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Benji-Sales: Grounded is now the #1 best selling game in the World on Steam and the #2 most watched game on Twitch on its launch day
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Grounded is a decent game not really my thing but i hope it keeps raking in all the cash so it can help buy Warner Brothers Studios
I think the budget was purely due to the publisher. Private Division is about funding AA games but giving them enough money to polish it above the usual AA weight class.
Having the backing of a full publisher will mean a much larger actual AAA budget.
You're also underselling the game. The demo was very well received, and lots of people were waiting for this.
not Era people, of course.
Well made and polished survival games on steam are very rare. Especially by a beloved developer.
Agreed that those are the biggest. There are some parts of the internet that want first party titles to be only that style though.
The gaming World doesn't end with this forum lol. Tons of games nobody seems to care about on here do fantastically in the general market whether it's more multiplayer based Twitch type games or more mass market games like the top Ubisoft games.
Congratulations to Obsidian!
Look at the amount of discourse we have for League of Legends vs the gaming world at large for example
Those are some god awful takes in that thread.
Grounded - New Obsidian Survival Game where you're tiny, Spring 2020 release
New IP by Obsidian, releasing Spring 2020 on Xbox One, multiplayer survival game where you're real tiny (shrunken). Post more info when it's live. EDIT: lol my freudian slip, but the title is fix'd now. --- UPDATE: Some info from The Verge...www.resetera.com
Looking through the initial reactions is fun though.
No need to try so hard. This game is currently successful. No need to build fantasy scenarios in which everyone who bought it gets bored half an hour in.
Holy shit. This is one of the fastest "instant hits" ive seen in a while. Well done to the team!
If you only visit Era for your gaming news, you'd think Minecraft is dead, Fortnite kinda faded away, Roblox has died about a decade ago, PUBG is long gone and a meme at this point, sports games like FIFA and Madden are no longer as popular as before, and people got tired of war shooters like COD and Battlefield.
Whereas most of these games have 8-9 figures worth of monthly players each. Smash DLC speculation gets dozens of threads, FIFA doesn't have an OT here. Market is quite literally the opposite of this though.
crow being served hot. lol. Obsidian devs must be very happy.
Yeah...that's true.
I hope it keeps going, I do like Obsidian and I like when people kinda try new things. But I mean, game was pretty under the radar.
Era is very much a console single-player forum and also leans heavily towards Japanese games, anything else doesn't get anywhere near the attention it does elsewhere.
I think Sony is looking at numbers like this, and the first party stuff they have been selling and thinking "...sooooo, how long are we gonna wait to release these new bangers on the PC? Cuz, you...*stares at waiting mountain of cash on the PC side*...I mean c'mon, guys."
It would have been a huge disappointment if Grounded wouldn't have taken Twitch / Steam charts on day0 by storm. It's tailored for the PC audience.
Lets see if it can hold some longevity for the next 2 weeks and it might join ARK and Conan Exiles as the big survival hitters.
Lets see if it can hold some longevity for the next 2 weeks and it might join ARK and Conan Exiles as the big survival hitters.
Yeah and it makes for quite the weird discourse here when game's get announced.
But who was talking about it? Wasn't on twitter or era or anywhere from what I could tell
Yes, I'd argue that is mostly the Era bubble, where Sony's third party games are king, and GaaS is the devil. If you look at the majority of gamers in the world, they play multiplayer stuff.
Exactly and you'd think AAA story based games were some strange niche reading Twitch chat lol.
Lots of great games for lots of people's differing tastes. I dare say it's never been a better time to be a gamer and I've been playing since '88!
Pretty good summary. My favorite still being when people predicted Wildlands being doomed for coming out close to Persona 5, I think?
Oh, it got some pretty good traction on Twitter. Mainly from gaming journalists.
It's cool how Microsoft is letting studios run with one big team and then let a small team do a passion project. Yeah there's gonna be a Bleeding Edge game every now and then, but there is always a chance the game will be a hit.
That was on the old website, but yeah, good times. Also remember the "is it just me or Wildlands flopped hard" threads in the weeks after launch despite being the highest selling new IP for most of the year haha. Some real sci-fi narratives forming around here with a heavy bias towards certain styles, genres and publishers. You'd think more players played Octopath Traveler than FIFA.
Really hard to believe Era members bought 10 million copies from Sony games...
Many people in the world care about Sony games I think...
Yeah, congrats to Obsidian. I was totally wrong and expected this to flop like Bleeding Edge.
That's not what I said- Era likes to think that everyone has the same taste in games, which is heavily leaning towards single-player games and Japanese titles. Which is not representative of the larger gaming community per se, where stuff like The Last of Us 2 is very popular, but pales compared to many MP titles.
They are an amazing acquisition. Cain, Boyarsky, Sawyer et al making games without worrying where the funds are coming from? With a blank slate to make the types of games they actually want to make? Exciting times ahead I think.
Of course they do. But what doesn't transpire from the Era threads is that more people play on Roblox in a month than on PS4. That more people play Fortnite that all Nintendo first parties combined. That all Microsoft first parties of the generation didn't have the combined players of League of Legends. This board is not the right place to look around and see what will be popular and what won't aside from very specific genres, styles and publishers. A PC/Xbox survival game is not the kind of stuff that tends to generate much discussion here, and in fact most of it here was pretty negative. Then the game skyrockets to Steam #1 and to Twitch #2 with ridiculous numbers.
Them or Playground so far. I think they will all come good though.
multiplayer/social games are basically a blind spot for enthusiast boards. We still have people coming around concern trolling "people still play Destiny??"
Let that be the road they take and maybe people will stop blasting Microsoft for not catering to a genre that doesn't make them money. Time has to pass, people have to see and let it sink in that's the way they are heading.
Not really. There is gonna be a mix of all sort of games. It needs to for Gamepass. MP, SP, open world, linear, small, big etc
Nah, I think the reason they sold was precisely because of Grounded. This was never a sure fire success, it just needed proper marketing -- Which it apparently got!
I feel the same way about Bleeding Edge. That would have been a huge problem for Ninja Theory releasing it independantly.