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[MMaRsu]

I hope Hulst and the Japanese CEO get this through their thick skulls. These games will never sell on PC and worse will curtail the sales of their own console. There was no point to releasing the Horizon games/R&C/UC games on PC. That audience is not worth wasting port dollars on.

Lol. You are dumb sir.

 

[Barakov]

Gears 5 must of performed badly dang.

Probably explains why we're getting a E-Day game.

 

[Darkness_Arises]

Lol. You are dumb sir.

Thanks for the ad hominem, retarded sir.

 

[Maddoxswe]

I hope Hulst and the Japanese CEO get this through their thick skulls. These games will never sell on PC and worse will curtail the sales of their own console. There was no point to releasing the Horizon games/R&C/UC games on PC. That audience is not worth wasting port dollars on.

Also, I hope the numbskulls at SQEX also realise that the audience for FF has mostly bought FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth. There is no point to the PC and (potential) Xbox ports. The Switch 2 port will probably sell a million, if they are lucky. The audience for action JRPGs (other than souls) is not big. All XC games on Switch sold 7 million lifetime. These games are lucky to reach 5 million lifetime sales.

 

[MMaRsu]

Thanks for the ad hominem, retarded sir.

You dumb fanboys and your plastic boxes. You dont understand that more sales = more money for PlayStation?

No pc users are buying a ps5 for Spiderman 2.

 

[Three]

I remember the 25k peak launch day thread for Horizon Forbidden West and that was a 2 year old port. Dench and co were on the offensive.

 

[Danny22]

It's not going to increase on the weekend as its too far away. Silent hill 2 had a similar type of release and it didn't increase on the weekend

 

[Dazraell]

Still number 2 globally selling on Steam. People are buying it

To be fair, these global bestseller lists are showing daily sales. Considering Indy just launched, no other major game is launching at a similar timeframe beyond Path of Exile 2 (which has significantly higher CCU while being in Early Access) and Steam Sale ended a week ago, Indy would always be on that bestseller list. Veilguard also occupied highest spots on bestseller lists when it launched but everything we learned so far seems to imply that sales of that game weren't really that great

 

[jm89]

It's a cinematic narrative driven game.

Lunched on the 2 worst platforms for that game.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

The Indy IP ain't got no juice, mang. People don't care.

I do kinda wonder if anyone under the age of 40 cares so I did some searches.

If you're 23 years old now, Raiders of the Lost Ark came out 20 years before you were born. For anyone who is 40 now, when you were 23 the equivalent movies are perhaps The Good The Bad and The Ugly or You Only Live Twice. ...or the possibly less suitable for adaptation, The Graduate (or maybe the Jungle Book), which I think would have still been interesting a couple of decades after their release.

So, I kinda think that though Indy is a character from another era, it doesn't automatically preclude people knowing about the films and prevent them from enjoying it. As to whether there's any chance of as much excitement for it versus a more current franchise, probably not.

 

[Zathalus]

I hope Hulst and the Japanese CEO get this through their thick skulls. These games will never sell on PC and worse will curtail the sales of their own console. There was no point to releasing the Horizon games/R&C/UC games on PC. That audience is not worth wasting port dollars on.

Also, I hope the numbskulls at SQEX also realise that the audience for FF has mostly bought FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth. There is no point to the PC and (potential) Xbox ports. The Switch 2 port will probably sell a million, if they are lucky. The audience for action JRPGs (other than souls) is not big. All XC games on Switch sold 7 million lifetime. These games are lucky to reach 5 million lifetime sales.

Half of Capcom sales are on PC and Horizon Zero Dawn sold 3.3 million PC copies as of two years ago, for a port that cost them a mere 2.6 million dollars.

 

[Denton]

I hope Hulst and the Japanese CEO get this through their thick skulls. These games will never sell on PC and worse will curtail the sales of their own console. There was no point to releasing the Horizon games/R&C/UC games on PC. That audience is not worth wasting port dollars on.

Also, I hope the numbskulls at SQEX also realise that the audience for FF has mostly bought FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth. There is no point to the PC and (potential) Xbox ports. The Switch 2 port will probably sell a million, if they are lucky. The audience for action JRPGs (other than souls) is not big. All XC games on Switch sold 7 million lifetime. These games are lucky to reach 5 million lifetime sales.

