Steam's Deadlock just "officially announced" and "released"...in alpha...CLOSED alpha. You need an invite.
There are currently 55k people playing, with a peak of 64k. Heck, Deadlock had 30k before it was even announced.
Concord still (on Steam) hasn't cracked seven...hundred. Didn't even crack five hundred today, and is currently under three hundred on Steam.
Out of sick curiosity, I just did another comparison. CoD: Black Ops 3 (from 2015) still has 6k+ people playing at the moment, with a daily high of almost 10k. A game from 2015 has more than 20x the players, and 18x the daily peak.
And this is all despite ad campaigns plastering Concord banners everywhere. I don't recall ever seeing a launch quite this bad. I don't even know how they did it.
I did some digging because I was curious, Battlefield 1 still has 10k players as of the past 24 hours, Concord apparently has less players than ME3 at 449.
I still suspect that it being from Sony has a part to play as I heard the characters in Deadlock don't all look like they are from Dead or Alive or some other Asian game that understands beauty and yet it dumpstered Concord but regardless it is just the biggest humiliation of a game studio/publisher.
Dude, Andromeda has 600 current players. Concord has less than half that, and didn't even hit that as daily peak. 0_o
Also, the remaster, ME: Legendary Edition, has roughly 5,000 playing and peak.
Now I'm just pulling up random games. Ghostwire Tokyo (a singleplayer game from '22), has 300 playing and almost 500 daily peak. Concord has 10 higher daily peak, and 50 less current players. Than an older singleplayer game.
Greedfall, a singleplayer AA RPG from '19, still has 260 current players.
Borderlands 1, 2, and 3, have 2.5k, 8k, 15k, respectively.
It just gets worse the more you look.
With singleplayer games they probably aren't taking into account how many people are likely pirating because I do that for stuff that I own so I don't have to have that stupid DRM on constantly.
It's Steam, it's only tracking gameplay on Steam. Nothing tracks piracy, that's part of the point.
How many does Battlefield 4 typically have? Been thinking of reinstalling and scratching that itch...
Whatever you do don't do Battlefield 4, the funny thing is it's not a terrible game at all despite how bad the installation process is with all the DLCs, however the admins who run the servers are infamous for being monumental douches.
If it's not horrible weapon restrictions it's chat filters that will auto-ban you making it thoroughly impossible to play which is a shame because Battlefield 4 was my absolute favourite multiplayer game. I preferred hardcore mode above all else because it got rid of that stupid 3D spotting mechanic and meant you could pull all kinds of sneaky shit it was great.
Battlefield 1 is not as bad with the admin stuff however the official servers especially are infested with Chinese script kiddies running auto-aim hacks and shooting people across the map and it's blatant. Now bearing in mind this information 'could' be out of date because I haven't played the game for a decade but be wary about people who are trying to advertise these games as alive because they're really not.
There was this strange trend awhile back with youtubers were a bunch of them were all trying to claim BF4 for example was alive and had people playing then when I actually checked my own region it was completely dead. By the way I'm writing all of this because I'll admit I'm basically the RL equivalent of the colonel in Battlefield Friends lol I loved the Battlefield series.
I am also a lover of thr Battlefield series! BF4 was the last great one IMHO. Yeah it had its problems at launch, but Dice LA managed to iron a lot of them out.
I am well aware of, and can put up with, skeezy server admits. But thanks for the warning!
P.S. I'm more like the Engineer from Battlefield friends. I definitely have my shit bucket colonel wings, though!
2k peaks, looks like
Off topic but I'm still mad that Battlebit remastered completely squandered their chance at being a proper Battlefield competitor, there's clearly quite a thirst in the industry for a proper 64 player team based multiplayer game.
I play Squad. 50vs50 that has squad chat, local chat and squadlead/commander char. Has logistics and armored gameplay. Has helicopters for transport and logistics too, they might add gunships later on.
Most importantly, just play as a nameless male soldier in a dozen countries. Us marines, us army, russian army, russian airborn, chinese pla, east europe militia, middle east insurgents, uk, australia, canada.
Would have initially liked Squad a lot and I do have that on steam but unfortunately the devs have a reputation.
Reputation of what? Seems these days.. every damn dev team has at least 1 crazy tranny or commie telling off chuds.
You already paid them money so you dont really give them any more money.