State of Decay 2 reaches 1 million players in 2 days

Sangetsu-II · May 25, 2018

FairyEmpire said:
People who do this obviously aren't too interested in keeping the game long-term, which means they would have likely bought it on sale or used, rented it, bought it and then resold it, and so on. Which means not a huge amount of money from those people overall, if any (in case of a used copy, no money at all goes to MS). This user effectively gives 30$ for sure to Microsoft, possibly more if he ends up really enjoying one of the games. If he kept on buying used and such, it's no guarantee they'd effectively have seen more money from him.

While I agree with your statement that MS is making little money of someone that would have likely not gave money to MS at all, I doubt a sporadic $10 would be enough to pay for the hundreds of titles MS is essentially renting off third party every month.

N.Domixis · May 25, 2018

So there was a record broken? Fastest to 1 million?

Judge · May 25, 2018

I have updated the title of this thread to reflect the actual news, without the "record" part that people seem to be getting stuck up on. It was mentioned only in the title of the Xbox Wire article and really has no bearing on the true purpose of this discussion, which is the 1 million player milestone

Ge0force · May 25, 2018

N.Domixis said:
This is probably why they released it in such a buggy state people don't care.

I was thinking the same thing. Let's hope Game Pass doesn't become an excuse to launch broken or empty games, since Xbox owners will play it anyway. Personally I don't feel like supporting any dev releasing a game in such a buggy state.

Golvellius · May 25, 2018

wapplew said:
Congrats, I guess PAL chart number 1 next week is locked.
GoW had a good run.

I don't think Game Pass trial users and a few buyers (probably less than 1000) sharing their Xbox with the whole neighborhood of 500 people on a regular basis will affect retail charts.

AngelOFDeath · May 25, 2018

I really wonder how many Gamepass subs are there. I think without Gamepass, this game's engagement count probably wouldn't be as high, which is an excellent strategy for a not insanely high AAA budget game. Whats the marketing been like for this and hell even Gamepass, I honestly have not seen it.

And having a million people play the game isn't a record by any stretch, unless the record is for that dev then sure, but its more of a milestone.

OG_Thrills · May 25, 2018

Animal Liberation Ⓥ said:
Dude, he posted the article title itself, lol.

So yes, still Greenberg PR.

In case you missed it. ;)

So basically we need to see if pal and npd charts match up to what he saying. After all this is the man who claimed sales to a store equates to sales through to a consumer. I think Greenberg gives more than he ever intends to give away everytime he pushes his own PR.

Deleted member 2254 · May 25, 2018

AngelOFDeath said:
I really wonder how many Gamepass subs are there. I think without Gamepass, this game's engagement count probably wouldn't be as high, which is an excellent strategy for a not insanely high AAA budget game. Whats the marketing been like for this and hell even Gamepass, I honestly have not seen it.

And having a million people play the game isn't a record by any stretch, unless the record is for that dev then sure, but its more of a milestone.

The first was, at launch, a relatively unknown XBLA title that did gain a bit of a cult following. Since it's highly unlikely the first title had one million players in 2 days (which is a number many triple-A games fail to reach), it's definitely an internal record.

noyram23 · May 25, 2018

Greenberg is probably laughing his ass off everytime you take his bait, he's probably earning big bucks too while doing that.

Deleted member 2254 · May 25, 2018

OG_Thrills said:
So basically we need to see if pal and npd charts match up to what he saying. After all this is the man who claimed sales to a store equates to sales through to a consumer. I think Greenberg gives more than he ever intends to give away everytime he pushes his own PR.

Yes and no, because there is probably a big share of people playing on Game Pass, who did not, in fact, buy the game. But given Sea Of Thieves did great numbers even without counting Game Pass, it's fair to say the game sold pretty well, especially considering it's an AA title at best.

wapplew · May 25, 2018

FairyEmpire said:
The first was, at launch, a relatively unknown XBLA title that did gain a bit of a cult following. Since it's highly unlikely the first title had one million players in 2 days (which is a number many triple-A games fail to reach), it's definitely an internal record.

First game sold 5m copies, that's bigger cult than Souls.

JaggedSac · May 25, 2018

Braaier said:
And? It had a million players after 2 days

After 2 days of global release, which is this Tuesday. I'm just saying it is just a bit strange they are ignoring the special edition early release.

Windu · May 25, 2018

Nice. Well deserved. Game is awesome. Probably my GOTY.

Deleted member 2254 · May 25, 2018

wapplew said:
First game sold 5m copies, that's bigger cult than Souls.

It took some time to get there, and a re-release too. For reference, I dug up some older records: the first game sold half a million copies in 2 weeks: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/19/state-of-decay-breaks-sales-record-gets-new-mode. Even with Game Pass and such, it's fair to expect that 1m players equals at least half a million actual copies sold, so by all means it's their internal record.

christocolus · May 25, 2018

Animal Liberation Ⓥ said:
Dude, he posted the article title itself, lol.

