General Playercount Watch Thread

[Golem25]

This thread is kindly sponsored by the SSKTJL's General Playercount Watch Thread, found here on the Steam Forum

OFF-TOPIC POSTS NOT PERTAINING TO THE GAME AND/OR ITS PLAYERCOUNT ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THIS THREAD - NO EXCEPTIONS - DO NOT ENGAGE WITH TROLLS

Hello, and welcome to the Concord Playercount Watch Thread. As a high profile live service game launching on Steam, Concord benefits from its hourly PC playercount numbers being made available through Steamcharts. This is an excellent way of tracking the game's performance and the inevitable growth of its stunningly brave and diverse community of Freegunners, and that is exactly what we will be doing in this thread every single day.

For the purposes of tracking players on a daily basis, we define a 'day' as being the period of time between 00:00 GMT+0 (a.k.a. English/Britbong time) and 23:59 GMT+0. Each day, I will consult Concord's Steamcharts page[steamcharts.com]to compile the daily high (ceiling) and low (floor), and share them in a post in this thread. These posts will also include the previous day's numbers, and a short(ish) analysis on my part. Bear in mind that these numbers pertain only to the PC version of the game, as Sony does not allow for publications of PS5 player numbers.

Every two days, I will update this OP with the figures from the daily posts. This will allow us to track the game's performance in an intuitive and user-friendly manner as it moves through its launch window, into its first season, throughout content drops, and so on. All readers are invited to share their own thoughtful and Steam-TOS-compliant thoughts in this thread inbetween the updates, as long as they remain on-topic and do not break any of the forum rules.

The format of this thread is tried-and-tested, having previously been used to great effect and delight for SSKTJL, another AAA live service game that experienced tremendous success with dozens of players playing it as we speak, a few months after release. You will find the current SSKTJL thread (the first few got locked due to troll activity) linked at the top of this post.

Now, for the numbers....

Date; [daily high] / [daily low]

[Early access starts for people who paid 60 bucks]
- August 20th; x / x
- August 21st; x / x
- August 22nd; x / x
[Game releases]
- August 23rd; 697 / 650
- August 24th; 621 / 185
- August 25th; 431 / 207
- August 26th; 306 / 131
- August 27th; 267 / 97
- August 28th; 237 / 80
- August 29th; 190 / 57
- August 30th; 175 / 55
- August 31st; 145 / 51
- September 1st; 113 / 58
- September 2nd; 118 / 37
[Shutdown announcement midway through September 3rd]
- September 3rd; (103) (134) / 29
- September 4th; 68 / 35
- September 5th; 54 / 29
- September 6th; 45 / 24
- September 7th; 13 / 8


*Any daily low with an * next to it demarks the lowest point outside of server downtime (which reduces the playercount to zero but would be an unhelpful metric).


It is likely that there will be bad faith actors operating on this board who attempt to derail intelligent discourse on this topic, so I encourage people to be kind to one another. Pointing out what the playercount is is not contrary to the Terms of Service of the board, and does not warrant flaming. Going off-topic, however, is contrary to the rules and can result in bans and thread locks. Do not go off-topic about politics, do not be tempted by the antics of trolls.

[nobalkain]

More here to see this out of curiosity then anything else . Since its not an IP I care about I really have no strong feelings about it one way or the other, but I am interested to see how it does .

If the Beta and the Buzz I have heard on it is any indication though, it doesnt look good . I just hope for a Good Show

[Termix]

I think early access numbers aren't public.

87% positive review though, and also more than triple the sample size of Dustborn - a whole 33 reviews.

But let us stay focused for Friday, when the "40$" players arrive we will see numbers - most likely only on playertrackers and not on the Community Hub though.

[i don't belong]

here we go :D

[|TeM| Reikhardt]

Thanks for your service Golem, it'll be interesting to see how this one goes...

[Harley]

You people have too much free time lol

[Elzeruth]

I'm getting my popcorn ready. This is gonna be good

[Supreme]

There are currently about 50 viewers on Twitch. That's lesst than some obscure AFK games. Granted, it's not exactly prime time and no ongoing sponsored streams, but if these numbers are something to go by this might be one of the biggest if not THE biggest gaming disasters of the year.

[Moray Eel]

Originally posted by Supreme:

There are currently about 50 viewers on Twitch. That's lesst than some obscure AFK games. Granted, it's not exactly prime time and no ongoing sponsored streams, but if these numbers are something to go by this might be one of the biggest if not THE biggest gaming disasters of the year.

If there is any game to dethrone Suicide Squad as the saddest and wettest fart of 2024, it would be Concord, with or without some monstrously inflated budget spread out over a decade.

[💎 Andy 💎]

Originally posted by Moray Eel:

Originally posted by Supreme:

There are currently about 50 viewers on Twitch. That's lesst than some obscure AFK games. Granted, it's not exactly prime time and no ongoing sponsored streams, but if these numbers are something to go by this might be one of the biggest if not THE biggest gaming disasters of the year.

If there is any game to dethrone Suicide Squad

Have you had a look at the Dustborn forum?

[Moray Eel]

Originally posted by 💎 Andy 💎:

Originally posted by Moray Eel:

If there is any game to dethrone Suicide Squad

Have you had a look at the Dustborn forum?

Yeah I did, something like 80 peak steam players. The friends&family BBQ I went to this 4th of july had more people present.
At least in terms of game budget, scale, and genre, Concord is a more appropriate match to Suicide Squad in terms of overall suckage though.

[Moray Eel]

Also I just realized Concord has a trademark symbol at the end of its name for real, its steam forum page and the game title itself lmfao.

[💎 Andy 💎]

Originally posted by Moray Eel:

Originally posted by 💎 Andy 💎:

Have you had a look at the Dustborn forum?

Yeah I did, something like 80 peak steam players. The friends&family BBQ I went to this 4th of july had more people present.
At least in terms of game budget, scale, and genre, Concord is a more appropriate match to Suicide Squad in terms of overall suckage though.

Its just so good to see people finally standing up to this nonsense.

[nobalkain]

Well, its not going well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORZUgivOBxo

He had to Refund the Steam Version as it wouldnt Launch, and I guess the Numbers for Steam seem to be messed up right now.

[Pedrift]

Good work

[The Unrest Cure]

All this, and not one mention in the post of crossplay with PS5 players. This does not seem to be a good faith post about "tracking the game's performance and the inevitable growth of its stunningly brave and diverse community of Freegunners", much less an excellent one. While the statistics may very well be correct (depending on how good SteamCharts is as a tracking device) it is disingenuous to think posting Steam-only numbers will reflect a true representation of the game's playerbase. Your sarcasm is evident; don't let it turn into active bitterness about the game.