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One of the funnier comparisons is Farming Simulator 25: currently has 4 times as many players as Veilguard and a 50% higher all-time peak.
https://steamdb.info/app/1845910/charts/
https://steamdb.info/app/2300320/charts/
People would rather work a second job that pays nothing than play Veilguard.
"People" or Germans specifically?
Psh. I'd rather play something more fantastical than reality, like Elite Dangerous.
(is actually a trucking sim under a coat of space paint)
I never liked them at least. But there are quite a lot I know who do so checks out.
If you havent played Farming Simulator give it a try sometime - one of the older ones that go on sale dirt (haha) cheap.
It's a strangely compelling game and youll see why they do biyearly releases.
I've watched several let's players play various sim games. They're somewhat interesting with entertaining commentary but I don't have the patience to till a field or mow a lawn as if it was real life.
It's not real life. It's not hot AF (probably). Your lawnmower probably doesn't refuse to start, and you don't physically hurt yourself trying to fix it. There are no bugs. You can drink a beer either way.
Ironically true, just not in the way it's probably intended.
Because they actually did well.
Which isn't much.
And a couple of those releases were total trainwrecks by the standards of the time.
What's even better, leftists can't mange budgets. I would not be surprised if this shit cost EA more then 100 million.
Apparently development for the game started in 2015, but was restarted in 2018. During development they had a lot of staff leave too, it's amazing that anybody actually stuck around to take responsibility for this trash fire. It's no surprise that they ended up with at tranny director for the game "Corinne Busche" and the final game definitely reflects that.
Even Starfield managed to not poison the well and scare off people from at least TRYING to like it. Rare Todd W
Starfield was interesting for like a good while longer than other games that cost as much. People just didn't want to play it forever like they derangedly do with Skyrim.
They told Todd to hold their soylent.
Also urinalists: “bUt BuT bUt bLaCK mYtH iS tHe LoWeSt rAtEd GaMe EvEr nOmiNaTeD fOr GoTy reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”
Leftists when a YouTube reviewer with decades of experience and millions of viewers shits on a woke game: he’s a nobody, his opinion is not legitimate
Leftists when a curated group of queer activists (from tiny progressive gaming websites with no readership) band together to prop up a shitty woke game with a manufactured false consensus of wildly inflated review scores: the authorities have spoken, game over chuds!
Seriously, go look at the “outlets” that gave Dragon Age Veilguard such high scores. It’s a bunch of writers you’ve never heard of working for a bunch of websites you’ve never heard of. This is supposed to be a meaningful aggregating process for determining quality? 50 lefties all agreeing with each other is the ultimate marker of critical success in this industry?
"9 out of 10 reviewers agree with The Party! The 10th was executed for unrelated crimes against the state, and Party disloyalty."
Even Factorio had more people playing.
I'm just learning that WuKong had that many all-time peak players. I knew it was successful but holy fuck.
I mean, it's a game about sun wukong. You know damn well at a minimum every chinese gamer will pick it up.
And a lot of the rest of East and Southeast Asia as well. Journey to the West is a cultural landmark there.
The sheer amount of outpouring of hype and nostalgia about it I saw made me envious. I can't think of anything about anything from my own country that people would rally around if it got a big new entry like that.
That's still pretty high.
Not high enough for an AAA game that cost like $250 million to make.