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[Pasta la Vista]

Only 135k on a weekend, it's dead Jim. Goddamn what a failure. Already lost over 60% of its peak in less than 24 hours. Can't imagine Pearl Abyss is too happy about that. Must be all those woke reeeetards who are against AI art in games. Looks like it won't recover papitos.

I'm hearing about a lot of bugs that happen the further into the game you get, must be all the poor people with shitty graphics cards. The 6090 can't come soon enough, then all games will look and run perfect.

Anyone want to guess an ETA of imminent layoffs and studio closure? Goddamn, how terrible, it's like watching a trainwreck in slowmo.

Meanwhile Death Stranding 2 from that fart-sniffing, talentless hack Kojima has stayed pretty consistent to its peak in the same timeframe. I mean really, what's wrong with people?

 

[Denton]

Only 135k on a weekend, it's dead Jim.

Peaks almost always happen on sunday evening, european time, so it will go up. But I would probably not expect 300K to be broken.

 

[Negotiator101]

Lokaum D+ didn't quite make Requiem numbers my friend but a big hit nonetheless.

 

[Prodyhig]

Only 135k on a weekend, it's dead Jim. Goddamn what a failure. Already lost over 60% of its peak in less than 24 hours. Can't imagine Pearl Abyss is too happy about that. Must be all those woke reeeetards who are against AI art in games. Looks like it won't recover papitos.

I'm hearing about a lot of bugs that happen the further into the game you get, must be all the poor people with shitty graphics cards. The 6090 can't come soon enough, then all games will look and run perfect.

Anyone want to guess an ETA of imminent layoffs and studio closure? Goddamn, how terrible, it's like watching a trainwreck in slowmo.

Meanwhile Death Stranding 2 from that fart-sniffing, talentless hack Kojima has stayed pretty consistent to its peak in the same timeframe. I mean really, what's wrong with people?

People often think graphics aren't everything.

It's not a movie; it's a video game where you interact with input devices.

And the game is garbage in that aspect, plain and simple...

Add to that the fact that the story is complete and utter nonsense, and that Kliff feels like a caricature.

Then you have Death Stranding 2, which does almost everything perfectly. You don't need an expansive map with ray tracing on every page... and stone, and a story and characters that grab you from the very first minute.

Not to mention that when you play, everything feels perfectly responsive, unlike Crimson.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Only 135k on a weekend, it's dead Jim. Goddamn what a failure. Already lost over 60% of its peak in less than 24 hours. Can't imagine Pearl Abyss is too happy about that. Must be all those woke reeeetards who are against AI art in games. Looks like it won't recover papitos.

I'm hearing about a lot of bugs that happen the further into the game you get, must be all the poor people with shitty graphics cards. The 6090 can't come soon enough, then all games will look and run perfect.

Anyone want to guess an ETA of imminent layoffs and studio closure? Goddamn, how terrible, it's like watching a trainwreck in slowmo.

Meanwhile Death Stranding 2 from that fart-sniffing, talentless hack Kojima has stayed pretty consistent to its peak in the same timeframe. I mean really, what's wrong with people?

its dead Jim...LMAO

 

[Lokaum D+]

Lokaum D+ didn't quite make Requiem numbers my friend but a big hit nonetheless.

yeah, i thought Asia would come swing like crazy, but hey, for a new IP it did great and player retention is really good too.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

its dead Jim...LMAO

Its been less than 24 hours bro, this is obviously a psy-op from the woke liberal left to bring the game down. I'm so triggered rn frfr

 

[Pasta la Vista]

It's only rated 4 stars on the PSN store right now too, looks like that rating will be dropping soon too. Looking really bad for this game.

 

[I wasn't selling any]

Only 135k on a weekend, it's dead Jim. Goddamn what a failure. Already lost over 60% of its peak in less than 24 hours. Can't imagine Pearl Abyss is too happy about that. Must be all those woke reeeetards who are against AI art in games. Looks like it won't recover papitos.

I'm hearing about a lot of bugs that happen the further into the game you get, must be all the poor people with shitty graphics cards. The 6090 can't come soon enough, then all games will look and run perfect.

Anyone want to guess an ETA of imminent layoffs and studio closure? Goddamn, how terrible, it's like watching a trainwreck in slowmo.

Meanwhile Death Stranding 2 from that fart-sniffing, talentless hack Kojima has stayed pretty consistent to its peak in the same timeframe. I mean really, what's wrong with people?

You sound like you haven't talked to your parents in a long time.