So yes, still Greenberg PR.

In case you missed it. ;)

What does Greenberg have to do with this article or the actual subject matter?

The game obviously hit a milestone in their books. Maybe even did better than the 1st one within same period.

MrTired · May 25, 2018

wapplew said:
First game sold 5m copies, that's bigger cult than Souls.

Well that's note true.

AmFreak · May 25, 2018

FairyEmpire said:
Yes and no, because there is probably a big share of people playing on Game Pass, who did not, in fact, buy the game. But given Sea Of Thieves did great numbers even without counting Game Pass, it's fair to say the game sold pretty well, especially considering it's an AA title at best.

What numbers did Sea of Thieves do without Gamepass?

Elandyll · May 25, 2018

JaggedSac said:
After 2 days of global release, which is this Tuesday. I'm just saying it is just a bit strange they are ignoring the special edition early release.

It's not strange, it's very much by design :)

Klobrille · May 25, 2018

1 Million Players after two days of global release is the fact here. People can spin, moan about the wording or cry about a mans PR job as much as they want. Over 1 million players stay over 1 million players, however you see it. Game Pass. Digital. Physical. Microsoft doesn't care. They want you to be in their MAU. If you played their game, that's a success for Microsoft. That's what counts. And these are great numbers for a game that sits at a 69 MC.

pharmboy044 · May 25, 2018

Once Gamepass was announced we all knew going forward it would be the number of users who were playing the game that would reported instead of unit sales.
Anyway, no matter how you look at it, a million is still a very good number.

Lupercal · May 25, 2018

Where is everyone taking the 30$ a year price from?
If I buy a month here it's 9.99€.

Nintendo · May 25, 2018

Game Pass doing its work.

Congrats. I hope the devs get a bigger budget next time.

Theorry · May 25, 2018

Wish Gamepass was arround for release for games like Quantum Break and Sunset Overdrive.
Would sure have helped those games.

Ge0force · May 25, 2018

AmFreak said:
What numbers did Sea of Thieves do without Gamepass?

We don't know.

memoso · May 25, 2018

Animal Liberation Ⓥ said:
Dude, he posted the article title itself, lol.

So yes, still Greenberg PR.

In case you missed it. ;)

bombshell said:
It's in the article title.

Com_Raven said:
Actually, it is the exact quote, isn't it?

Jajajja ok ,so it's a clickbait(didn't read the title xD).
Definitely i can't understand Greenberg and his need to do all this lame phrasing. Why don't made the correct statement (like they do in the body of the new) , 1 million players it's a nice milestone for SOD2.

Deleted member 2254 · May 25, 2018

Lupercal said:
Where is everyone taking the 30$ a year price from?
If I buy a month here it's 9.99€.

It was a calculation based on someone buying 3 months a year to get 3 interesting first parties by MS for a month each. Obviously a full year would cost more.

Jenea · May 25, 2018

State of Decay 2 Breaks Record

Lol

janusff · May 25, 2018

wapplew said:
Congrats, I guess PAL chart number 1 next week is locked.
GoW had a good run.

Kenjovani · May 25, 2018

Ge0force said:
I was thinking the same thing. Let's hope Game Pass doesn't become an excuse to launch broken or empty games, since Xbox owners will play it anyway. Personally I don't feel like supporting any dev releasing a game in such a buggy state.

I don't think necessarily broken games will be a trend (although a worry nonetheless on any platform) but Microsoft definitely doesn't seem focused on AAA big investment games and i believe they are lowering their gaming budgets to AA type levels because of gamepass focus. Expect most games to be of a lower standard and scope like a Recore, SOT, State of Decay, etcccc. And even though Crackdown has cost them money being in development hell that game will also be of a limited scope.

Sydle · May 25, 2018

Good for Undead Labs. Hopefully they can polish it up a bit as they release more content.

As for MS, obviously Gamepass is working out well for them. I wonder what it looks like when they double down on it in the coming years.

MrTired · May 25, 2018

AmFreak said:
What numbers did Sea of Thieves do without Gamepass?

Ge0force said:
We don't know.

On the NPD for March it charted number 2 in its release month. In April it charted 18th. In the UK it did just over 50k physical sales to data.

MrTired · May 25, 2018

janusfilmsfan said:

Fan of the Good fight too?

Animal Liberation Ⓥ · May 25, 2018

christocolus said:
What does Greenberg have to do with this article or the subject matter?

He posted it, and is notorious for things not lining up to his veiled wordings. Read OG_Thrills post above.

Siresly · May 25, 2018

I used the 14 day Game Pass trial.
Who knows what that 1 million number really means in terms of sales or finances.

