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[Xtib81]

I hope it's the beginning of a new trend i.e Asian studios taking over and making good AAA games.

 

[The artful mincer]

Palworld is about to fall. Unbelievable. Somehow just like with Baldurs Gate 3 Sony have gotten the biggest steam game of the year as a timed console exclusive for free again lol.

Xbox series S strikes again!

 

[Aguero9320]

What does this game have to do with the woke agenda? Isn’t the main character a monkey? Lol

I can't figure that out either, but I haven't really followed it because I assumed this isn't for me. As usual, the hype peaked my interest so I looked up a review (IGN) and the word soulslike was used early so my interest dropped. Then it said 'but it's not really' and my interest perked up again, only to be deflated by comparisons to Bayonetta and Platinum Games.

Not sure if any of those comparisons are truly accurate. Regardless, no thanks, but happy for its success. Always good to see single player games do well.

I'm neither pro nor anti-woke - I am very much pro-everyone shut the fuck up about it.

 

[Ozriel]

That's kind of crazy but I attribute a part of it to players being fed up with all the forced woke garbage in games, sticking up their middle finger and saying "THIS is the kind of stuff we want".

99% of the people playing this don't give a shit about any of that.

The game looks fantastic and plays well. Also heavily appeals to the massive Chinese audience.

 

[SmokSmog]

 

[kikii]

watched some stream lil bit and uhm might buy it some day

 

[MiguelItUp]

I can't figure that out either, but I haven't really followed it because I assumed this isn't for me. As usual, the hype peaked my interest so I looked up a review (IGN) and the word soulslike was used early so my interest dropped. Then it said 'but it's not really' and my interest perked up again, only to be deflated by comparisons to Bayonetta and Platinum Games.

Not sure if any of those comparisons are truly accurate. Regardless, no thanks, but happy for its success. Always good to see single player games do well.

I'm neither pro nor anti-woke - I am very much pro-everyone shut the fuck up about it.

99% of the people playing this don't give a shit about any of that.

The game looks fantastic and plays well. Also heavily appeals to the massive Chinese audience.

Yeah, honestly it feels like a form of brain rot at this point. There have been some things that have popped up over the years that have been eye rolling, on the nose, etc. But this game isn't one of them. There was that stuff about Screen Rant, but that was just one review. That was it. I understand there was also that "drama" about the studio themselves, but I personally didn't look into it too much.

I think people should just appreciate what this situation is. This was a game that was in development for a long while, and it came out and is good. That's great! All this other weird obsessive nonsense shouldn't be dirtying the waters of what this situation is. A solid game made by a smaller studio that's received huge success. It's always awesome to see.

 

[GHG]

Lmao the first few posts in the reset OT sure are something.

 

[Mownoc]

It just passed Palworld!

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Down goes Palword, Wukong into 2nd place.

PUBG better hope Concord launches before it takes over the top spot as I am sure Concord will syphon off a good 2-3k people

 

[SushiReese]

Broke 2.1 millions concurrent players on steam.

 

[Seider]

This game being a success means more games like this being released.

And im very happy with it.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Down goes Palword, Wukong into 2nd place.

PUBG better hope Concord launches before it takes over the top spot as I am sure Concord will syphon off a good 2-3k people

Beating Palworld is insane. We know that sold 19M copies on Steam alone. I doubt it beats PUBG however but would be happy to be wrong. I wonder if PUBG peaked before it was f2p.

 

[GHG]

Down goes Palword, Wukong into 2nd place.

PUBG better hope Concord launches before it takes over the top spot as I am sure Concord will syphon off a good 2-3k people

This is all before all the other time zones get involved as well.

It might actually have a chance of doing it.

 

[Sentenza]

Beating Palworld is insane. We know that sold 19M copies on Steam alone. I doubt it beats PUBG however but would be happy to be wrong. I wonder if PUBG peaked before it was f2p.

Yes. WAY before it. It became F2P like a year later or two.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Beating Palworld is insane. We know that sold 19M copies on Steam alone. I doubt it beats PUBG however but would be happy to be wrong. I wonder if PUBG peaked before it was f2p.