I love these braindead salty console fanboy takes, never fail to amuse

 

[Astray]

These numbers are utterly unremarkable tbh. No idea why people are fighting so hard over them being good or bad.

Also Indiana Jones as an IP is simply dead. They were probably better off making the same game with no Indy, getting them more money per copy sold and massively reducing the budget and risk.

Honestly, I don't think it will.

This is not a uncharted clone people were being led to believe it was going to be. First person entirely makes sense here (I'd go as far as saying they should have made the whole thing first person because the cuts to 3rd person are immersion breaking and 100% pointless), and I can't believe they did such a poor job in explaining and demonstrating why.

I remember talking about how the advertising never really gave me an indication of what the game actually played like. I also talked about the transitions being harmful to immersion.

Indiana Jones is a dead franchise.. disney took good care of this ....

Been dead way before Disney ever put their hands on it.

The last Lucasfilm movie was arguably worse than the Disney one. The Indiana games made by Lucas Games were also very uneven in terms of quality.

 

[ArtHands]

No shock that the trolls are totally wrong here for claiming this game has 5000 or 8000 concurrent players

 

[Killjoy-NL]

No shock that the trolls are totally wrong here for claiming this game has 5000 or 8000 concurrent players

Depends on the time, dude.

Rn CCU is 4.4K

https://steamdb.info/app/2677660/charts/

 

[FunkMiller]

Also Indiana Jones as an IP is simply dead. They were probably better off making the same game with no Indy, getting them more money per copy sold and massively reducing the budget and risk.

Bring it up to date. Make it Indiana Jones's grandson. Steal Uncharted's thunder.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Hopefully the positive word of mouth drives it up.

How does it compare vs Dishonored 2 and Wolfenstein, as they weren't on gamepass.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Hopefully the positive word of mouth drives it up.

How does it compare vs Dishonored 2 and Wolfenstein, as they weren't on gamepass.

Dishonored 2 had a peak of 22K CCU, Wolfenstein New Order ~12K CCU.

 

[Astray]

Bring it up to date. Make it Indiana Jones's grandson. Steal Uncharted's thunder.

Too late imo. For that to work it needs people en masse who still care about Indiana Jones.

They went with the path of Indiana passing the torch on to someone else like twice now and both bombed.

They should have just recasted Harrison and made Indiana into a Bond-like character, where it's a prestigious role and big actors would vie for the role. Sean Connery didn't keep on being Bond for life.

Speaking of Uncharted, Sony needs to keep up the pace and make a new one imo.

 

[acm2000]

most of the pc nerds are too busy playing PoE2 atm

 

[HL3.exe]

Kinda fucked, because the game itself is excellent. If actually good AAA games that dont waste your time with filler can't sell, this industry is in trouble.

 

[FunkMiller]

Kinda fucked, because the game itself is excellent. If actually good AAA games that dont waste your time with filler can't sell, this industry is in trouble.

The Bethesda/Disney stank has crippled it unfortunately.

 

[MMaRsu]

The Bethesda/Disney stank has crippled it unfortunately.

I absolutely do not understand it.

What does Bethesda have to do with it? Besides being the publisher?

People have never seemed to understand that there is Bethesda the publisher, and Bethesda Softworks, the developer of Starfield and Skyrim.

 

[TheSHEEEP]

People celebrating this decidedly mid reception (in player numbers, not ratings) is kind of bewildering to me.
Who cares about the ideologies of a dev if they keep it out of their games? Are your brains that rotted by culture war, seriously?

This is an apparently actually good game, free of The Message(tm), that unfortunately sports an IP/setting that people just aren't excited about anymore (and haven't been for decades honestly).
Other than the question of "why did they throw so much money on what was never going to be a huge hit?", I don't see a reason to celebrate.

 

[DenchDeckard]

We are fucked if people are championing the failure of this game (if it fails)

Becuase this is a genuine assed genuine video game in a sea of sequels, remakes and recycled trash. If this fails and becomes another game people choose not to play because of system wars or something else weird like fake DEI / Sweet baby outrage then our industry is truly dying at an unfortunate rate.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

No shock that the trolls are totally wrong here for claiming this game has 5000 or 8000 concurrent players

If only the numbers were good. You could have made the thread

 

[delishcaek]

I guess as SlimySnake has already stated, PC gamers really don't care for these types of games anymore which is a shame.

