Full Throttle is MIA.
* No Thimbleweed Park
* Nothing from Wadjet Eye
* Nothing from Sierra (nu-King's Quest is likely a flop as expected)
So evolve sold better than OG left 4 dead? Turtle rock did good.
And Warframe has a standalone client that gives Digital Extremes full cut of anything you buy if you never played the steam version.Warframe being at #8 is pretty impressive.
Warframe being at #8 considering there's a block of players (including myself) whose Achievements aren't counted properly is pretty damn impressive indeed.
GAF/ERA has never been a good judge of what's popular with the mainstream. It's a hardcore enthusiast community and that's reflected in opinions and discussions. We're not a good reflection of the market at all.The reaction this forum had and has to learning about the success of games like Minecraft, Roblox, Ghost Recon Wildlands, and Unturned always entertains me; mostly because I normally expect this community to be so on top of games.
Higher than I thoughtMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite 53,532
Wow, I knew that game did poorly... but wow.
SEGA:
Company of Heroes 2 - 4,654,955
Empire: Total War - 3,491,439
Total War: Rome II - 3,350,407
Napoleon: Total War - 2,178,916
Total War: WARHAMMER - 2,085,605
Endless Space - 1,549,005
Endless Legend - 1,516,227
SEGA Genesis Classics - 1,514,485
Total War: Attila - 1,331,963
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed - 1,232,451
Aliens vs Predator - 1,231,126
Dungeon of the Endless - 1,080,885
Total War: WARHAMMER II - 955,731
I love the game as much as the next person but its PC port is atrocious and barely functional.
Those Vanquish numbers are honestly pretty good. They probably made their money back on the port after just 3,000 sales or so.140K for Vanquish? That kinda bums me out. Half a million for Jet Set Radio though? Gimme Future on PC please Sega.
Jesus christ Modern Warfare 2 was a juggernaut unbelievable.
Modern Warfare 4 done right next year with Battle Royal is gonna be legendary.
All Gaas games. Skyrim only SP game in top 20 and that's coz of mods but still very impressive
Because that's a screenshot of their library seen within the Steam client, which includes both their owned games and those shared with them through Family Sharing. The shared games don't appear in their profile, only in the library.But then how would they show up in SirFritz's screenshot above?
After the ending of Tyranny, I want a higher budget and meatier sequel. I know it's not popular enough to warrant it, but for some reason the choices in that game felt much more immediately impactful then Pillars. It was just lacking a good bit of budget to flesh out a lot of the world.Yeah, it's surprising how badly Deadfire bombed. Maybe the majority of RPG just hate pirates? I know they were pissed when Risen 2 went full pirate. Could be the same case here. Or maybe the Pillars IP just doesn't have legs. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if their next game was an all-new IP as neither Tyranny nor Deadfire performed particularly well.
After the ending of Tyranny, I want a higher budget and meatier sequel. I know it's not popular enough to warrant it, but for some reason the choices in that game felt much more immediately impactful then Pillars. It was just lacking a good bit of budget to flesh out a lot of the world.
Not to mention that it's just old Skyrim. If you add Skyrim SE, its numbers just on PC are insane. It must have sold close to 50 million overall at this point.
Yeah, it's surprising how badly Deadfire bombed. Maybe the majority of RPG players just hate pirates? I know they were pissed when Risen 2 went full pirate. Could be the same case here. Or maybe the Pillars IP just doesn't have legs. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if their next game was an all-new IP as neither Tyranny nor Deadfire performed particularly well.
With some exceptions, most of the well known point & click adventures seem to cap out at around ~250k. That's pretty bleak odds.
Look at the achievement stats for POE1, not a lot of people made it past the first act let alone finished the game. They marketed the sequel as a direct follow up to the first that picks up right where 1 ended and allows you to import your character with all your choices and whatnot from the first game. I think they shot themselves in the foot with this approach as now anyone interested in playing 2 would want to finish 1 first.
Look at the achievement stats for POE1, not a lot of people made it past the first act let alone finished the game. They marketed the sequel as a direct follow up to the first that picks up right where 1 ended and allows you to import your character with all your choices and whatnot from the first game. I think they shot themselves in the foot with this approach as now anyone interested in playing 2 would want to finish 1 first.
Final Fantasy XV is at 490K. That's not bad, but not tremendous.
Fallout 4 is sitting at 6.6 mil. That's pretty good. Not quite Skyrim, but that has had a few more years and a whole 2nd edition to get to the 13 mil number.
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I highly doubt this was Deadfire's problem. Tyranny's, maybe but not PoE II's.Sadly, history has shown that the majority of RPG players don't really like atypical settings. If you make anything that isn't traditional fantasy or sci-fi, you probably aren't going to sell a lot of copies.
All that begging for some of these games and barely anyone even bought. Sad.
Good to see some doing well though.
I highly doubt this was Deadfire's problem. Tyranny's, maybe but not PoE II's.
Whether it's persistence or something else there is no doubt that a lot of sequels see pretty huge dropoffs. Just in the above list you've got big drops going from BG1 to BG2 and Shadowrun: Dragonfall to Hong Kong.
Cases like D:OS2 are very much the exception now, not the norm.
Eh, I'm not really convinced in that reasoning. A lot of games have offered persistence between games: Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Witcher, Telltale's games, etc. Overall, the persistence ends up being relatively trivial and I'm pretty sure the majority of players don't really care.
Nope. Games that have been bought but not (really) played aren't counted. Same with games that are lacking any achievements whatsoever.
But Civ V is bad too.