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Kingdom Come: Deliverance lost 95% of its playerbase since launch on Steam
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the buzz around it was kinda ridiculous. No idea where all the hype came form, it looked janky as hell. I'm not surprised it dropped off a cliff in terms of popularity. However, it's a singleplayer game so expecting crazy constant numbers would be kinda silly
If it wasn't for Steam tracking online users I would assume that a single player RPG falling in player numbers would be typical. But great single player RPGs tend to fair well. As someone who was initially interested in the pitch but decided against buying the game, I wonder what caused the dip.
I'm under the impression that it doesn't have (or has very limited) mod support so that also is a factor in its long term support.
Still want to try it one day, but my backlog's too big.
I really want to play it but I'm just waiting until further on in the year for more patches. Also, going by concurrent playerbase for a single player game is very very silly indeed.
The hype was due to the interesting concept (a medieval times simulator), and fizzled out as soon as everybody moved on to something else. It was also a clunky game tbh
I mean, it depends on the modding scene. Skyrim still has 17,000 concurrents right now. Even games that just have a ton of developer-made content, like The Witcher 3, last forever -- it has 16,500 players right now. Kingdom Come only has 5,000 right now.
But I don't think this means the game is suddenly failing (even if I didn't like it). Kingdom Come is an indie game, and it just needed great upfront sales to justify expansions/sequels, and maybe those can turn into the everlasting hits like those others.
Is there a reason for this article outside of "here is a fact?" Usually these sorts of things are at accompanied with a "this isn't healthy for the multiplayer base of the game" implication, but this is a completely different story since it's a single player game so that sort of statistic seems completely pointless.
That's a really dumb article that's trying to latch on to the trend that Lawbreakers started of continuously bringing up its current player base. Except this is a single player game which also isn't a GAAS. No shit most have dropped off.
Exactly.
Can we please stop linking these sorry excuses for articles on "githyp", whatever that is? I feel like the last 3 or 4 times I encountered them it was the same type of meaningless reporting.
I found it to be just a bit too janky for me, even after mods helped to fix some of the issues. One thing I hated was how your crimes were known by all, regardless of who saw. Also, it ran like crap on my PC. I have a 4790k and a 1080ti and even at 1400, it rarely reached 30fps. Plus, I hated how it was always raining.
It would be interesting to see a launch aligned and normalized chart comparing these and other similar-ish games. I feel like that's the only way we can really use this data to say anything meaningful.
On Xbox 1X the game made you sit though a 4-5 second black loading screen whenever you wanted to speak to an NPC
Not sure if it was that way on PC, but I dropped the game after an hour. Jank is one thing but an immersive sim that discourages you from interacting with the world is a hard pass from me. Too bad, cuz I was intrigued by the game
Not sure if it was that way on PC, but I dropped the game after an hour. Jank is one thing but an immersive sim that discourages you from interacting with the world is a hard pass from me. Too bad, cuz I was intrigued by the game
Single player game that was deliberately avoiding all the service game trends invading single player games these days - without little free updates, DLCs, daily quests, you name it. Buy it, play it and move on, like we used to. What's newsworthy about people finishing games?
Very blatant.
Very blatant.
And even that wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't the Xth article of this exact same type from the same source.
I feel like someone hit on a formula to generate clicks with very little effort and is milking it.
I'm waiting for a sale to jump in, but I'm sure this is the norm for single player games. I'm sure there are other single player games that still have a big player base to this day, but outside of those mega hits, most people just play a game and move onto the next one.
Not only is it a single player RPG like others said, but I'm assuming since it's not an AAA game it won't be filled to the brim with content as well.
I've been holding off on this one until it's on a good sale later this year. The technical hiccups at launch also reinforced my decision.
I mean, I stop playing SP games when I beat 'em too.
I might come back for a replay, but usually not for about a year.
Nope.
I might come back for a replay, but usually not for about a year.
Nope.
Maybe? I think that the way people play games has changed a lot since Skyrim and even The Witcher 3 came out, so I don't know if that would be actually useful.
The Witcher 3 was a content packed million hour long open world title that recieved post launch support and had marketing buzz.
This isn't that.
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