Thread 719847496

The internet is not real life.

The way people online talked, you'd think Silksong would've sold millions of copies within the first hour. But it's barely at 500k. Sure, a massive success for an indie. But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down. But again, the discourse online would have you believe everyone and their mother was gonna buy this game. What's my point? My point is, despite the fact most people have internet access, the vast majority of actual "talking" done on the internet is done by a very vocal minority and you cannot use the internet as a barometer for how the real world actually feels about things. Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, 4chan, wherever the fuck you go it's all just a very loud minority screeching their heads off, living in a bubble.

you have no idea what you're talking about you retarded tranny. kys

ban steam charts threads

>>719847496 (OP)
I could tell you're white because you idiots come up with the stupidest posts.

>Forgot about PSN, Xbox, switch, and other PC software stores

>But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down
Silksong is triple A?

>>719847496 (OP)
>7 years of massive hype and endless reddit memes
>all for only 500k peak on release day
You're right. Delusional silkfags unironically believed that this was the most hyped video game of all time and would be the biggest release ever, but it couldn't even get to 1/4 of Palworld's peak or 1/5 of Wukong's peak.

>>719847496 (OP)
1. kys
2. Switch 2

>>719847496 (OP)
>>719847671
Nigger retard

>>719847671
are you baiting? it's one of the highest player counts on steam of all time you fucking ape

>dude most people are still at work, wait until the evening
>the evening:

>>719847707
>2. Switch 2
your point? switch 2 is fucking nothing, way more people are playing it on switch 1 and piss5. probably even Xbox because of goypass.

Today I will remind them.

>Actually, 500k isn't a success.
???
This is like the 18th most played game on steam based on their all-time peak. It just beat Battlefield 6's Open Beta and it hasn't hit the weekend yet where it could actually get more players into it.

hornet dies at the end of silk song

>>719847807
the next cope will be "wait until the weekend it's gonna hit 1m"
Then it'll be "it would've hit 1m if not for the Steam issues on release day"

>>719847807
this is how it was during the bf6 beta, and then when it got to the weekend it made a new steam record

>>719847884
500k is obviously a success, but relative to the expectations it's actually pretty weak
People expected this to hit 1m+ based on the hype

>>719847957
you are literally coping right now as we speak talking about others coping.
seek fucking help immediately

>>719847807
as if hollowknight trannies have jobs
jk i hope everyone is having fun even though i don't see the appeal

>>719848024
>People expected this to hit 1m+ based on the hype
Literally no one fucking said this. You fuckers have lost the script big time

>>719847496 (OP)
It was always a loud minority, it's a fucking 2D indie game, why the fuck would you expect millions

>>719848024
I mean most people here were betting on 300k-600k concurrent players.

>>719847657
>how would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast ahh reply

>>719847496 (OP)
Why dont people still not understand what concurrent players means and why do people think everyone is going to be playing the game for the next 24 hours straight ?

>Consoles and GOG dont exist only steam sells games
Breaking news OP is still a fucking faggot

>>719847496 (OP)
>But if a AAA game sold 500k
What if an AAA game had 500k players
alternatively what if silksong sold more than 500k

>>719847496 (OP)
>Couldn't crack a million
Flop

>>719847496 (OP)
Of course. "Libtards" as we know them are actually only 10 million strong (guess who?). The party has merged itself with niggers and beaners to artificially inflate its size, but this deception crumbles when you look at they reason for this alliance. It's about welfare and immigration, not libtard ideals and psycho feminism. They appear mighty like a big gay pufferfish.

Troonpedition 33 sisters are just mad

are people really saying that 500k players means the game flopped

>>719847496 (OP)
Hollow Knight's all time concurrent peak is 72,916 and the game sold over 15,000,000 units.
I think you're the one that needs to correct your perception.

>>719848319
gay, retarded, brown. hell of a combo desu

>>719848427
>Hollow Knight sold 15,000,000 units
No it didn't.

If a game doesn't amass 3 million concurrent users within the first 10 minutes, it's a flop. Indie or not.

>>719848481
looks like he hit the nail on the head

>>719848354
it did flop

>>719848520
https://www.ign.com/articles/hollow-knight-reaches-15-million-copies-sold

Sold through, not shipped.

You niggers know these threads are bait and instead of just calling them faggots you seriously engage with them like they are actual humans with opinions instead of walking irony generators.

>>719847496 (OP)
Chart threads are so fucking boring dude

steam needs to get rid of this retarded ass feature already, it serves no purpose outside of the devs themselves

>>719847496 (OP)
500k In steam and you have multiply that by 2.5 (timezones)

>>719847496 (OP)
consoles don't exist according to /v/ numberfags

>>719847496 (OP)
The shilling here was paid for by marketing firms. The hype is artificial. It's not as popular as they want to think

>>719848024
>but relative to the expectations it's actually pretty weak
your making up fights in your head again

>>719848565
I'm the first post itt and a fan of hollow knight and silksong (and E33). nobody who shits on E33 will post their playtime of it or their arm. you are brown. your skin contains an excess of melanin. never reply to me again.

>500k concurrent players = 500k sales
The absolute state of brown people brain

SH2 remake got like a 20k peak on steam yet has Konami funding a new remake by the same studio, meanwhile /v/ autists will claim anything below 700k is a huge studio ending flop

>>719848736
fuck off, Yves

dont care, just post bug pussy

>>719847496 (OP)
>this game did not meet the artificial and unrealistic goalposts I set for it, so its being shilled
>equating "500K concurrent players" less than 24 hours after release to "its only sold 500K copies"

>>719848856
you are in a silksong thread (a completely different game) and are STILL relentlessly defending E33, thats how rent free you are

>>719848950
what are you doing retard? that's one potential bug pussy image you just wasted

>>719849017
I am just here to inform you brownoid faggot subhumans that you lost. I'm going to keep doing it too so strap the fuck in and get comfy faggot.

Troons still mad white boy summer came back in full this year starting with E33 in April and ending with Silksong.

White men make the best games. 6 gorillion dollar Ubikike AAAAAA games can't compete with teams of 4 white men

>>719847496 (OP)
>But it's barely at 500k. Sure, a massive success for an indie. But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down.
>But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down.

>>719847496 (OP)
Because AAA gaming put thousands of dollars on a product and don't get a fraction of their return. Are you retarded? I don't give a fuck about silksong but I do support their success as I do with other Indie games.

>>719847496 (OP)
I don't even like Hollow Knight, but most AAA games these days don't even hit 500k on Steam launch these days lmfao. Remember how Failguard hit 90k at most?
Usually it's the most hyped games that reach these numbers and above. 500k means that it actually sold very well and even more so when you consider that this is an indie game with pennies for a budget.

>>719849352
>pennies for a budget
They made 77 MILLION on Hollow Knight. They didn't make the Silksong with a budget of pennies you uninformed jackass.

When was the last AAA game that crashed steam?

https://archive.org/details/Bostonaquateenhungerforce

It's a shame this episode got canned. Honestly one of the funniest episodes in the series

>I'LL BE DOWN AT THE BAH WHERE I PAHKED THE CAH
>YEAH I FUCKIN' MEANT HORSE

fucking gets me in stitches every time

>>719849481
Team Cherry is 4 dudes retard

>crash Steam, Nintendo, and PSN stores
>500k concurrent players for the past 12 hours
Trannies: "actually its a flop"

>>719849538
4 dudes who made 77 million and more from the first game, idiot.
The sunk millions in Silksong. They're not Chilla's Arts begging for nickles on Paytreon.

it's also on gamepass

>>719847496 (OP)
>le steamcharts
For any other game this would mean something but a fuck ton of people played hollow knight on other platforms. Switch especially and personally I bought hollow knight on gog. Sales numbers will surpass hollow knight's 15 million by a good margin. The game succeeded and they plan on updating it so with every update comes more hype, more sales, and more people jumping on. Make no mistake this is a massive win for team cherry

>>719847496 (OP)
>But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down
70k was a success for a AAA game btw, you don't know what you want

It's literally free on gamepass

>>719849659
So is your mommy. Everyone gets a turn for a monthly subscription. Go ask her what that means.

