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hmm, haven't had a single "player" count update since the 3 million mark and the player count is dying on steam (especially compared to Odyssey) indicating the game has no legs at all.

What happened ubisisters? I thought this was supposed to beat Odyssey?
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To be fair, few critically acclaimed singleplayer games ever make big numbers. Open steam stats and you'll see either the mainstays; dota, cs etc - the shortlived indies that are 80% inflated by Twitch streamers, and then finally those weird taiwanese netcafe games like dont starve.

Only games akin monster hunter ever get in the top 15 as 'singleplayer games'. BG3 or KCD2 mightve been the only actual singleplayer games getting up there as of late.
 
To be fair, few critically acclaimed singleplayer games ever make big numbers. Open steam stats and you'll see either the mainstays; dota, cs etc - the shortlived indies that are 80% inflated by Twitch streamers, and then finally those weird taiwanese netcafe games like dont starve.

Only games akin monster hunter ever get in the top 15 as 'singleplayer games'. BG3 or KCD2 mightve been the only actual singleplayer games getting up there as of late.
You say that, but there's actually quite a few up there for all time peak that have been from the past few years. Realistically, it's that single player games just don't have the replay value to get most people to spend hundreds of hours in them. And that makes sense. But the all time peak player counts
#2 black myth wukong at 2.4 million Game journos hated it, but gamers who like souls games actually liked it
#9 Elden ring at 950k same reason as above
#12 Hogwarts Legacy, 879k and game journos spent more time hating this one that black myth wukong
#13 BG3, 875k
#22 fallout 4, 472k but this is a decade old and is basically irrelevant(shit game anyway)
#25 monster hunter wilds beta, 463k. it's honestly kind of pathetic that shit can't do this well

Now if you sort by 24h peak then yeah single player stuff is far lower unless it's been hyped to shit by streamers(like schedule 1). But is that really much of a surprise considering how few decent single player games actually get released? It's almost like there's a pattern of shitty games doing shitty for sales and player counts, and games that actually do what customers want readily making it into the top couple hundred most popular steam games of all time for usually just a single playthrough.
 
Almost every major single player game released in the last 5 years had some kind of Live Service attached to it.

Suicide Squad was hyped as fuck before it got revealed that it was Live Service crap.

Same with Avengers I think.

Funny that the most popular single player games did NOT have any of that shit.
 
You say that, but there's actually quite a few up there for all time peak that have been from the past few years. Realistically, it's that single player games just don't have the replay value to get most people to spend hundreds of hours in them. And that makes sense. But the all time peak player counts
#2 black myth wukong at 2.4 million Game journos hated it, but gamers who like souls games actually liked it
#9 Elden ring at 950k same reason as above
#12 Hogwarts Legacy, 879k and game journos spent more time hating this one that black myth wukong
#13 BG3, 875k
#22 fallout 4, 472k but this is a decade old and is basically irrelevant(shit game anyway)
#25 monster hunter wilds beta, 463k. it's honestly kind of pathetic that shit can't do this well

Now if you sort by 24h peak then yeah single player stuff is far lower unless it's been hyped to shit by streamers(like schedule 1). But is that really much of a surprise considering how few decent single player games actually get released? It's almost like there's a pattern of shitty games doing shitty for sales and player counts, and games that actually do what customers want readily making it into the top couple hundred most popular steam games of all time for usually just a single playthrough.
i think the other obvious thing is that nearly all single players games largely aren't games to be played infinitely - if they are, they're in an extremely competitive market like Roguelikes or super niche grindfests like disgaea. multiplayer games have an advantage to player counts because multiplayer games will usually have multiple players per game -
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- and they're designed to derive replay value from experiences with other players.
 
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Now if you sort by 24h peak then yeah single player stuff is far lower unless it's been hyped to shit by streamers(like schedule 1). But is that really much of a surprise considering how few decent single player games actually get released? It's almost like there's a pattern of shitty games doing shitty for sales and player counts, and games that actually do what customers want readily making it into the top couple hundred most popular steam games of all time for usually just a single playthrough.
another thing to point out is that single player games don't force a constant need to be playing the game on players like multiplayer ones do, look how few people played New Vegas according to "peak" numbers, but we all know its a lot fucking more. hell bethesda openly incentivizes not playing the games on release, whereas with seasons and other shit you're forced to play COD at least monthly
 
To be fair, few critically acclaimed singleplayer games ever make big numbers. Open steam stats and you'll see either the mainstays; dota, cs etc - the shortlived indies that are 80% inflated by Twitch streamers, and then finally those weird taiwanese netcafe games like dont starve.

