Poor sales on Steam?

[Akboris]

First few days peak players not even 10% of CHAD Baldurs Gate 3, this series is cooked (on PC at least)

[Krystof]

It'll have good first week sales. I think there will be a big drop off after that.

[Crusadertsar]

What's a better comparison is Dragon Dogma 2 which had an equally long delay between 1st and 2nd. In comparison DD2 had average 200 000+ steam players during its opening days. For a AAA to barely have 90 000 is not a good sign for sales. Dragon Dogma is not even as famous of a franchise as Dragon Age.

[WoJo ©]

Originally posted by hush:

Originally posted by Crusadertsar:

What's a better comparison is Dragon Dogma 2 which had an equally long delay between 1st and 2nd. In comparison DD2 had average 200 000+ steam players during its opening days. For a AAA to barely have 90 000 is not a good sign for sales. Dragon Dogma is not even as famous of a franchise as Dragon Age.

I mean diablo 4 sold millions after a month and the peak concurrent is only 50k. so Diablo IV was a failure for one month? cmon selective logic at its finest. I'm a gamer gate guy but this is straight up flat earther logic

People who play diablo via steam are a very tiny minority. At least 90% use battlenet only.

It's not the case with EA crapp. Nobody want's to use it. Especially now that playing veilguard from steam doesn't require ea crapp.

[Sgt. Flaw]

Originally posted by hush:

Originally posted by Crusadertsar:

What's a better comparison is Dragon Dogma 2 which had an equally long delay between 1st and 2nd. In comparison DD2 had average 200 000+ steam players during its opening days. For a AAA to barely have 90 000 is not a good sign for sales. Dragon Dogma is not even as famous of a franchise as Dragon Age.

I mean diablo 4 sold millions after a month and the peak concurrent is only 50k. so Diablo IV was a failure for one month? cmon selective logic at its finest. I'm a gamer gate guy but this is straight up flat earther logic

That's straight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

D 4 released on Bnet. with a majority of it's fan base buying it day 1. It was then released on Steam after the PR nightmare it had.

50000 concurrent players for D 4 is insane numbers for steam considering they take up a VERY SMALL percentage of the user base. It's probably more like 250000 if you consider consoles and it's MAIN platform Bnet

Steam IS DA:Vs MAIN platform

You already know this and tout this garbage...you have nothing

You're the flat earther

[WoJo ©]

Originally posted by TooHigh2Die:

Originally posted by Akboris:

First few days peak players not even 10% of CHAD Baldurs Gate 3, this series is cooked (on PC at least)

Comparing BG3 to this game is not really fair, as BG3 had a long early access period, and a plan all along without any "lets change this games development entirely" like Veilguard did.

This seems like a action game with slapped on RPG elements and prob several character re writes.

It's serviceable and looks and plays well, but you can't compare the two imo, especially when one has pure tactical save scumming gameplay (BG3)

Having the game in early access increased sales but decreased concurrent player count. A lot of people who played early access did not come back on launch day... 'cuz, you know, they already played it before.

And as far as I agree that veilguard is no longer an RPG, you can still compare them because DA series are RPG's. In fact, I would argue that origins had much better tactics than BG3 (which is currently the king in that category).

[Akboris]

Originally posted by Crusadertsar:

What's a better comparison is Dragon Dogma 2 which had an equally long delay between 1st and 2nd. In comparison DD2 had average 200 000+ steam players during its opening days. For a AAA to barely have 90 000 is not a good sign for sales. Dragon Dogma is not even as famous of a franchise as Dragon Age.

Originally posted by TooHigh2Die:

Originally posted by Akboris:

First few days peak players not even 10% of CHAD Baldurs Gate 3, this series is cooked (on PC at least)

Comparing BG3 to this game is not really fair, as BG3 had a long early access period, and a plan all along without any "lets change this games development entirely" like Veilguard did.

This seems like a action game with slapped on RPG elements and prob several character re writes.

