Black Myth: Wukong has sold 10 million copies across all platforms.

clarky said:
I dont go over there myself but i did enjoy that thread. Some of the takes were literally insane.

Enough said. Back to The monkey chat.

I can't play until next week and the wait in killing me. Looks lovely.
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I've barely completed chapter 1, but so far it seems to be one of those games that get better the further you are into it.
 
Draugoth said:
Resetera comments are top notch as always


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Gamers are making Era sad again (and again and again, etc.) by enjoying games. Poor babies.

 
seeing the era post is like having a deja vu. I swear they went through exact same meltdown and 5 stages of grief four months ago when Stellar Blade came out and was getting rave reviews and sales.

I'm sure they will tire themselves out seething for next few weeks and latch onto another game to bitch and moan about. Time is a flat circle in that echo chamber.
 
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You know, I was trying to think of something to say after I read this. That whole thread is so damn absurd, I decided to look up something.

"People in a cult often don't realize they are in a cult because they might leave if they did. They may only realize it when they are leaving or after they have left. Cults may target vulnerable people who are looking for a sense of belonging, acceptance, and meaning. These people may include those who are unhappy, have experienced abuse, or are struggling with mental health issues. When potential recruits are around cult members, they may receive love and validation. Cults may also isolate members from the outside world, control relationships within the cult, and shun people who leave."

Reading through that thread really drives this home.
 
Spooky Scary Skeleton said:
A sound one.


False equivalence. BMW is already an established brand, unlike Black Myth. Even if you use chinese car brand like Chery as your argument, it still don't hold water because their car is one of the best selling cars in their domestic market, but has almost 0.1% market share on rest of the world, even though they actively export their cars.

We aren't discussing the quality of the game. That was never the discussion. We are comparing the game that almost exclusively sold well in china, to games like Hogwarts and Elden Ring that sold well in multiple regions that accumulate their millions of sold copies. Not a fair comparison, is it? Now, come back with me with a tangible, legit evidence that this game is selling millions of copies outside of china AS WELL, then your argument has some merit.
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Dude, I can't even read your comment past you thinking BMW = the car brand when BMW = Black Myth Wukong. Please go argue with yourself, have a good one. 😆
 
The steam players today are over 400k higher than the same time yesterday. Is 3m concurrent attainable today?
 
balls of snow said:
That ree thread is hilarious. Cant reconcile that people just want to play hype games. Happened with cyberpunk, hogwarts legacy and now bmw. Their entire reality is breaking.
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They always do this.
They start with their moronic disclaimers and thread markers "to let people know" and then they get increasingly passive-aggressive when they realize other users are walking past them without a single care for their manufactured drama and talking about the game instead.

Well... Passive-aggressive at first, then openly hostile and confrontational.
 
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Sentenza said:
They always do this.
They start with their moronic disclaimers and thread markers "to let people know" and then they get increasingly passive-aggressive when they realize other users are walking past them without a single care for their manufactured drama and talking about the game instead.

Well... Passive-aggressive at first, then openly hostile and confrontational.
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What actually is the problem with this game? Because it's based on a Chinese myth instead of their genitals? I don't like going there to look for myself. They sidestepped race because well, you're a monkey. At least they had beef with the creator of Harry Potter IP as a "reason" for condemning it but I'm too dumb to figure out the angle on this one by myself.

Edit: I already know the real reason is that the game is successful and has nothing to do with them or their cause. I mean whats their manufactured excuse shown to the world that discussing it makes you Satan.

OK I folded and looked. They made an OT and the very first replies were links to articles like "Wukong Developer's History of Sexism Is Complicating..." then those posts got added to the OT with "Remember to make your purchasing decisions by knowing everything there is to know about the developers behind the game"

I don't know how/why all the normal people just discussing the game can see all that and even want to be there lol.
 
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10 million copies sold is fucking INSANE. Most games could only dream of selling so many copies WITHIN A WEEK. Good for them. And this is Game Sciences first game too!

As for the salt, let Era seethe. Diversity? The game is based off of Journey to the West and you assume the role of The Monkey King but I guess that doesn't fulfill all the checkboxes to them. The irony that they are trying to paint Game Science as bad guys and yet, no one bats an eye when it's other developers. I don't get it.
 
Angry_Megalodon said:
What I mean with Wukong is that a bunch of newbies make an AAA that is several times less costly than the likes of GOW or Spiderman, while being of a similar scope. Western studios are pushing the narrative that they need 400 people to make a great AAA game, which Game Science proves wrong. Most gaming studios are overstaffed.
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There's a massive cost of living difference between a studio in china and a studio sitting on a beach in santa monica, US salaries are weirdly super high in general, probably because of all the extra tertiary costs you have to cover yourself over there.
I live in major european metropolitan area, yet I don't know a single person who makes more than €65k; my last job was at a software company with ~300 employees and they needed a director for something and it "only" paid 70k.
Yet on linkedin I see US posts regularly talking about 100k+ salaries regularly 😵

That aside, when studios tally the total number of people who were involved with project, it's not all staff; when capcom made RE5, their osaka studio which developed it had about ~140 people, yet nearly 600 people are credited for it, a lot of these are just temporary contractors who contribute maybe a single thing. It's not actually 600 people on salary.
The bulk of super high budgets we see come from studios being in areas/cities with top end living costs.
 