>>719849693
>70k was a success for a AAA game btw

>>719848137
if Silksong were a AAA game, it wouldn't be sold for $20, and would likely sell more copies. you can only imagine a scenario in your head where it's the same game but with higher expectations so it HAS to fail.

>>719849708
It's free to basically everyone. You can pirate it right now but it'll sell more than hollow knight regardless because it's good

>>719849658
They're a team of 4 fucking people developing a 2D sidescroller. The only cost of development is their time.

Other than Ari's ladyboy hookers, where do you think 77m is being sunk?

500k is an overwhelming success

I don't even like hollow knight but it's not a flop by any means

>>719848137
>pose retarded hypothetical
>get called a retard
>YOU DIDN'T ENGAGE WITH MY BULLSHIT SO I WIN
mindbroken and raped reply

>>719849481
>They made 77 MILLION on Hollow Knight.
And how much do you think a game like this costs to make? It's not a bloated AAA studio making open world slop.

>>719847496 (OP)
>no reviews
>no preorders
>20 dollar price point
>crashes everything the second it releases
>500k day 1 indie game made by like 3 guys
tldr you're a faggot and stop having a melty because it didn't flop

>>719849838
>Developing
They literally just copied and pasted Hollow Knight, changed the move sets, modified the levels, and refused fuck tons of assets and sprites.
The cost of advertising and paying for shills is expensive.

The fact that it's on GamePass means Xbox paid them more than launch week sales would've been worth. Microsoft probably cut them a 7-figure check just for that.

>>719847951
i spilled my onions when that happened

>>719847496 (OP)
I don't know what kind of retarded shit you're trying to say but I'll just say it has more than 8x the peak of a certain AAA title (and that's not counting how the line is going up again in your graph) and move on with my life.

>>719847496 (OP)
this is pretty much all within the west though, gooks don't even know about this game

>>719847496 (OP)
>sold 500k
retard-sama, peak concurrent players is not sales
a game holding 400k concurrent players over a 12-hour period implies well over a million sales just on that platform

>80 replies
We're so retarded, guys.

>>719849083
You are mentally ill and nobody cares about your idiotic shitposting.

They literally priced it at $20, basically giving it away for free, because they desperately wanted to claim the all-time record on Steam, but it didn't even come CLOSE to BG3, Elden Ring, Palworld or Black Myth: Wukong which were full-priced games lmao
In fact, it barely surpassed the peak of Terraria (a 15-year old game) from 5 years ago
Complete hubris from the ego-driven devs and I'm glad it failed

>>719848826
That is my guess. Not every marketing team targets 4chan but this one did. Aside from the obvious catalog spamming, I've never as many seething replies to anons critiquing the game.

>>719850190
>we
I get a kick out of watching idiots dig their heads into the sand to justify their contrarian bullshit against whatever 'big thing coming out' they've been conditioned to hate on principle though

>>719847584
Then unban them when a game /v/ hates has a low count

>>719847998
>and then when it got to the weekend it made a new steam record
Hey retard, no shit the weekend spiked for BF6, the weekend is when it was actually publicly open to everyone. On Thursday/Friday only people with codes from twitch or previously tested in Labs were allowed in. There isn't no restrictions of who can play silksong right now

>>719847884
>This is like the 18th most played game on steam based on their all-time peak
And what's above it? Several $60+ games. This shit can't even get past them with a $20 price tag lmao

hm nyes games need to have 2 million concurrent players to be a good game
btw its only 1 million players if they are chinese because chinese counts for two
don't ask me why

>>719847496 (OP)
that's it? i was told this slop was gonna sell millions and put gta 6 to shame
i guess silktroon redditzoom xisters can only buy fake likes, not real sales

>>719847496 (OP)
You're right it was a colossal failure

>Game made by 3 guys
>Hits 500k concurrent users
>There are retards on v trying to spin this as a failure
Fucking lol

>>719848024
brain dead retard

>>719851362
>500k players
>Doesn't think 300k of those are bots
Fucking lol

>>719851362
more retarded is they think 500K concurrent = 500k total sales

>>719851457
>Companies buys their own games, so the money just cycles through the company, they lose nothing but inflate the sales numbers
>Company uses bots to play the game to inflate player count
>Retards and redditors buy it hook line and sinker
>GUYS ITS A MASSIVE SUCCESS

hey redditsong trannies, what happened to silkjeet selling millions of copies and btfoing AAA games?

>>719847496 (OP)
itt: mental illness

>>719847496 (OP)
>But it's barely at 500k. Sure, a massive success for an indie. But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down.

Okay, but it’s an indie game. Plus 500k concurrent Steam players is a minimum number on a singular platform, not the maximum amount of sales.

>>719851597
>>719851612
Based silkjeet haters

>>719848137
But I had breakfast today.

>>719851854
I thought you were cutting back on your semen intake?

>>719847496 (OP)
>all time peak 10 hours ago
LMAO DOA
people realized it's just hollow knight with a girl

>>719847496 (OP)
>Flatlined already
LMAO

>>719847496 (OP)
500k concurrent players on launch is a massive success though, it translates to way more sales

>>719851931
Naw, you're wrong as usual.

>>719848087
Palworld reached 2 million.

Every single one of those players is me or one of my 500 000 cousins. We all live in one city block in bangalore. Team Cherry gave us all keys and told us to pretend to play and they would pay us but the money isn't in our accounts yet...

>>719848990
and don't forget how the goalposts changed from 50k to 100k and then to 200k and so on until it was 600k, they got completely raped and went on full cope mode

>>719851424
>>719851597
yeah and they are wasting thousands on bots to... own retards on 4chimpo... great plan!

>>719847496 (OP)
I can't even tell if this is being facetious or is just straight up retardation. 500K concurrent players implies actual sales numbers are probably in the millions on Steam alone.

>>719847496 (OP)
>ccu from a single platform = copies sold
You are braindead

Hahahahahaha Niggers lost.
silksong did it, we won.

The game is so good I just NEEDED to see the cope on this forum

>>719847496 (OP)
The internet is more relevant than “real life”. Nothing in real life matters anymore.

It sold millions of copies within the first few hours. If it wasn't for every storefront crashing it would've done it in the very first hour.

>>719851957
Nah you suck cock as usual, baiter.

saarsong bros, why didn't our games hit million saar?

They spent nothing on marketing. They made threads here for a couple of weeks after finishing the game. It's a bigger success than Assassin's Creed Requiem: Samurai George Floyd editon which cost ten million times more to make.

>>719850260
Well Wukong and Elden Ring are just straight up better. Those games deserved to break records. Silksong is all right though. But now that I've played for a bit I see absolutely no way E33 doesn't take GOTY. Still the best game to release this year by a landslide.

>>719847496 (OP)
Is there a game that /v/ won't claim flopped?
TORtanic really fucked this board up.

