namenotfound
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It'll probably peak over 100k. It's been 10 years. I wonder the budget came out to be. Last Epoch hit 260k peak concurrent though Diablo-style games have been hot the past decade
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Dragon Age: Veilguard releases with over 70k concurrent players on Steam and 'Mixed Reviews'
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Guilty_AI
Gold Member
Not always. If word of mouth isn't good or the game has technical issues (which seems this one has despite what DF claimed), the game can just drop right off.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
I'm playing the game and it runs extraordinarily well so far. Where are we seeing technical issues?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
yep, the IGN review was a non-binary orgasm of praise
Raven117
Member
The Concord bomb moved everyone's expectations of failure.
Concord was breathtaking in its failure.
Hawk The Slayer
Member
50k to 100k peak ccp would be great for much lower and smaller budget games like Granblu Fantasy Relink, Stellar Blade, Wukong etc.
For Veil guard with the huge focus, work, and budget it'll be
100k peak steam ccp = flop
200k peak steam ccp = below expectation.
400k peak steam ccp = success
600k peak steam ccp = above expectation
800k peak steam ccp = mega successful
1 million peak steam ccp = It's Veilguarding Time
I think it'll definitely reach above 100k with the rate things are going. Maybe to the 200k concurrent peak mark at least would be my guess.
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Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
As usual it'll be up to the 60K average household income to save the game.
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Astray
Member
Steam is not the only storefront out there though.
This game is also on Xbox and PS storefronts, who knows how many players are playing the game rn over there?
Also not everyone plays their new game day 1.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Just broke 65k now on steam charts.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
- The user count hasn't peaked yet and will probably peak at ~2x of where it's at now
- A total of 159 games have reached over 100k concurrent players since the inception of Steamdb; the vast majority of them being multiplayer games. Single player games reaching these huge concurrent numbers on Steam is pretty rare.
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NuclearDiarrhea
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So the modern audience does exist. Oh well, guess It's time we just accept that the bat-shit insane retards have took over and a blue-haired transgender Solid Snake lecturing Psycho Mantis on pronouns and abortion rights in a MGS1 remake is an inevitability. You will like it and you will you love it.
asdasdasdbb
Member
It's currently 8th on Playstation's "Top 10 Games" in US but the ones above it are Sports Games/Cod/Fortnite.
Lokaum D+
Member
Everyone ll be playing MH beta this weekend
Guilty_AI
Gold Member
Seen on the reviews lots of complaints about the game crashing or not even starting. A few others complained about poor performance
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
.... or maybe the majority of people don't live on the internet fighting these fake "culture wars" and really don't give a shit or even notice if a game gives you the option to choose pronouns or if there's a couple lines that push for inclusivity.
This is Hogwarts Legacy all over again but on the other side of the spectrum. The vast majority of normal people don't give a fuck. People just want to play games they think look fun.
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light2x
Member
Based on what?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Historical precedent and common sense?
It's already at 65k now by the way. Will almost certainly peak above 100k at this rate.
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light2x
Member
Whose expectations? Why is everyone being so vague about this?
Kacho
Gold Member
Too early to say. We need to see how it does over the weekend to have a real conversation.
YuLY
Member
Starfield - 330.000
BG3 - 875.000
Cyberpunk 2077 - 1,054,388
Whos expectations ?? EA's after 7 years of dev?
BigBeauford
Gold Member
This game wishes it could sniff Hogwart's Legacy 527,000 peak CCU and sales.
.... or maybe the majority of people don't live on the internet fighting these fake "culture wars" and really don't give a shit or even notice if a game gives you the option to choose pronouns or if there's a couple lines that push for inclusivity.
This is Hogwarts Legacy all over again but on the other side of the spectrum. The vast majority of normal people don't give a fuck. People just want to play games they think look fun.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
I think you’re setting the bar way, way too high. Most AAA games on Steam don’t come close to 400K CCU.
Hugare
Gold Member
And this is on a Thursday. I imagine a lot of more players will log in on the weekend.
"Mixed reviews", c'mon now. Less than 30 reviews.
I'm glad that Bioware will survive so they can listen to criticism and fix them for their next game.
They would be fools to ignore (valid) criticism.
"Mixed reviews", c'mon now. Less than 30 reviews.
I'm glad that Bioware will survive so they can listen to criticism and fix them for their next game.
They would be fools to ignore (valid) criticism.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
This isn't most AAA games though. This is a BioWare/Dragon Age game.
The bar should be high.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Not sure what you're trying to prove by sharing the 7th, 12th, and 33rd highest concurrently played games of all-time on Steam. All games with PC centric fanbases as well. Of course Dragon Age was never going to reach numbers anywhere near those and no one would've ever predicted anything near that, "woke" or not.
