World War Z passes 1 million copies sold in a week

From VentureBeat: "Zombie games can still bring in big sales, as publisher Focus Home Interactive and developer Saber Interactive announced today that their co-op shooter World War Z has passed more than 1 million copies sold since its April 16 launch on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It accomplished this despite not being on Steam — it’s an Epic Games Store exclusive for PC. This is a fantastic showing for Saber, the New Jersey-based studio that put out Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn and NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 last year."

[ArchangelMike]

That's really good to hear - especially that it's EPIC store excusive on PC. I guess people love zombie games afterall.. I thought everyone had zombie fatigue... go figure. I guess we'll see if the fatigue surfaces again when Days Gone releases on Friday!

[KlassicKent]

I think one thing that helped them is having different zombie mechanics. They are fast and can climb each-other/make towers. Fun fact, the devs offered to do a multiplayer mode for Days Gone.

[MajorLazer]

There was fatigue before but when was the last good zombie game? Been a while so it feels fresh again. There was a time where zombies were very oversaturated

[DrumBeat]

People's penchant for getting together and shooting hordes of enemy AI hasn't waned much over the years. The way I see it, zombies themselves were never the problem. People still enjoy zombies.

I don't think there was ever traditional zombie fatigue (maybe a little) but I 'do' think people are tired of the Nazi/Zombie collaboration not just in gaming, but in culture period. 'Undead Nazis' are under the Zombie genre umbrella now, and between Call of Duty and other works of 'undead Nazi' or 'Nazi/Zombie fiction', we've definitely reached an overload point - at least I have. I really think Call of Duty played a huge role in wearing us all out.

That aside, World War Z looks good from what I've seen so far. They possibly drew a little inspiration from The Division, which isn't bad, and the way these zombies behave and 'pile on' to get to you is impressive.

I thought I was over these types of games but I might actually give this a shot.

[eddvdm]

"That's really good to hear - especially that it's EPIC store excusive on PC"

Care to explain? You actually think it's good that a game is store-exclusive?

[ArchangelMike]

Stop being disengenous. What is the context of the article? How many units the game sold.

Despite not being on Steam, it sold very well, presumably it would have sold more if it was also on steam.

Also you completely missed the point that I am making that despite claims of "zombie fatigue" the game is doing well.

[sander9702]

I'm a huge fan of the World War Z universe so this is great news, I really hope Days Gone will sell great as well because I would love to see a Days Gone 2 with next gen hardware and let's be honest, Days Gone is basically based of World War Z but with "freakers".

[Donnie81]

It’s really fun! Simple and could use more content but definitely worth 40$

[4kgk76]

If wwz sold well days gone should sell even better.

[OnlyThoseOnTheFence]

I LOVE Left 4 Dead but this is a much more complete game. Actual classes, heavy weapons, skill trees, weapon mods, characters with actual backgrounds/stories...I replayed L4D and L4D2 countless times but this game actually gives you reasons to replay and plenty of things to unlock.

[chris235]

now this is strange news. i thought the umpteenth 0815 onlineshooter wouldn‘t be that successful.

[slavish0]

But but but no steam = fail 😂

[ReesesPuffs]

You do realize these sales account for PC, Xbox, and PS4 right? We have no idea how this would have done if Epic hadn't scooped it up.

[slavish0]

You do realize none if these boycotts have worked, right? People need to be asking steam why they aren't competitive for devs against epic😱

[jeki]

You never know, Steam users may have review-bombed it if someone said one of the devs was following an SJW on Twitter.

[jeki]

But, but, the Epic Store has no features like a toxic forum and I don't want another launcher, waaaaaa waaaaaa. The free market stinks, waaaaa waaaaa.

[ReesesPuffs]

It's hilarious to see someone who clearly has no dog in the race talk like he understands what he's talking about. You are the same type of person who bitches about Nintendo refusing to go 3rd party and then defend this absolute garbage of a launcher. How is buying up exclusives and using a platform to sell their exclusives only to pull them off days before release helping a free market? Gog, Uplay, and Origin have existed for years and that's excluding Bethesda.net and Discord. But please continue to defend a platform that only just added a shopping cart and search bar and is still missing forums, reviews, a proper refund system, or even basic user security. Please I'm waiting for a rebuttle but considering your post history you literally don't have a single constructive thing to add to this argument but don't worry I'll wait to hear you spew whatever biased and misinformed opinion you have.

[jeki]

@ReesesPuffs

'who clearly has no dog in the race"
"talk like he understands what he's talking about"
"you are the same type of person"
"you spew whatever biased and misinformed opinion you have"

Your comment is all about me and makes no sense. It's not my fault a new game store makes you angry. Lighten up, I was just goofing off a little.

[jeki]

I guess the Epic Store has a huge customer base after all. This is a very good sign for developers, small and large, thinking about bypassing Valve Corporation altogether.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

It’s actually a pretty fun time waster. I enjoy it even tho I didn’t like what I was seeing prior to release. I took the chance on it and I’m glad I did. It’s still a little pricey for what it is but nevertheless it’s fun

[StormLegend]

But but.... I thought people were tired of zombie games? Resident evil sold well and now this. I can see Days Gone selling 3-5 million in one month.

[prankster101]

Happy for the game's success. Will be looking to buy the game on Friday.

[prankster101]

Maybe...