>>719847496 (OP)
>just the steam platform
>people play some and turn it off, new people turn it on, making the concurrent count inaccurate to actual total sales even for the platform.
this is easily 1 or 2 million sales day 1.

for the amount of hype for this dogshit game, i was expecting to see 15 million peak at least
i guess valvejeets just love to shit up all online spaces with their numbers but don't have any bharat poopees to spend on the games

>>719847496 (OP)
You're only counting steam stupid
What about all the people playing on game pass and switch and PlayStation?

>>719847867
That was a huge letdown.

>>719847496 (OP)
If you're upset about people living in a bubble, I would suggest protesting the LGBTQ, but you're already a part of it

What level of chronic contrarian retardation are we on now?

>Oh yeah it reached 500k concurrent players. That's only 10mil in sales on the first day. These indies are seething

>>719853602
Name one game with 15 million concurrent players on steam ever, oops you can't, now name one game you've played in the last year with a higher player count than silksong, oops you named some slop game didn't you?

>>719853637
So the real number is like 2 million then? What'll happen when the weekend comes? Will /v/ implode?

>>719853287
shitsong just couldnt hack it. blown out by baldurs even

>>719847496 (OP)
Loud indeed
Everything I know about this indieslop is against my will

My dude, Stellar Blade had a peak of 192k players in the weekend that game game sold 1 million copies on Steam in 3 fucking days. KCD2 had a peak of 250k and that game sold 3 million in a month. You piece the dots here.
500k+ on steam alone, nevermind the game literally broke the nintendo and sony stores, means that it has already sold more than 2 million copies at least on day 1.

Why do retards here think steam is the only place a game is?

>>719847496 (OP)
It's a game for trans people.

>>719854203
Stop using your brain, you're scaring them away

>500k on steam
>1 million on PS5
>3 million on switch
>Another 7 million on Xbox gamepass

How will /v/ ever recover from this?

>>719847496 (OP)
>no chingchong boost
>still able to break 500k
bitch ass nigga this shit is poppin the fuck off
now go back to jerk off wukon slop that was only played by chingchong bugs

>>719854047
you poojeets sure made it sound like it was gonna break all records though, so what happened, saarsong bros?

>caring about player count

I pity you.

>>719854515
Nigga silksong has major traction in China, all of the major gaming streams on Bilibili are playing it right now.

>>719854449
Passpoors aren't real gamers, they don't count.

>>719847496 (OP)
>player count is sales
Anon, the majority of AAA games released on Steam don't hit a 100k concurrent players.

>>719854449
Wait I just realized
Is PC actually smalltime in the real world?

>>719854669
PassCHADs pay less to play more games. Only PirateGODs are realer gamers. Consoomtroons don't count.

>>719855185
What's the current number of pirate players?

Why did a lil bug upset /v/ so much?

>>719847496 (OP)
that's like 10 million dollars

>>719851597
I remember when Sony did this to prop up the success of their billion dollar IP, Concord

>>719855205
Judging from these numbers:
>>719854449
I'm going to make an educated guess of around 24 million who pirated it and are playing right now

>>719847496 (OP)
535K concurrents is fucking crazy bro, and that's just steam

it's on gamepass and switch and switch 2 and playstation and xbox too

shit's nuts

>>719847496 (OP)
>you'd think
Don't confuse your autistic imagination and judgment skills with reality.

>>719849296
>this kills the shitposter

>>719855532
So we talking over 3 million then or?

>>719855615
I mean yeah I'd say it's probably sold 3M by now

>>719849028
lmao
Saved
/v/ really is infested by these fuckers

>>719855649
Why the fuck is /v/ flipping out over steam's 500k then?
This board is so dumb I swear to god

>>719847496 (OP)
>if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down
In a fair and just world the pathetic excuse for games AAA studios shit out on the regular wouldn't reach 100k. But sadly people like you exist

>>719847496 (OP)
I know you're baiting but 500k concurrent players means 5-10x more sales on steam alone!

>>719847496 (OP)
how stupid are you
silksong's marketing budget is exactly 0$

>>719847496 (OP)
>#5 in daily active users
So far doesn't look like the earth shattering release /v/ suggested it would be. But it's early.

>>719855668
>/v/ really is infested by these fuckers
Ban all indian IPs and 90% will vanish immediately

>>719856035
dota and csgofags just play those 2 games always thats why

>>719847496 (OP)
>But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down.

It's almost as if one has a bloated money pit meaning you need to get >100 million to break even.

While the other is probably less than 20 people, break even was likely 8-10 million.

Concurrent players does not equal sales. Not everyone who owns the game is playing it at the same time. It's definitely sold over a million by now.

>>719848024
bros making his own scenarios and gets mad at it.
this is peak /v/ermin behavior lmfaoooo

How can such low iq niggers even exist as OP.
Steamcharts really made people retarded

>>719855717
monster hunter had over a million. logically silksong should have been higher than 500k.

>>719856981
Because monster hunter was a coop game. This still makes it the highest ccu for an indie game ever. No AA single player game has ever made this far. For the AAA sphere, it can happen with really hyped games like cyberpunk 2077 or special cases like hogwarts legacy or black myth wukong. However it's still foolish to expect it all the time. Even a goddamn bethesda game only managed to get 300k.

>>719847496 (OP)
do you niggers seriously not understand what CONCURRENT means?
the chart you're showing represents exactly that, millions of copies
dumb fucking cunt

who fucking cares bro

Someone explain to me how the retarded OP came to the conclusion that total sales = concurrent players on steam

>>719847496 (OP)
ok faggot, did the game delay the release of your comfycozy stardew valley inspired farming simulator?
535,000 concurrent players for a single plyaer indie game made by 3 people is fucking lunatic numbers.

>>719847496 (OP)
Someone's upset because the psn didn't crash from people buying silksong and instead got hacked, again

>>719847838
Actually PS5 got the game hours after everyone else

>>719855110
Sadly all of PC + console gaming is small-time compared to phone game garbage.
That's why so much sloppa is pushed on phone. More users = more money.

>>719847496 (OP)
OP is definitely one of the retards who thought the new dragon age was going to sell like gangbusters.

>>719848024
YOU WERE WRONG, YOU DUMBASS. STOP INVENTING SCENARIOS TO JUSTIFY BEING WRONG, AND INSTEAD TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT LEAD YOU TO BEING WRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE. MAYBE THEN YOU WON’T HAVE TO FACE HUMILIATIONS LIKE THIS AGAIN
HERE’S A HINT: NEXT TIME DON’T LATCH ON TO THE FIRST OPINION YOU LIKE THE SOUND OF AND IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE UNTIL REALITY GATECRASHES THE PARTY.

>>719847807
>it's X o'clock
>steam charts are worldwide

Fuck kinda point is this retard trying to make
Yesterday some idiot also tried claiming indies have money to hire indians that shill their games lol

>>719847496 (OP)
>The way people online talked, you'd think Silksong would've sold millions of copies within the first hour. But it's barely at 500k
why are steamchart numberfags always the most retarded dumb fucks on the planet? why does it even need to be said that concurrent users on a single platform doesn't equal total copies sold?

Fully convinced that any fags crying about Silksong are AAA shills or gook/chinkslop shills.

>>719847496 (OP)
>the discourse online would have you believe everyone and their mother was gonna buy this game
Absolutely nobody implied this, it's only relevant to gaming, we don't give a shit about people who don't play games, so they're not factored into statistics.

kys numberniggers.

>>719849693
Literally said in shareholder meeting it was 50% under expectation for amount for PLAYERS not even sales. So no, faggotguard was not a success

>>719847496 (OP)
Do sequels typically outsell first entries when there's been this big of a release gap?

