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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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People always hype up first day twitch numbers but in terms of tracking visibility on twitch it's usually more important to see where it is like 4 days or a week out. Does it disappear from the top games and come back, does it disappear and never returns but it has a consistent viewer base, things like that.
How many Forza, Halo, Gears titles have MS pumped out? Don't forget all the canceled new IP's
Exploring Grounded’s Arachnophobia Mode - Xbox Wire
Grounded, the new survival game from Obsidian Entertainment is available tomorrow on Xbox Game Preview with Xbox Game Pass and Steam Early Access. In the game, players wake up in a suburban backyard after being mysteriously shrunken to the size of an ant. Guided by a strange robot voice named...
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Yes but mine is connected to my business account so I won't risk ever using that one (hotmail lol, I even have MSN 20 years + old) because I heard horror stories of people getting banned from something small and them never getting anything back. MS accounts management sucks and they can't unlink accounts ffs.
MS will never not have a game outside their ecosystem exist moving forward. I understand the legit gripes about account linking but most people hate the fact that they'll be contributing to Xbox success when they thought building and PC and copping a PS5 was their way of protest
I don't think there's any legit gripes. We want games but don't want to buy an Xbox ok we'll put them on PC. Well we don't want to use your store. Ok we'll put them on Steam. We don't want to sign in though at all...
Forza: 11 console/ PC games in 15 years-
Halo: 13 console/ PC games in 19 years
Gears: 7 console games (plus a remaster) in 14 years
People love to complain about these games being "pumped out", but comparing that to the number of games released for franchises like Mario, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil or Even Yakuza in the same time span, I honestly don't think that Microsoft is too egregious. Yes, they have studios that are dedicated to one of their core franchises each, but my point of gamers being the ones outraged if studios like Ninja Theory or Obsidian get the freedom to try something new still stands.
As for cancellations- everyone cancels games, much more so than most gamers realize. MS simply cancelled them much later/ more visibly than other companies usually do (ideally prior to announcing them, of course).
Yes cool. Which is why I said I can't use my even older MSN account (older than hotmail itself) because it's linked to my Microsoft business account where I manage Visual Studio subscriptions, Azure etc.. Bad enough that I made the mistake to link it with my business account, but even worse that Microsoft is so incompetent in unlinking them <_>
I am just too lazy to make a new account, because all my old Xbox stuff is also on my MSN account :-/
My honest thoughts are people from the get-go underestimated this title's specific appeal. Yes it's a survival game and those have an audience on PC, but there's actually a lot to be said about how the game realizes its setting with a lot of small details (pun unintended), and just how interesting they realize the various insects/how horrifying they are. Earth Defense Games have giant insects and appeal, but these work on a different level with the survival mechanics and makes the tiny world the game is set in felt incredibly lived in and dangerous. And of course, makes it a fun experience to share with friends.
I think it has an innately appealing concept that's fairly novel for video games still executed well for a certain subset of people. It also helps I think word of mouth is going to help this game spread, AND this game you can tell if it appeals or not to you just by watching a bit of the game as by the design of it things are pretty much happening all the time, making it a good streaming game both to stream, but also to sell people on the game from watching if it's up their alley.
I think it has an innately appealing concept that's fairly novel for video games still executed well for a certain subset of people. It also helps I think word of mouth is going to help this game spread, AND this game you can tell if it appeals or not to you just by watching a bit of the game as by the design of it things are pretty much happening all the time, making it a good streaming game both to stream, but also to sell people on the game from watching if it's up their alley.
What is popular on Era and other enthusiasts forums are large budget, single player experience, which stay true to very specific styles of gameplay. The GaaS thread showed how outdated views were. There is a much bigger market out there and we aren't its target audience.
First day numbers are good for the getting the word out on the game. That's some cheap and sometimes free marketing right there for the game. People might not buy it today or tomorrow, but rather wait for more content. Everytime more content gets released, more people will buy it and they will stream it once again, creating more "talk" around and about the game. I would always view it as how many gamers they reached with their initial push. If you release a trailer for the game, that might get less views than they do via streaming.
From the initial numbers you can see that there is a market for game like Grounded and people are interested in it. Will they stay interested in it while waiting for the finished product? No one knows, as many things can happen between today and that day. But at least there is interest in the game and the launch should be a huge morale boost for the Grounded team at Obsidian.
The twitch clips have been tremendous https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Grounded/clips?range=7d
These are my faves:
These are my faves:
I will pick up the game once it's out of early access maybe
To protect our mother earth from any alien attack
To protect our mother earth from any alien attack
Yooooooooo this dude straight up pauses the game and changes the settings right then and there that was amazing hahah
Absolutely. Twitter, Resetera, Reddit all have a specific leaning because they tend to be people who spend time discussing games online. It's becoming more clear with some of these Xbox game releases that, with a somewhat neutral response on these platforms but seeing huge numbers in sales and engagement, that they have indeed been reaching a different demographic.
Wonder if Halo will succeed in satisfying both the hardcore and the casual. I have a good feeling about it.
There are a TONNE more, some with screaming if you look through all the top clips from grounded, it gave me a chuckle this morning.
They should to a streamer scream montage trailer instead of the fan accolades stuff for this one.
I'm laughing at Eurogamers live stream on YouTube right now. They seem to be having a blast. It's good that this game isn't tied to the Xbox footprint. It seems people can judge the game and not a "Xbox game" where the inherent biases against the console don't come into play. So the game is getting a much better reception than it would if it were just on Xbox.
You do realize MS let Ninja Theory continue to work and bring out Bleeding Edge. MS has been doing this.
I didn't know how HUGE Roblox was. My kid wants to play it with her friend. They are already playing Minecraft A LOT.
Super fun but had some serious issues playing multiplayer last night. I was bouncing around, rubber banding and generally vibrating and relogging wouldn't fix it. Random bug armies invaded our camp every day, wiping out anything we built. I guess if you have anything edible in storage or dead bugs in proximity it doesn't help, but seemed a bit ridiculous having a spider, two lady bugs, 6 ants and 5 larvae attacking us because someone had a grub in storage.
