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| trunkswd said: Alinea estimates have been proven quite inaccurate. I wouldn't put much weight behind those numbers. Not saying they are way off, but wait for official numbers. Gears has never performed well on Steam, plus day one Gen Pass. E- Day has so far peaked at 31,517 concurrent players on Steam. By far the best for a Gears game in Steam. Gears 5 peaked at 10,196. So E-Day has tripled the previous record. |
Mat never really commented about the numbers.
However if they were wildly wrong/incorrect... I feel like he would have.
Instead he took it upon himself to point out that people "playing it for free, via game-pass" aren't actually playing it for free.
They have a subscription they paid to be allowed to do so.
So while so far, it might only have made like ~40m in revenue, from sales/early access upgrades.... that isn't the full picture.
There have been ~1.7m players in total as well (majority of which, paid a subscription fee).
Also in my opinion.... even if it fails to recoup the speculated ~400m costs to develop..... that stuff happens.
Look at how many games Playstation had that totally flopped as well (basically all their live service games).
At least Gears, is mostly well received by everyone (even if a few think the girl-boss out of control, thing is overdone as basically every resent game does it).