>>719860962
No shit, when they've spent the last year coping that
>Our big AAA game having 80,000 concurrent players is good and we won, please don't ask about the layoffs chuds
and then an indie release gets 500k on launch, it makes their failure all the more glaringly obvious.

>>719851960
Palworld is both a 3d game and a direct (if very derivative) response to two decades of Pokémon complaints, thats a ridiculous comparison

>>719848024
>People expected this to hit 1m+ based on the hype
Can you link to the source of this? Please don't say people on /v/.

>>719847496 (OP)
anon this is way higher than any triple A this year

>>719847496 (OP)
The amount of people playing a game and the amount of people who bought are a game are very different. People are lazy and busy, if there's 500k people actively playing there's at least 4 times as many people who bought it. Stop being a stupid nigger. I hate this faggot shit as much as you do but that's no excuse for being retarded.

>>719848123
I'm most people and I bet on 5 million so yeah, your wrong.

>>719847496 (OP)
It's corporate bait. Every once in a while a shill campaign is run as obvious as anyhow possible to skew the baseline of canned authenticity.

>>719847496 (OP)
if you listened to the internet you'd think silent hill 2 is extremely popular and everyone has finished it. there's plenty of bubble examples when it comes to games.

>>719848354
yes.
though calling them people is a stretch.

>>719847496 (OP)
People playing and total sales are not the same
Holy fuck you're dumb. Kill yourself.

>>719847584
No. This is a vital metric.

>>719857771
>simulator?
>535,000 concurrent players for a single plyaer indie game
Silksong isn't an indie game. An indie game is made by some dude living in his moms basement paycheck to paycheck with a healthy diet of cup noodles. Team Cherry are giga trillionaires who had all the luxury in the world.
Silkshit doesn't get to wear the indie label.

>>719862858
I can feel the seething coming from the post just by reading it.

>>719863253
Project harder.

>>719862858
Yeah and it's an indie game

>>719863329
If you're retarded.

>>719847496 (OP)
Those are the players, not the people who bought the game. 4 of my friends bought it but none have played it yet.
If it got 500k players as peak, I'd say it sold at least 3 million.

>>719847867
We were legit excited for this, unlike Silksong which hype being entirely fabricated.

>>719863356
Me being retarded doesn't change the fact that it was made by 3 dudes and self-published so it's still an indie game

>>719863356
>developer: team cherry
>publisher: team cherry
Textbook definition of a doujin game.

it hit 500k concurrent players on steam in 2 hours despite the fact that people could barely buy the game during that time, that's insane hype.
And now most of the retards who bought it just for the memes are already getting filtered hard kek

>>719847496 (OP)
only something like 30% of people will actually play the game
and only something like 30% of those still will play past the introductory areas

>>719863454
what about marketing?

>>719863440
Concession accepted

You are complaining it's not overwhelming normie slop?

>>719863484
I'm curious to see what the completion percentage will be like a month from now

>>719863310
>Team Cherry are giga trillionaires who had all the luxury in the world
Nigga, Elon fucking Musk isn't even a trillionaire yet and he has an industry of going to space.

>>719863507
You mean none? They basically shadowdropped a game that was 7 years in the works.

>>719847496 (OP)
It did sell millions of copies you moron, peak player count is a fraction of actual sales.

>>719863632
>Elon fucking Musk isn't even a trillionaire
what games did he make?

>>719863507
Lol, lmao even.

>>719863632
I still find it funny he went from reddits poster child to public enemy number one just for dismantling their hugbox.

>>719847496 (OP)
Hilarious that a sequel to one of the most mid metroidvanias attracted so many tasteless midwits.

Lots of triple A games do worst than that. You think the latest Final Fantasy gets that many sales?

You are a faggot OP

>>719863372
>If it got 500k players as peak, I'd say it sold at least 3 million.
Unlikely.
More likely it sold under 1 million and that's more or less all the sales it will get for the rest of the year, since the only ones that cares about Silksong were the ones chomping at the bits for it.

>>719847584
fpbp

>>719863484
Correct, normies buy stuff based on buzz.
Then at work they'll say the game is amazing after playing it for 1 hour. Then they'll play it on and off for a week or two and forget about it.

>>719863454
>>developer: nintendo
>>publisher: nintendo
we indie now

>>719847496 (OP)
You are both right and fucking retarded, interestingly
You are right in that the fake shills would make you think this would have reached easily 1.5M players in an hour
You are retarded because 500k concurrent means like 5M sales

>>719847496 (OP)
Is hollow knight good? I've never played it but did play similar games like salt and sanctuary

Damn, I don’t know much about hollow knight and this new game but isn’t it made by a solo dev?
Nigger is rich now

>>719864531
>You are retarded because 500k concurrent means like 5M sales
That's not how it works. Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to call others retarded when making asspulls and irrational leaps of logic.

>>719864541
>Is hollow knight good?
No. It came out a time when people were starved for metroidvanias. The main strength of HK is the aesthetics, music and mood. The weak part is the combat, platforming, level design, map design and general game design. Amateurish at best, because it was made by literal amateurs.

Since then, better and more metroidvanias has been released.

>>719847496 (OP)
>But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down
MGS Delta just came out with 20k

>>719864660
it's like 3-5 people, but yeah they made millions in a few hours

>>719847584
1. Go to a hardware/gym store.
2. Ask for a climbing rope.
3. Climb up a chair and hang yourself.

>>719847671
Todd wishes his games have all time high like that

>>719864660
>rich
not really, it just allows them to afk for 7 years, rearrange their prior game and release it. So expect a sequel after 7 more years that is barely different from HK again.

>>719849028
>also keeps an eye out for viewercounts on twitch
kek

third worlders love invoking steam charts but they are too stupid to understand what the numbers mean.

the fuck do you care?

>>719847496 (OP)
>/v/ falling for the "ccu = copies sold" bait once again
Surprised.
Shocked even.

>>719851597
>they lose nothing
they lose 30% om each sale through steam

>>719862839
metrics are for redditors.

>>719865009
hi tim

>>719865028
this, trust your gut, always

Being this retarded should be a bannable offence.

Why don't you look up how much Skyrim and Witcher 3 sold then find the peak player numbers at launch on Steam.

Between Italy and NZ for example there are 10 hours of difference, for a lot of people September is when vacation ends and it came out on a thursday, so I ask you HOW, just HOW can you expect EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO BOUGHT IT TO BE PLAYING IT AT THE EXACT SAME TIME?
Is also on Console, Switch, XBOX, not to mention available to Gamepass, that's at least thousands of people who are not playing it through Steam and still are through either PC or XBOX.

Why do you expect (for a SINGLE PLAYER game) that every single person who bought it to be playing it at the SAME TIME on the SAME PLATFORM?

How do you not know this? Why don't you fucking LURK you NEWFAG.

>/v/
>STEAM CHARTS
>PLAYER COUNT X5 THREAD
>Muh internet blah single player AAA game blah

>Normal people
>Play the game

>>719848645
Kek that anon has not replied since then lmao. What a faggot for conceding in

>>719847632
another day, another 5'2 indonesian goblin seething unprompted

>>719847632
sony and nintendo's online stores ALSO broke during the silksong release, only a contrarian nigger would post a steamchart and pretend it means anything when its like 15% of the sales market.

>>719865303
chill out these are designated troll threads even if op is retarded

wtf only the third most played game on steam it's a complete flop bros.....