It's serviceable and looks and plays well, but you can't compare the two imo, especially when one has pure tactical save scumming gameplay (BG3)

Dragon Age is a much more relevant modern franchise than Baldurs GOAT and Dragons ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I mean Dogma though

[Sgt. Flaw]

Originally posted by hush:

Originally posted by Sgt. Flaw:

That's straight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

D 4 released on Bnet. with a majority of it's fan base buying it day 1. It was then released on Steam after the PR nightmare it had.

50000 concurrent Ayers for D 4 is insane numbers for steam considering they take up a VERY SMALL percentage of the user base. It's probably more like 150000 if you consider consoles and it's MAIN platform Bnet

Steam IS DA:Vs MAIN platform

You're the flat earther

very dumb. where did you get that info? flat earther logic at its finest. DA was released on EA own platform and it's also part of EA Play.

you're making up truths again.

EA play isn't half as big as Bnet with world of warcraft AND Diablo 4 debuted on Bnet 6 months before steam. People are not using EAs launcher to buy DA:V when it's on steam the same day

WTF is wrong with you? lmao

[...]

This hush guy is a straight clown. Comparing diablo 4 where 80% of the player base is battle.net and was the platform it was released on to veilguard where the majority bought the game on steam and released day 1. Delusion and cope at its finest

[WoJo ©]

My comment was removed for allegedly containing adult content. After contacting Valve, they told me that it was an EA employee that removed it (figures). Since it does not contain ANY adult or inappropriate content, and it does not violate any community rules and guidelines (I've read them from A to Z), here it is again:

There is no verifiable data. Sadly. It would be great if all of these launchers gave anonymized info (even steam data ignores private profiles, like mine, and people who play while offline).

But analytics isn't that difficult.

• D4 requires bnet. DAV does not require ea account.
  
• D4 launched exclusively on bnet before it launched on steam. DAV launched on both steam and ea at the same time.
  
• Blizzard's is not a very series popular on consoles. DA is.
  
• Bnet is usable. Nobody want's to deal with ea's launcher.
  
• Ea play exists, but nobody uses it. It's also available on steam btw.
  
• Look at your friends lists. How many are online on their ea's accounts? How many on blizzard's?
  
• CODS and WOW are on bnet, further increasing it's user base. The only popular ea game is FIFA.

.edit: typo.

[Emygdius]

Originally posted by TooHigh2Die:

Originally posted by Akboris:

First few days peak players not even 10% of CHAD Baldurs Gate 3, this series is cooked (on PC at least)

Comparing BG3 to this game is not really fair, as BG3 had a long early access period, and a plan all along without any "lets change this games development entirely" like Veilguard did.

This seems like a action game with slapped on RPG elements and prob several character re writes.

It's serviceable and looks and plays well, but you can't compare the two imo, especially when one has pure tactical save scumming gameplay (BG3)

This game had the same length dev period, more money invested.... Come on now.

[WoJo ©]

Originally posted by Alex:

Hey but they are not censoring people they said xDDD

At least they did not ban me... yet.

[Jem]

Originally posted by Crusadertsar:

What's a better comparison is Dragon Dogma 2 which had an equally long delay between 1st and 2nd. In comparison DD2 had average 200 000+ steam players during its opening days. For a AAA to barely have 90 000 is not a good sign for sales. Dragon Dogma is not even as famous of a franchise as Dragon Age.

Dragon's Dogma 2 sold 2.5 millions units in its early stage. For 200 000+ steam players, its means Dragon Age the Veilguard with 90000 steam players sold 45 % of that, so 1.1 million units sold. So a massive loss.

[magnumaniac]

Looks like it is struggling to crack a million copies sold across all platforms combined (because if it had sold a million, they would be shouting about that very loudly).

Even when it does crack the million, that will not even cover the marketing budget for the game. Huge financial disaster - nowhere near as bad as Concord, but bad enough.

[Moel]

It is sold poorly.
I hope they stop with DEI nonsense.

[Naamtar]

If we're going by concurrent player count at launch then you're putting Hogwarts Legacy and New World right up at the tippy top of your favorite games. What did you like about them so much? Are you a wizard?