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GymratAmarillo said:
Leynos said:

The 54th best seller on PSN launch day probably is not a good sign either.

It's like Helldivers 2. Most of the big gaming sites and many haters use Helldivers 2 player numbers on steamDB to say the game has failed when in reality it's a $40 game that Sony was only expecting to sell one million (words from the AH ex CEO who still works at AH but isn't CEO anymore), it doesn't have a predatory monetization so you actually don't need to spend any money in it and the game sold 12 million as of march and is still selling on both pc and ps5 without a pricecut. They could end the servers this year (they won't) and the game still would be a huge success. SDB numbers are a good reference but they don't tell the whole story.

These people ruin the whole fun in tracking peak CCU, tracking the peak CCU of a title should just be a little fun but then when the inevitable drop happens, they'll claim the game is a failure because it is no longer pulling 500k+ players per day which is utter nonsense, plenty of developers would sell their kidney for the numbers that Helldivers 2 is still doing every single day, if it's a failure, then almost every game on the market is a failure, Lol. It's annoying, Palword gets the same criticism and it ruins the fun when people take it this seriously and make crazy assertions about inevitable drops.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 24 August 2024