>>719848024
It already sold 5 millions of copies

>>719866556
>steam
lel Roblox is the greatest game ever made KNEEL

>>719848736
Nah it's a good thing that they exist
It's not Valve's fault that /v/ is mostly browns making bait threads

>>719848319
>>719848565
>>719849017
>>719849083
>>719850213
retarded subhuman tendie niggercattle

>>719854290
I'm sure you and OP are enjoying it then

>>719865582
you forgot gachantroon porn spam

>>719847496 (OP)
repeat after me:
CON-CUR-RENT, CONCURRENT
does not mean
TOTAL

it's also spread across like 4 platforms, never mind that devs would kill to have these numbers on a steam-only release
the game's doing more than fine

>>719847496 (OP)
I was gonna say this is a new low for this board but then I realize this is the place of "BG3's playercounts have been botted by the chinese for 2 years straight" so nevermind

>>719868772
keeeek tendietrannies really do hate bg3
gusee getting raped by the tranny bear game really did a number on them

>>719847496 (OP)
Never heard of this game before.

>>719847496 (OP)
You're forgetting it's on gamepass. For a gamepass game it's doing great

>>719868772
I wouldn't say they were botted, but a lot of chinese were playing the game compared to literally anywhere else. That's where most of the sales come from. Black Myth Wukong had a similar thing, employers were even giving people time off to go play that game.

>>719869375
nigger get your head out of your ass, the game consistently peaked during western times
ain't no chinese give a fuck about baldurs gate

>>719869531
from what ive seen, the only asians who care one iota about baldur's gate are koreans, and even those are a minority

/v/, you seriously need to stop being a contrarian

>>719847496 (OP)
I don't rwally agree with your points about the figures since that isn't what Steam Charts show but your general point is totally correct
It pains me to read people use how many others they've anecdotally seen "talking" about a game online as a metric without a hint of irony, as if the type of person into games enough to go online and talk about them with strangers isn't a pretty much mutually exclusive demographic from the target audiences of shitloads of games more popular than most of what gets regularly discussed in these circles

>>719847496 (OP)
>The internet is not real life.
Completely and demonstratively wrong.
The internet is real for zoomers who grew up online. They do not and cannot make any distinction between being online and not online. Anything that they see or read online must be real.

The same batch of cucks were hyped for a new armored core game, so I don’t trust them. It’s cause they saw a logo and clapped at the screen and their friend might have talked about the game once. I already played 2d retro style games two decades ago. Viewtiful Joe, Shinobis, Alien Hominid. For example I don’t trust people hyped for Dark Souls, when Demon Souls is the best etc. I don’t trust people hyped to play remakes of SH or Metal gears, when the creators are no longer at the company.

Is silksong good? I don’t know I don’t play this game. But I know the audience buying this are retarded and not as good at games as me.

>>719870195
>everyone must play 24/7 after buying a game
Retard alert.

>>719870109
I will gladly be contrarian for liking good games I enjoyed and that is why avowed is my goty.
Fuck the angry snoys.
Fuck the retarded /pol/roaches.
And fuck the seething Bethesdadrones.

>>719863401
Almost like that's the point I'm making, just not in a way you like.

>>719848137
>ahh
Being cucked on social media is bad enough, but IMAGINE being so buck broken that you self censor the word ass because you’re either so used to the necessity, or you emulate people who do.
Pathetic.

>>719848137
>ahh
Ban all zoomers.

>>719870851
>>719870864
unc doesn't even know the meme OH NOOOOOO

>>719847957
You've already lost. You fags were saying 50k. Then it reached 100k. Then it reached 250k. Then it reached 500k. You've lost, not once, but several times and the losses continue to pile up.

>>719847632
>I can tell you're white because you idiots come up with the stupidest posts
Is it opposite day today?

>>719870913
And you’re proud of being a submissive cretin, too.
Pitiful.

>>719862858
>three guys make a game in their basement, same three guys use the profits from it to make the sequel also in their basement
>Wooooow get a load of this AAA Dev company trying to pass themselves off as indie

OP here, I just woke up.

99% of the posts ITT having nothing to do with what I said, and are crying about things I never claimed. The point I wanted to discuss was the internet being an illusion. Silksong was just a springboard for that discussion. For as much hype as Silksong got these past, what, 7 years? It hasn't translated into reality. Sure, FOR AN INDIE, it sold well. Fine. But people are adamant indies are a true rival to AAA and the numbers simply don't show that. But again, this was all just an example to illustrate the true topic of discussion: how fake and gay the internet "zeitgeist" really is, and how it does not reflect real life at all.

>>719871195
500k is good for AAA, though.

>>719847807
>drastic spike
it's botted?

>>719871195
Nobody was claiming it would be a global phenomenon with the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE, nobody cares what games they play on sentinelese island. That's such a ridiculous thing to imagine on its face that it's incredible that anyone needs it stated outright to them, but apparently you do. In the gaming sphere, Silksong is very popular and not even just for an indie game.

>The point I wanted to discuss was the internet being an illusion
Yeah, we know buddy, you're not stumbling across some core universal truth the rest of us have been blind to this whole time. You're the last person to figure this one out.

>>719847584
oh so now you hate numberwanks huh

>>719871476
>Yeah, we know buddy, you're not stumbling across some core universal truth the rest of us have been blind to this whole time. You're the last person to figure this one out.
Then piss off. If you're just gonna sit there all smug and shit your pants about an irrelevant indie, go away. You're clearly too good to talk to me, so go on. Off you go. Bye bye.

>>719848645
>ign
nice source, hollowtroon

>>719871042
Another good example, thank you

>>719871547
>irrelevant
>so popular it broke store servers

i still haven't seen anyone post any interesting or intriguing gameplay from it. ill never understand the fascination with this indie shit.

>>719871770
Name 5 games Hollow Knight was a major influence on outside of the indie scene. Hell, name a single game mechanic Hollow Knight introduced that was copied/improved upon by an AA or AAA game that came out later on. Hollow Knight/Silksong are popular, for indies, but they're ultimately irrelevant in the games industry.

>>719870659
NTA but I think that's the joke there
>if ccu = sales
>then ccu drop = refunds

>>719871547
>irrelevant indie
Sounds like your real problem is with Silksong itself, not with any high minded ideal about the nature of discourse, the internet and the human noosphere.

>>719871801
i just found out the game is about bugs, and only indian and brown people play it

>>719863507
what fucking marketing? all they did was publish a yt video with the release date two weeks in advance

>>719871801
You've seen plenty, it's just been blanked from your memory because you're autistic and things that other people like that don't interest you leave no impression on you.

>>719847496 (OP)
>But it's barely at 500k
530k is closer to mid 500s than "barely"
And this is not sales, this is players online at the same time. Considering the world is a globe, and at least half the people can't play at the same time, this is easily 1 mil sales during the week. Not even a weekend sale.
Most AAA titles can't peak 500k players on launch. OP is clearly delusional.

>>719871195
But you said
>you'd think Silksong would've sold millions of copies within the first hour
Which implies
>it's a fake phenomenon, it if was real it would have sold millions of copies in one hour
Which is true, because 500k+ ccu on Steam alone implies millions of copies sold...
Hell, you even said
> sold millions of copies within the first hour. But it's barely at 500k. Sure, a massive success for an indie. But if a AAA game sold 500k
trying to say ccu means sales
So yeah, 99% of the people here are calling a retard because you are one.

>>719847496 (OP)
Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong? Why did you refund?

