Platinum Games' Babylon's Fall peaks at less than 650 concurrent players on release on Steam

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Dulfite said:

Forget quality, a game flopping this badly is a massive indication that their marketing team literally didn't try with this game. Plenty of bad games have a great deal more players than this game had, by far less known studios. They must have completely abandoned the game for it to do this poorly.

In my opinion, this is not a problem of marketing, the lack of marketing was a right and conscious decision

The first teaser was released 2 years ago and made no buzz whatsoever. The graphics are ugly and the game itself looks uninspired and uninteresting, after the very lukewarm reception they more likely decided to given up the project and let Platinum finish the game only because they would probably have to pay for it regardless if they decided to cancel the game in the middle of the development 

So they released and let it flop

The problem of this game was both the conception and the execution of the game itself, the few reviews were very clear how bad and clunk the game is. And both Enix and Platinum are responsible for making a bad game 

A dev more than anyone knows when a game have no hope, if this was a hopeless game since the reveal, why spending money marketing it ? 

I'm not sure I would say platinum for this. This type of game is well outside their wheel house. A lot of the backlash I hear outside of the graphics are more to do with the store and online fetures and boring grind. As far as we know square could have forced this on a somewhat enjoyable game and it ended like this.