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Foamstars has lost nearly 95% of its player base
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That's because they are confused.
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Roman Empire
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I never downloaded it... Too much of a splatoon rip-off, and not enough of a game that oozes longevity. Well, at least, Square tried, I guess.
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Nydius
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One console platform.
Fixed that for you. It came out for PS4 and PS5, a total combined install base of around 175 million units. Xbox fans suffer this delusion that SE would somehow be more profitable if they put games on the platform that has less than half the install base of PlayStation, after years of SE watching as their games failed to sell on Xbox platforms.
Besides, it genuinely wouldn’t have mattered if it launched multiplatform. The game wasn’t good. It was extremely basic, poorly designed, and clearly intended to be a vehicle for overpriced microtransactions. Switch players wouldn’t have picked it over Splatoon and PC would have skewered it for how slow and barebones it was.
Vick
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One console platform.
Fixed that for you. It came out for PS4 and PS5, a total combined install base of around 175 million units. Xbox fans suffer this delusion that SE would somehow be more profitable if they put games on the platform that has less than half the install base of PlayStation, after years of SE watching as their games failed to sell on Xbox platforms.
You’re jesting if you think the active Playstation player base is anywhere close to the same as adding lifetime sales of both PS4 and PS5.
after years of SE watching as their games failed to sell on Xbox platforms.
This was an online multiplayer shooting game, not a single player RPG.
Launching it multiplatform would have given it a MUCH better chance of hitting traction.
Certainly they wouldn’t have tried a Switch release, but even keeping it as a PlayStation exclusive, a PC port should have been made.
It’s clear Sony hoped this would do similar magic as Stray, a game launched into PS+ Extra that drove a lot of subs. The previews were really good
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
Only the hardest foams.
havoc00
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
This game came out?
Did sony forget to market it or something.
Atleast Demolition All Stars actually got some promotion and I knew it was coming out........this.
Did sony forget to market it or something.
Atleast Demolition All Stars actually got some promotion and I knew it was coming out........this.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Honestly the only reason I knew this game was out is because of the Square Enix promo spam emails I get every day. I feel like I’ve heard nothing about this game aside from those.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
One console platform.
Fixed that for you. It came out for PS4 and PS5, a total combined install base of around 175 million units. Xbox fans suffer this delusion that SE would somehow be more profitable if they put games on the platform that has less than half the install base of PlayStation, after years of SE watching as their games failed to sell on Xbox platforms.
Besides, it genuinely wouldn’t have mattered if it launched multiplatform. The game wasn’t good. It was extremely basic, poorly designed, and clearly intended to be a vehicle for overpriced microtransactions. Switch players wouldn’t have picked it over Splatoon and PC would have skewered it for how slow and barebones it was.
PC, my dude, the platform where this kind of game thrives the most.
Or even Switch, where a more Splatoon-oriented audience would have lapped this up.
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Mobilemofo
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. Perfect.
ssringo
Member
Holy shit those characters and names are...wow. Pen Gwyn and Mel T are lame but Jet Justice is some serious tryhard stupidity.we do
tylrdiablos
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That's soapland... I've said too much.
ChorizoPicozo
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Men_In_Boxes in shambles
Rhazer Fusion
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I rarely, if ever play multiplayer games, but I actually tried this game out and I couldn’t even find anyone to play with and that was within the first week.
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Danjin44
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Unknown Soldier
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I guess I never understood what exactly possessed Square Enix to think that Playstation owners were all waiting for a Splatoon knockoff
Because they weren't
Also a lot Playstation owners also have a Switch and if they wanted to play Splatoon they would buy Splatoon and play it
Because they weren't
Also a lot Playstation owners also have a Switch and if they wanted to play Splatoon they would buy Splatoon and play it
NinjaBoiX
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LavitzSlambert
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No idea who the audience was for this. Splatoon without the charm, on a platform with a userbase that doesn't care, all while Helldivers 2 is hype.
havoc00
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Wow are that many people not even subbed to ps plus basic?