>>719871195
>breaks every store
>500k for a 2d metroidvania made by 3 dudes
>two weeks of seethe from all the major presses due to no review copies
but hey, it did not cross 20 gorillion players at the same time that means it was an irrelevant game

>>719863507
Their marketing was
>we're making silksong
seven years ago, then
>we're releasing silksong next week
last week, lmao
they probably spent more on coffee than marketing

I don't really understand what you're all fighting about but I just want to say that I hope you all have a great time fighting about it.

>>719872163
I played the game for five minutes, and as a hyperentellegent INTJ, I simulated the rest of it in my mind. It would have taken me three, but I was caught offguard by how good I was.

>>719871195
like 10 other games in history crossed 500k concurrent on launch nigga

>>719872301
now I'm kinda wondering if a helmet would still mitigate damage if you wore it like that

>>719871195
>. But people are adamant indies are a true rival to AAA and the numbers simply don't show that.
True.
AAA are dying hard and wish they could hit those numbers, man. Veilguard and AC:Shadows wish they could have those numbers.

>>719868772
Hollow Knight has a substantial chinese following so expect more of that

>>719872068
this is true, i typically block everything that has to do with the reddit hivemind

>would've sold millions of copies within the first hour. But it's barely at 500k
But concurrent player amount is in no way indicative of SOLD INDIVIDUAL COPIES
If your game has 500k concurrent players, that means the sales are easily in the millions already

how the fuck don't you retards understand how concurrent users work?

>>719872442
The problem is that you then get caught in a loop of asking "why do you like thing?" then saying "I don't understand why you like thing". This continues until something else gets your attention, and for this place it's almost always another game where you just get caught in another loop.

>>719871195
>nooooo it's all fake because it didn't sell one million copies, if the hype was real it would have sold one million copies
>it did bro
>nooooo, it sold one million copies but it didn't sell [abstract] million copies, if the hype was real it would have sold [abstract] million copies
You said it was all fake, then got fact checked that you used CCU as sales and that you were wrong so now you're moving the goalposts to a more abstract argument

>>719847632
>American has posted

>But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down.

But it isn't so they haven't

What's your fucking argument retard? That if you were smart you wouldn't be stupid? Fucking moron

>>719872519
The assumption is that people will buy a game and then play that game immediately, and keep playing it for several hours straight. It's primarily how NEETs see engagement with video games because they have nothing else to do.

>>719872519
Because it's old and cheap, but effective bait.

I never buy games on release if the company doesn't have a good track record.
Example: been buying souls games since 2012, I know fromsoft caters to my taste so I can safey buy and release.

Silksong however? with that dev cycle? you'd be retarded to buy this on release, better wait and see if it's actually playable and to what part of the HK fanbase they're catering to.

Since they're catering to the pantheon autists that grinded boss rushes with 40 bosses every day to beat them hitless I can put that game on the backburner.

>>719872068
>because you're autistic things that other people like that don't interest you leave no impression on you
Has nothing to do with autism
why the fuck should anyone care what you think about anything?
keep your shit to yourself and only engage with people who share the interest

>>719847496 (OP)
That's 500k concurent players, not sales, you idiot. The vast majority of AAA games don't even manage to break 100k concurrent players on Steam.

>>719848826
>>719850386
Are you really believing that marketing firms for Silksong exist and are on here?

Isn't it more obvious that you weren't around or noticed how popular HK was on this website for the last 7 years and there is a dedicated following on v

No of course not, it must be marketing

>>719872768
Has everything to do with autism when you then keep asking "I don't understand why people like this?" Most other people would just shrug it off as other people's interests and get on with their lives.

>>719872840
and those games with under ~100k concurrent end up selling millions of copies
these retards don't understand how to read charts or what CCU means

>>719872767
Dude with all due respect, unclamp your lips from From Softwares asshole

>>719872890
>when you
You're a fucking autist thinking you're replying to one person, keep me out of your strawmen, shit-for-brains

I mean you have assume whatever sales are, they get spread out throughout the day because of time zones. Not only that but people have different days off.

It's fair to compare with other games using the same metrics, but I assume sales wise is similar ratio to others. People like me will buy games and play it eventually.

>>719872663
Timezones exist though. there's usually only ever slightly above 50% (due to population distribution and landmasses) of people on earth that have daylight at any given moment.


Most play during the day.
Most of those play in the afternoon or evening.

From that you can roughly extrapolate that if 500k are playing right now, that the actual sales numbers are about 3 times as high. But since this is only steam charts and not all other consoles, it will be much higher

>>719872691
Huh? No, old bait is like console wars and rickrolling. Steam charts threads are still pretty new.

>>719847496 (OP)
>>719871195
>But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down.
Because it's all about COSTS anon. That's why the metrics work different for those games, because they are different.
If those 3 guys spent, let's say, 1 million dollars to make Silksong, sold the game for 20 dollars, and had "only" 500k sales on Steam, that's 10 million dollars, or 7 million after the Steam cut, which means they made 7x the money.
But if some AAA studio spent 100 million dollars to make [AAA game], sold the game for 70 dollars, and had only 500k sales on Steam, that's 35 million dollars, or 24.5 million dollars after the Steam cut, which means they LOST 75 million dollars.
You can't expect some AA or indie group to spent over 100 million dollars on a project, that will often not happen. Which also means, Silksong having over 500k ccu on launch day on Steam alone is really fucking huge, not many games can do that.

Also, CCU does NOT means sales. But you probably know that by now.

>>719847496 (OP)
>playing on pc

>>719873034
'You' as in a hypothetical general you, not you specifically. Christ english comprehension has gone to the fucking dogs.

>>719873146
G-gramps...

>>719873169
If sales = relevancy, I guess the Horizon games are some of the most relevant game in the industry ever made...

>>719873219
read OP again

>>719873083
It's way more than 3x concurrent players if we are to believe that a game like AC: Shadows, which peaked at 60k concurrent players sold millions of copies.

>>719864783
this but OP

>>719873219
no, the Horizon games only ever got "sales" from being bundled with Playstations. When Horizon Zero Dawn came to Steam it got what, 10, 20k peak players?

>>719873286
I am not disagreeing with you but to be fair we never had any real AC:Shadows numbers, only "total players" and "engaged"

>>719847496 (OP)
That's numberwang!

>>719872954
Why should I? Just because over the last 10 years it became mainstream and now Broccoli hairs on 4chan hate it? Bitch please.
I like what I like, fromsoft still caters to me and is the best example for a near flawless track record. Literally every other studio either didn't release that many games or at some point fell off (lmaoing at blizzard and bethesda and square)

You don't seriously adjust what you play because /v/ added the slop suffix, right?

Either way, pick any series from any dev you personally like and that you can trust to deliver: Team cherry only has HK to show, that's not a track record, that's still just a possible one hit wonder.

But after 13 years of playing souls games I just know that I can trust. Kinda sad if you don't have an equivalent, even moreso if you only don't because of peer pressure from 4chan.

>>719873249
I WROTE the fucking OP, moron.

>>719873494
so then you must understand how you moved the goalposts. i accept your concession.

>>719873369
Complete edition got 49k, remastered got like 2k, don't know if there are any other versions that were released on steam, I barely take notice of it, it's such an astroturfed IP.

>>719873204
Don't embarrass yourself any further trying to save face, I beg of you

>>719863671
Hello, friend. I caught you. So there's indeed a targeted marketing campaign going, huh? You really do try to push this shit, don't you? Game's bad by the way.

>>719873492
>You don't seriously adjust what you play because /v/ added the slop suffix, right?
I know someone from here who literally does this and it's very transparent that he does and it's kinda cringe.

