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In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. (steamdb.info)
submitted 1 year ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.

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[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Gee, certainly had nothing to do with it releasing while BG3 is still all-engrossing and the queen of the looter shooter, Warframe, had its convention yesterday and pulled in over 200k people into the main livestream yesterday, as well as having events all week.

Might be the worst time to drop a looter shooter.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

Not to mention releasing so close to other popular games like Armored Core 6 and Starfield

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't blame BG3. The FPS and CRPG markets generally aren't that closely related. I'm finding all the BG3 clips people post online interesting, but I'm certainly more interested in a good singleplayer FPS. "Good" being key.

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one was really predicting Baldur's Gate would blow up THIS much, honestly. And besides, what could they do? Delay it any amount and you get close to something that IS predictably going to explode: Starfield.

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Damn, I haven't played Warframe in years (and never will again, 5000h is enough), but it's good to hear it's going strong. It's an incredible game that at the time of my quitting just needed some clear direction.