Baldur's Gate 3 is ahead of Starfield in the worldwide Steam-Charts

[Wasserhans]

Starfield is already down to #3. Kinda crazy, usually AAA games stay a few weeks at number 1. What a huge success Baldur's Gate 3 is.

[Shadow]

Baldur's had it's own share of issues but they resolved most of them in early access. Starfield never had an early access or beta.

[Sigvuld]

why are we comparing the two exactly

[Lef]

Op forgeting Game pass exist

[BEEP!]

Yea there both great game's & Baulders gate entire pc population is only on steam while Starfield is split between gamepass, steam, & Microsoft store.

[Georgion]

Originally posted by Lef:

Op forgeting Game pass exist

Steam is where money is made. Game pass is a subscription that ppl pay for monthly and any difference in revenue that Starfield makes there is negligible.

[Jupp]

And another one who doesn't understand how the microsoft game market works.

[Slap Happy Pappy]

I think I figured out why I can't get into this game. There are no stakes. Not in the first 12 hours, at least.

I just can't care about a bunch of idiots collecting artifacts.

[Lef]

Originally posted by Georgion:

Originally posted by Lef:

Op forgeting Game pass exist

Steam is where money is made. Game pass is a subscription that ppl pay for monthly and any difference in revenue that Starfield makes there is negligible.

i guess you don t understand how market works , making the game easily accessible via gamepass allow more people to be able to access it , and so making them buy something they would not have otherwise. That the point of Gamepass , we don t have number but Starfield made a lot of people get Gamepass , and they also increased the GP price

[Incandescence]

I love CRPG's as they are my favorite genre, but even still, if you told me Baldur's Gate 3 would have been as big as it was along with Starfield constantly being trampled with comparisons of BG3... I really wouldn't have believed you.

Microsoft certainly didn't as they scrapped feature parity because of how popular BG3.

[alex010300]

Look at this comic and you can see why it is so:

https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/3208

[Jupp]

Originally posted by Georgion:

Originally posted by Lef:

Op forgeting Game pass exist

Steam is where money is made. Game pass is a subscription that ppl pay for monthly and any difference in revenue that Starfield makes there is negligible.

No, gamepass is where money is made.

- about $270-$300 million monthly
- about $3 billion per year ($3.59 billion so far in 2023)

[Incandescence]

Originally posted by 1080puktra:

You do know gamepass earned like 2.9bill in 2021 right? And it just gets more people subscribing every year they wouldn't be doing gameoass if it wasn't profitable.

I think the point they are making is Gamepass isn't blowing up purely because of starfield. Not that is isn't profitable.

[Georgion]

Originally posted by 1080puktra:

Originally posted by Georgion:

You tell me the revenue from game pass ent up by 100's of millions because of Starfield release? You have any data for that statement or you just dont kno how subs work?

You do know gamepass earned like 2.9bill in 2021 right? And it just gets more people subscribing every year they wouldn't be doing gameoass if it wasn't profitable.

And thats exactly why I said any revenue difference Starfield makes there is negligible. Its already making loads of money and will be with or without Starfield.

[Coffee Break]

Confused why people comparing player counts. This and BG 3 are singleplayer games and people don't care if the game has 7 billion player active or 1 player active as it will not impact the game. BG 3 is amazing, starfield is awesome. So what's the point again? It's a win for Gamers if we have more great games to play.

[Jupp]

Originally posted by Incandescence:

Originally posted by 1080puktra:

You do know gamepass earned like 2.9bill in 2021 right? And it just gets more people subscribing every year they wouldn't be doing gameoass if it wasn't profitable.

I think the point they are making is Gamepass isn't blowing up purely because of starfield. Not that is isn't profitable.

Originally posted by Georgion:

Originally posted by 1080puktra:

You do know gamepass earned like 2.9bill in 2021 right? And it just gets more people subscribing every year they wouldn't be doing gameoass if it wasn't profitable.

And thats exactly why I said any revenue difference Starfield makes there is negligible. Its already making loads of money and will be with or without Starfield.

It helps keeping subscribers active, that's the main point of releasing stuff on gamepass.
However, one game obv. won't cut it for long.

Still, the revenue with gamepass is quite impressive.