Dark Souls is kind of a big deal. After much fan campaigning, it was recently announced on the Dark Souls Facebook page that the game was going to be released on PC with some extra content. It’s a pretty big win for PC gamers; the game was practically begging to be on the PC platform anyway. However celebration was extremely short lived as it was announced that the game will be utilizing Games For Windows Live instead of the more popular Steam. Commence the whining!
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.
@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.
I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
Im not sure how its confusing :\
72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.
A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.
But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.
for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.
Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI
72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.
According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.
Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.
This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).
This article explains how to link your Steam and PlayStation Networks accounts, which is becoming a must for Helldivers 2.
Anger... Hate... Well, I might have gotten it had it been on Steam. Though I guess I'll just wait for the console version to drop a bit more in price before picking it up.
"I don’t have access to sales figures so I can’t comment on the viability of it one way or another. However there are definitely people that have little to no issues with the service because they are still in business."
Here you go,
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
Thought Warner Bros. and Crapcom were the only two publishers still being bought off to jam GFWL into their PC games. Most realize there's more money in Steamworks from users simply appreciating you not shoehorning a crappy service into their game.
Is this really going to be the new trend? Whenever anyone speaks up about something they don't like, even something as universally hated as GFWL, bloggers are going to fire up their greasy keyboards and slap together an N4G-ready, fan-smearing turd about how everyone who holds a legitimate concern is simply a "whiner"? It's a terrible service. It should have been removed from all PC games long ago.
Don't get me wrong, I would prefer the game to be available on Steam. Simply because I prefer to just have one application for my games and not 3 (Steam, Origin & GFWL) but it doesn't bother me to the point where I'm not going to buy the game because of it.
When I first played the game, I was addicted to it and I have every intention of getting it for the PC so I can access the extra content and play the game in true 1080p at 60FPS instead of sub-720p at 10FPS on the console version.
Yes, Dark Souls not being available on Steam is a bit of a pain in the ass but c'mon people, don't let that hinder your decision to purchase a fantastic game. : )
I understand the passionate hate for GFWL, but I don't get why anyone would lose out on playing a game they petitioned to get ported to the PC. If you truly wanted to play Dark Souls, then man the f**k up and support From Sofware/Namco who only decided to port this due to high interest. Now you want to back stab them after they granted your wish?? Using GFWL may be an inconvenience, but the game will still work and play the way it supposed to play.