But yeah, I think the game had it's peak, it won't reach higher CCU than it already had. I'm still quite interested, I hope they will fix some of the main complaints.

 

[PeteBull]

Looks like game sold pretty well( roughly 2/3rds of re9) but of the ppl who bought it there is sizeable chunk(roughly 1/3rd) who got disseapointed with it/stopped playing already, that would explain no weekend ccu bump and relatively low steam/playstation store user scores.

 

[calico]

There's a good chance it will beat that release peak before the weekend is over.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Still down from its peak yet fart sniffing walking daddy simulator has gone past its previous peak, aaaarrrgghh!!!

 

[PSFore]

300K might be out the window, but it's getting close to setting a new high

 

[Rentahamster]

So what's the verdict? 200 to 250? Because that's what I predicted.

 

[Hugare]

Measuring CCU of singleplayer games is certainly ... something

It sold 2M already. Pearl Abyss will be fine even if player retention tanks.

This is no GAAS

 

[mèx]

So what's the verdict? 200 to 250? Because that's what I predicted.

Yeah, today the peak was around 220k, I don't think it will surge above the first day CCU numbers.

 

[apocaliptic]

Better than that other game that costed Sony $3.5B + knitting classes

 

[Snowdonhoffen]

Measuring CCU of singleplayer games is certainly ... something

It sold 2M already. Pearl Abyss will be fine even if player retention tanks.

This is no GAAS

I think t's a valid comparison if you compare it with other single player games, but yeah, I guess people were expecting this game to do big numbers in every metric like other hyped single player games like Baldur's Gate, Wukong or Hollow Knight.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Measuring CCU of singleplayer games is certainly ... something

It sold 2M already. Pearl Abyss will be fine even if player retention tanks.

This is no GAAS

Let's for a second talk about dynamics here and I'll make a few uncomfortable points about GAFs holy cow

First of all, it clearly peaked on the PR hype on the first day and never recovered during best time slot for SP game meaning that the word-of-mouth is mixed at best

Second of all, let's look at the dynamics of the reviews

It had quite brutal reviews in Asia and especially in Korea, believe it or not

2 Million figure is acccounted for all platforms and console versions are, to put it mildly, not the best. If we exclude all the platrorm fees from this number the average net profit won't be so huge, especially for a game with a 6-year dev cycle with multiple reboots.

I mean, CD can be considered a modest success, but it's far from smashing hit like KCD 2 was in the same release window a year ago (and with far better palyer retention too btw). I also think that KCD2 is a neat reference point, not some weird takes about other games.

 

[Jormatar]

This game is even a bigger flop than Highguard when you take the expectations into consideration lmfaoooo

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Let's for a second talk about dynamics here and I'll make a few uncomfortable points about GAFs holy cow

First of all, it clearly peaked on the PR hype on the first day and never recovered during best time slot for SP game meaning that the word-of-mouth is mixed at best

Second of all, let's look at the dynamics of the reviews

It had quite brutal reviews in Asia and especially in Korea, believe it or not

2 Million figure is acccounted for all platforms and console versions are, to put it mildly, not the best. If we exclude all the platrorm fees from this number the average net profit won't be so huge, especially for a game with a 6-year dev cycle with multiple reboots.

I mean, CD can be considered a modest success, but it's far from smashing hit like KCD 2 was in the same release window a year ago (and with far better palyer retention too btw). I also think that KCD2 is a neat reference point, not some weird takes about other games.

What the fuck?? You would think Asians would be more satisfied with Crimson Desert since it isn't some woke Western trash, they are actually mixed because of the gameplay and not because of some social politics??

You would think that people would buy 2 copies just to spite western gaming media... what the hell is happening??

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

You would think that people would buy 2 copies just to spite western gaming media... what the hell is happening??

Messy controls and the game being offline MMO, really. (you can google translate reviews yourself)

In Asia, there's enough free games that are simply 'better' despite the monetization. And I think people in this climate is way more critical for a full-priced SP release.

 

[Metnut]

Amazing how many PC gamers are still playing Counterstrike

 

[J Required]

Why are we looking at CCU for SP games? Game sold 2m in a day! Its a huge success.

 

[Goalus]

More than ex-voto but less than fortnite on a good day.

Ex voto has 27 concurrent players at the moment.

 

[KyoZz]

CD can be considered a modest success

A modest success? Really?

