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Far Cry 5 sells 340,000 copies on Steam in 3 days
- Thread starter Benji
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Ubisoft is on a good trajectory. Origins and Far Cry 5 have made some great improvements to both series, even if they need to do a better job with story.
God I keep forgetting about arcade mode too. It's honestly incredible and I can't wait to see how it grows.
God I keep forgetting about arcade mode too. It's honestly incredible and I can't wait to see how it grows.
The writing is still garbage but the gameplay and design of the world has never been this good.
Far Cry 2's writing was not "garbage". Nor was Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Far Cry 4's, nor Far Cry: Primal's. I'd go so far as to say Far Cry 4's writing ranks among the best in videogames. The ending in particular is transcendent. It's an ending with the kind of depth, nuance, and gravity that most videogames wish they had.
The complication with Far Cry 5 is that over the past few years Ubisoft have been exploring non-linear storytelling. We saw it with Ghost Recon: Wildlands. You just plonk the player in a massive open world, and then instruct them to explore the world and work towards the end goal by completing side tasks in any order they please. This makes telling a traditional linear story rather difficult, and to some extent this is intentional because Ubisoft have come to believe that players don't want a traditional linear story. They want a player-driven anecdote machine. This is an approach that is obviously working for them, and you see strong elements of it in AC: Origins' approach to plot progression, too, but the end result is that a game like Far Cry 5 lacks the strong central plot thread of a game like Far Cry 4.
I can't agree about the writing being good in 2 and 4 but I've never played primal so maybe that's decent.
The writing in primal is overall pretty poor. I do think there are a ton of missed opportunities with Far Cry 5 that weren't there in the past games though. So in that way this game is definitely worse. But the improvements made to the franchise make up for it imo
They don't exist. If you buy a key it's Uplay only. Otherwise you have to pay full price on Steam.
Also I'm not sure if you guys have looked at Ubisoft games on CDKeys recently, but the discounts have been about $5 at most.
They don't exist, if you want the game on Steam, pay the full price.
Annoying thing about this is, it only can be done once, yet you still have that message pop up in the web store and uplay client even after redeemed points and used your coupon.The discount?
That's significantly more than I was expecting, Ubisoft must be really happy with these numbers since they get to keep all the money from every sale.
I think the FC5 offer is different. I've used the generic discount before but also used the FC5 one.
Yeh it would have to be as I don't think you can use the regular discount on pre-orders/new games.
That said, how did you get that FC5 offer anyway?
Maaaaaaan, I bought ac origins a few weeks ago and played it for a few hours. Then ffxv came out on pc then I bought that and put in about 20 hours. THEN vermintide 2 came out and now I'm 30hrs into that. I won't get home until Sunday so I gotta wait until then to play. How do I hold all these games?
Typical Ubisoft megahit then.
The same was commonly said of titles like For Honor and Wildlands, and they too put up big numbers.
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Yeah it wasn't probably quite 50% but around there judging Beta number pre launch split and also by early comparison done at launch with total players compared with SteamSpy results. Launch was probably for sure above 40% on Uplay
I suspect the longer a game is out the lower the split is for Uplay but likely launch time frame is very high. As all 3rd party key sellers as well as physical editions of Ubisoft games will all be Uplay copies
Far Cry 5 was on cdkeys for like 44€, personally bought it through Humble
It was on the front page of Uplay a couple of days before release.
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When and if total launch shipment numbers come in (including console) people are gonna be shocked probably.
I was under the impression (Era bubble I guess) there wasn't Far Cry 3 or 4 levels of hype around this game. Glad to eat crow so to say, really like this series and will definitely pick this game up, but I need to clear some other games first.
I'm strictly talking about the price in USD. The lowest I saw it for was $54.xx while the MSRP is $59.99.
All the stats that I've seen so far are related to steam and the PC version.
It's great but obviously a big AAA title like that must sell amazing on consoles as well for Ubi to consider it a success.
There is no reason to assume it didn't but still, I didn't see any sign for it.
It's great but obviously a big AAA title like that must sell amazing on consoles as well for Ubi to consider it a success.
There is no reason to assume it didn't but still, I didn't see any sign for it.
It's still the number one game on amazon for xbox and ps4. That's just counting the regular sku too.
3rd party keysellers like CdKeys are selling cheap uPlay codes. Good enough for me ;)
that's nice but Kirby is outselling both of those versions on Amazon so I imagine that at least on Amazon it's not a huge success.
It's really good but poorly told if that makes sense. The villains are fantastic, and their scenes are amazing. The atmosphere and plotting are very well done, but the way the main missions flow is a major letdown (it's tied to game mechanics and is kinda spoilery).
Still it's good.
Yeah, great numbers, March Steam Charts thread would be interesting, anyone hyped?
I guess nobody as usual, sorry for shameless promotion
Ubisoft is really killing it with its open world and GaaS focus. What was the last Ubi game that underwhelmed, maybe Far Cry Primal?
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User Banned (3 days): Bad insinuation of another poster's intention and agenda. Previous history of console war bias.
How much are they paying you?
It must be nice coming on here and get paid for corporate sycophancy...Particularly for scumbag Ubisoft and it's anti-consumer policies - that takes a specific kind of individual.
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Unfortunately I get paid $0 to come talk about the sales industry on this forum. Certainly would be nice though
Ubisoft if you are out there reading, you can send me a check anytime you feel up to it
If Ubisoft is scumbag I wonder what are EA, Take2 and Activision.
