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[Astray]

Extremely sad news man.

More info on the purple site:

DON'T NOD: Jusant & Banishers well below expectations, two projects on ice, two projects "refocused to reach a wider audience". News

DON'T NOD published a PR for their investors and it looks like a profits warning. https://www.dontnod-bourse.com/en/financial-information/press-releases?ID=ACTUS-0-87839 tl;dr: Confirmation that Jusant & Banishers didn't do as well as expected It's 2024, and Life is Strange & Vampyr are still...

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[SpearHea.:D]

Man jusant is such an amazing game. I was touched by that game.

Sadly life is unfair, gems like jusant dont sell and recycled crapola like cod sells

 

[bender]

Jusant's concept has so much potential but it really comes as no surprise that there isn't much of an audience for it.

 

[Da1337Vinci]

Jusant was expected the market is not there and Eden looked kinda meh.

 

[Sanepar]

Banishers is a good game. That's why we are infested of purple hair gaas crap games. Gamers don't buy the good ones.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

 

[kittoo]

Banishers is an amazing game. It's the type of game a lot of people here ask for- a good AA single player game with no woke agenda no microtransactions, good story and interesting setting etc.
Yet no one bought it.

 

[Miles708]

What even is Banishers

 

[NeverYouMind]

A climbing game and an action game with no interesting playable characters... How could those possibly not have mainstream appeal? /s

 

[Hohenheim]

Banishers is a good game. That's why we are infested of purple hair gaas crap games. Gamers don't buy the good ones.

Yeah, the latest purple hair gaas game really did set the world on fire during the few days it was available...

Everytime a game performs below expectations people here blame "purple hair" and throw that meaningless "woke" word around.
Its not that simple.

Jusant was brilliant, but obviously not a title that would set the world on fire. It was also on Game Pass day one.
Banishers was just middle of the road in every aspect, and it had some pretty heavy competition during its release window.

 

[ungalo]

Life is strange and Vampyr were their best games and their best-sellers.

 

[Mossybrew]

What even is Banishers

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Why do they saddle games with such awkward titles.

 

[JayK47]

Wow. I had not heard of either games. Banished looks interesting. I may check it out. Just too many games to play. I really do not have time to play even half of what I would like to.

 

[bender]

Wow. I had not heard of either games. Banished looks interesting. I may check it out. Just too many games to play. I really do not have time to play even half of what I would like to.

Jusant is about ~4 hours long. It's also, or was, on Game Pass.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Banishers is an amazing game. It's the type of game a lot of people here ask for- a good AA single player game with no woke agenda no microtransactions, good story and interesting setting etc.
Yet no one bought it.

I never even heard of it and I’m on GAF and twitter damn near every day

 

[lmimmfn]

A woke company, that's a no for me for anything they produce.

 

[Mossybrew]

I never even heard of it and I’m on GAF and twitter damn near every day

It got very little coverage and I saw no marketing at all. I read like one review out of curiosity and it sounded okayish.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Banishers is definitely one of the more memorable games I played this year. More people here should give it a shot.

 

[Ozriel]

Jusant is about ~4 hours long. It's also, or was, on Game Pass.

The GP deal probably saved them from even more loss, since it apparently struggled to sell on PS and PC.

A woke company, that's a no for me for anything they produce.

What part of Jusant is ‘woke’? The climbing?

 

[bender]

What part of Jusant is ‘woke’? The climbing?

Alpiner on the TI-99 is the genesis of the woke movement. Duh!

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Seems to be increased pushback on leftist "woke" agendas in games lately, so not surprised that Banishers suffered.

Jusant is on GamePass, so of course nobody is buying it.

 

[lmimmfn]

The GP deal probably saved them from even more loss, since it apparently struggled to sell on PS and PC.


What part of Jusant is ‘woke’? The climbing?

Life is Strange, they planted their flag regardless of their other games, they're tainted.

 

[Punished Miku]

I beat Jusant on GP and then bought it full price and Harmony to support them. Jusant is a masterpiece.

 

[Topher]

Couldn't get into either of them personally

 

[adamsapple]

What a shame, I enjoyed both of them

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It'd probably help if the names of the two games were better.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You under advertised. I didn't see a thing about this game until I read impressions in the OT.

It's now on my wishlist due to Gaf.

 

[dorkimoe]

I thought both were decent.

 

[Magic Carpet]

PlayStation didn’t need Jusaunt we had the Call of the Mountain VR climbing game.

 

[RavageX]

Was not promoted much. Banishers looks interesting. Never heard of the other. I also didn't see the usual HooHah around here for either title.

Now...when will I get a Vampyr sequel?

 

[STARSBarry]

I enjoyed Justant is was... alright... I think the game was missing a wow moment, largely because it took away much of the climb by cutscnes or load jumps. Right from the start I looked down and saw that we had already traveled a great distance up. That was my first problem, why didn't I start the climb at the bottom? And the game kept skipping the climb from there. Eventually they just gave up and gave you a whale to take you the rest of the way.

Felt sadly like they just missed the opportunity to make something great.

 

[R3TRO]

That’s disappointing

Get to work on Vampyr 2 now.

 

[Skifi28]

Life is Strange, they planted their flag regardless of their other games, they're tainted.

It pains me that the anti-woke are often more unbearable than the woke. Takes some real effort and dedication.

 

[VanCityGamer]

I didn’t enjoy Jusant and quit after a couple hours playing it on Game Pass. Banishers looks decent but I’m basically just waiting for its inevitable move to Game Pass or PS+.

I don’t think there’s a market for AA games anymore.

