Lucifers Beard
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Maybe, who knows? People may have pre-ordered the game and are waiting to play. I'd wait for Friday night and Saturday though to see what numbers look like as this will be when most people are able to play.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows releases on Steam with CCU of ~65k (highest series launch on the platform)
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Freeman76
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What a life you must lead
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
The shit app makes zero difference to play vs playing on Steam.
Topher
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The game is available on the Ubisoft+ subscription service which is how I'm playing it on PC. $17 vs $70
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Angry_Megalodon
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Mild success.
Dusktildawn48
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Giving us this and the Snow White movie on the same weekend. Pretty excited to watch them both crash and burn.
Topher
Identifies as young
Outlaws peaked at 3.4k
Kacho
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Not talking about the peak. I'm talking about the manabyte defense force.
Lokaum D+
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yeah, but its a common thing that PC players usually don't like other launchers, even games that are available day one on game pass tend to hit higher numbers on steam, for example, Starfield on launch hit 300K CCU on steam and it was "free" for gamepass users.
so using SteamDB as a metric of how well the gaming in doing on PC isnt really that crazy imo, sure, like
Topher
said, a lot o ppl ( he included ) ll be playing this though Ubi+ but these aren't sold copies and they ll tank the game revenue somehow.at the and of the day you play where you want, but i think ( and thats is my opinion ) for a dev big as Ubisoft and a IP big as AC 25K on release is really low.
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Topher
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lol.....ah
MMaRsu
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Not if it releases on a weekday, in the middle of the night for an entire continent.
People are working right now, and last night they were probably sleeping.
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MatrixReloaded101
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It's full price on Steam and cheaper on the other store fronts.
People prefer steam but I wouldn't think they would want to pay $20+ extra just to get the game on steam over the other options.
Lokaum D+
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LOL, sry, but english is not my native language ( obviously ) and i dont like to use translation tools since i prefer to practice by myself, so there ll be a lot o mistakes like that
Starfield release was September 6 2023 a Wednesday ( middle of the week ) and did 330K CCU while was "free" on Gamepass and i dont thing ( again ) that AC ip has less brand recognition the Starfield do be doing this less numbers.
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MMaRsu
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Its allright I was just making fun of you with a jokeLOL, sry, but english is not my native language ( obviously ) and i dont like to use translation tools since i prefer to practice by myself, so there ll be a lot o mistakes like that
Its all good brotha
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Every other AC game was on Ubi Connect "only" so people already bought the library there. Why would anyone buy just this one on Steam and "split" the library??yeah, but its a common thing that PC players usually don't like other launchers, even games that are available day one on game pass tend to hit higher numbers on steam, for example, Starfield on launch hit 300K CCU on steam and it was "free" for gamepass users.
so using SteamDB as a metric of how well the gaming in doing on PC isnt really that crazy imo, sure, like
at the and of the day you play where you want, but i think ( and thats is my opinion ) for a dev big as Ubisoft and a IP big as AC 25K on release is really low.
TheChumpNation
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This game is going to sell more on consoles, and I'll be looking at this Sunday's peak CCU before drawing any conclusions in any case.
AC is such a mainstream franchise and reviews seem to be decent - it'll sell reasonably well no matter what. Will it save Ubi? Hell no
AC is such a mainstream franchise and reviews seem to be decent - it'll sell reasonably well no matter what. Will it save Ubi? Hell no
Topher
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About 50
Shubh_C63
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Ubisoft bought itself another...5 years or till the next Assassins Creed.
winjer
Member
Estimates put the cost of the development of Shadows at 250-350 Million dollars.
It's going to take a lot of copies to make that money back.
And a lot more to keep the company afloat for another 5 years.
Black Flag remake this holiday on PC, PS5, XSX, and Switch 2.
Lokaum D+
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Ok, i would prefer to have the game on my library of 300+ games than on my library of 4/6 games, well, ppl play where they want, i just saying that i think is a little odd, but hey, maybe i m wrong, lets see how long ll take for Tencend to buy out Ubi after this release.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Less odd than needing to link 2 accounts vs just using 1.
Hyet
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I dont' think i was never bound to explode upon release on PC. I think it will do well on consoles where the majority of their audicence is. Then, if the game's really good and sticks it will have legs on PC as it will get expousure through discounts and sales. I think amazon sales numbers for PS5 are a much better indication of this games success or failture than Steam CCU.
I personally don't think Its going to do enough. It will be profiteable but it won't fix Ubi's dire need of a smashing success. They'll benefit from taking a bit of air from it. On the reception side I'm 100% sure this game isn't going anything reputationally for Ubi. The game can be good but it won't be good enough to make people forget the odd choices within and how exploitative their games have been with customers for the longest time.
If they chain several games that are good, can be loved without reservations or drama they may be able to gain the favor of the audicence again but I don't think this company could pull a Capcom ever. Hope I'm wrong though.
