The second I saw it's announcement trailer, and had a chance to play in it's beta. I knew it was going to blow up way past what was expected.
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The second I saw it's announcement trailer, and had a chance to play in it's beta. I knew it was going to blow up way past what was expected.
fair enough. But it shouldn't get in the way of having fun. If you lose you queue right up again and start over. I guess I'm not very motivated to buy stuff with crowns. I only have 7 so far
Well, yeah that's my point. They both get their estimate in similar ways.
But one is a for sure thing in era, while the other ...must have some sort of weird issue in their algorithm.
10 million plus people paying for micro transactions means the devs and Sony make bank on it. Anything extra outside of what's given to you that you pay for. I'm playing Rogue right now, 40% of the characters are unlockable but you can pay to unlock them.
So, if you add in the two million Steam copies sold, and we can officially declare Fall Guys is bigger than Fortnite.
Not really. Fall Guys was in the top 5 global sellers on steam days before it launched there as there was a preorder period for it. It was also in beta on PC and PS before launch so that helped in the marketing and hype buildling for it.
Steamspy has been close to being reliable with the recently released games like Persona 4 Golden, SoT, Fall Guys, etc. Ofcourse it can be off sometimes as well but thats just how it goes but anyways, the 2M estimate wasn't off but the 5M one might be unless we get a new sales update for fall guys and they reveal the PC sales post the 2M sales date.
I'm having a blast with this game...Got this game free with ps+ but bought 2 dlcs to show support for the developers...
Eh honestly the more you post things like this, the more people start to question about it. This is the first time gamestat has been used to reference player numbers on Era so it takes time for people to realize stuff and ask questions about it. Steamspy has been used for ages as a reference to sales on PC on Era for years now.
I doubt the numbers are real time. It takes time for them to be updated. Depending on the updates, it could have been more than three days for the numbers to tick up. Same for the announcement. Was it 2 million a few days before it was released when the announcement was being worked on, or when they actually released it?
It did officially sell 2 million in less than 6 days. And it seems, given by the concurrent numbers, that sales have been growing, not slowing down.
My only take is that the Steamspy numbers don't seem to be super off. I wouldn't be surprised if Steam is close to that estimated 5 million figure.
I also don't doubt that OP's estimate is far off either. It's just funny that it's the same methodology but somehow one is defacto more accurate than the other.
True! Just pointing it out. I doubt either is super accurate, but I also doubt either is super off.
Understood. I still think its kinda surprising to see such big numbers after such a short while, but i guess the game idea resonated that well for tons of people wanting to try it :)
Apply the same way gamepass works and you'll have your answer....actually if you understand gamepass model then remove Sony and ps plus and swap it with MS and gamepass
Does Sony pay the companies that put their games on Plus by the number of downloads or is it a flat fee? Curious how much money they are making from PS4 versus PC.
I just bought it on Steam. At first, I hated it, but I came around about an hour and a half later.
Yeah i dont know why devs use numbers of players as some succesfull metric.
I don't know, but whatever it is, I'm sure Sony got a hell of a deal on this, because I can't imagine anyone would have predicted it would be this huge whenever they inked this deal. Hopefully the developers are seeing a good payday either way though.
Faster loading (aside from the title screen) won't exactly mean much if we gotta be waiting for all the last gen folk! :P
Rocket League was at 5+ million after 4 weeks across PC/PS4. Install base/pandemic situation is way different than 2015 obviously but still impressive. The belief that Sony doesnt foster indie success takes another hit.
Agreed and I guess I sounded like I was trying to downplay it. It also has a fun aesthetic and great game play compared to most BR style games on the market right now. But I think that BR as a whole is just a great concept. It feels like actual competition as opposed to the traditional multiplayer grind. I hope more games adopt BR modes and more genres try it out.
Again, congrats to the devs!
It's a super cool fun game to drop in and out off and doesn't require a lot of skill. I'm glad it's doing as well as it is.
I think you're not getting the argument though. This argument usually comes from like 99% of indies that, you know, don't get a deal from Sony to have their game featured on their online store and made available for free, while still getting some sort of payment.
Dunno how when you cant get a game. Its a shame but I have found this unplayable for a week. In the rare occasion I get into a game im always disconnected before the final round. A real shame as me and kids loved the look of it
Not surprising, it's infectiously fun. It's also far more lasting to casuals than Rocket League which is also a ton of fun, but for which skill really starts to differentiate player tiers. Here, I don't think there's much skill differentiation as there's so much luck involved and simple controls/moves.
Oh shame, lol. I didn't know.
Well it has been more popular than Fortnite on Twitch a lot of the time since release, but I guess we'll see if it can maintain that popularity.
And technically on Steam it's already roughly at the average monthly revenue for Fortnite PC from last year, but once sales level off, I don't think its microtransactions would be able to keep up the revenue stream.
my brother, who only plays online MMOs was on Fall Guys for like 2 hours, yesterday. lmao
i wrote it off until I saw actual IRL friends trying to get into the beta... that's when I knew it would hit. LOL
i wrote it off until I saw actual IRL friends trying to get into the beta... that's when I knew it would hit. LOL