2 million copies sold in a day and this is modest? WTF are you doing here, do you expect R* level of sales??

word-of-mouth is mixed at best

Second of all, let's look at the dynamics of the reviews

It had quite brutal reviews in Asia and especially in Korea, believe it or not

Sorry but that looks more like "mixed AT WORST" since the game is gaining points every days. Started at 58%, now it's at 67%
Give it a few weeks and I'm sure the game will be at "Very positive".

Measuring CCU of singleplayer games is certainly ... something

It sold 2M already. Pearl Abyss will be fine even if player retention tanks.

This is no GAAS

Why are we looking at CCU for SP games? Game sold 2m in a day! Its a huge success.

It's just for fun because some of us like to look at this. Nothing serious.

offline MMO

Ah here we go, "I have to regurgitate what stupid reviewers say without even having an idea of what it implies".

Please list me everything that's MMO in this game, I'm waiting.

In Asia, there's enough free games that are simply 'better' despite the monetization. And I think people in this climate is way more critical for a full-priced SP release.

Again, please list them as I'm sure a lot of people would be interested for a better game than CD and F2P. I'm waiting.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

A modest success? Really?

2 million copies sold in a day and this is modest? WTF are you doing here, do you expect R* level of sales??



Sorry but that looks more like "mixed AT WORST" since the game is gaining points every days. Started at 58%, now it's at 67%
Give it a few weeks and I'm sure the game will be at "Very positive".



It's just for fun because some of us like to look at this. Nothing serious.


Ah here we go, "I have to regurgitate what stupid reviewers say without even having an idea of what it implies".

Please list me everything that's MMO in this game, I'm waiting.


Again, please list them as I'm sure a lot of people would be interested for a better game than CD and F2P. I'm waiting.

Sigh.

It's all written in the plain text, I don't have mental fortitude to reiterate. (personally I have no sides here and interested more in pure stats)

 

[KyoZz]

Sigh.

It's all written in the plain text, I don't have mental fortitude to reiterate.

2M copies sold in a day is a modest success I guess then lmao. But would you look at that, the game has peaked again

So much for "it clearly peaked on the PR hype". BTW it's up to 68% positive on Steam, it keep getting higher and higher. As I said it's just a matter of days bofere it reach "mostly positive". Game is awesome and I have no doubt "very positive" is a matter of a few more weeks.

(personally I have no sides here and interested more in pure stats)

Then maybe look at the actual stats instead of cherry picking the day one reception and ignoring everything else?
Also "muh I don't have time for this" after stating nonsense is very convenient.

 

[Shubh_C63]

The game is definitely not a bad game. I mean alteast its better than Starfield.

Not to mention casuals love open world Assassins Creed games with shit story, dull dialogues just roaming around doing side quests all over the map. This is no different but a far better Ubislop.

 

[KyoZz]

Not to mention casuals love open world Assassins Creed games with shit story, dull dialogues just roaming around doing side quests all over the map. This is no different but a far better Ubislop.

Holy shit the disdain is strong.

If it was anything like an Ubi game I would've dropped it already, I said it already, plenty of people who ACTUALLY PLAYED IT said the same. It's closer to Dragon's Dogma/BOTW with a bit of RDR II than anything Ubi. Not even close to Assassin's Creed.

 

[Topher]

Still trying to wrap my head around why this game is even remotely controversial outside of (arguably) being overhyped.

 

[geary]

....

75% overall

84% >2h played

89% >4h played

The game is fine...People that stick with it like it...

 

[KyoZz]

75% overall

Thanks for the stats !
Just a thing: you have your language selected in this, so it's not "overall". You need to take out the "my language" filter:

But it's nice to see these other stats, I'm convinced this will land in the "Very Positive" very soon.

 

[MastAndo]

 

[delishcaek]

Am a bit surprised about it going up. I was sure the initial impression of the game will be a turn off for the majority and it's going to dip and stay in the 150k region over the weekend.

Glad to be proven wrong.

 

[Denton]

Am a bit surprised about it going up. I was sure the initial impression of the game will be a turn off for the majority and it's going to dip and stay in the 150k region over the weekend.

Glad to be proven wrong.

For very hyped games with long playtimes the first sunday evening EU time is always the peak.

 

[falling into hell]

Come on go up and break 300000.

 

[PSFore]

Set a new all-time high, just barely

 

[ReyBrujo]

Color me surprised, I voted 150k. Did far better than what I expected, almost doubled, but looks like the fall will be quicker. I expect a "Crimson Desert lost 90% of its users" thread in no more than 3 months. Reviews getting better, though most reviews from Asia are negative at this moment.