Theorry · May 25, 2018

Siresly said:
I used the 14 day Game Pass trial.
Who knows what that 1 million number really means.

It means over 1m players played the game in 2 days.

janusff · May 25, 2018

MrTired said:
Fan of the Good fight too?

heh yeah. Love me some Marissa Gold.

DontRaff · May 25, 2018

chowyunfatt said:
But how many bullets fired?

No, what's the Twitch streaming numbers?

Deleted member 2254 · May 25, 2018

Siresly said:
I used the 14 day Game Pass trial.
Who knows what that 1 million number really means.

It means over one million people played the game, for an average of over 6 hours, too. Since they all did so in Microsoft's ecosystem (Xbox One, Windows 10, possibly Xbox Live Gold, Game Pass, etc.), it's definitely good numbers for Microsoft. The moment Microsoft announced all their first parties will launch day 1 on Game Pass, it become clear the amount of users will be key to them more than the actual amount of copies sold. Which, with 1 million players for an AA game, still seems to be a pretty good number overall.

John Bender · May 25, 2018

Oh man, the PR is so good again =D

Klobrille said:
1 Million Players after two days of global release is the fact here. People can spin, moan about the wording or cry about a mans PR job as much as they want. Over 1 million players stay over 1 million players, however you see it. Game Pass. Digital. Physical. Microsoft doesn't care. They want you to be in their MAU. If you played their game, that's a success for Microsoft. That's what counts. And these are great numbers for a game that sits at a 69 MC.

Okay Phil.

nib95 · May 25, 2018

Theorry said:
Wish Gamepass was arround for release for games like Quantum Break and Sunset Overdrive.
Would sure have helped those games.

Not necessarily. Depends on whether they would have eroded in to physical and digital sales or not. Game Pass is too new and there's too little data to know yet how much it is or isn't impacting traditional sales, which ultimately still offer considerably more revenue per title than Game Pass does.

wapplew · May 25, 2018

janusfilmsfan said:

JaggedSac · May 25, 2018

Kenjovani said:
I don't think necessarily broken games will be a trend (although a worry nonetheless on any platform) but Microsoft definitely doesn't seem focused on AAA big investment games and i believe they are lowering their gaming budgets to AA type levels because of gamepass focus. Expect most games to be of a lower standard and scope like a Recore, SOT, State of Decay, etcccc. And even though Crackdown has cost them money being in development hell that game will also be of a limited scope.

This is actually the opposite of what we know to be happening. They have increased budgets lately.

Complicated · May 25, 2018

nib95 said:
Not necessarily. Depends on whether they would have eroded in to physical and digital sales or not. Game Pass is too new and there's too little data to know yet how much it is or isn't impacting traditional sales, which ultimately still offer considerably more revenue per title than Game Pass does.

We already know that gamepass drove retail sales above expectations for Sea of Thieves. Was reported by industry analysts around launch.

Theorry · May 25, 2018

nib95 said:
Not necessarily. Depends on whether they would have eroded in to physical and digital sales or not. Game Pass is too new and there's too little data to know yet how much it is or isn't impacting traditional sales, which ultimately still offer considerably more revenue per title than Game Pass does.

More in line of people giving it a change to play it.

Siresly · May 25, 2018

Theorry said:
It means over 1m players played the game in 2 days.

Yeah I meant to say it's not actual sales, which one might be inclined to interpret it as.
It's a good number though, I suppose? More than Sea of Thieves managed in two days apparently, with Greenberg saying it's a record. Will hopefully result in solid support.

Lukas Taves · May 25, 2018

Kilgore said:
The 14 days game pass trial people did it AGAIN.

LOL

Sangetsu-II · May 25, 2018

Lupercal said:
Where is everyone taking the 30$ a year price from?
If I buy a month here it's 9.99€.

It's $30 a year if you buy 3 months of GamePass on the months the 3 exclusives they release every year release. That's what the other user suggested he does.

Reckheim · May 25, 2018

Siresly said:
I used the 14 day Game Pass trial.
Who knows what that 1 million number really means in terms of sales or finances.

yeh, its great for PR but I would like to know if MS really considers this and SOT a 'success'. I guess it gets people playing their games which is good. The drop off for SOT was pretty huge, even tho there was a $1 gamepass deal for a month.

Theorry · May 25, 2018

Siresly said:
Yeah I meant to say it's not actual sales, which one might be inclined to interpret it as.
It's a good number though, I suppose? More than Sea of Thieves managed in two days apparently, with Greenberg saying it's a record. Will hopefully result in solid support.

SoT had over 1m on launch day.

CozMick · May 25, 2018

I bought it on the windows store, no regrets. now please, to whom it may concern GIVE US THE OPTION TO TURN OFF MOTION BLUR, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Oh and get rid of the "desktop resolution" option, its ludicrous

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