Yup. The Outer Worlds was a hit and will likely become a big franchise. Grounded was made by a small team and is doing very well. Avowed has potential to be huge.
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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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To be honest, I don't think you sell a studio with 150+ people because of a small passion project with initially 4 (5?) people on it.
What? I thought this was an Xbox series x exclusive to be released alongside the console after watching that stream and turns out it's already been released on steam? Clearly I wasn't paying too much attention.
Congrats to Obsidian. Many, many were making fun of this game On Twitter when it was originally revealed. MS is making good decisions allowing devs to make what they want.
Very surprising. Having said that I'm not into survival games at all but I had a lot of fun with the demo and now with the EA release. Game is just fun.
Minecraft has passed 200 million copies sold. Not to take away anything from Sony's fantastic output this gen but in terms of the overall gaming market 10 million sales is only a fraction of what some other games do yet this forum's heavy skew towards those games makes it seems like if you don't have them then your platform is not worth owning.
Nah, they had plans way beyond that obviously, but I am sure they were already looking at Grounded as a loss internally. Funding in general has been a constant issue for Obsidian.
I swear every single survival game no matter of quality comes outta the gates on steam like fire, it's nuts. Not saying this is a bad one, but is there ever survival game that just released with a whimper? They all seem to have huge twitch followings within the first week just due to have crazy people are for this genre.
It's true. Particularly with multiplayer games, the number of times we've bought and got into games like this are nothing to do with twitter or forums. For my group of friends it's been based on word of mouth, talking through the games store page / popularity, on a whim based on the trailer / gameplay videos if the price is good enough, or just wanting to play a certain type of game we know others are planning to get eventually or that we've had fun with before.
Era fails to understand what the PC crowd likes to play. More news at 11.
I plan to give this a shot with friends through Game Pass myself.
I plan to give this a shot with friends through Game Pass myself.
The game released on Early Access today. The full release will be next year.
Full game is releasing in 2021. Today is the early access launch.
One of the most revered RPG studios of all time getting stability and budget for pretty much the first time? I'm incredibly excited for it. I'm honestly really excited for InXile too. They've not had anywhere near the acclaim as Obsidian, but Brian Fargo is one of the most experienced game devs there is and pretty much pioneered a lot of the RPG genre as we know it. I can't wait to see what he can do when he's not relying on crowdfunding. InXile's games have always been so close to being great, but have just missed the mark.
Big congrats to Obsidian, you could tell from Day 1 how passionate the team was for this game and its great to see that rewarded.
Bro if Inxile made an AAA Numenera RPG like what Obsidian is doing with Avowed/PoE I would cream my pants.
I thought Sea of Theives struggled a lot at launch and then slowly built up a big following as it was updated post launch.
Did my part, bought this as soon as I saw this thread. Excited to play this with some like minded friends, looks like a load of fun.
Congratulations to Obsidian!
Congratulations to Obsidian!
Yup. They are reaping the benefits of putting games on PC and ignoring the "Bu, bu, but it's not exclusive so it can't be on List Wars" cries.
I've said before: the CUNSOULWUURZZZ aren't going to go the way people think.
Absolutely dead-on. I don't think it would've even been pitched. GamePass frees the 1st party studios from being overly-concerned with making "market-friendly" games and just make what they want. They also aren't confined to the Xbox console footprint and have access to the hundreds of millions of PC gamers.
It's such a strange yet daring new way of doing business in gaming.
Played this for about an hour today on Xbox and loved what I played so far. Awesome new take on the survival genre.
Sea of Theives was a massive hit out of the gate, its popularity fluttered but it found a second wind thanks to all of the great updates.
Wasn't this already in production when Obsidian was aquired?
It sort of looks and plays like Minecraft made 30 years in the future lol. I like it when games like this can establish themselves.
I guess, I'm not convinced about how far it would have gotten in the process. Love to see its success though!
It was not a finished game at launch. It was fairly front loaded with content and fizzled out within a couple weeks. They've brought it back over the past 2 years to the hit it is now.
I played solo, I think if you like this survival games style is fine(not my case unfortunately), but if not, it looks like a case of a game that is way better with friends.
I've only played solo so far and it's been a blast. Definitely looking forward to diving in with friends though.
Game is basically Subnautica but Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
Yeah I keep reading Minecraft comparisons but this game is full on Subnautica adjacent.
Hand crafted world. Base building (rather than 'world building'). Scary ass ants/fish, delete where applicable. Cool mysterious story.
I'm talking about their business model for how they'll handle 1st party games from here on out. Releasing on console and PC through GamePass and Steam. It's all about having the game available to a large user base from day 1, not just confining it to the console footprint.
I have downloaded on PC Gamepass and canny wait to play tonight!
I was worried when MS acquired Obsidian, but now, the thought of them having the stability and backing of MS makes this the best acquisition MS has done. These guys have always deserved to not be barely alive based on Kickstarter fumds, and I tremble to think of what we are going to be getting from them this gen.
Truly one of my favorite studios ever <3
I was worried when MS acquired Obsidian, but now, the thought of them having the stability and backing of MS makes this the best acquisition MS has done. These guys have always deserved to not be barely alive based on Kickstarter fumds, and I tremble to think of what we are going to be getting from them this gen.
Truly one of my favorite studios ever <3
Just goes to show that Reset Era is pretty clueless about video games. If only MS could fix Bleeding Edge.. I love the premise of that game.
That's my demographic. I've been playing rocket league for five years. I've bought many many survival games over the years. Love a well done GAAS model keeping my games relevant. That fable thread where people were having meltdowns because the game wouldn't be strictly a single player game was something else. I like games to be social if I can't play something with my buddies I probably won't bother. Though I respect them as great games and glad they exist for those who want them.
Congratulations to Obsidian, that's fantastic! Definitely looking forward to checking it out in the future.
I agree, games for me are usually a social experience. Don't get me wrong, I'm all on board for a great solo narrative experience, but what keeps me playing long term has always been multiplayer components. I've barely played any games more than one time, apart from my absolute favorites.
What happened that this is a game in a genre where a game only fails on Steam if it's overtly bad.
And even if it's overtly bad it can still be moderately successful, if not a blowout. Not going to name names to not start a possible flame-war but there are some genuinely bad survival games that continually make Top Selling each sale somehow even with Mixed or Negative reviews.