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Senua
Member
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Please stop preejaculating my fellow libtards and chuds. Too early yet
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
lol. ya'll so butthurt
(Iloved Hogwarts Legacy by the way, one of the best games of last year)
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
You're insane lol. There's been a total of 26 games in the history of Steamdb that have peaked at over 400k and like 20 of them are multiplayer games.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
You guys can simply refer to the GAF thread. A lot more users expecting it to to sub 20k, 10k, 5k etc with only a few users (accurately) guessing 50k or above.
How many players will Veilguard see on Steam? How many will equate to a success?
Not worth doing a poll, can't really compare to Inquisiton as it launched on origin initially so what do you think? Predict away..
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Fbh
Gold Member
So far as it seems as I guessed in the other thread, though it might get past the 100k mark during the weekend.
People who though this was going to be a massive bomb were delusional.
It's a well known IP, it got good reviews and it's benefiting from a pretty barren landscape of AAA releases for the moment (aside from COD), specially now that AC and Kindom Come got delayed.
it's going to be moderate success but no in the same league as something like Baldur's Gate 3 or Cyberpunk.
People who though this was going to be a massive bomb were delusional.
It's a well known IP, it got good reviews and it's benefiting from a pretty barren landscape of AAA releases for the moment (aside from COD), specially now that AC and Kindom Come got delayed.
it's going to be moderate success but no in the same league as something like Baldur's Gate 3 or Cyberpunk.
clarky
Gold Member
Its going way higher than than. I think people underestimate just how popular Dragon Age actually is.
Mass Effect is not a good comparison btw.
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Sentenza
Gold Member
It's overwhelmingly the relevant one if one wants to gauge the popularity of a game on PC.
And given that "the other stores" exist for other games as well, it makes no sense to worry about making excuses.
You have Steam numbers for both, you can make reasonable approximations on how well they are performing comparatively to each other.
Senua
Member
Hohenheim
Member
For fuck's sake. That's a piss take in my opinion. But hey, everyone is allowed to their opinion.
"Sadly is sells well"?
It's a huge single player game, no extra shitty launcher needed etc.. I think it's great that this game sells well!
So it has that goofy artstyle and some trans folks was part of the dev team.. so what?
There's plenty of other games if this is not your cup of tea, but wanting it to fail because of the "wokeness" seems quite silly.
I couldn't give two fucks about lots of games, but it's PLENTY of games for everyone. And i'm very happy everytime a single player game does well.
And that fuckin word "woke", man..
Most useless word and stupid word. Makes it feel like the world evolves around that silly, hollow shit.
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BigBeauford
Gold Member
For my money this is the last domino needed to fall in a brutal 12 month stretch for woke entertainment (both gaming and film). After this well:
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
digoutyoursoul
Member
I do love BioWare , I want them healed not flushed down the toilet.
clarky
Gold Member
Steam has a daily CCU of around 33milion people I highly doubt they'll all be playing Monster Hunter.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
Sure, but 400K if I’m not mistaken is like top 30 all time. Without F2P, it’s higher. I don’t think it needs to peak that high to be a success.
I’ll check the Steam Charts record later, but 400K is a smashing success, not just a decent or good one.
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StueyDuck
Member
Lol, do you need a hug and a participation award?
Raven117
Member
For me, its just that this new game is wearing the corpse of Dragon Age Origins. If Bioware wanted to make a new IP and have it be something different and new, cool. Let'er rip. But instead, Bioware took an established IP with a decidedly different vibe and tone, killed it, gutted it, and threw it on a game that is substantially different from what made the original IP great.
Thats my issue.
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Sentenza
Gold Member
Let me explain to you the issue here:
Dragon Age isn't supposed to be the "plucky underdog" made on shoestring budget.
Since 2009 the series is considered a household name in the RPG genre.
In fact, barely a year ago, before August 2023, anyone suggesting that Larian was going to pulverize the "next Dragon Age" in sales would have been laughed out of the door (but we now know how that turned out).
Dragon Age had ALL the potential to pull similar numbers. Not only the previous ones were successful, but the PC market has grown significantly year after year since their releases.
The only reason this is doing so-so is because the word of mouth has been awful for the past few months.
It's still BIG enough as a serie to pull decent numbers, but it's not turning into the runaway hit it could have been in a better timeline, when they would have been able to come out with something that genuinely appealed to most.
StueyDuck
Member
No no no.
Hohenheim is right. The game sold well so your only allowed to say positive things, it's silly to have any opinion one way or another.
Only bad people who do bad things think that a bad product selling well isn't necessarily a good thing.
Join me in penance and serve yourself 10 lashes. For tis truly an outrageous thing. Probably the craziest thing anyone's ever sad on gaf actually.
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