Kataploom
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I don't even have PS lol, but wasn't it PC also? If so that's a completely dumb marketing since PC is where most mainly online players go
Little Mac
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The lesson here is don't Nintendo when Nintendo is Nintendo-ing.
ChuckeRearmed
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It had any?
CuteFaceJay
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Budget Splatoon? Just Play Splatoon if you ask me.
MonkeyClaw36
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Who would have thought that a GaaS game which ripped of Splatoon BADLY would fail?
99% of us.
How is this news?
99% of us.
How is this news?
Audiophile
Member
When you can't even give that shit away.
Games of Today
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No one in God's name asked for a game like this. There is already Splatoon, which is pretty shitty and niche already. The world didn't need a other one.
Herbspiceguy
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SOA is the literal Dutch translation of STD.we do
Hudo
Member
This is an apt summary of what happened.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I don't really think that was it.
The implementation of a mildly successful concept was the problem.
"What if we made a better Splatoon for PC and Playstation players" isn't unreasonable. It failed because it was really awful to play. I suspect Splatoon feels much better.
StueyDuck
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But gained everyone's heartsDespite receiving a strong initial burst of PS Plus subscribers when those Foamstars trophies arrived day one on the service back in February 2024, it seems Foamstars' PS Plus player count has seemingly been in freefall ever since. Now, two months later, it seems players have all but abandoned Foamstars for other PS5 multiplayer games with the shooter having lost over 94% of its initial PS Plus player base.
Using gameplay data from over 3.1 million active PSN accounts (courtesy of our partnership with GameInsights), we had previously reported that Foamstars' initial PS5 and PS4 player count had already began to fall shortly after the game's day-one as one of February 2024's monthly PS Plus games.
- Foamstars debuted with more players in its first week than Helldivers 2
- However, Foamstars has since lost over 94% of its PS5 and PS4 player count
- The Square Enix shooter has since dropped out of our top 200 PlayStation Chart
PS Plus game Foamstars has lost nearly 95% of its player base
Foamstars' PS Plus player count has dropped almost 95% since the game's day-one launch on PS5, PS4, and PS Plus Essential back in February 2024.www.truetrophies.com
It wasn't too bad... it just had an awful single player element, and I don't care much about pvp these days so it was literally a few hours of play for me then zip
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StreetsofBeige
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It's probably closer to 100%. From the article:
The percentage of this Foamstars player count drop is actually a conservative estimate. As our exclusive data tracks only the top 200 PS5 and PS4 games in any given week, and seeing as Foamstars no longer ranks among the top 200, we have instead had to use the player count data from the 200th most popular PS5 game (CarX Drift Racing Online) to establish a low bar for Foamstars' player count drop.
This means that Foamstars has lost at least 94.92% of its initial PS Plus-enabled player count — a more accurate figure would almost certainly be higher.
The percentage of this Foamstars player count drop is actually a conservative estimate. As our exclusive data tracks only the top 200 PS5 and PS4 games in any given week, and seeing as Foamstars no longer ranks among the top 200, we have instead had to use the player count data from the 200th most popular PS5 game (CarX Drift Racing Online) to establish a low bar for Foamstars' player count drop.
This means that Foamstars has lost at least 94.92% of its initial PS Plus-enabled player count — a more accurate figure would almost certainly be higher.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
so 95% is just a safe estimation and it is most likely bigger?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Besides Final Fantasy, almost all the new IP's they've tried putting out in the last couple of years have been trash. Forspoken, Babylon's Fall, this.
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ResurrectedContrarian
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Splatoon has a very distinctive and fresh artstyle from the ground up that is unlike anything else on the market, hard not to respect the devs even if it's not my genre.
This looks generic. Not sure why anyone would pick it over the Splatoon franchise if this kind of game is what you're looking for.
This looks generic. Not sure why anyone would pick it over the Splatoon franchise if this kind of game is what you're looking for.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Wouldn't players who purchased the game likely stick around longer...making the more accurate figure be lower?
What am I missing?