM... and there are still a handful (around 1k) of players who play it...

Now... why do I bring this up you may ask?... the same thing seems to be happening with brink... except there is no true common denominator to tie all the players together... since all playlists are essentially the same thing the community is split between them... for the brink community to come together and survive we will have to pick one gametype to play... much like tdm on the game I talked about brought that community together... but what will it be? Standard, advanced, comp, or old skool... and after that will it be stopwatch or objective... this is the true question and the answer, as long as its widely accepted, will insure the survival of this community...

Personally I think a bunch of brink's clans leaders should get together and form a makeshift council of sorts to try to figure things out like this... but that's just me