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[Guilty_AI]

Isn't the Palworld hype already over?

Still played a lot on steam tho.

 

[NonPhixion]

MS failed with NT? You are forgetting the banger NT and MS put out after they acquired the studio? Bleeding Edge would not have been possible without MS. Organic.

 

[Gideon]

The way this game came and went lmao

It's a singleplayer game, all of them come and go.

 

[Rockman33]

Also palworld will probably be sued at some point here. I'm confident that Nintendo's ninjas are currently investigating ways to close them down.

Pretty sure it would have happened already.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

It's a singleplayer game, all of them come and go.

Still...having the 2nd biggest Steam peak in history and in less than 2 months it's about to have less than 100k CCU is not typical in any way...
Plenty of older singleplayer games have quite a healthy playerbase...

 

[rhodesianshepard]

There it is! I was expecting that very reply. So what else is Microsoft supposed to do? The studio literally says that thanks to Microsoft, they're able to bring what they couldn't do before with the game. Microsoft is giving them FULL financial support and all the creative freedom that they need to make whatever it is that they envisioned, but noooo, I'm going to base my opinion on a trailer and not give any credit to Microsoft. That's exactly what I'm talking about right there, zero acknowledgement when MS does things, it's the so called Xbox tax.

It doesn't reflect good or bad on Microsoft. You act like it should be some type of major achievement. I wish Hellblade 2 was bigger in scope and had a fun gameplay loop. Microsoft has earned little trust in cultivating their own studios. They don't have the history to grow them like Sony has with their first party studios

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Still...having the 2nd biggest Steam peak in history and in less than 2 months it's about to have less than 100k CCU is not typical in any way...
Plenty of older singleplayer games have quite a healthy playerbase...

Its early access, light on content.

You will get 100 hrs out of it but a lot of systems need to be in place before it can be ready for 1.0 release.

Having played it for a bit, its over ambitious and may never get out of early access.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

You mean like what Microsoft is doing with Ninja Theory? The studio described how many ideas they had envisioned for the original Hellbalde, but couldn't be realized wtih their previous limited budget, but thanks to Microsoft, they're bringing all those ideas to Hellbalde 2 now. So based on what you described, Microsoft acquiring Ninja Theory and putting out Hellbalde 2 should be considered organic... the problem is, even though it fits your exact description, it's not something you considered because of clear bias.

They've also provided means for other devs they bought to open new studios and work on smaller passion projects the developers had long wanted to release like Bleeding Edge, Grounded, and Pentiment. All while giving them full autonomy and freedom to work on whatever they want.

It's a far cry from what we heard when they bought them, that these devs would be treated like shit and forced to churn out episodic cheap GamePass filler and all their games would become GaaS trash.

Even this example you made with HB2, look at the replies. The gameplay is the same! It's short! It's not God of War! If they expanded HB2 and made it a GoW clone the users would just be bitching about that. You aren't going to win with most of these people.

HB2 will release exactly as intended, only with much better production value because of MS. That's not a bad thing.

 

[JackMcGunns]

They've also provided means for other devs they bought to open new studios and work on smaller passion projects the developers had long wanted to release like Bleeding Edge, Grounded, and Pentiment. All while giving them full autonomy and freedom to work on whatever they want.

It's a far cry from what we heard when they bought them, that these devs would be treated like shit and forced to churn out episodic cheap GamePass filler and all their games would become GaaS trash.

Even this example you made with HB2, look at the replies. The gameplay is the same! It's short! It's not God of War! If they expanded HB2 and made it a GoW clone the users would just be bitching about that. You aren't going to win with most of these people.

HB2 will release exactly as intended, only with much better production value because of MS. That's not a bad thing.

 

[Deerock71]

Pretty sure it would have happened already.

They're probably building an air-tight case right now. It's only been a month or so.

 

[JimboJones]

They're probably building an air-tight case right now. It's only been a month or so.

The game plays more like Valheim than Pokémon all the similarities are very superficial.
As long as the Devs haven't directly ripped assets from Pokémon games or used an ai programme that was trained on Nintendo art I have a hard time seeing Nintendo having any leg to stand on.

 

[yurinka]

It had an insane sales and CCU peak at launch due to the meme but quickly faded, now is down at top 26 in Steam sellers and with 100K+ CCU daily peaks (around 50-60K during non peak hours) and continues falling.

Doesn't seem to have a good user retention, in a few months should have a relatively pretty small active userbase. Doesn't seem a good invesment for the long term.

 

[kiphalfton]

Isn't the Palworld hype already over?

Let's not pretend like some of their other studio acquisitions haven't been a complete waste of money.

Microsoft: Hold by beer bag