UpDownLeftRight
Banned
There is? God damnit! Oh well, gonna see if I can get a hold of CS in time to cancel it maybe. Sure I can wait a bit longer if needed for a revision.
Dark Souls 3 Pre-Load on Steam is online
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There is? God damnit! Oh well, gonna see if I can get a hold of CS in time to cancel it maybe. Sure I can wait a bit longer if needed for a revision.
You don't actually "know" that, because it is untrue! PC is highest selling souls platform.
Aztechnology
Member
I had no issue with my Pre-Load. Worked right away. I'm in the U.S.
https://uk.gamesplanet.com/support/15-faq/117-who-are-we-and-are-we-legal
Damn didn't realize that, next game I will do this.
Aztechnology
Member
Right. Monday 6pm EST
12.4. at 12 am CET iirc
It has sold more on PC. And the hacker issues are way overblown. over 300 hours of Souls here, mainly PVPing, and I've encountered hackers like two times. Among literally thousands of multiplayer interactions. And one of the hackers was benign (he'd summon invaders and teleport them to a unaccessible area so he would host a fight club there)
Sanctuary
Member
That was such a good typo too.
Does anyone actually have proof that the initial big rush of sales is higher on PC? Because it gets kind of old when someone goes "see look at the PC sales!", which is accounting for all time and includes all of the times you could get it for $10.00 - $15.00. Not just this series, but any.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Should be around 10:00pm I think, not entirely sure since I'm awful at time zones.
11pm
Sanctuary
Member
Here's the PS4 countdown atleast, should be the same for Steam last I checked
and one for GMT
It's going live Monday evening?
Yeah 12am yurop time. So evening for US.
The countdown timer is accurate, yes.
Yeah, Americanos can play Monday.
Novum_Veritas
Member
Got info from CDKeys:
Lister
Banned
You should be able to do this on steamspy, but you have to sign up. They list owners at specific times and overlay price.
Couple of things though:
Steamspy has shown over and over again that despite great sales on pc, most game sales do not happen during heavily discounted periods. The comparison we have in numbers from 2015 never had the game at $10 I don't think.
And what the he'll does revenue have to do with player base? You're going to have to explain that one to me. Not only that but if it's revenue that suddenly matters pc has that over the PlayStation in droves since most copies are digital.
This just sounds like special playing from people getting upset about souls selling better on pc.
Sanctuary
Member
I have no idea what you're suggesting with this. I don't know what else to tell you if you don't see how Steam sales can skew overall "sales" (total units sold, not profit). It's like saying that it doesn't matter if the PC version of any particular game sold one million copies at $5, while the console versions sold 500,000 units between $35 - $50. The logic that gets used typically here is that the PC moved the most units. Uh so?
For the record, I'm not saying that IN FACT more of the PC units come heavily discounted than not, only that it doesn't seem like those that are get taken into account, and are looked simply as a game being sold.
That's a pretty stupid thing to be upset about, and I doubt that's the case.
Lister
Banned
Sales skew units sold? What? And again you are talking revenue not units sold. The whole har har pc sold all the units at $1 is just platform wars bullshit.
And welcome to the internet. Where everyone is angry about all things stupid. You must be new here.
OverturePT
Member
Every damn thread has to go through this PC sales crap. We all know PC games only sell below 10$, so why even bother.
Sanctuary
Member
I am talking about units sold. You don't seem to understand the distinction between a unit sold at full price and a unit essentially being given away. I don't know why you want to turn it into some kind of system war shit either. That's one of the most pointless things to bitch about on the internet. I don't actually care what system sold the most of any particular game, I'm just tired of the "Har har you're wrong because PC sold XXX see!" without considering all the factors.
It would also be pretty dumb to assume that I didn't just buy and pre-load this on PC too...
The original Dark Souls was on sale a hell of a lot after its initial launch on PC. A PC game that was released a long time after the console versions. You can't expect me to believe that most of the PC sales were from people that only played it on PC, everyone bought it at launch, and that no one that also purchsed it on PC previously played it on the consoles as well either. I guess what I am getting hung up on is that I consider the PS3 and the 360 as "a console".
Nevadatan
Member
Well, not of that specifically.
However, I do have proof that the launch-and-following-months online activity was highest out of any platform on PC for DS2, and it kept up at higher or similar levels for half a year (not that it dropped after that, I just don't have data).
So the somewhat common argument that people are getting it on consoles for the higher online activity at least has no basis in empirical evidence.
Nevadatan
Member
I can confirm this. either was this or the PC has improved connectivity, as the MP on the first year was really great, invasion and summoning galore, and i had the Xbox version as well and the summoning rate was much lower.
btw Durante senpai. how do you feel about the port this time?
tamaster92
Member
Anyone else's preload look like this:
Never had it before, its like it still needs to download but there isnt any download :/
(also shows the download button on the game page instead of play)
Never had it before, its like it still needs to download but there isnt any download :/
(also shows the download button on the game page instead of play)
Anyone else's preload look like this:
Never had it before, its like it still needs to download but there isnt any download :/
(also shows the download button on the game page instead of play)
It's the power of the red pandas
remember
omg, thanks for that, on topic, PRAISE THE SUN
Krusenstern
Banned
Nice. I hope sooner than later. I want this preloaded before release.
FairXchange
Member
Loaded up on my SSD baby, got Tuesday off. I'm ready!
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Is this game comparable to severance blade of darkness? Love that game and looking for something similar.
Sanctuary
Member
No, I don't care at all, and that isn't what I posted about anyway. What I do care about are posts without any kind of proof for certain claims, or those that don't take into account the larger picture.
The Dark Souls 2 sales actually make a lot more sense compared to the first game however. Like I said in my edit too, I'm not really seeing a distinction between the PS3 or 360. I see PC, and I see console. The consoles sold more units overall. They just didn't sell more units on each platform individually.
I wasn't really considering the whole "bigger community" aspect at all, and I don't know how much merit it has for the super hardcore PvP players, if any at all.
According to many who have played both, they do have a lot of similarities. Not this particular game, just the Souls series in general.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Are these publishers stupid ? The Division Patch, Destiny Patch, R&C and Dark Souls 3 on the same day. Fml.
Anyone else's preload look like this:
Never had it before, its like it still needs to download but there isnt any download :/
(also shows the download button on the game page instead of play)
"Pre-load complete; unreleased" has been the status for a pre-loaded game for donkey's years now. You've just never noticed it before. Odds are that the game will need to be updated come unlock time, though, in which case the estimated time of completion will initially be high.
CMojicaAce
Member
Here I was all happy that the game unlocks so early on Monday, only to remember that this quarter I have classes from 3-10 PM..
*cough cough* ?
I move my Steam games around by hand. Creating/Adding a new directory and then copying the license and game files per hand isn't exactly a complicated task.
