Ahh yeah I do recall that lots of Veilguard fans were busy trick-or-treating and going to Halloween parties so the CCUs suffered somewhat
and stop with this stuff nobody wants and they're clearly not willing to put a budget in to. 
Okay, haven't thought about those being 70EUR. Thought there were around 50EUR.
Genuine interest would translate to higher CCUs no matter the price, even if the game is on Game Pass.
This is true. At the same time I believe a higher price is an incentive to get it on GP.
I am a consumer whore!
Bloodlines 2, which has a 64
90 % or more of Steam's userbase is poor european and asia regions so cheap games are always going to outperform..
Context matters (not snark btw).
Imho same thing like with sales, gotta look at ccu having budget of a game in mind, outer worlds 2 is AAA but its not some crazy big budget AAA (like cod, mainline entry of assasins creed, battlefield and such)so if it hits 100k ccu i will consider it major success, 50k ccu will be somewhat decent/break even territory, anything below that will be a flop.
Typically, absolutely. But how do we gauge that for a AA game that was in development hell for roughly 10 years? The fact that it released is a miracle. Zero chance they're expecting a ROI with it right?
I thought the gameplay looked better than the 1st too
Then I saw that all the companions look like starbucks baristas and put it on the pay no mind list
Ofc, in the end it just indicates how popular said game is/gonna be on steam, some games got very late steam launch vs their initial console launch, some are remakes/remasters, some others are not very popular on pc despite being high quality, some are even all of the above.
That's not all. The first female companion you encounter has a fugly hand so you don't get too serious with sexy thoughts, the one from the left is older and has these huge goggles and the one from the right hides her face behind cloth most of the time (as a former cultist or whatever).
Just remembered how bad Tyranny did. Extremely good RPG and yet utterly bombed. Probably the best game they have ever done, I'd say better than New Vegas even.Always been pretty niche
These guys were basically surviving on kickstarters before MS' buyout, they never had a huge success in their career. We don't have the whole picture of the KOTOR 2 and a New Vegas as they didn't start on Steam but by all accounts it never sold well throughout the early years, online it is estimated taht KOTOR 2 was 1.5M units by 2006.
POE games were niche even though their kickstarter popularity. 700k estimated copies for it by 2016.
I personally pay more attention to weekend-to-weekend retention. With singleplayer games, people will inevitably finish them. For them to maintain a high CCU, they need to maintain legs. From my observations, the well-performing singleplayer games will retain 80% of the first weekend (assuming that is also their all-time CCU). There will be those few games that will actually beat the first weekend peak, like Elden Ring.
Just focus on two big Fallout games, Fallout 5 which they already started doing I think and another big budget Fallout spinoff like New Vegas.now they finally get to work on fallout
(I recognize this game is a significant upgrade over the first. That said, the first still exists and is why people don't care about 2.)
That seems really bad. First game was EGS exclusive at launch and didn't come to Steam until a year later, and still managed over 20K
I assume these are also lots of "sponsored" copies for streamers/influencers.
Probably a factor too, but I had a friend who really loves Obsidian games, and saw him playing early in Steam already. Couldn't stop him, I failed
Actually, no! It sounds like there are actual people actually liking this game.