 

[Edgelord79]

Never tried Jusant. Banisher didn’t tickle my fancy.

 

[kiphalfton]

Isn't jusant just climbing stuff. That's the worst part of most games. Uncharted, Zelda, God of War, etc.

The other game has a bad name and bad cover art. Saw it at Walmart and figured it was shovelware.

 

[Kacho]

Never heard of either game but I'm a filthy casual gamer

 

[Flabagast]

Banishers really had everything to be a killer 15-20h Sony SP like experience (setting, mood, dialogues, characters) but it was wayyyy too bloated and clearly did not have the depth to justify its 50h+ runtime, leaving a somewhat bitter impression overall as the games spreads itself way too thin and ends up being exhausting at the end (I stopped at the 55h mark).

Its a shame really as they really did only need to remove a lot of the fat and maybe spend the saved budget to improve just a little bit production value and tighten the gameplay with no extra cost overall, and I am sure it would have got up to +5 metacritic points and made much more an impact.

I really do not understand why they felt that the game needed to be so long.

 

[bender]

Couldn't get into either of them personally

 

[PanzerCute]

I enjoyed both, but tbh Banishers release date sent it to die (between like 4 big RPGs) and Jusant was a hard sell for most players.

They should have made Vampyr 2.

 

[EDMIX]

Man jusant is such an amazing game. I was touched by that game.

Sadly life is unfair, gems like jusant dont sell and recycled crapola like cod sells

Sure but, this needs to be said...those buying COD clearly are buying cause something is being delivered that they are ok to spend money on.

We've seen series come and go, people are not just solely buying something only based on name alone or something, that is harder to maintain then I think some really realize, look at all the IP we've seen die, teams close down etc.

For this game, it seems maybe their marketing was off cause I forgot about this game legit right after it was announced.

Never tried Jusant. Banisher didn’t tickle my fancy.

To Edge's point too, it doesn't help if the game isn't fun....

If a game is legit and people think its fun, sometimes even with little marketing, that word of mouth can help do the heavy lifting.

It'd probably help if the names of the two games were better.

Doesn't help that the names are basically forgettable.

Look SpearHea.:D enough comments have given some solid reasons on why this didn't do good.

I don't see it as unfair, these are just reasons.

So I'm not going to sit here and pretend COD is just some easy thing that folks should support, something clearly is being done to have folks buy every year that is effective.

Its fun, it has a name folks can remember lol

Maybe this studio can learn at least from those ideas. Everything doesn't always need to be "new" focus on being fun first and have a solid marketable name AND then we can talk about new ideas, being new doesn't mean something will be fun and I think folks get a bit too carried way with that notion as if being different automatically must mean folks will care

 

[MALpractice311]

I had never heard of Vanisher's until I saw a demo for it on the PSN, which I ignored until someone here told me it was by the same team that made Vampyr. I then immediately downloaded the demo and then never got around to trying it. My backlog is just too big.

As for Jusant... I've literally never heard of this game until this thread.

I think Don't Nod needs to do something about their advertising budget.

 

[StereoVsn]

I enjoyed both, but tbh Banishers release date sent it to die (between like 4 big RPGs) and Jusant was a hard sell for most players.

They should have made Vampyr 2.

Yeah, Banisher release date was terrible. It was just asking to get lost during other bigger releases.

I have no idea what Jusant is which is probably part of the issue.

 

[kevboard]

I was kinda turned off by the demo of Jusant.

I played the PC demo and the performance was horrible, it had forced upsampling (not sure if it was TSR or FSR2) and had super random framerate drops while almost nothing was on screen.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Banishers is an amazing game. It's the type of game a lot of people here ask for- a good AA single player game with no woke agenda no microtransactions, good story and interesting setting etc.
Yet no one bought it.

Don't even know what it is. This studio put out life is strange and sequel. Both woke games from what I heard. Yet there was vampyr which I thought was great of course vampyr was more in my wheelhouse as I love Gothic horror. That being said they aren't in my radar.

I buy what appeals to me and usually on sale, outside of decade rpgs like Witcher 3, ff16, dragons dogma 2, cyberpunk, fire emblem, ys, and bg3, which I buy day 1. Lots of pc and switch indies.

 

[Shadowstar39]

I enjoyed both, but tbh Banishers release date sent it to die (between like 4 big RPGs) and Jusant was a hard sell for most players.

They should have made Vampyr 2.

I would of bought Vampyr 2 in a heartbeat. Also spiders needs a new technomancer or greed fall type game. Love AA rpgs.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

I got Banishers, but still haven’t had the chance to try it yet. I think one problem with the industry as well is that there are just WAY too many games available and coming out consistently. I heard there were literally thousands of games released on Steam in a year. Unfortunately, those games as good as they may be probably got lost in the proverbial shuffle like so many other games.

 

[semiconscious]

i tried to like banisher, but there's just something ponderous/oppressive about it. i get that these aren't happy times, story-wise, but i'm thinking either i wasn't ready for it at the time i checked it out, or i'd likely never be ready for it, considering how long it goes on. not a big fan of extended misery...

 

[TGO]

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden released digitally last year and it's physical release came months later this year.
It had Zero marketing so this kinda expected really.

 

[Aenima]

A woke company, that's a no for me for anything they produce.

The 1st Life is Strange is really good, and is only woke if you want it to be as nothing is forced on the player because they allow the player to choose the type of relationships you have with the other characters. If u watched and enjoied movies like Donnie Darko and you skipped the 1st Life is Strange, then you are missing out. The other Life is Strange games are just ok, not near as good as the 1st one.