Maintenance
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Agreed, it's not like more than 2 million players just bought Fallout 4 day one on Steam.
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Star Wars Battlefront: PS4 is outdoing Xbox and PC combined [in concurrency numbers]
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Agreed, it's not like more than 2 million players just bought Fallout 4 day one on Steam.
IcyRhythms
Member
Is it fair to say that console gamers are often easily mislead by hype/marketing more than PC gamers? PC gamers make better decisions with their money and are generally more informed than your average console gamer IMO.
Enosh
Member
eh want to wait to see how a military themed mainline tittle aka BF5 does first before making any conclusions
I mean BF3 had the season pass and origin exclusivity but BF4 still started out pretty well from what I've been reading
maybe PC players are just more into modern military stuff than cops and robbers or star wars
or it's just the bf4 launch issues or the perceived lack of content for battlefront that are the cause
Mister Megative
Banned
look, regardless of platform, do we KNOW these numbers are accurate? The guy who set it up says they are, but of course he will. These aren't official numbers from EA. Maybe they're higher. Maybe they're lower. I've seen a few websites and individuals show skepticism as to how legitimate or accurate any of this really is. I think we should too until we hear from EA.
johnnydrama
Banned
I wouldn't disagree, but a lot of people might take offense to that notion.
Vire
Member
Hey what's going on NeoGAF this afternoon?... Well that's enough internet for the day.
Sounds like you're ignoring the vast majority of the PC population (browser, MMOs, and F2P games).
Schweinehund
Member
Those numbers look low to me across the board.
OsirisBlack
Banned
Beautiful Ninja
Member
Early Access. Don't pretend that PC gamers don't get swayed by hype.
KurtSloane
Banned
What a lot of bollocks, completely condescending, self serving nonsense.
As a PC gamer and a console gamer.... as many are, on their behalf, please get over yourself.
Dude buys PC, thinks he is second coming.
PC gamers include people who buy a hundred games on Steam sales only to never play most of them.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
So Fallout 4 sold more copies? You make it sound as if PC players are the only people playing the game.
Drooling imbeciles the console lot.
There is just no time for Battlefront in between cheese and wine.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Those TF2 hats were certainly better decisions.
-MD-
Member
You're going to be endlessly quoted but you could say PC players told Microsoft's GFWL subscription fee to take a hike while console players on both sides still bend over for it.
That's some confirmation bias if I've ever seen it.
KurtSloane
Banned
PC gamers had other options on that platform, due to its open nature, hardly the same but keep going.
I take it your shit don't stink either.
Yawn.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Wahahahahahaha
I am sorry but PC gamers buy early access games talk about making better decisions with their money, they are paying to be a beta tester.
Actually, now i know why online player count was removed, and other online games don't have it either.
Look at this thread.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
It has to be on Steam first
The Faceless Master
Member
digging into the numbers instead of just going off my own memory there's this from archive.org
the first day archived that showed stats for BF3 was on Oct 30th, a few weeks after the launch
PC online 184 010
PS3 online 178 685
360 online 210 974
someone else can have fun charting or whatever but it kept dropping until after xmas when it rose up to
PC online 93 802
PS3 online 123 815
360 online 140 544
they don't really have snapshots throughout the day and that matters because Xbox, PS and PC all peak at different times thru the day and they didn't have the 24h peak stat back then.
the first day archived that showed stats for BF3 was on Oct 30th, a few weeks after the launch
PC online 184 010
PS3 online 178 685
360 online 210 974
someone else can have fun charting or whatever but it kept dropping until after xmas when it rose up to
PC online 93 802
PS3 online 123 815
360 online 140 544
they don't really have snapshots throughout the day and that matters because Xbox, PS and PC all peak at different times thru the day and they didn't have the 24h peak stat back then.
KurtSloane
Banned
Lol, well done.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Those Steam refunds seem to be getting a lot of use.
KurtSloane
Banned
Best not disagree with the "elite" of the gaming world.
petethepanda
Member
Not hard to imagine that the awful launch of BF4 and the utter rejection of Hardline may have put a significant dent in the PC base for Battle-stuff.
Saucycarpdog
Member
Yeah sure it's not like PC gamers have ever paid for a broken early access game.
-MD-
Member
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
As a PC gamer, all I have to say is.....
Good idea to use archive.org.
The admin of bf3stats.com used to have a this year in review as a post on the main site, like the image in the OP. But I'm also just going from memory as I didn't save those numbers.
Edit: Found the thing I'm referring to: https://web.archive.org/web/20130115052233/http://bf3stats.com/
It's 2012 and unique players, so it's missing like 70 days in 2011. It's also not the same as concurrent players.
Winterblink
Member
I can't help but wonder what those PC numbers would be like if it was sold on Steam.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
To be fair I tend to pick games on the cheap on all platforms only to never play them.
KurtSloane
Banned
What are you talking about? I was talking about paid multiplayer in consoles vs GFWL which PC gamers didn't buy into.
Don't change the conversation to try and win the argument.
Next.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Same, lol. We are virtual hoarders.
-MD-
Member
Do you know what thread we're in lol?
Huh? A PC gamer has to spend more money than me every few years when it comes to games I would think
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
glassgannon
Banned
good god that 'pc owners are smart buyers' argument/excuse got blasted into jupiter lol
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I was just about to say, lol. What a roller coaster.
KurtSloane
Banned
Maintenance
Member
The thread probably run its course already, the only thing happening is mudslinging from both sides.
Aztechnology
Member
They are more discerning though, this doesn't even have to be about their personal tastes. I can prove this simply by pointing out the PC is a buyers market. Where consoles often don't need nor care to be. There's a veritable cornucopia of games on PC comparitively to console. This is important because the average PC player has a wider variety of titles in their library than most console players. So it doesn't really matter if they are smarter or not, they simply have more options and that often is all it takes to make someone more discerning.
Yep, probably the only thing that bumped Skyrim out of the top 10 steam games is Fallout 4. They're in that small group of games like Minecraft that have limitless playability due to community generated content.