R/gamingcirclejerk has been seething a lot about stellar blade the last few weeks
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Hope the demise of the Western AAA game industry comes soon.
Looking at SteamDB, only 4 games released in the last year are in the top 25 of 24-hr player count. Those are:
Helldivers 2. #6, highest player count in the last 24 hrs is 242k
Palworld. #15, 100k
Baldur's Gate 3, #17, 87k
Football Manager 2024, #21, 67k
Taking IGN's list of biggest games of 2023 (archive here - https://archive.is/yg2fP), and listing the ones on Steam:
Forspoken: 24 hr peak of 57
Dead Space: 570
Hogwarts Legacy: 8.5k
Wild Hearts: 127
Atomic Heart: 627
Company of Heroes 3: 3k
Sons of the Forest: 12k
Kerbal Space Program 2: 601
Octopath Traveler 2: 592
Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: 704
RE4 Remake: 6k
System Shock remake: 130
Minecraft Legends: 22
Jedi Survivor: 2k
Redfall: 58
Suicide Squad: 475
Street Fighter 6: 23k
Diablo 4: 4.5k
Starfield: 6k
The Expanse: 34
The Day Before: shut down now
Armored Core 6: 2k
Forza Motorsport: 6k
Lies of P: 2.5k
Payday 3: 357
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 878
Granted, those numbers could change drastically when you factor in other platforms, but of those 26 games "most promising" games, 14 don't even have 1k concurrent players a year (or less) after release, and only 2 have above 10k. Sure sounds like you all are on the right track.
Wow, diablo 4 worse than starfied? yikes
Starfield is a boring buggy mess, but Diablo 4 feels like it's actively sucking your life away
It also got added to game pass recently
These are steam numbers, not even remotely worth considering since they only added D4 to steam as a dying gasp to get more players that didn't want to use the battlenet launcher.
Game Pass just got Diablo IV as well
To be fair, and I bring this up any time someone lists player count, significant drop off - especially for single player games - is the norm. Even many beloved games drop to very low numbers. Now, I'm not saying this data is useless; it is hilarious how badly some of these failed, and they absolutely did. There's no excuse for Redfall, for example. And I haven't followed Payday 3, but that looks like a mess just looking at those numbers.
Single player games obviously drop way faster in player count than multiplayer games, so the list is not super perfect. But it shows enough.
Suicide Squad & Forspoken were both woke shit and the numbers are really bad, even compared to other single player games (Atomic Heart, Jedi Survivor, ...) especially when you consider they're a "popular genre".
Sad to see Payday 3 so low. I had a lot of fun with Payday 2 back in the day with my buddies. It had such a satisfying gameplay loop.
You know what's great about a game like Football Manager - it's full of all races so wokes can't complain - whilst users have the freedom to have an all white team if they choose.