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Hitman 2 had 356k+ peak players (6th highest on Steam ever)
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And tihs random indie game had over 200k peak:
https://steamcharts.com/app/308600
Gonna go ahead and assume that it was either an error on steam or it was bots idling for cards or something.
edit: Reading into it, it was mostly idlers for both hitman and this game for steam card drops.
https://steamcharts.com/app/308600
Gonna go ahead and assume that it was either an error on steam or it was bots idling for cards or something.
edit: Reading into it, it was mostly idlers for both hitman and this game for steam card drops.
Did it though? Doesn't really seem like a lot of players stuck. A bunch of people playing it for free doesn't really help the developer
But there are a million free games on Steam that never get that high.
Hopefully the free Prologue translated into sales for them. Hitman 2 continues to be my favorite game this year.
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Getting anywhere on that all-time highest concurrent-players list on Steam for any reason is shocking. Like, Warframe is free and nowhere near it.
Getting anywhere on that all-time highest concurrent-players list on Steam for any reason is shocking. Like, Warframe is free and nowhere near it.
GG IO Interactive. hopefully it got a fair few who tried the world of assassination to pony up the cash for the season! :)
That's not necessarily due to the free weekend either. I play Hitman 2 because I own the previous version. I've not paid for anything in Hitman 2 as I'm playing the legacy levels. So I'd be counted as one of those players but without giving any money to IOI.
It's still the reason why it got that high and really relevant to the discussion.
I still draw that up as a win even if it's not indicative of Hitman 2 sales. The series needs all the wins it can get.
New Hitman content is still being made. Hitman 2 has a season pass so that means we're still getting two new locations (plus other stuff) and they have to release them.
There is more concern about the studio's future. I really hope this isn't the last Hitman game.
I really hope some of those people convert into buys, the game is incredible and it's such a shame that the gap between quality and sales is so large.
... Those all time peaks seem very very low... I mean... Other than PUBG only one game has over 1m?
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Well I assume games like Horizon, GoW, Spider-Man, Zelda, CoD, Uncharted 4 pull in millions of people all playing at once around launch. So to see only two games with over one million and the sixth all time game with 300k+ is weird.
He believes that even being concurrent, the numbers should be higher.
What I think it's happening, most people don't know the TRUE difference of people playing a game, and units sold. Let's say it isn't intuitive. People know intuitively the concurrent numbers will be much lower than the number of units sold, right? But they still miss by one magnitude what's the true difference.
An example. Dead Cells is very succesful game which has sold more than one million copies only in Steam (between 1M and 2M in steamspy), and right now it's being played by... 3600 players.
Pc gaming isn't focused in a few of very big, very popular games like consoles, it's focused on online games (WoW, LoL, WoT, CS, and other acronyms) and indie or mid-level games.
Ok, here is the explanation why some games spike like crazy when given away for free.
If your game has Steam cards and is available for free, there is a load of people who are going to activate the game to farm the cards. It takes a few hours to beat those few cards out of any game: you don't have to download it, you don't have to launch it, you don't have to play it. However, the farmers contribute to the Steamcharts numbers.
So when Mirage or Coh2 were given away for free, there was a massive chunk of the concurrent playerbase simply farming the cards. Coh2 spiked to 160k on Steamcharts this month, yet the in-game online counter was 20k, the rest of the players were simply farming those cards.
I can guarantee that at least half of Hitman 2's spike were card farmers, emulating the play.
If your game has Steam cards and is available for free, there is a load of people who are going to activate the game to farm the cards. It takes a few hours to beat those few cards out of any game: you don't have to download it, you don't have to launch it, you don't have to play it. However, the farmers contribute to the Steamcharts numbers.
So when Mirage or Coh2 were given away for free, there was a massive chunk of the concurrent playerbase simply farming the cards. Coh2 spiked to 160k on Steamcharts this month, yet the in-game online counter was 20k, the rest of the players were simply farming those cards.
I can guarantee that at least half of Hitman 2's spike were card farmers, emulating the play.
