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No Man's Sky drops below 1000 concurrent players on steam
- Thread starter Horse Armour
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anothertech
Member
Sadly that game probably will keep me from preordering an indie game at full retail price ever again. Shams really.
A month and a few days. Its brutal.
pretty done
Member
Witcher 3 has 10k+ on right now
Dark Souls 3 6.9k
Stardew Valley 4.2k
MGS5 and Arkham Knight both around 3k
So yea even far older games don't drop like that. As long as they're, ya know, good.
l o l
Cabbagehead
Member
This big of a drop, that soon? no bro it's not normal.
To be fair every person deals with failure/pressure differently. That said, the fact that they have gone completely silent is not a good look. At the very least publish a statement apologizing or assure your customers that you are aware of the issue they are having with the game and you are working full steam ahead to fix them.
Xamtheking
Member
Not in the slightest
Pretty incredible drop!
This graph also illustrates quite accurately Sean Murray's reputation.
The Emperor
Member
Yeah. I feel like a lot of people will use this to fit the narrative they have painted in their own mind.
Sure the game has had a huge backlash...but graphs like that are what I also thought was the similar trend most games would see barring huge MMO's
How so? Does the concurrent number of players affect anything in-game?
Felix Lighter
Member
Pretty incredible drop!
Now that is a hype bubble burst right there.
Can you provide some examples? As examples that this is quite unprecedented for such a successful game at launch were already provided before you made this post.
GuitarAtomik
Member
I can't imagine what they could add to make going back worth it imo. Like what would I really do with base building? I'm never going to go back to any planet I visited. I guess it would be cool if other people could see the buildings I built or I could find left over buildings from others, but to what end? What would I do with that? Anything significant enough they could add would make more sense in a sequel.
Yeah, I always wondered why this statistic would be relevant on a single player only game.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
It was a genuine question, as I honestly had no idea.
Pretty incredible drop!
Procedurally generated planet landscape right there.
The Emperor
Member
My bad. My post was made with a narrative I had painted in my own head it seems.
Looking at the figure that MGSV still gets 3K players concurrently I must say NMS is doing bad. Although I don't like comparing a huge established IP with a long legacy to it.
Cabbagehead
Member
good one frank...
comshoplesce
Member
this is really bad, good for consumers 29,99 quid for new PS4 
it will drop below 20 at new years.
it will drop below 20 at new years.
for two weeks until the names reset
lmao, wow
It is quite different comparing to most games that were wildly sucessful at launch though.
If Hello Games stick with it as a free update despite the decline in interest for the game I'd be surprised.
Exterminieren
Banned
I understand everyone's feelings, but I think this is a bit of a shame. A perfectly pleasant, relaxing game throttled into irrelevance by atrocious messaging and mismanaged expectations.
I might mourn the NMS we never got, but I still enjoy the one we did.
I might mourn the NMS we never got, but I still enjoy the one we did.
From it's first day peak, to month later(Even giving it a weekend peak).
97.2% drop.
It's on par with a festering corpse covered in Dogshit
Dee Dah Dave
Member
And people still think this is going to get DLC to finally "add the stuff we were promised" lol
jakonovski
Member
From passion project to tumbleweed. I do believe this is a rare, actual case of selling out.
Corronchilejano
Member
How does it compare to Evolve?
Well last we heard he was feeling sick:
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1260210
Perhaps he's taken a turn for the worse? #Pray4Murray
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1260210
Perhaps he's taken a turn for the worse? #Pray4Murray
It's roughly down around the current numbers of the original Dark Souls, for reference.
I feel like this is a game that could be really cool if they released mod tools of some kind. You know, add the ability to add textures/creature types to the generation engine, tweak the difficulty and resource scarcity for a better experience, that kind of thing.
I feel like this is a game that could be really cool if they released mod tools of some kind. You know, add the ability to add textures/creature types to the generation engine, tweak the difficulty and resource scarcity for a better experience, that kind of thing.
Felix Lighter
Member
Not really. That 200,000 peak is exceptionally high and that drop off is like nothing I've personally seen. If you look at the stats list there are tons of older non-fps and single player games holding much stronger and not ever coming close to that insane peak player count. Elite Dangerous is almost 2 years old, sold in the same ball park over a much longer time, including sales and what not. Peak 18000, current 5000. Compared to NMS's Peak 200,000 Current 1800. No Man's Sky I think is exceptional in the way it completely deflated so quickly.
chrominance
Member
I liked the game for what it was and got about 60 hours from the game before I called it quits. But there really doesn't seem to be any incentive at all to play much beyond where I am now. The end goal, such as it is, appears to be mostly meaningless, and there's simply not enough variation to show you much of significance beyond the first few hours. Once you've exhausted the mechanics (which you can do simply by trying to achieve all the milestones), there's nothing really left. I'm still 100,000+ light years from the center and it doesn't sound like there's any reason to bother, even based on what people in the OT have said.
I bear no ill will towards Hello Games and don't agree with the narrative that Sean Murray outright lied to media outlets. But this isn't a particularly surprising development.
I bear no ill will towards Hello Games and don't agree with the narrative that Sean Murray outright lied to media outlets. But this isn't a particularly surprising development.
God damnit.
