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What do you think will be the biggest flop of 2019?
- Thread starter Memento
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Most people thought it was going to be an 80-89 scoring game as per the review thread poll.
Man can't wait to repost this when the game will be released.
I've read this three times and I still don't quite understand what you're saying. It's like the beginning of every sentence disagrees with the end of every sentence.
Also, if I recall correctly, the game just got a lot of 'meh' reviews and is selling well. That's far from a flop.
It's also amazing how some people can't let others enjoy the game - which, going by initial sales data, does not appear to be a flop at all - and have to keep repeating themselves and saying it's still a commercial flop when disappointment is probably more apt.
I'm just here for the CD3 vs Days Gone debates.....
Smiling so hard right now.
I think CD3 might be the biggest flop.
Smiling so hard right now.
Agree with this. But....at least Anthem was on sales charts, was/is selling ok.
I think CD3 might be the biggest flop.
You again?
You said the samething last time and was disproven. The game isn't an "ass game", in fact most people agree it is a great game.
One of these is not like the other two. Take a guess at the games:
Days Gone
Crackdown 3
Anthem
...?
Almost. Got the games right, but wrong order: Days Gone, Anthem and Crackdown 3. Yup, spread for Anthem looks worse than CD3's.
This isn't a debate. Day's Gone, while not getting a stellar reception, is far from a flop.
Anthem and CD3 are in the running though. Personally I think Crackdown is probably the hardest i've ever seen a big first-party release flop. It didn't even chart in the damn top 20 in it's launch month. That's unprecedented levels of flop.
I would be really interested to know how much Anthem sold, but I don't think EA does sales numbers any more, do they? All we know is it "underperformed" so it's less than 5 million sold by the end of March.
Cool, thanks for posting. Interesting that my presuppositions coloured my judgement.
Cool, thanks for posting. Interesting that my presuppositions coloured my judgement.
I mean, it's all very well waiting for more data but this seemed pretty obvious as soon as it launched, from the mediocre reviews and utterly tepid response to the multiplayer.
Era doesn't know what flop means and continues to use it and other words wrong.
y'all arguing about days gone vs crackdown 3 in the mediocrity ring when the real medal of the flop of the year award was already given to left alive
Everybody expected the game to flop badly from review to sales ,so dont the change the history now .just go few pages back in this very thread .from beginning of 2019 it was supposed to be biggest flop so the expectation wasn't that high ;)
Man, I don't like Days Gone because it looks just by the numbers, but seem to be a very well made and decent game. Definitions of "flop" can be somewhat subjective, but I really, really don't think it's the right word. Mild dissappointment maybe.
Now CD3/Anthem, THAT's a flopping bomba.
Now CD3/Anthem, THAT's a flopping bomba.
From a damage perspective it has to be Anthem. That shit is likely to get Bioware shut down, and likely lost the most money out of the titles so far. Crackdown 3 sold 5 copies, but likely cost far less than Anthem even with the wasted money on cloud destruction that went absolutely nowhere in terms of driving sales of the game.
I predict that code vein will sell even less than Crackdown 3, but it probably cost $50 to make so I'm not sure if it can be called the biggest flop.
Days Gone got middling reviews, which may put it into critical flop territory (I think that's a bit of a reach), but the current sales data we have and Benji's musings indicate that it will not be a commercial flop.
To me, a critical flop is something more disastrous than a 70ish. Days Gone ended up in the purely mediocre 52nd percentile of games, which means it is truly a middle of the road, nothing-special-ass game. Both Crackdown 3 and Anthem ended up in the low 60s, with both games in the bottom quartile of all games reviewed on Opencritic. If you consider a game in the top half of all games a flop, I think you're exaggerating. I definitely think games in the bottom quartile are surefire flops.
I predict that code vein will sell even less than Crackdown 3, but it probably cost $50 to make so I'm not sure if it can be called the biggest flop.
Days Gone got middling reviews, which may put it into critical flop territory (I think that's a bit of a reach), but the current sales data we have and Benji's musings indicate that it will not be a commercial flop.
To me, a critical flop is something more disastrous than a 70ish. Days Gone ended up in the purely mediocre 52nd percentile of games, which means it is truly a middle of the road, nothing-special-ass game. Both Crackdown 3 and Anthem ended up in the low 60s, with both games in the bottom quartile of all games reviewed on Opencritic. If you consider a game in the top half of all games a flop, I think you're exaggerating. I definitely think games in the bottom quartile are surefire flops.
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I think the answer is Crackdown 3, no question. With Anthem they at least are mitigating the changes and working to make it better/more fun. Crackdown has been left out in the pasture.
Exactly.
lol
No, I think you got this mixed up with CD3, going by critics and user reviews, word of mouth.
Banter, how is Days Gone a flop? Generally positive reviews (many more positive than negative), decent enough metacritic score, appears to be selling really well. Era continues to entertain.
Anthem has to be it so far in terms of gamer expectation, sales and presumably cost to produce. I know EA claim go have had low expectations, but it didn't even hit those.
Anthem has to be it so far in terms of gamer expectation, sales and presumably cost to produce. I know EA claim go have had low expectations, but it didn't even hit those.
Might be the publisher thought so too since they took the Epic exclusivity deal...
As another Remedy fan, I feel exactly the same.
Control looks fantastic and seems to have fixed a lot of Quantum Break's issues, but its aesthetic still makes the game seem like a re-branded QB sequel (which it probably is) and that's going to hurt it immensely at release. I hope there is a substantial marketing budget to drag it out of the hole... and Epic exclusivity isn't going to help gamers fickle perceptions either.
As far as Crackdown 3's sales are concerned, don't forget that it launched on Game Pass and is a focal point for the service. I'm not saying it has done well (it certainly hasn't), but it's not as worthless to Microsoft as it may seem.
These topics are always fun to revisit months later. I don't think there's going to be anything as disastrous as Anthem and Crackdown 3.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint seems to have also done quite poorly, although I don't think we've had a glimpse of sales numbers yet.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint seems to have also done quite poorly, although I don't think we've had a glimpse of sales numbers yet.
Too soon to say that . We have to at least give them 1 year and then declare them as failure lol
Holy fuck, I didn't think of that! All signs point to this being a great suggestion as of right now.
Thread is a year old. If anything, it's too late to say that :)
- CD3
- Anthem
- Jedi Fallen Order (looks pretty good but EA's expectations are unreachable)
- Stadia (if you had expectations€
- Anthem
- Jedi Fallen Order (looks pretty good but EA's expectations are unreachable)
- Stadia (if you had expectations€
True haha but we don't know yet how market responds to stadia in few months when the official launch happens (it will fail but still we have to give benefit of doubt lol)
I guess we have to give Stadia a chance to fail before deeming it a failure.
That being said, I struggle to see how it can succeed when Google has shown they so thoroughly misunderstand the market.
That being said, I struggle to see how it can succeed when Google has shown they so thoroughly misunderstand the market.
I thought crackdown was really fun. Did we expect it to be brilliant?
That's not about what we thought was great. I loved days gone . One of the best games I played . This is about reviews and sales . Days gone would be also on this list if it wasn't the 5 th best selling PS exclusive this gen in less than 8 months .
combination of reviews and sales determines what was the flop this year
That's not the only reason....stock tanked because of multiple games underperformed and they delayed a bunch of projects to the next FY.
