I'm disappointed...

[HarbingerOfDestruction「俺様」]

...that the playercount isn't as high as I thought.. I was expecting Reverie to top CS 4 easily, CS4 has 2.7K players at launch while Reverie has yet to pass 2K.. After the series garnered so much attention recently even was reviewed by IGN I thought the playercount would easily surpass 4K.... alas..

[SPD3]

A lot of comments here have big "You can Skip Sky3rd energy"

[Wyrtt]

Releasing the game during summer sale wasnt the smartest decision, NO ONE knows about this game because store page doesn not show new games.

[Zekkn]

Nguyên văn bởi SPD3:

A lot of comments here have big "You can Skip Sky3rd energy"

ironically sky3rd is my favourite sky game as the combat and story is much better executed than the first 2. way less pacing issues ( getting sky SC flashbacks ) it also helps that sky3rd's mc seems to have been written as its mc from the start instead of the previous 2 where joshua felt like the protag but kept getting put to the side.

[JP]

Nguyên văn bởi 『 』:

You know why because people already have played the CLE version. Not a lot is going to buy for 2nd time especially when the dlcs are not free unlike CLE

Doubt people who bought the CLE version made a dent, despite the weebs on this discussion board not wanting to hear it, most western fans want to play the game with the English dub. most "casual" fans are not buying a foreign language version and downloading a fan patch.

only a very small percentage of western fans probably bought the CLE version

[HarbingerOfDestruction「俺様」]

Nguyên văn bởi Roke:

Nguyên văn bởi HarbingerOfDestruction「俺様」:

Okay.. So you haven't played the Crossbell games nor this game and yet you criticize it harshly? I already played and finished this game and for me it ranks 3rd in the entire franchise.

It's more linear than the typical trails game but 'barely any side-content'? What are you bullshitting about? This game has a TON of side content likely more than any trails game. Play the game instead of giving your baseless opinion and criticize the game without playing it or the games before it for the best experience.

you don't even own it tho

I have it on PS5. Bought in in a Japanese account a year ago. Replaying now for the 2nd time.

[Zekkn]

Nguyên văn bởi HarbingerOfDestruction「俺様」:

Nguyên văn bởi Roke:

you don't even own it tho

I have it on PS5. Bought in in a Japanese account a year ago. Replaying now for the 2nd time.

yeah there is way more people than they think. trails in itself is a niche of a niche so the amount of fans in that that are casual is still smaller than they think. which is a shame as i think its a good series held back by poor decisions made in ALL western versions.

MOST of us that bought the CLE version were also gonna buy the NISA version anyway to support the official release. its a shame that NISA don't care about kiseki as much as we do though.

[[sMil3]]

Not surprising, me and many others dropped the franchise after the s**tshow that Cold Steel was.

[Evangela]

Nguyên văn bởi sMil3:

Not surprising, me and many others dropped the franchise after the s**tshow that Cold Steel was.

Why do anime haters and fanservice haters don't like Cold Steel?

I don't get it.

[[sMil3]]

Nguyên văn bởi Evangela:

Nguyên văn bởi sMil3:

Not surprising, me and many others dropped the franchise after the s**tshow that Cold Steel was.

Why do anime haters and fanservice haters don't like Cold Steel?

I don't get it.

I love anime, and I'm ok with fanservice. Cold Steel games are still trash next to Sky and Crossbell games.

[Seagal]

Reverie has the second highest all-time peak concurrent player count in the entire franchise. It's over 2,250, while Trails of Cold Steel IV is over 2,730.

It was never going to hit over 4,000 concurrent players. Many people who look at possibly getting into it are turned away because they don't want to spend a couple hundred dollars and 500+ hours needed of older games just to get caught up.

Instead of people suggesting more accessible avenues for new players looking to get into it, they just say you NEED to play these games, and most people aren't trying to do that. Direct people to a good story write up that does a decent job of catching people up in the games, and or direct them to a well made video that you've vetted that is adequate.

Or suggest they play a couple of the newer games, but watching videos or read write-ups on the rest. Anything before Cold Steel 3 would be a very hard sell for anyone to spend serious time on, in my opinion.

Anyways, the numbers aren't that bad for a niche franchise in a niche genre. It's also on GOG (will do anywhere from 3-7% of Steam's total sales based on what other developers have said their games do on GOG, and Cyberpunk 2077 not even managing 10% of the total PC sales on GOG), PS5 / PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

Next game might be higher than ToCS4, but we'll see. All that matters is they can continue making them, and chasing more sales or trying more to appeal to western sensibilities or audiences likely wouldn't be a good thing. I know I would stop buying them if they did that.

Ys IX had 1,350

Atelier Ryza 3 had 7,110

Final Fantasy 7 Remake had 13,800

Dragon Quest XI: EoaEA (no DE first time on PC) had 11,700

Tales of Arise had 60,270

Persona 5 Royal had 35,290

[RTSsence]

Imagine using concurrent player count as a measurement to how successful a single-player game is.

[Zekkn]

Nguyên văn bởi RTSsence:

Imagine using concurrent player count as a measurement to how successful a single-player game is.

It’s actually a pretty good way to see how many people played a game at its publicly perceived best, are you gonna minus all the sales from us fans that bought both versions then, cause that’s quite a few

Plus you would also then have to minus sales from people that haven’t launched said game or gotten past the first chapters either which we know you wouldnt do

It’s a 3 year old niche game, at this point it’s only going to be so popular especially when barrier to entry on this series keeps expanding.

[Advendra]

You forgot, this kind of JRPG are mostly played by and on console (especially Playstation) players.

[Pozhinateli]

First of all this game got released too late.
Second thing is not everyone play on Steam, for example I play on GOG version.

[NisseDood]

Cold steel arc already killed all interest I had in the series and I loved sky and crossbell arcs.