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.
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...
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
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.
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.
I do agree it has been going slightly downhill, but mostly because of ICO. The infantry combat overhaul. Basically.. you have noodle arms where you cant steady aim and your vision gets super blurry when bullets go near you. And yes, game runs worse.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to pull shit like the Concord devs did in what's probably the most competitive, overcrowded genre market, one that relies heavily on high player numbers.
You're just one of those "talentless freaks!" Just consoom like a good person.
Heh, I'm just glad they doubled down like that. As I said, it was such a disaster, I'd feel bad for them, if they didn't insist on shoving woke shit in and shitting all over everyone. They make it so easy to despise them, though.
Woke never works on new IP like concord or dustbin. They only work on super popular established IP. Lefties love using spider man 2 as an example. But im pretty sure its because spiderman 2 was bundled with ps5 and people have an interest in the spiderman brand and most likely dont know its woke.
And then there is another example lefties like to use, baldurs gate 3. It succeeded despite it being woke, not because its woke. And super majority of players ignored the gay shit any went with shadowheart. Seems any romance game.. people pick a light skin straight char that is as closed to standard traditional beauty as possible.
Spiderman 2 sold a fraction of what the first one did with double the marketing put into it. And that's with its main character at his literal peak of popularity in other media. Its did just passable enough to not be some massive failure, but it also just passed by without anyone giving a shit about it besides those mocking its over woke sections.
I don't understand why they had the balls to stick a £30 price tag on it.
Even if your in to that kind of thing you could play valorant or overwatch 2 for free.
As if Valve and Deadlock aren't infested by DEI. Valve is on SBI's website. Sure Deadlock's character design isn't as bad as Concord, but to be honest it still looks pretty bad.
I'm just comparing a launch people are actually interested in to an astroturfed crash and burn. Not here to say Valve/Deadlock are perfect or even great, just that - so far - they're drawing attention. Concord didn't even manage that.
Dammit, I keep hoping everyone is talking about Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
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That's a lot of Chinese bugmen...
i know how they did it. the characters are ugly as shit and you have to pay for this game. simple as. if they used some big titty anime girls and made it free to play, they'd easily get a few thousand more players without changing anything else.
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