Decent PC port, visually impressive, well optimized, good reception on steam but no one wants to play it or at least no one wants to buy it on Steam. I have to admit that my interest is also very low and I still have GPU until May next year. I could play it on GP, but I'd rather play POE2, Enshrouded and Helldivers 2.

 

[kunonabi]

I still for the life of me don't understand why this IP was greenlit for a game. If people like the IP, all power to ya and I'm happy the game seems like a great success off of early reviews and such. But man, I'm in my 30s and I don't know a single person my age or younger who gives a fuck about Indiana Jones in 2024. Out of all the great IPs out there, it just seems like a waste of time.



As for the OP, I really don't understand what this fascination is with steam concurrent players. Like every single game that releases, people make a thread about it. Odd behavior. Not only is the game on gamepass too, its also coming to PlayStation in a couple months. I really didn't except it to be that high to begin with.

They were obviously not expecting Lucasfilm to completely fuck up dial of destiny. Even with train wreck set aside I would still have totally been down for a third person Indy game with short round and a gorgeous leading lady but that was apparently juat too much to ask for.

 

[Astray]

Depends on the time, dude.

Rn CCU is 4.4K

https://steamdb.info/app/2677660/charts/

His desperation to make this into a hit is remarkable tbh. It's doing ok imo, but it's clearly not selling gangbusters either.

Decent PC port, visually impressive, well optimized, good reception on steam but no one wants to play it or at least no one wants to buy it on Steam. I have to admit that my interest is also very low and I still have GPU until May next year. I could play it on GP, but I'd rather play POE2, Enshrouded and Helldivers 2.

It's also an expensive game coming out right after Black Friday/Cyber Monday has tapped out everyone's pockets.

All the other ones you mentioned are cheaper and pack greater run times. PoE2 is going to be F2P later on too.

 

[GHG]

We are fucked if people are championing the failure of this game (if it fails)

Becuase this is a genuine assed genuine video game in a sea of sequels, remakes and recycled trash. If this fails and becomes another game people choose not to play because of system wars or something else weird like fake DEI / Sweet baby outrage then our industry is truly dying at an unfortunate rate.

None of these are reasons why people have tended not to play games of this style over the years.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

People celebrating this decidedly mid reception (in player numbers, not ratings) is kind of bewildering to me.
Who cares about the ideologies of a dev if they keep it out of their games? Are your brains that rotted by culture war, seriously?

This is an apparently actually good game, free of The Message(tm), that unfortunately sports an IP/setting that people just aren't excited about anymore (and haven't been for decades honestly).
Other than the question of "why did they throw so much money on what was never going to be a huge hit?", I don't see a reason to celebrate.

Bit rich coming from someone who had the time of his life when Concord flopped.

 

[Vlodril]

Man fanboyish is a hell of a drug. The game is not a success no matter how many mental flips you do.

The game is doing abysmal and the studio will be lucky not to be closed. Which would be a shame because they are a very good studio and the game is actually pretty good.

I think the xbox brand is poison these days (and people still don't go out in droves to buy immersive sims which is too bad because they are great).

 

[TheSHEEEP]

Bit rich coming from someone who had the time of his life when Concord flopped.

Do you sometimes think before you post?

Concord was completely woke in... everything and a bad game. This game is neither.
Those are two entirely different scenarios.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Do you sometimes think before you post?

Concord was completely woke in... everything and a bad game. This game is neither.
Those are two entirely different scenarios.

Both are/were mediocre overall. Indy has more appeal, hence higher CCU.

 

[Denton]

I rewatched Temple and Raiders and these movies still slap. I am excited about delving inside the Circle, and once finished, watch rest of the movies (still haven't seen Destiny).

But I do think the days of Indiana Jones as a mainstream popular IP are long gone. Most zoomers probably don't even know who Indiana Jones is, and boomers are kinda over it too.

I wonder what the sales are on console and what they will be on PS5, but I have serious doubts the game will recoup its budget anytime soon, if ever.

 

[ryzzz]

massive flop

 

[DenchDeckard]

None of these are reasons why people have tended not to play games of this style over the years.