I personally don't think Its going to do enough. It will be profiteable but it won't fix Ubi's dire need of a smashing success. They'll benefit from taking a bit of air from it. On the reception side I'm 100% sure this game isn't going anything reputationally for Ubi. The game can be good but it won't be good enough to make people forget the odd choices within and how exploitative their games have been with customers for the longest time.
If they chain several games that are good, can be loved without reservations or drama they may be able to gain the favor of the audicence again but I don't think this company could pull a Capcom ever. Hope I'm wrong though.
Zacfoldor
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This is flopping and you are in denial imho.
I will give you one thing. We aren't 100% sure yet, but I suspect this one will end up well below expectations.
Any time you have to justify that "oh it sold better on consoles" you are probably screwed.
I could be wrong, we don't know yet for sure, but I suspect we see some articles about this in the near future that are very telling. How long until we discovered Veilguard was a huge flop? I remember a period of weeks where everyone thought it sold well and was a success. I remember Scherier's tweet. Top the charts! Don't celebrate early fellas, we don't know anything yet.
Also, remember the PC has a much higher tolerance for woke than console gamers. Just look at veilguard. It was a huge hit on PC. It was us PS5 owners that never bought it(you are welcome). Might be the same with this woke game here.
I will give you one thing. We aren't 100% sure yet, but I suspect this one will end up well below expectations.
Any time you have to justify that "oh it sold better on consoles" you are probably screwed.
I could be wrong, we don't know yet for sure, but I suspect we see some articles about this in the near future that are very telling. How long until we discovered Veilguard was a huge flop? I remember a period of weeks where everyone thought it sold well and was a success. I remember Scherier's tweet. Top the charts! Don't celebrate early fellas, we don't know anything yet.
Also, remember the PC has a much higher tolerance for woke than console gamers. Just look at veilguard. It was a huge hit on PC. It was us PS5 owners that never bought it(you are welcome). Might be the same with this woke game here.
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Mortisfacio
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I'm not spending money on this regardless, but did they finally make it less grindy? Valhalla was a massive time sink with no reward and has soured me from wanting to play future titles.
Lokaum D+
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if this still requires Ubi connect to launch through steam than the low CCU is explained,
Bernardougf
Member
This one got my attention.. last AssCreed game I played to completion and loved.. dont know how its aged but .... Im optimistic based on my own nostalgia
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
*This is flopping*
*we aren't 100% sure yet*
*I could be wrong*
*PC has a higher tolerance for woke*
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Topher
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*This is flopping*
*we aren't 100% sure yet*
*I could be wrong*
*PC has a higher tolerance for woke*
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Its not quite and apples to apples comparison.
Shadows is the first game released to not require Ubisoft Connect. I'd say that is pickung up a lot of players from that service.
Just a guess. No way of knowing.
Topher
Identifies as young
Yeah.....Outlaws also came to Steam three months after launch.
Guilty_AI
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Kings Field
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I have 500 people on my PS friends list, of that roughly 50 are active at a given time and it's usually the same group of people. Out of those there are 8 that have it as recently played.
Far better than Veilguard even though it was a PS+ game.
I'm actually surprised.
Far better than Veilguard even though it was a PS+ game.
I'm actually surprised.
Kacho
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FewRope
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I honestly cant tell if this is satire or completely serious
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MMaRsu
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Starfield was one of the biggest hyped games in recent years. From the creators of Skyrim?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Dazraell
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BigBeauford
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This is not great at all. I expected 50k+ launch day EASILY. This is a disaster.
StueyDuck
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An AC game is never going to flop, under-perform maybe. But it's never going to flop, it just has too much franchise and brand power to flop.
AC Unity was a disaster for them and Syndicate still sold pretty well as far as i am aware and that was still when the games were annual
AC Unity was a disaster for them and Syndicate still sold pretty well as far as i am aware and that was still when the games were annual
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Lokaum D+
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like i said, imo AC should be in a bigger place since is a highly recognized brand, even if i dont use Starfield as reference, AC Shadow is bellow DAV 70K CCU on a thursday.
i may be taking crazy pills for thinking that 35K for a game/brand the size of AC is low when compared with another game of same size and recognition, but time ll tell.
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Kacho
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Should hit 50k today. It's at 40k right now.
MMaRsu
Gold Member
Most people in Europe are working at 15:20 during a weekday, or at school. Here in The Netherlands its also great weather, Im going for a walk rn not playing a game
And like most people said including me, keys were very cheap for Ubiconnect, 48 euro's. On steam its what 70 euro?
I wouldnt buy it there full price unless I wanted to be a thief of my own wallet
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ValiantInstance
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No one is buying this shit on Ubisoft's launcher lmao.
Lokaum D+
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As I said, SteamDB is just a metric on how well game is doing on the Steam platform, since other platforms don't give us numbers, we can only speculate on what we have and that is the 35K CCU.
Time will tell if this game is a success or a failure, my last AC was Origin and I consider Black Flag my favorite, since them Ubi is kind of a miss for me, if this game is a success, Ubi will probably have legs to make another one, otherwise we may hear soon about Tencent acquiring them.
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