StreetsofBeige
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Snapshots above show it didnt even hit 2,000.
I checked Steamdb now. 10 people are playing. 24 hour peak is 20.
If FBC had a MP mode that has 12 players (like COD 6 vs 6), it wouldnt even fill a lobby.
Remedy was ‘unsatisfied’ with FBC: Firebreak’s launch sales but says it has ‘a solid game to build on’
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I checked Steamdb now. 10 people are playing. 24 hour peak is 20.
If FBC had a MP mode that has 12 players (like COD 6 vs 6), it wouldnt even fill a lobby.
Branded
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Yes that's what am saying. Even if it had 2000ccu at THIS POINT it would still be extremely sub par and an incredibly tough battle to regain players.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I dont think anyone heard about it. I think there was one trailer I barely remember. Next thing you know it's on GP and PS+ and only got 1M gamers to try it. Steam and console sales are probably in the 1,000s, not 100,000s or more.
Wildebeest
Member
Abiotic Factor did the thing people expected from them much better.
Omnipunctual Godot
Member
I think most people don't even know it exists.
diffusionx
Gold Member
They should have made a mystery ghost hunt type co op game like that popular one, not some generic shooter with garbage shooting. Would've fit the setting much better and could deepen the lore.
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TerribleAtThisGame
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Remedy can't make a legitimately great gameplay loop to save their lives, I have no idea why they thought they could make some banger MP game. They can't get away with covering mediocre-at-best mechanics with flashy window dressing in that space and that's literally their entire brand.
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
Maybe the genre is not saturated? Maybe we have a chance at Fortnite money/success??
Let's try like all the other ones
It'll be different than the other dead corpses
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BiohazardX95
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they expected sales after releasing it day 1 on ps plus and gamepass?
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Never heard of it.
semiconscious
Member
''i was unsatisfied with my house burning to the ground, but I now have a solid lot to build on...'
MALpractice311
Member
Let's make an live service multiplayer spinoff of a mildly successful single player game! Surely nothing will go wrong!
ClanOfNone
Member
Control is an interesting ip, I really enjoyed how the FBC is basically the SCP foundation, they should lean even more into that going forward.
This could've been a cool game, they should've had SCP-esque Mobil Task Force units that are designed to combat specific anomalous situations.
Instead they botched it so terribly that nobody played it, even when people could play it for "free" via GP or ps+.
This could've been a cool game, they should've had SCP-esque Mobil Task Force units that are designed to combat specific anomalous situations.
Instead they botched it so terribly that nobody played it, even when people could play it for "free" via GP or ps+.
Danny22
Member
If it wasn't on PS+ or gamepass, it would have like a max 100 players total
Lionel Richie
Member
What the fuck? Max Payne 1 and 2 were right there as the potential industry standard for awesome TPS and while Control is not a perfect game, it's miles ahead of whatever cover shooter adjacent crap is big these days. Bad take! Remedy struggles with marketability and potentially other stuff if people want to be wrong, but their gameplay loop has been STRONG since day one.
NeverYouMind
Member
If they unleash Night Springs (Alan Wake 2 DLC) as a standalone title on Steam they could cover some of their losses.
coffinbirth
Member
I've passed over this game a dozen times and had no idea it was made by Remedy nor part of the Control universe. Even though it looks like the most generic shit out there, I'm gonna have to install it and give it a whirl...as I've never played a Remedy game I didn't like. That being said, whomever was in charge of art direction and marketing for this game needs to be let go. Just shockingly bad looking given the pedigree. Was this their swing at using AI?
Someone above(now banned) compared this game to Redfall, and I was genuinely shocked to see that Redfall had more people playing on Steam the last 24 hours than this. How is this even possible???
Someone above(now banned) compared this game to Redfall, and I was genuinely shocked to see that Redfall had more people playing on Steam the last 24 hours than this. How is this even possible???
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ecosse_011172
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I wonder why they decided to do this in the first place, they're a studio who have an extremely solid record of making excellent single player, story-based games and seemed sensibly ran.
Anyway, hope it's not been too damaging and they focus on what they do so well.
Anyway, hope it's not been too damaging and they focus on what they do so well.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Just wanted to highlight due to these posts. The game did not fail because people never heard of it. I heard of it, I played it, I refunded it.
It failed because it was shit, the game has zero redeeming qualities and the gunplay is some of the worst I have experienced in gaming ever. I have played tech demo's friends made with better feedback on the guns.
Just play any other coop shooter instead, it will be better.
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Bonfires Down
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Put it in Humble Choice and I'll play it. Looks pretty cool.
AGRacing
Member
I gave the thing a shot. It didn't even work when I tried it. I had a laugh at an absurd amount of frozen enemies in the restroom, immediately died without explanation and shut it off. Didn't pay for the thing so that's about it for me.
It's a saturated market.
"You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime"
It's a saturated market.
"You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime"
Gojiira
Member
Man this right here is the problem. They built the game in a vacuum, did not do ample research or playtesting, and they released trash and it shows…Remedy are far too stubborn for the extremely modest successes they've had. They aren't at the highs of Max Payne anymore. They need to just get a fucking grip, take the L and fucking focus on the one good game they've done in recent years and build on it with Control 2. Screw all this other shite.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
MP1 and MP2 came out more than 20 years ago and they've lost the plot since in my opinion. Those games were revolutionary at the time. Alan Wake had shitty, repetitive combat, encounters and level design, Quantum Break's ganeplay was lost somewhere between the hours of movies, Alan Wake 2 is absolutely braindead and their worst yet and Control majorly suffered from encounters consisting of the game randomly spawning hordes of enemies. Control also didn't control well, ironically, imo so I wouldn't call that "legitimately great" either.
Anything after MP has absolutely been mediocre-at-best gameplay wise to me. If you can play AWII and honestly tell me that's a "STRONG" gameplay loop, I don't know dude. Their games have been hard carried by their wacky, zany Remedy-verse thing for ages.
PS: I think Control is a cool game. I rated it a 7/10 personally, I just think again that's the best they've mustered since MP and it's not GREAT in my book. The environmental destruction, level design and lore are the most fun part, the combat mechanics are killer in theory but I never thought it felt particularly good to actually play.
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