>>719873534
It's not my fault your generation is so socially crippled you all talk like fucking robots if you're not talking like niggers.

>>719864812
>oh no 330k peak so loooow it's soooo over for Todd

>>719873694
What was Saarfield's budget again? It can't have been that much considering how bad the game looks.

Steam is not the only place it's in existence

>>719873372
We'll never see sales numbers, but considering that whole business with the subsidiary and the tencent bailout that happened right on its heels, they can't have been good.

>>719873786
Words say 200 milly w/o marketing and around 500 employees
>Starfield's estimated budget is reported to be between $200 million and $400 million, with some sources suggesting figures closer to $400 million, which includes significant development and marketing costs. While not officially confirmed, this high estimate reflects the game's massive scale, lengthy development time, and large development team, as well as extensive marketing efforts.
>Allegedly, Bethesda mustered up a $200 million budget for Starfield and formulated a headcount of about 500 developers working on the game. While some argue that this figure is still low for an IP that’s been in development for roughly 7 years, it is expected that the amount is only covering development costs while leaving out other metrics, such as marketing
https://exputer.com/news/games/starfield-200-million-budget-500-devs/
Again
>the amount is only covering development costs while leaving out other metrics, such as marketing

>>719873786
>What was Saarfield's budget again?
It had a lower budget than Baldur's Gate 3, surprisingly.

>>719847867

I have a confession... I... still really like Dragon's Dogma 2. It's not perfect, but fighting fuck ass monsters and fist bumping your pawn after, hearing your pawn shit talk other pawns that dare question you... it's kino.

>>719847496 (OP)
>But if a AAA game sold 500k
The Steam charts don't mean that it sold 500k, it's the current player count. Those numbers probably mean it sold over 1 million copies on Steam alone. Those are solid numbers, even for an AAA game.

>>719848024
>>but relative to the expectations it's actually pretty weak
>original around 10k for 6 years that its been out
>gets up to 70k because of the sequel's hype
>sequel gets 500 fucking K
>>but relative to the expectations it's actually pretty weak
if you don't see how it's a major success then you are simply retarded or trolling

>>719873983
I cannot fucking believe hundreds of millions of dollars went into that game, what the hell were they doing for 7 years? I'm fairly sure it sold decently because it was the talk of the internet for a while and so many people were disappointed with it. I imagine it must have barely broken even, or the DLC lineup would have been stronger than it was.

>>719873632
>your generation
I'm in my mid 30's, most likely same generation as you, unless you're some self-deprecating 20-something zoomer or a genuinely retarded baby-boomer, english is not my first language, I don't slight people for not speaking my native language perfectly as long as they get the message across, why do YOU have to be such a prissy cocksucker where it's like a personal insult to you if someone makes a grammatical error? Do you even speak another language outside of the one you grew up with? It's like feeling superior over a paraplegic because you can walk, what a fucking joke.

>>719847496 (OP)
this is the most artificially hyped game of all time
first one was just a decent game but nothing exceptional, then they announced the second one and artificially built up the hype by giving close to 0 info on it for years

>>719874490
what you're describing is the complete opposite of artificial hype btw

>>719873983
>>719874417
>yfw bethesda + 500 niggas + 400 million dollars lost to three white dudes

>>719874490
Are you retarded? If there was no organic interest in the game, then not giving out any info and being stuck in development hell would have been the end of the game. You can't accuse the devs of both not giving out any info AND artificially hyping up their game.

>>719847496 (OP)
It did, it crashed both the eshop and ps store

>>719874490
>artificially built up the hype by giving close to 0 info on it for years

>do nothing
>win
I'm starting to understand why Silksong makes americans seethe so much

>>719874490
>no bro, they made the artificial hype build up naturally by not hyping it, you don't understand
That argument sounded better in your head, didn't it?

>>719874718
And you just ignore the thousands of pajeets making threads about this for 2 week, Rajeesh?

>>719874680
the game was "hyped up" not by the actual expectations people had for it but by the "status" it had, it was THE silksong, what was silksong exactly? we don't care, but it's THE game
I guarantee you that large portion of people playing silksong have never touched the first game

>>719874829
take some reading comprehension lessons after school kid

>>719874709
And Starfield was actually one of the most successful single player AAA games in years, at least according to Steam numbers. Now imagine how much money EA and Ubisoft must have lost on DA: Veilguard and AC: Shadows.

>>719874490
yes this is incredibly artificial and paid for directly by Israel and the Democratic party! are you me?

>>719874484
>english is not my first language
Ah that explains it. You're still caught up in formal english than the informal, idiomatic english native speakers use in casual conversation.
>why do YOU have to be such a prissy cocksucker where it's like a personal insult to you if someone makes a grammatical error?
It wasn't a grammatical mistake you made, but one of missing an idiomatic expression that's fairly common use, and you were pretty damn hostile about it, why wouldn't I be hostile back?
>Do you even speak another language outside of the one you grew up with?
Nah, I was decently fluent in japanese and german when I was younger, but there was no practical daily use for either so I never kept up with it, and languages are use it or lose it.

>>719874919
yes, so what you're describing is exactly organic hype

>>719874490
>shartfag is a colossal retard
Must be a day ending in y

>>719847584
Fpbp

>>719874919
>no bro, it's not real REAL hype, it's only real hype
>people were hyped about thing by themselves, but it's not organic

>>719847496 (OP)
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ARE YOU READY FOR ANOTHER PEAK?

>>719874883
It still doesn't work like that. You simply cannot artificially create a smash hit, a game needs to have organic hype and a real fanbase to reach those kinds of numbers, no matter how much you are going to cry about it. Just look at Ubisoft and how they spent millions trying to convince people to buy the newest Assassins Creed game and it peaked at 64k players on Steam.

>>719874490
>artificially built up the hype by giving close to 0 info on it for years
?????????????????????????

>>719874709
>lost to three white dudes
Australians at that, fucking grim. I'd just pack it in and kill myself at that point, what an embarrassment.

>>719874490
>artificially built up the hype by giving close to 0 info on it

>>719874883
if it was that easy every videogame company would be hitting those numbers because you pay those jeets pennies and they'll do this "artificial real hype" for you

>>719871881
uhhh... why is there a bunch of kids on his groin in this pic?

>>719847632
Average IQ of whites is around 100, one of the highest in the world. Considering that you are some sort of shitskin: Who are you to talk?

>>719875107
is it going up again

>>719849481
>All $77 million went back into the sequel

Fucking dumbass gorilla nigger

>>719847496 (OP)
That's five hundred thousand PLAYING, you God damn moron. It doesn't reflect sales.

>>719875006
I said the "grammatical error" as a hypothetical since your types go scorched earth apeshit when someone makes a typo
despite being an ESL, I've used english for ~25 years in everyday conversations, I read books in english, I understand the language completely
I did not miss the "idiomatic expression", the reply was just to blatantly insult you calling others autistic, but now your autism has peaked, you've drawn so much attention to what was supposed to be a throwaway insult and you made it incredibly awkward
congratulations, you're so fucking autistic you ruined the fun of even insulting you

>>719876042
Wow, I offer an olive branch and you spit on it. I should have just called you a retarded ESL and gone on with my day since that's what you've come to expect from faggots here.

>>719847496 (OP)
THE GAME THAT BROKE STEAM GUISE!!!

>>719875980
To be fair, it reflects a minimum in sales for steam. I'm starting to think Steam should include sales data alongside, but publishers would probably have a fit.

>But if a AAA game sold 500k

Didnt Ass Creed Shadows peak at like sub 100k and the industry tried to swing it as a monumental success?

