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Steam Stats: Crusader Kings III clocks in 97,008 Concurrent Players at Launch

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AshenOne

AshenOne

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At 91, 569 Concurrent Players Right now and still going up.

Shock for me honestly, considering these types of games don't do this HUGE. Congrats to Paradox i guess?

This figure should easily mean that its pretty much guaranteed to sell 1M+ in a few days time if it already hasn't done so already.
 
Lashley

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Oct 25, 2017
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Good to see it doing so well, loved CK2. Excited to play this later on tonight.
 
Rosenkrantz

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Jan 17, 2018
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Not surprised at all. PC gamers love Paradox despite the fact that you have to sell some of your organs to get all DLCs.

Glad to see such a success.
 
Anno

Anno

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Oct 25, 2017
6,952
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That's a new record for PDS-developed games, finally surpassing Stellaris's 69k or so if you ignore the CK2 free weekend.
 
Yuntu

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Nov 7, 2019
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Can anyone explain why when I think of Crusader Kings I have a game similiar looking to Age of Empires in my head? Is there a game name Crusaders something that looks more like Age of Empires?
 
Anno

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's also #1 and #2 on the Steam global charts. Pretty big deal with how amazingly successful Fallguys has been.

Seems like a massive (and well-earned) success for PDS.
 
shodgson8

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Aug 22, 2018
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Really pleased for Paradox, definitely can't say they are without fault as a dev however....if you told me back in the EU3 days when I first started to get into their games that they would one day be enjoying this kind of success I would have been pretty shocked.

Good that it hasn't led to heavily sacrificing the depth in their games either.
 
PucePikmin

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Apr 26, 2018
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AshenOne said:
Shock for me honestly, considering these types of games don't do this HUGE. Congrats to Paradox i guess?
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Crusader Kings II had/has a surprisingly large, very hardcore fanbase. CK2 is where Paradox made all their money.

Yuntu said:
Can anyone explain why when I think of Crusader Kings I have a game similiar looking to Age of Empires in my head?
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Nothing like Age of Empires. Combat is not a big focus -- it's all about intrigue, role-playing, and management.
 
Aaron D.

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Oct 25, 2017
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As a CK2 vet, I got around 2 hours in today and am blown away so far.

I expect the positive reviews & WoM to drive those numbers up.
 
Apollo

Apollo

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Oct 25, 2017
8,093
I'm not playing on steam, but anecdotally, I'm somebody with effectively zero experience with strategy games of almost any sort, and I'm playing this
 
Slackerchan

Slackerchan

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Oct 25, 2017
1,383
Austin, TX
Anyone have a recommendation on a good intro video to Crusader Kings 3 for newbies? I saw Paradox's official "Introducing" series but the narrator talks over things too fast for me to really understand what's going on.
 
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