PUBGs peak was still paid for as it was when I was still playing probably 6 years ago and it went F2P much more recently

 

[GHG]

PUBGs peak was still paid for as it was when I was still playing probably 6 years ago and it went F2P much more recently

Yeh they went F2P because the playerbase started to drop off.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Yeh they went F2P because the playerbase started to drop off.

People, including myself, were getting bored as literally my whole group that played dropped it as well

Think they were too slow updating it and making it fresh though its still holding 500+ players looking at the charts

 

[Heaven Angel]

This game being a success means more games like this being released.

And im very happy with it.

Same, really happy to see Single Player games in it's glory.

 

[rodrigolfp]

All those denuvo supporters Dx

 

[hemo memo]

Bravo. Win for gaming.

 

[Ivory Samoan]

I wish I wasn't banned on all accounts at that Purple house of fuckery, I'd love to go delving and start poking some fun at their sniveling virtue signaling assery romps

1.7m and climbing....eat that you woke gits, lol.

hot edit: 2.1m??? holy bejeebus - China is peaking ish time now (that 9pm-10pm rush), 2.5m possible? far out.

 

[GymWolf]

r/Gaming is banning anyone who speaks about this positively and removing posts.

I'm sorry fucking what?

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Lmao the first few posts in the reset OT sure are something.

New OT upcoming.....lol

 

[poppabk]

Over 2 million.

 

[Ivory Samoan]

This is insane, like....if this isn't the opposite of 'go woke go broke' I don't know what is

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Damn friend broke up with her bf, so he left our steam family, saw him playing this last night. I could have been playing this for free if they didn't break up!!!

 

[poppabk]

Now do the Final Fantasy XVI comparison.

Also to put into context how insane that number is for Wukong - the Starfield number was enough to put it in the Platinum category on Steam for revenue.

 

[Roman Empire]

Good game sells well. And people complicate things too much these days.

Just make good games, that is the message gamers are trying to send tonedeaf devs.

 

[Matt_Fox]

Dynasty Warriors is based on the Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, China's most beloved literary work.

Dynasty Warriors doesn't sell remotely close to the numbers we are looking at here - so for those attributing the success of this game just because its Chinese 'representation' I'd say you are simplifying.

 

[Aenima]

Thats insane. I was expecting the game to be sucessfull but the game is doing crazy numbers.

 

[Aguero9320]

This is insane, like....if this isn't the opposite of 'go woke go broke' I don't know what is

You're seriously projecting here mate. I am almost certain that has nothing to do with its success, and to be honest, is more than a little demeaning to their achievement.

 

[Loomy]

Maybe more companies will start to realize that those "modern audiences" don't exist.
They are just a small bunch of loud mouth political activists, pushing their propaganda.
Normal people do not care about their crap propaganda and ideology. Normal people just want good games.

You're all tiny. On both sides of this dumb argument.

I'll say it again. Most people don't give a shit about this fight. Most people have no idea why some people are up in arms about this game. Most people have no idea who develops or publishes games they buy. They see cool shit, they want to play.

You're all having the tiniest fight in the tiniest echo chamber.

 

[FunkMiller]

Very much looking forward to the endless amount of opinion pieces written about this game's success that will spend 90% of their content avoiding the reasons why this game is being so successful.

 

[PeteBull]

Damn friend broke up with her bf, so he left our steam family, saw him playing this last night. I could have been playing this for free if they didn't break up!!!

Date her ex-bf and get him back into ur "steam family" fast then

Sometimes man gotta do what man gotta do, there is higher purpose at stake here

 

[Lumyst]

The problem is that here in the west the crazy people are so dominant in games journalism and the creative arts. The higher ups at every gaming company will by now have realized that a significant part of their audience reject the socio-political messages in their products, but how to get rid of the crazy people?

The solution would be to do what a good therapist from the past would do (before psychiatry/psychology was infiltrated) such as the one who ended my OCD. I think what’s happened is the education system has implanted a set of “crises/problems” into young people’s heads and they are obsessively/compulsively doing the “rituals” that they were told have the power to stave off those crises/social/global issues.

