ashecitism
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Maybe he meant 2017 releases only?
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PUBG has #1 peak population on Steam beating out Dota 2 & CSGO
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Maybe he meant 2017 releases only?
Raylan Targaryen
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he also said any single exclusive, not the best selling
at least that's how I understood it unless he thinks no console game has sold over 10 mil
I hope you power through seeing a couple of PUBG threads here and there.
Not for this generation.
Halo 5 and Uncharted 4 are the biggest sellers so far I would assume. Roughly the same as what PUBG is now. Those games were also heavily bundled so its not even all that impressive.
Feels good to be on the PUBG train compared to CS:GO, the devs quickly react and listen to the community somewhat. CS:GO remains tone deaf about meta changes and tournament format input from the competitors that are lining their pockets and do little about the rampant cheating going on in upper level MM.
Probably means this gen.
The +1 million would make sense then, because U4 was at 8.7 million the last time we got a number and PUBG is at 8 mill.
So can anyone joking about Valve making clone soon even put it into words why PUBG is such huge hit in its current state of development? Even PU can't explain it when asked and just says "I'm just making game I want to play" and that is go-to answer of any developer.
I think it's great to make funny, but it kinda blows my mind that no one can really grasp this thing and explain it why PUBG is pushing these numbers on PC.
I think it's great to make funny, but it kinda blows my mind that no one can really grasp this thing and explain it why PUBG is pushing these numbers on PC.
I mean H1Z1 already pulled good numbers, but did so with - in my opinion - vastly inferior moment-to-moment gameplay, less content and a fairly clueless developer.
Trogdor1123
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Hmmm, what is so good about this game? It looked kinda crappy to me. I assume it's really fun?
My mistake should have specified as in this current gen so xbox 1 and ps4, hell switch is fine too but it already passed Zelda.
Yup I was basing it on UC4's 9mil figures.
Raylan Targaryen
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It's the first actual good battle royale game. I never played the Arma mod version but Arma is known as a mil sim so it's probably too realistic for most. H1Z1 is way too arcadey, plus has annoying shit like being able to stock up on 10 extra helmets.
It's the go to answer for any developer but that's mostly just PR non-sense. You know it's true with PU because he's been doing this for awhile. The genre exists in gaming because of him. Do we really believe The Coalition wants to pump out Gears games forever or Polyphony wants to do Gran Turismo?
hanspampel
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If this games will come out in early November on Xbox One and does not get delayed until 2018, it should become the best selling titel of 2017 (total units)
ashecitism
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That should be Destiny 2, CoD and Fifa. Battlefront 2 is this year as well no?
Saucycarpdog
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How soon can we expect Valve to make a clone?
Not because they're jealous of it's success, but because Valve's market strategy for the last few years has just been chasing trends instead of being a trend setter.
Not because they're jealous of it's success, but because Valve's market strategy for the last few years has just been chasing trends instead of being a trend setter.
That's a good point, but Bayo 2 came out in a shit year. It would 100% not win in a year like this.
Not to mention that you should compare the PS4 numbers to 2014 and 2017. It almost quadrupled.
hanspampel
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i do not expect any of those games to sell above 20 million copies this year
and CoD should be the best selling out of that group. it could come close
as i said PUBG is very popular in China, Korea and Japan
all those games you mentioned won't do much or anything over there
I believe it has over the years, mostly as more and more people started playing it in general.
Others have said it does require a time commitment though, and they are right.
That said the time commitment is totally worth it.
Sad Affleck
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Now that DOTA's time has passed Valve has no choice but to release HL3, right?
...right?
...right?
ShadowkillXNA
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I'll definitely give it a shot on the ps4 pro when it hits.
Be a nice change from Battlefield 1/Battlefront.
Be a nice change from Battlefield 1/Battlefront.
If anything they should've hired PlayerUnknown when he was still making a mod. That's what they've done for all there games besides Half-Life.
OrbitalBeard
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shira
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https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/8/16116786/valve-artifact-dota-2-card-game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA5mY8XqrHU
Dota card game seems to be their next project
paperspace
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boneyjangles
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Well deserved, it's killed my appetite for all other games, except maybe occasional bouts of Rocket League and Overwatch.
Only thing stopping me playing more is that my 3570k isn't quite cutting it where there is a lot of buildings, hurry up with Coffee lake Intel.
Only thing stopping me playing more is that my 3570k isn't quite cutting it where there is a lot of buildings, hurry up with Coffee lake Intel.
Yeah, it's a very difficult game to learn. PUBG is also a hardcore game but just the act of shooting/looting/running around is pretty easy to learn (and difficult to master).
The things with Dota is that the number of combos and abilities and game knowledge things are just very high so I think that has kept the playerbase down some. That said it grew steadily for a long time and just recently has leveled off a bit
http://steamcharts.com/app/570#All
And Valve just added this to the Dota 2 website.
Considering they specifically refer to hours they could still make that claim based on total hours played/ possibly hours spent month / other metrics that I'm not thinking of
OrbitalBeard
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No reasonable person is frustrated with the idea of the bolded. Undertale was GotY for many in 2015.
As for the Early Access part, sure. And I actually think that's reasonable. I doubt many sites will even put PUBG up for consideration if it doesn't leave Early Access this year. Does GAF allow Early Access titles to be nominated? (Edit - I checked and the answer is no) Fortunately, they're aiming for it to become a full product by the fall.
Yup best game move Microsoft has made in years
Mass Effect
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lol come on I can understand not caring for the game, but it's literally one of the simplest concepts in the world.
It's "last man/team standing."
Imp the Dimp
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Yeah, it's just high stakes deathmatch. One thing that I think is REALLY helping drive it's popularity is the low downtime. Being able to immediately requeue and get into a match helps make it extremely easy to dismiss losses. If you had to wait a few minutes between, I think it would really deflate the game's fun factor.
TheMan
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for some reason people give all kinds of stupid reasons why text chat couldn't be added, when in reality, all their idiotic complaints could be applied to voice chat. And there are workarounds for voice that would work for text chat too. Makes no sense. It's almost like they've never heard of filters.
paperspace
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I would assume you have this big growth rate in the last few because the limited gamescom crate drops expire today. I expect it to slow down a bit after today. Next weekends peak might be lower than todays.
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Damn, I guess I should check out this game called PLAYERUNKNOWN' BATTLEGROUNDS by Bluehole
inc !!!
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OrbitalBeard
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Well, it's possible some outlets will be ok with that, but NeoGAF historically does not allow for an Early Access title to be nominated. So, unless the game leaves EA this year (which appears likely), it's probably not going to make GAF's GotY list. Whether that's fair or not is up for debate. I think it's perfectly fair.
hanspampel
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Communication for people who don't/can't use a microphone? It's not rocket science. Saying it serves no purpose is silly. Even in CS:GO is has limited purpose and PUBG isn't nearly as fast paced as that game anyway so it would be more useful.
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