Already back to 507k. It's about to break it's own peak soon.

Why do retards act like concurrent players equals total sales?

>>719876145
You really do lack any and all self-awareness huh
As an autismo yourself, you're not in place to categorize other people's behaviour

>>719847496 (OP)
Are you saying that concurrent players = sales?
Are you genuinely that fucking retarded or are you ragebaiting?

>>719876338
The media doesn't matter, they tried to spin Veilguard's 60k as
>topping the charts

>>719847496 (OP)
>$10 million on day 1
even less Steam's 30% that's a hell of a profit for an indie
also, it also released on gog
also, 500k simultaneous players doesn't mean only 500k sales. You have to account for players playing in short bursts and extrapolate that out throughout the day, players who haven't run it or even installed it yet, etc
wouldnt surprise me if it had gotten at least 700k sales so far

>>719875641
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CAN YOU FEEL IT MR KRABS

>>719876594
and the game's on consoles too, and on gamepass although idk how much money devs get for having their games there

>>719876594
The higher the sales, the less % Steam take.

>>719871547
Kill yourself, seriously.

I too am angry about [popular thing]

>>719876310
>Ubisoft tries to best to make sure their games are exempt

>>719872387
Not if he landed on his face.

>>719877432
I don't understand why you're being so emotional. It's just a discussion.

>>719847584
fpbp but they didn't ban e-celeb threads, wojakposting nor gacha threads, it ain't happening

>>719847496 (OP)
great insight, OP
That's still millions of sales day 1

>>719853513
Tortanic posting IS 4cuck culture
It's the place where society's outcasts gather and hate on things including themselves.
Every game is bad, every game will flop
It's over, etc.....

When you fail at everything in life including basic biology "sex" you want other thing to fail to to justify your own

The CCU not dropping significantly during a certain time frame in the middle of the week is actually pretty nuts
It means the sales aren't almost entirely from one part of the world like chinkland

>>719847496 (OP)
First game sucked cock.

>>719848024
You do realize concurrent players is usually 1/5th to 1/10th of the total sales right?

Zoomercore slop breaks the charts, AGAIN
Its SO over

>18th most concurrent players on Steam

Holy shit Silksong is going to be one of the highest selling games of all time huh?

>>719881786
>only half of the most played games are actual games instead of f2p sloppa
Grim

>>719847496 (OP)
That's concurrent players, retard. If ten people buy the game and play it for an hour each, except offset, it would only show "one player" even though there were ten sales. Or do you think everyone played nonstop for eleven hours?

>>719847496 (OP)
>What's my point?
your point doesn't matter nigger.

Uhhhhhhh SEAbros the number went back up again I think we need to abandon this thread

>>719847496 (OP)
>Sure, a massive success for an indie
So if you accept that why make this thread at all?

What’ll the cope be when it hits 600k this evening and 1M on the weekend?

>>719847496 (OP)
>over 500k copies
doesn't seem organic

>>719883447
check playtimes

>>719883452
>the majority of people can’t POSSIBLY enjoy something I don’t personally like! I’m Anonymous on 4chsn, the supreme arbiter of objectivity!

>>719883447
I'm not sure if it'll hit 1 mil ccu, but I'm sure the next cope will be
>asians

>>719883518
Check these digits faggot

>>719883557
are you projecting or what? the first game didn't even sell 100k copies on steam, so yes, having sold over 500k of the sequel doesn't seem organic

>>719883650
nice argument tranny

numberfags should die. go back to /biz/ or /vt/ you useless SEA cunts.

>>719883686
Seething shazamfag cope. The original game sold 15 million copies through word of mouth. Not exactly implausible that the extremely awaited sequel would do much better on release day now that people know who team cherry are.

>>719883876
why are you so mad one person on a shitty forum doesn't agree with you? are you that insecure about the things you like?

>>719883686
>the first game didn't even sell 100k copies on steam
????

>>719883975
You made an assertion and I proved it wrong. “You’re mad lol” isn’t a response. Are you a woman or a tranny?

/v/ got buck broken, AGAIN, don’t worry boys just move on to the next game to doom post, you’ll get that Concord moment again one day

>>719884025
Retard can’t wrap his head around the concept that the 77k player peak recently wasn’t the maximum number of people to play this on steam

>>719884239
Zoomer CCU monkeys are braindead. They think everyone plays games on day 1 and if they don't the game is dead.

>>719884103
>concord moment
You mean TORTanic, newfriend

>>719847496 (OP)
Steam stats aren't real life either.

>all the silksong shazamfags immediately fled the thread when the CCU went back up
keklmao. Total Team Cherry Victory

>>719885945
Back to the discord to regroup probably

>>719847496 (OP)
My fossil's so old it gets Access Violation errors when it tries to run it. I can't play this game.

silkshitfags sure are insecure lmao
that game must be absolute dogshit

you'll never fit in

>>719872387
lol it would break your neck at any impact that you would need it to protect you from.

>>719847496 (OP)
Smart people played in on Gamepass for 1$, so you can add another 300k to that at least

>>719847496 (OP)
>But if a AAA game sold 500k, they'd shut the studio down.
Are you retarded? Do you not realize that is 500k concurrent players, not sales? With that many people playing at once it's guaranteed to have sold millions.
Pic related is a AAA game and was considered highly successful.

>>719876487
Faggot ESL

>>719874490
truly amazing how retards gravitate towards these reaction pics without fail.

>>719873694
Starfield: 330k peak concurrent players - 500+ employees
Silksong: 535k peak concurrent players and rising - 3 employees

>>719864783
Aww is the little jeet angry that everybody is tired of his low effort shitposting

All this reaction smells of cultish behavior.
Never played the first and I'm not a zoomer so I don't give into FOMO/peer pressure either.

Also, Newton's Third Law applies, as always.

>>719892206
*sniffs own fart*

>fans who like the game wait for the game's release
>bored, dying of boredom, want any lick of content
>make memes and joke about how long it's taking over years while having to move onto new games in the mean time, keeping their appreciation for hollow knight with them
>over the years every community has 1-5 dudes that are waiting for silksong
>outsiders get caught up to speed with the memes
>fans receive solidarity from other people who have their own NEVER EVER games (Dragon's Dogma 2, Bloodborne PC, etc.)
>Silksong release date announced
>in addition to actual fans, those who know how long it's taken are also happy and, now, sincerely interested

It's not hard to imagine if you've been in any community at all

>>719847867
blast-haver bros.......

>>719892206
>me me me
>i i i
Who the fuck are you?

>>719883447
>already plummeting
It's not going to hit 600k tonight and it'll probably hit 650k peak over the weekend, nowhere near 1m

>>719847496 (OP)
Hello saaaar
Saaar do you think all 500k at once is every copy of the game saaaaar?
When it dips to 200k, the same 300k just went to bed saaaaar?
No saaaaar that's not how numbers works saaaar

>>719892206
>cultish behavior
these are the same people who were calling for hispanics to vote for kamala and then bragged about instantly reporting them to ICE when they didn't get their way.

>>719860374
Imagine being this mad someone is making fun of a video game. Grow up, manchild. Team Cherry isn't going to send you a letter thanking you for your service.

>>719894123
pretty sure he's more upset at people normalizing being retarded.

>>719866631
jokes aside how did this piece of shit become bigger than steam?

>>719896452
It's cheap, and it can be reworked into practically any game through modding. It's mostly poor kids who play it.

>>719892592
thank you xavier. who keeps bumping this shitty thread?