At the end of high school I would have hyper religious thinking and do weird rituals I made up like touching things in certain ways or chanting prayers I made up because I feared for my family’s health and my questioning of my sexuality due to what I saw online. My therapist talked me through which anxieties my OCD thinking was about, what rituals I was doing, and it clicked when he basically said “You’re a human, not God. You don’t have any magical power.” (Oh and for the record the sexuality stuff gets settled naturally when the mind and raging hormones calm down by age 25.)

In other words, the weird rituals or in this case, checklist designs of DEI requirements, have no power to solve the problems or avert the actual crises, real or imagined. (What are they now, climate change, inequality, racism, etc.? And don’t they just keep redefining words to make sure there’s always a “problem”?) The real or imagined issues aren’t solved by having entire groups of people do weird rituals that they are told to do, that’s just a tool for control! Hopefully the wiser people or upper management in the gaming companies can talk sense to the younger ones, but I understand that they too are under pressure to comply.

 

[Dynasty8]

New OT upcoming.....lol

Hypocrites. Not surprised.

 

[FunkMiller]

Last year it was Hogwarts Legacy, this year it's Wukong.
The people at reeee are eating well. Lot's and lot's f crow.

A small group of Americans in an echo chamber suddenly discovering there are other countries on this planet is extremely gratifying.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Date her ex-bf and get him back into ur "steam family" fast then

Sometimes man gotta do what man gotta do, there is higher purpose at stake here

I would, but he's the type of male without a vagina. Not my thing. Still a disgusting cis.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

so is this like the only game they allowed in china this year or something?

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

You're all tiny. On both sides of this dumb argument.

They see cool shit, they want to play.
.

Do you see much cool shit going on in woke games?

Now think if the two are related.

 

[winjer]

You're all tiny. On both sides of this dumb argument.

I'll say it again. Most people don't give a shit about this fight. Most people have no idea why some people are up in arms about this game. Most people have no idea who develops or publishes games they buy. They see cool shit, they want to play.

You're all having the tiniest fight in the tiniest echo chamber.

You still don't understand this is a fight between normal people that just want good games, and a vocal minority.
And we, the normal players, just won another battle.

 

[FunkMiller]

Chinese dude over on Era been trying to point out that western devs like Ubisoft are a bunch of misogynist fuckers, and how hypocritical it is to support them and not Game Science... and it looks like they banned his ass for it

 

[NeoLed]

Dynasty Warriors is based on the Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, China's most beloved literary work.

Dynasty Warriors doesn't sell remotely close to the numbers we are looking at here - so for those attributing the success of this game just because its Chinese 'representation' I'd say you are simplifying.

Isn't Dynasty warrior made by Japanese developer?

 

[Silver Wattle]

2.2 Million?!

 

[Rudius]

how to get rid of the crazy people?

 

[//DEVIL//]

Nothing tastes better than salty tears of woke.

I am super glad the game is doing so well I am happy

All these woke people in the management are getting punched in the face as we speak when investors see a game that refuses to add woke shit selling million despite all the agenda to try and bomb it with shitty articles like their faces

 

[SushiReese]

It exceeded 2.2 millions concurrent players now.
Repost:
Report from Chinese media CLS:

https://www.cls.cn/detail/1770256

Black Myth: Wukong Sells Over 4.5 Million Copies Across Platforms, With Sales Totaling $1.5 Billion yuan(around 2 hundred millions dollars)
[/QUOTE]

Day 1 still has not ended now.

 

[Dusktildawn48]

You're all tiny. On both sides of this dumb argument.

I'll say it again. Most people don't give a shit about this fight. Most people have no idea why some people are up in arms about this game. Most people have no idea who develops or publishes games they buy. They see cool shit, they want to play.

You're all having the tiniest fight in the tiniest echo chamber.

Who cares if this isn't selling because of it being anti woke, what matters is these games prove the woke journalist have no power.

 

[ultrazilla]

Inc