Great point, you are right.

Hopefully the gamepass "engagement" (Shudders) has been extremely positive.

 

[TheSHEEEP]

Both are/were mediocre overall.

Dude.

In todays twisted rating scale, this is a massive difference in quality.

You need to learn to separate your subjective liking of a game from general reception.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Both are/were mediocre overall. Indy has more appeal, hence higher CCU.

Indy is mediocre?

A completely original use of a licensed ip vs the most generic bring nothing new to the table DEI fest of a turd.

You are just embarrassing yourself now.

 

[drganon]

No shock that the trolls are totally wrong here for claiming this game has 5000 or 8000 concurrent players

You accusing other people of being trolls is beyond hilarious.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Dude.

In todays twisted rating scale, this is a massive difference in quality.

You need to learn to separate your subjective liking of a game from general reception.

There sure was a difference in quality alright.
Did you compare animations in Concord to Indy? Or combat?

Concord being a massive flop doesn't mean Indy is a success in any way. And both don't gain much interest anong the general public.

Indy just is less worse, but that's a very low bar.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Indy is mediocre?

A completely original use of a licensed ip vs the most generic bring nothing new to the table DEI fest of a turd.

You are just embarrassing yourself now.

I wouldn't talk about games being generic in defense of Indy.

That's part of the reason there isn't more interest for Indy.

 

[GHG]

There sure was a difference in quality alright.
Did you compare animations in Concord to Indy? Or combat?

Concord being a massive flop doesn't mean Indy is a success in any way. And both don't gain much interest anong the general public.

Indy just is less worse, but that's a very low bar.

Concord was one of the biggest piles of crap in gaming history. Indiana Jones is a legitimately good game.

Stop being so unhinged.

 

[GymWolf]

I've been saying that for a while now but PC gamers just dont like these kind of action adventure games.

Console manufacturers need to stop chasing these guys. They are not going to fuck you.

The game seems to be more an immersive sims\adventure game in first person with a lot of puzzle solving, definitely a pc centric genre, unless i missed all these successful first person advanture with focus on puzzle on console...

Immersive sims just do poor numbers as usual and people don't give a fuck anymore about indiana jones.

This is definitely not a console focused game, the game is more similar to thief\dishonored than uncharted\tomb raider, not sure why people think otherwise, this is a pc ass centric game if i ever seen one, combat is an afterthough and i heard people not using their gun for the first 7 hours?! How the fuck is this a console centric game?

 

[Darkness_Arises]

You accusing other people of being trolls is beyond hilarious.

Probably the biggest and most transparent troll on this forum and the progenitor of most negative Sony threads accusing others of being trolls is quite something. Sega fanboys never cease to disappoint though. When MS bows out, they will start worshipping at Nintendo's altar hoping for them to lay the smackdown on bad guy Sony.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Concord was one of the biggest piles of crap in gaming history. Indiana Jones is a legitimately good game.

Stop being so unhinged.

Talk about being unhinged.
People still can't have an objective view to this day.

Like I said, Concord set the real low, so Indy doing better isn't much of an accomplishment.

 

[GHG]

Talk about being unhinged.
People still can't have an objective view to this day.

Like I said, Concord set the real low, so Indy doing better isn't much of an accomplishment.

So we're just supposed to ignore the fact that you mentioned "quality" and legitimately attempted to suggest Concord is comparable in that sense?

You're off your rocker.

 

[SolidQ]

They also lost a lot non-RT users. Too risky making only RT game for now.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

So we're just supposed to ignore the fact that you mentioned "quality" and legitimately attempted to suggest Concord is comparable in that sense?

You're off your rocker.

There were certain aspects that had quality irt Concord. In particular animations, graphics and performance. Iirc even DF stated so.
That's just objectivity.

Indy isn't doing that well either, which is the bottomline and certain people should maybe try and be more realistic.
Certainly when you talk about people being 'unhinged'.

 

[MMaRsu]

There were certain aspects that had quality irt Concord. In particular animations, graphics and performance. Iirc even DF stated so.
That's just objectivity.

Indy isn't doing that well either, which is the bottomline and certain people should maybe try and be more realistic.
Certainly when you talk about people being 'unhinged'.

Whats your beef against this game?

Or just another dumb plastic box fanboy?