Storytelling can set a game apart from the crowd, and if you want the best narrative, the characters and plot must mean something.
Sony's pseudo-PlayStation Portal is proving itself to be pretty useful in the hands of PlayStation 5 players in more ways than one.
Salman from Tech4Gamers writes "I am waiting for a new adventure in Thedas, but I have some worries, especially considering the huge success of Baldur's Gate 3."
Starfield has crossed the 14 million player milestone and will get annual story expansions. Shattered Space takes place on a single planet.
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Looks like you are looking to start a players vs sales debate.
Il join
Here in the uk starfield is available for £12 in the bargain bins.
This doesn’t happen with Sony or Nintendo ‘s big first party games
Oh wait it isn’t first party, they were always going to have starfield anyway, they just brought the publisher and decided not to release on PlayStation
@purple101
Sony and Nintendo games never go to the bargain bin? Never Every? Not one game? That's a great achievement .
14 million copies excluding game pass downloaders? Game was bound to be pretty successful given dev's reputation & MS's marketing. Still impressive considering it's at best an above average game that launched at 30fps. I played it on PC, so didn't have to deal with that. I liked it but this was not what I expected from the developers of Skyrim and Fallout.
Btw, is Far Harbor size a good size? Not sure if that comparison means good or bad for the DLC size-wise.
14 million installs out of how many GamePass subscribers?
Starfield was supposed to be THE game of the generation, and providing it for free to over 25 million users should imo have a higher install base.
I like Starfield, even bought the game, but it's sadly nowhere near a game of the generation, not even one of the best games last year.
Hope it will make the same turn around as Cyberpunk, FFXIV and No Man Sky 👍
The way people keep turning their attention to it says otherwise. People rely too much on statistics. It doesnt matter if people stopped playing it. People stop playing games
Purple101 come on man stop lying I'm here and you are talking about trade in credit.
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Trade in credit is still on sale. That means they're not moving copies as fast as they'd hoped to, so they're starting to employ different schemes to move it faster.
https://www.hotukdeals.com/... £12 last week at game
Currently £15 at Smyths
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I don’t lie
Sometimes get things wrong because I am not perfect
But lie on purpose, no
@attilayauzer
Like that great poet Taylor swift said " Haters are goin' ,hate , hate..."
"Starfield doomers punching air."
There´s nothing else they can do right now.
They should know better that games Bethesda Softworks has crazy legs.
So happy to know that we´ll be getting annual expansions! Bethesda is definitely better under Xbox with more money to fund their games, and more freedom to create.
@BeHunted
why use Concord? is it coming from a huge developer in the ballpark of Bethesda?
here:
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Spider-man 2 over 11mil units SOLD and Helldivers 2 over 12mil units SOLD. Bethesda wish they can use the word SOLD with Starfield LOL
@BeHunted
Why use Concord as an example, that doesn't come with a Subscription service that is handed out for free when buying a burger?
Use Astros Playroom for a better measurement, 58+ million installs 😘
but instead, it wasn't, and GP subscriptions haven't risen by $3 billion, in fact, they're stagnant, so they've lost money.
These numbers are difficult to parse without context. How do we compare nunbers played on Game Pass with actual sales of games like Skyrim and Cyberpunk 2077? A good start would be achievement data. If we know how many players kept playing past the first few missions, we would have a good idea of how many players considered the game a value addition for Game Pass.
Still difficult to calculate.
I mean, every single MS game are supposed to be on GamePass Ultimate.
If you combine all those possible sales and on top of that, remove all costs for third party games on the services.
Would the total revenue/profit be bigger or smaller than the total revenue from GamePass alone?
I'm most certain this is eating profit madly
$204/year for Game Pass Ultimate is a lot of potential profit for Microsoft. It’s $2B/year for every 10M subscribers. That pays for a lot of game development. The problem is that Microsoft also has to pay all those 3rd parties for their games. I think the future of Game Pass is fewer 3rd party games.
@ChasterMies
Amazon India: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is about $100 for 24 Months, or $19 for 12 months (2x 6 Months Game Pass Core subscription). VPN does the trick when redeeming on Microsoft's website.
@ChasterMies
No one spends $204/year for GPU...
Not even the dumb ones...
$2B/year doesn't even cover salaries for the employees, less so the 80 billion spent on trying to get monopoly last few years.
Why is starfield even in there...nothing and nobody in the story means much at all.
If you want people to take you seriously, Starfield shouldn't be on any list that has the word "best".
Call me crazy but a mobile game Fate/Grand Order had Story of the year with Avalon La Far chapter