Only games akin monster hunter ever get in the top 15 as 'singleplayer games'. BG3 or KCD2 mightve been the only actual singleplayer games getting up there as of late.
The issue with steam stats is that it misses a lot of games.

Persona 5, P5Royal, P3Reload, Astrobot, Mario Oddessy, Breath of the Wild, Sekiro, God of War, Last of Us, Red Dead 2, Cyberpunk, Tsushima, Ori, DMC5 and so on are entirely (or mostly) Singleplayer games that came out to massive acclaim.

There's also a huge selection of games that weren't absolute "Game of the Year" games that did well too (Yakuza 7, Yakuza 8, Unicorn Overlord, etc). There's absolutely a place for SP games but every games executive are chasing the Fortnite Money Printer Dream.
 
Almost every major single player game released in the last 5 years had some kind of Live Service attached to it.

Suicide Squad was hyped as fuck before it got revealed that it was Live Service crap.

Same with Avengers I think.

Funny that the most popular single player games did NOT have any of that shit.
And I barely played any new games from that time period, funny how that works.
There is no reason to ever have a live service element anywhere, not in a single player game and not in a multiplayer game either. Go play an MMO if you need your spending fix.
 
If it wasn't obvious already, westerners fleeing their openly Judeo-communized zog content to "cleaner" Japanese media pastures really pissed off the Kalergi kin, especially the hollywood levites and Larry Finkberg blackrock bribers.

No one can be allowed to escape. (((Western))) companies really started getting their tendrils into the game in the 2000s, and Netfux showed you what the overall goal was with things like >>Nigger'd L<< in Deathnote 2017. The Lockley revelations with this Asscreed game ended up outing a (""former"") communist party member in a large Japanese media company. It was a nice quick look behind the curtain, but don't expect many more to be that blatant. From Nintendo clearly getting into D.I.E., to the astroturfed and fanfiction-based Yasuke wank campaign (from games to NetFux propaganda... again) - Nippon is getting it hard from the circumcized cock. Sad but predictble to see.

There can be no escape allowed for the goyim. Iudea Delenda Est.
 
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The Actman defending a triple A game with a 70$ price tag and takes the word of a executive director.
All the people involved in promoting the game can be regarded as just adverts. They are nothing more than an advert. You give the thing money, it will bleat out your product, and you can call that a payment well made. They are to be regarded exactly the same as an advert. I block anything in my house from getting adverts with a hardware firewall, and some nice set ups that take adverts out of my house.

Anyway still engaging with adverts is nothing more than a relay, who has a single reason to exist, which is to pass on information it gets, which are just adverts.

You would think after all these years people would stop falling for the moneymen talking complete shit about their products, but they fall for it because they want it to be true. They are so locked into left/right that the only thing that matters is pro/con my side. AC:NipponNegriodNightmare, stripped of anything woke would still be yet another shitty boring map clearing game. If you played one of the last what is it for the "nu" series, 6 games at this point? well if you played one, you have played them all.
 
Nippon is getting it hard from the circumcized cock. Sad but predictble to see.
Especially since, from my perspective, it seems that the Japanese have basically no frame of reference for any of this shit and no "immune" response to it. Most of their population seems to be utterly ignorant about identity politics and getting Marxism shoved up their ass, so I expect the leftists to make significant headways very fast, coupled with flooding the country with subhuman Kurds, jeets and Nigerians.
 
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The Actman defending a triple A game with a 70$ price tag and takes the word of a executive director.
Give us some numbers. Give us some playtime hours. Even if Assassin's Creed: Shadows is "successful," do not ignore that that title has caused a lot of pre-release controversy towards another country for cultural/historical insensitivities.
 
Especially since, from my perspective, it seems that the Japanese have basically no frame of reference for any of this shit and no "immune" response to it. Most of their population seems to be utterly ignorant about identity politics and getting Marxism shoved up their ass, so I expect the leftists to make significant headways very fast, coupled with flooding the country with subhuman Kurds, jeets and Nigerians.
Think on this - a Jewish Woman drafted Japan's "mandated pacifism" Constitution post-WWII. Judeo-Communism might as well have been baked into their cake... And of course, (((America))) still militarily occupies/propagandizes them with guilt to this day along with Germany. The days of Yamaguchi are long over unfortunitely, though he probably gave Japan another 40 years of non-commie safety.
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Now you see MKUltra-tier nip faggots slaying men like Abe instead, the man who was trying to keep Japan un-nigger'd and culturally sound. I don't believe for a second that that faggot did it randomly or due to some beef he had with honest Abe himself, the shit was a hired hit.
 
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