Steam player count falls off the map in one week

[Swamp Fox]

Game is only holding about 30% of its player base one week after release on a holiday weekend. This indicates extremely poor sell-through. This game sold like 200-250k copies on Steam so far. Ouch!

As it turns out, excluding people based on video cards is a bad idea.

[Nihil]

And your point is? This is a singleplayer game Sherlock. You can't play it indefinitely.

[Swamp Fox]

Originally posted by Nihil:

And your point is? This is a singleplayer game Sherlock. You can't play it indefinitely.

Comment score: 0/10

Factuality: 0/10 (hard incorrect, id software games are some of the most long-played in history, even in single player, and comparing the dropoff to the previous game shows this game failed due to Eternal)
Insight: 0/10 (see above, cannot have insight while being incorrect)
Wit: 0/10 (none on display)
Usefulness: 0/10 (contains no useful information)

[Dr.Kalashnikov]

Oooohh nooooo my microsoft stocks noooooooo

[SkySymphony]

This game is one of the best launches of 2025 and it's a FLOP ? LOL ! Steam is not the only place you could buy this product ! id Software is SWIMMING in a HUGE pool of cash right now !

[ebolaconundrum]

Originally posted by Swamp Fox:

Game is only holding about 30% of its player base one week after release on a holiday weekend. This indicates extremely poor sell-through. This game sold like 200-250k copies on Steam so far. Ouch!

As it turns out, excluding people based on video cards is a bad idea.

Well personally ive stopped playing not because I dont like it but because o want to play through the three games 2016, eternal and TDA one in a row, so ive gone back to doom 2016 for now, but I will still go back to TDA in the future.

[Swamp Fox]

Originally posted by SkySymphony:

This game is one of the best launches of 2025 and it's a FLOP ? LOL ! Steam is not the only place you could buy this product ! id Software is SWIMMING in a HUGE pool of cash right now !

"Everyone avoided the default and by far largest platform"

Sorry but no, this game isn't making back its budget at the moment

[Tony]

As more GPUS become available more people will buy this. It's timeline of making $ will be for quite a while. Various sales throughout the year etc.,

I don't know how it sells on PS, or Xbox or w.e but the numbers will go up. The option was either to make the game look worse or make it look better-- they choose better and all the scaling dlss etc., will help with that at various settings.

The problem is GPU shortages and their prices --monopolies controlling prices of pc parts making it more expensive for gamers. This isn't the fault of the game makers.

[G.R.E]

Originally posted by Swamp Fox:

Originally posted by SkySymphony:

This game is one of the best launches of 2025 and it's a FLOP ? LOL ! Steam is not the only place you could buy this product ! id Software is SWIMMING in a HUGE pool of cash right now !

"Everyone avoided the default and by far largest platform"

Sorry but no, this game isn't making back its budget at the moment

To be honest im not really bothered how many people are playing it I am and that's all that matters

[Swamp Fox]

Originally posted by Tony:

As more GPUS become available more people will buy this. It's timeline of making $ will be for quite a while. Various sales throughout the year etc.,

I don't know how it sells on PS, or Xbox or w.e but the numbers will go up. The option was either to make the game look worse or make it look better-- they choose better and all the scaling dlss etc., will help with that at various settings.

The problem is GPU shortages and their prices --monopolies controlling prices of pc parts making it more expensive for gamers. This isn't the fault of the game makers.

According to the game industry itself, normal commercial games, ie not gacha and such, make almost all of their money in the first 2-3 months. This is why Denuvo has been so hugely successful, because it can be customized per game, then the developer pays for a time period so they can just buy it for the launch and remove it later.

GPU shortage isn't a problem, and yes it is the problem of the developers: If this game can run on a 3050 it can run on a 1070, period. The developers intentionally excluded people in an attempt to drive sales for their buddies at Nvidia. It destroyed this game's launch.

[G.R.E]

Originally posted by Swamp Fox:

Game is only holding about 30% of its player base one week after release on a holiday weekend. This indicates extremely poor sell-through. This game sold like 200-250k copies on Steam so far. Ouch!

As it turns out, excluding people based on video cards is a bad idea.

Completely irrelevant how many has been sold doesn't make an ounce of difference to any of us

[Nihil]

Originally posted by Swamp Fox:

Originally posted by Nihil:

And your point is? This is a singleplayer game Sherlock. You can't play it indefinitely.

Comment score: 0/10

Factuality: 0/10 (hard incorrect, id software games are some of the most long-played in history, even in single player, and comparing the dropoff to the previous game shows this game failed due to Eternal)
Insight: 0/10 (see above, cannot have insight while being incorrect)
Wit: 0/10 (none on display)
Usefulness: 0/10 (contains no useful information)

Just because you write 0/10 to every made up cathegory of yours, doesn't make your "opinion" any more valid.

[CzechKronner]

I'll give the game another playthrough but it was just boring the first time around.

[Sgt. Flaw]

Ahh the steam tabloids

[drumaddict]

it's campaign only , what did you expect. id will be updating the game with DLC, master levels etc. I am having tons of fun.

[Butcher]

Originally posted by drumaddict:

what did you expect

More than 30k on the first weekend for the extremely popular and insanely famous franchise