Gaiff said:
As of this writing, there are 2.3M players on Steam. I assume PS5 is probably in the neighborhood of 400K? Then the rest is Epic and that other platform whose name escapes me.

If this remains true of the total number of copies sold, Steam makes up around 77% of the sales. Likely anywhere from 7-8M sold there alone.
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I'm pretty sure that's not even remotely close to the truth spread. Your butt must be huge to pull this out of it.
 
DryvBy said:
I'm pretty sure that's not even remotely close to the truth spread. Your butt must be huge to pull this out of it.
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And your rebuttal is "I'm pretty sure" with nothing else, yet you have the nerve to accuse me of getting facts out of nowhere. This must be irony.
 
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Duchess said:
There's some real Thought Police energy coming from those forums. Imagine if people like that were in charge of the world. You'd be afraid to open your mouth.
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I mean there are places where people like that are in charge (Hello, UK, China and others).
My country was that place from 1948 - 1989 too. That is why these totalitarians need to be fought, rebuffed and mocked at every opportunity.
 
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DragonNCM said:
yeah...2024 is year of the dragon...maybe they will rename it in year of the monkey after game enormous positive game launch :)
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From now on, every year in the Chinese zodiac is the Year of the Monkey!

I would be fine with this, I'm actually a Monkey according to my birth year in the Chinese zodiac
 
poppabk said:
That Chinese game or that Monkey game aren't going to work.
What are they going to call it?
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Hmm...maybe That Black game--no that's not going to work, either 🤔.

Maybe they'll just call it BMW but then would that also ban the car?

A conundrum on their hands....

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Can't be activists masquerading as gamers until you ban all the real gamers first ;)

dEvAnGeL said:
I wish we could discuss the game success without having to bring up the purple kingdom. We are a better community than they could ever aspire to be.

Back to the topic. I did my part. Twice. Got a copy for my brother on ps5 and myself on PC.
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Look I 100% get what you mean and wish it were that simple. But there are a lot of games journalists and influencers who associate with Reset, and we see many of them push similar talking points and ideas in their articles on places that do then gain traction (if not acceptance) in visibility. So unfortunately it isn't a non-zero factor that can be completely ignored in these types of discussions.

Maybe one day soon they can be ignored the same way, say, Tumblr basically is these days. But I don't think we're quite there yet.

Spooky Scary Skeleton said:
A sound one.


False equivalence. BMW is already an established brand, unlike Black Myth. Even if you use chinese car brand like Chery as your argument, it still don't hold water because their car is one of the best selling cars in their domestic market, but has almost 0.1% market share on rest of the world, even though they actively export their cars.

We aren't discussing the quality of the game. That was never the discussion. We are comparing the game that almost exclusively sold well in china, to games like Hogwarts and Elden Ring that sold well in multiple regions that accumulate their millions of sold copies. Not a fair comparison, is it? Now, come back with me with a tangible, legit evidence that this game is selling millions of copies outside of china AS WELL, then your argument has some merit.
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So by your measure, was the Xbox 360 a failure? Because IIRC almost 65% or so of all systems were sold between the US and UK? Or is that still considered a success because those countries aren't China?

In a way I'd say a product that can do such big numbers in simply one region is even more impressive in ways than one getting similar numbers from a bunch of places, because it'd signal to me the ceiling on the former is higher. Meaning there's more room to grow. At least, in theory.

Again back to the Xbox example, there are very clear ways to completely screw that up and effectively kill any future growth (console sales in Xbox's case), but something tells me Game Science won't make those types of mistakes.
 
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One can only imagine the inner lives of these people getting a Nazi power trip from their station as game forum moderators.
 
Has it been determined that the Khee post about pirating the game is legit? If so I hope Game Science pushes to get them fired from any games journo jobs they might have. It's insane to me that a games journo would call for the piracy of a game that just came out and get away with it scot-free.
 
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Gideon said:
I heard they're planning a black myth trilogy, this one is action, next one will be a strategy game and the third one I don't remember what people said.
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I guess we will have a longer quarantine then. I'm telling you, as long as we have this game coming out, monkeypox will never die
 
Spooky Scary Skeleton said:
seeing the era post is like having a deja vu. I swear they went through exact same meltdown and 5 stages of grief four months ago when Stellar Blade came out and was getting rave reviews and sales.

I'm sure they will tire themselves out seething for next few weeks and latch onto another game to bitch and moan about. Time is a flat circle in that echo chamber.
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coming to realize that you aren't so much representing all that's good & just & sacred in the world as you are preaching the ideology of a recently developed cult based in incoherence & irrationality is a painful process. give them time. eventually, the deja vu aspect of always standing on the outside ineffectually screaming at everyone inside will finally get to them...
 
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