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bouzane on 24 January 2012
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Panama said:
zarx said:
Panama said:
And yet the highest amount of people I've ever seen on any single game is just a little over 100k if not close to 200k when Skyrim launched. I'm assuming the majority just use it to chat. Steam is great, it just feels as though there is no PC community though even with 40million members. The online community of anything but AAA mainstream games die in obscurity within weeks if not days. I received Crysis 2, LotR:WitN, MoH, Fear 3 among others all on the first day of launch, some as gifts so don't judge. All dead within weeks. Worst offenders of this were Brink and Homefront, though they weren't exactly great games.

What I do like about steam though, it seems to be a great avenue for indie developers to garner popularity. It might just be more effective at doing so than XBLA.


All those games were flops tho especially on PC, I doubt you would have much better luck finding a game on PS3 for most of them as well, it's not a PC exclusive problem at all. It would be interesting to see how many people are actively playing games on PSN and XBL but nether release those numbers, other than a few games like COD and Halo and new releases I doubt there would be many games with over 100k active players on there ether tho.

You're definitely right, though with PC I just feel as though the major markets lie in the MMORPG and F2P genres. MW3 on the 360 has about 500k active players at any one time i believe, whereas MW3 on PC has about 70, which is steams 2nd to 3rd most played title.

It's not really steams fault, but more to do with PC gaming in general. There's so much variety as to what you can play that you'll be hardpressed to get incredibly large fanbases for any single game that is available on steam. It's just more apparent to me since I live in Australia. For instance from the 70k playing MW3 i doubt even 5% are from Australia. I never have problems finding local matches on console no matter how old the title is. Fat princess for example is still going strong, though It could just be insanely popular and I don't know.

Meanwhile elsewhere, you have WoW, Swtor, LoL, and Maple Story with 100s of thousands of active players outdoing console games.


Half the reason why CoD will never be all that popular on PC is the fact that Steam's #1 game is Counter-Strike which averages 125k-150k during its daily peak.