Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Says players not sales.
Swift_Star
Banned
Players =/= sales.
Companion Cube
Member
I hope it sells 2 million. The director for SN has been posting about it every day for 489 days straight on twitter and even replies to any mentions of the game in their respective language to express his gratitude.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Great game, anyone whose hesitant on this and has Game Pass, definitely well worth a shot.
Definitely not the best JRPG around but well worth putting a few hours in to see if it's your bag or not.
Definitely not the best JRPG around but well worth putting a few hours in to see if it's your bag or not.
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remember_spinal
Banned
Bought it when it came out, never beat it. Just gets too repetitive and the story is dumb as hell even for what its trying to do
Strider Highwind
Banned
I liked it, game surprised me and I put like 60 hours into a play through lol
SlimeGooGoo
Banned
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Shining Star
Neo Member
Good, it was a really good game.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Fantastic game. Loved every minute and likely to dive back in again after seeing him say this. So happy for him.
pleaseinsertdisctwo
Member
Ngl I'm really turned off by recent BN games. Code Vein was awful, Tales of Arise is my least favorite Tales game outside of the battle system, and I didn't enjoy the demo for this game.
1M exclusively through Game Pass is pretty good
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yeah, seems like there's a 1 : 1 ratio of people who may have bought it to people who played it via Game Pass.
Hopefully MS cut them a pretty damn good cheque to keep the game on the service for a year or more.
manfestival
Member
I didn't finish this. The combat felt fine but I wasn't really all that bought into the game or gameplay. Maybe I give it another shot soon.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
If its just "players" who knows how many actually bought the game then.
So we'd have to see how they are counting this tbh. =)
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
We should use this measurement for all games imo.
People who buys games used are technically a player and not sale because the developer gets zero from used copies of the game unlike game pass where they at least give some money from Microsoft.
1m, its in the japanese tweet
The_hunter
Member
All things considered, 1million sales is good for a new JRPG franchise.
PropellerEar
Member
It was a weird call-out imo. I think Microsoft and Bandai are trying to cultivate an audience on xbox, how well that works who knows? Feels like a slightly uphill battle but gamepass does help lowering the barriers.
SkylineRKR
Member
Fun combat, boring dialogues and very basic level design. But its a fun romp.
Don't know how you can spin this as a success, because this is absolutely laughable attach rate
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Chukhopops
Member
Yeah that's a good summary, loved the game but could always use some improvements. The combat system becomes really interesting once you progress the game and unlock all the assists and skills.
I hope MS brings more of this type of JP games to GP. I doubt it costs much (especially a couple months after release) and it bring a different type of games.
SkylineRKR
Member
Yeah combat is legit awesome, even. Real time switching between helper powers, and mid combo. Applying oil/water? (depending on lead char) and throw down fire/lightning. Finish moves were cool as well.
I believe they all had their use. Clarvoyance could see invisible enemies and would be great at max level. Stealth would help against certain matchups as well. Duplication was always OP.
When a new movie from Netflix gets 1/10th of its subscribers to watch it I'm not sure thats really a failure..
Scarlet Nexus is an anime JRPG that didn't even come day and date. No surprise its not going to blow away with attachment rates on Xbox. I dont know why you have to view it as a bad thing lmao. They're clearly satisfied with it or they wouldn't be mentioning it.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
I'm not even sure they count used games in their figure. Doesn't make sense to say you've sold 5 copies if it's actually just 1 copy that's been distributed 5 times
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Roman Empire
Member
Gameplay was good but my God was the story unsufferable even for JRPGs standards. The game has gone like it came, like a fart in the wind.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
They're probably happy with the players coming into the eco system (and buying DLC stuff) and likely the cheque MS gave them for the deal.
More (or same #) people played it on game pass than bought it at retail. Unlike that news about Oddworld developer saying their experience was a disaster, the studio here seems to be happy with the outcome, hence the specific name-called shoutout.
Craig of War
Banned
2m sim kinda small when it on gamepass guess not many people care for it
Topher
Identifies as young
Opportunistic console war dig aside, are you really surprised a game received more money for being on Game Pass than a game being on PS+?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
That game is multi platform now it just landed on one service at launch, no console war dig here
And they haven't revealed what the nature of contract is so I don't know how much money they made here.
But I quite enjoyed the game and like I said earlier, i *hope* they got a good deal out of it:
PropellerEar
Member
By the metrics you guys love, 4M players for Oddworld.That game is multi platform now it just landed on one service at launch, no console war dig here
And they haven't revealed what the nature of contract is so I don't know how much money they made here.
But I quite enjoyed the game and like I said earlier, i *hope* they got a good deal out of it:
Mega success!!!
Topher
Identifies as young
That game is multi platform now it just landed on one service at launch, no console war dig here
The comparison to the Oddworld dev was a console war dig. Come on. Stop pretending.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Sure if you want to say that, the developer doesn't feel like that though.
Scarlet Nexus's developers don't seem to mind giving a positive shout out. So the expectations, budgeting and the deals cut were probably very different.
Not really, it's the closest comparison of another multi platform game developer commenting about putting their game on a subscription service.
It's only a dig if you're looking for it.
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Valt7786
Member
It's a big weeb anime game on the FIFA Chads console of choice.
If they put it on PS+ it would do a lot better.
Topher
Identifies as young
So now Game Pass and PS+ are comparable?