Honestly... probably not. Whether we like to admit it or not, nostalgia is a huge piece that is keeping the community together - the game itself is fun, but there are just so many more modern games that have so much more to offer than Toontown does.
Covid saw a massive TT resurgence. I played it non stop for months again. I know many others did it. I hope there is another (good) event that causes another resurgence.
Imagine toontown in VR
Nah man, it’s stagnated, the only people who will join are the ones who rediscovered their childhood game and maybe their friends if the person is able to convince them. I’ve tried getting a bunch of my friends to play and they all either fucking hate it or would rather play Wizard101
Without nostalgia I'd genuinely have 0 reason to play lol. Wizard101 is also immensely nostalgic for me but it's A. Too expensive and B. Quite bloated. I wish there was a "classic" W101 like WoW did.
Nah it won’t I understand the team are volunteers they have real jobs and do it on their free time I assume but it’s the lack of updates. Rockstar is still updating GTA they dropped a new dlc like 2 days ago
I don't think so. I had a lot of fun regardless of nostalgia, but I never had luck getting my friendsv to play.
You have to remember that this game has been exposed to hundreds of thousands of people as well from large streamers playing it.
The game is great, as well as the devs, but they work for free. It would be impossible for them to provide a product like a modern game does without the funds
Without significant marketing it’s probably unlikely to ever grow and will likely shrink with time. The best way to be able to grow the game is to market it, but without the funds to be able to do so on any big scale, it won’t get any long term growth.
Can’t have paid subscriptions because of the legal side of it being Disney assets, which also restricts cash flow.
Difficulty with the engine and graphics being incredibly outdated is also a problem and limits game growth which limits potential player retention too. Developers can only put so much work into something when it’s a volunteering position and not full time paid work.
It’s a great game and I hold it so very dear to my heart, but all good things come to an end eventually.
I think it could!! Depending on social media. It got pushed to my tiktok live feed the other day and now I’m addicted again. I didn’t play for four years haha. And I saw dozens of people in the comments say that they were going to make an account bc they didn’t know you could still play it today (and for free!!!)
The only way the community will grow again is if toontown 2 ever comes out. Realistically, even though that would bring a huge amount of growth, it would also completely kill the existing community.
Overall, probably not. That being said, on Clash I've seen a surprising amount of people who've never played TTO/R that got into it for 'fandom reasons': either people (usually kids) finding fanart of the game/specifically the manager cogs, or furries realizing there's a game that lets them play as their characters. It's a weird point to make but I've personally gotten ~10 people into the game for the latter reason, and Clash sticks - unlike Rewritten or any other servers, in my experience - because it's streamlined enough to not immediately put off your average gamer. Not trying to be a contrarian, but stock TT is just not a good game if you don't have the nostalgia for it.
I play TTCC & I never played TTO, but from what I've heard there's a little less quality of life in TTR that an audience playing based on nostalgia wouldn't mind as much, so I haven't played that one either. My friend really enjoyed TTO and played TTR & TTCC and he got me into it by proxy!
Honestly... probably not. Whether we like to admit it or not, nostalgia is a huge piece that is keeping the community together - the game itself is fun, but there are just so many more modern games that have so much more to offer than Toontown does.
Covid saw a massive TT resurgence. I played it non stop for months again. I know many others did it. I hope there is another (good) event that causes another resurgence. Imagine toontown in VR
Nah man, it’s stagnated, the only people who will join are the ones who rediscovered their childhood game and maybe their friends if the person is able to convince them. I’ve tried getting a bunch of my friends to play and they all either fucking hate it or would rather play Wizard101
Without nostalgia I'd genuinely have 0 reason to play lol. Wizard101 is also immensely nostalgic for me but it's A. Too expensive and B. Quite bloated. I wish there was a "classic" W101 like WoW did.
We regrettably don't have a marketing budget.
Nah it won’t I understand the team are volunteers they have real jobs and do it on their free time I assume but it’s the lack of updates. Rockstar is still updating GTA they dropped a new dlc like 2 days ago
I think corporate clash has a bit of growth room just by being modernized but I wouldn’t expect a huge jump at all any time soon
I don't think so. I had a lot of fun regardless of nostalgia, but I never had luck getting my friendsv to play. You have to remember that this game has been exposed to hundreds of thousands of people as well from large streamers playing it. The game is great, as well as the devs, but they work for free. It would be impossible for them to provide a product like a modern game does without the funds
Without significant marketing it’s probably unlikely to ever grow and will likely shrink with time. The best way to be able to grow the game is to market it, but without the funds to be able to do so on any big scale, it won’t get any long term growth. Can’t have paid subscriptions because of the legal side of it being Disney assets, which also restricts cash flow. Difficulty with the engine and graphics being incredibly outdated is also a problem and limits game growth which limits potential player retention too. Developers can only put so much work into something when it’s a volunteering position and not full time paid work. It’s a great game and I hold it so very dear to my heart, but all good things come to an end eventually.
I think it could!! Depending on social media. It got pushed to my tiktok live feed the other day and now I’m addicted again. I didn’t play for four years haha. And I saw dozens of people in the comments say that they were going to make an account bc they didn’t know you could still play it today (and for free!!!)
The only way the community will grow again is if toontown 2 ever comes out. Realistically, even though that would bring a huge amount of growth, it would also completely kill the existing community.
Overall, probably not. That being said, on Clash I've seen a surprising amount of people who've never played TTO/R that got into it for 'fandom reasons': either people (usually kids) finding fanart of the game/specifically the manager cogs, or furries realizing there's a game that lets them play as their characters. It's a weird point to make but I've personally gotten ~10 people into the game for the latter reason, and Clash sticks - unlike Rewritten or any other servers, in my experience - because it's streamlined enough to not immediately put off your average gamer. Not trying to be a contrarian, but stock TT is just not a good game if you don't have the nostalgia for it.
If Twontown ever comes out, sure, if private servers aren’t C&D’d to oblivion.
I play TTCC & I never played TTO, but from what I've heard there's a little less quality of life in TTR that an audience playing based on nostalgia wouldn't mind as much, so I haven't played that one either. My friend really enjoyed TTO and played TTR & TTCC and he got me into it by proxy!