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Crimson Desert Steam CCU Prediction Thread [Update: New Peak Reached. 276k]

What will Crimson Desert peak CCU be?

  • < 50K

  • 50 to 100K

  • 100 to 150K

  • 150 to 200K

  • 200 to 250K

  • 250 to 300K

  • 300 to 350K

  • 350 to 400K

  • 400 to 450K

  • 450 to 500K

  • 500K +

  • 550 to 600K

  • 600 to 650K

  • 650 to 700K

  • 700 to 750K

  • 750 to 800K

  • 800 to 900K

  • 900 to ONE MILLION PLAYERS

  • Sky's the Limit

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Topher said:
Still trying to wrap my head around why this game is even remotely controversial outside of (arguably) being overhyped.

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A lot of people online are unhappy and use anything they can to rationalize that unhappiness, blaming it in something or someone. It's not a left vs right thing.
 
Topher said:
Some seem to be trying to force that though and it makes no sense.
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Is it for this game, though? It's getting a lot of hate here, where people are definitely not extreme left. I think it started with wanting woke games to fail and now they just enjoy it. It was Marathon, but now very few care about it, and many have moved to hating on this one.
 
FingerBang said:
Is it for this game, though? It's getting a lot of hate here, where people are definitely not extreme left. I think it started with wanting woke games to fail and now they just enjoy it. It was Marathon, but now very few care about it, and many have moved to hating on this one.
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I don't know man. I'm going to let it go. Trying to think through this shit is damaging my brain (what's left of it).
 
FingerBang said:
Is it for this game, though? It's getting a lot of hate here, where people are definitely not extreme left. I think it started with wanting woke games to fail and now they just enjoy it. It was Marathon, but now very few care about it, and many have moved to hating on this one.
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Legit QoL criticism is not hating. Review bombing and spewing FUD nonstop is.

Though there are a variety of reasons for the mob attack on this one, the main I have noticed is having a korean dev with low karma among normies creating an open world that goes against every open world convention and with a superior tech. This is unacceptable for some fans of other IPs. I mean, Crimson Desert is everything Bethesda promised and failed to deliver with Starfield.

Also, FOMO is a doble-edged sword. You have guys falling for the hype while others become haters just because they don't want to think they are missing something great. The VR hate bandwagon was 100% this.
 
Pasta la Vista said:
CCU is rapidly dropping, can't seem so sustain past 50% of its peak in the last 48 hours. Are people already bored with it?
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It's already hit it's peak like most SP games do over their launch weekend. It's not going to go over 250k now, but if it has strong legs, it'll maintain a healthy CCU over the next few months.
 
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xenosys said:
It's already hit it's peak like most SP games do over their launch weekend. It's not going to go over 250k now, but if it has strong legs, it'll maintain a healthy CCU over the next few months.
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after this patch and word of mouth i can totally see going over 250K next weekend, but that is the last window to get there.
 
Angry_Megalodon said:
Legit QoL criticism is not hating. Review bombing and spewing FUD nonstop is.

Though there are a variety of reasons for the mob attack on this one, the main I have noticed is having a korean dev with low karma among normies creating an open world that goes against every open world convention and with a superior tech. This is unacceptable for some fans of other IPs. I mean, Crimson Desert is everything Bethesda promised and failed to deliver with Starfield.

Also, FOMO is a doble-edged sword. You have guys falling for the hype while others become haters just because they don't want to think they are missing something great. The VR hate bandwagon was 100% this.
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I somewhat agree with this. There seems to be a concerted effort to say that this literally cannot be fun like Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom/RDR2/Elden Ring - despite having systems that are literally the same.

Difficult bosses/no story - Elden Ring == glazed non-stop, best game ever, this - utter trash why would I play it
Huge expansive world - RDR2 == brilliant, I feel like a cowboy, actual the slow movement is "intentional", this - utter trash, Ubisoft-like, who would play with these clunky controls etc
Zelda == brilliant how dare you criticise the big N, this oh the puzzles are difficult, the abyss is rubbish why would you want to skydive etc

Any/all of the other fandoms seem to be threatened by another game trying to do something similar - it's ok Crimson Desert existing doesn't take away anything from your precious From game.

The strangest FUD of all is the "mile wide but inch deep" line or "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle" - this is objectively false as anyone can see from clips of puzzles, combat, exploration, fishing minigame, camp management etc etc. You can complain that it's every system thrown together and they don't all combine well - legit critique, you can say the controls feel crap - subjective but anyone can see that the keybinds are suboptimal - but "deep as a puddle", really that's what you're going with?
 
JayK47 said:
My prediction was way off. Still decent numbers for a AA game.
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"Decent numbers for a AA game", you guys are funny reaching this hard

The only single player AAA game that surpassed Crimson Desert in CCU this year is RE9. In 2025 the only triple AAA game that surpassed CD was Elden Ring DLC ( there is Silksong, KCD and WW but those are not AAA games )

now i ask you what is a good number for a AA game if even AAA cant push these numbers ?
 
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Lokaum D+ said:
"Decent numbers for a AA game", you guys are funny reaching this hard

The only single player AAA game that surpassed Crimson Desert ins CCU this year is RE9. In 2025 the only triple AAA game that surpassed CD was Elden Ring DLC ( there is Silksong and KCD but those are not AAA games )

now i ask you what is a good number for a AA game if even AAA cant push these numbers.
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I have talked about this before on here. There are a lot of console gamers that really dont understand how it works on Steam. They see the CCU for things like Elder Ring and Cyberpunk and think thats pretty normal for a big SP release, when in reality we get maybe 1 game even couple of years that do those kind of numbers, especially SP games.
 
Lokaum D+ said:
"Decent numbers for a AA game", you guys are funny reaching this hard

The only single player AAA game that surpassed Crimson Desert in CCU this year is RE9. In 2025 the only triple AAA game that surpassed CD was Elden Ring DLC ( there is Silksong, KCD and WW but those are not AAA games )

now i ask you what is a good number for a AA game if even AAA cant push these numbers ?
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Neogaf when a MP game doesn't hit more than 100k CCU: HA FAILED GAME
Neogaf when a single player game doesn't hit more than 900k CCU: HA FAILED GAME
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Stuart360 said:
I have talked about this before on here. There are a lot of console gamers that really dont understand how it works on Steam. They see the CCU for things like Elder Ring and Cyberpunk and think thats pretty normal for a big SP release, when in reality we get maybe 1 game even couple of years that do those kind of numbers, especially SP games.
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Exactly. Pearl Abyss has literally bragged about the sales numbers for this game and it's barely been over a week. It's a commercial success, end of discussion.

Single player games, hell even MP games hitting the insane numbers like CyberBitch 2077, Bald Guy's Gate 3, Elden Ring, or Black Myth Wukong aren't normal and shouldn't been seen as a baseline for success.
 
StreetsofBeige said:
Peak 244k. Almost hit the all time 248k. Doesnt look like the game is trending down. It's holding week over week.
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The game has tons of small stuff like "you can cook food by reflecting the sunlight!" that places like IGN can generate tons of videos from.

It helps to keep people engaged.
 
xenosys said:
It's already hit it's peak like most SP games do over their launch weekend. It's not going to go over 250k now, but if it has strong legs, it'll maintain a healthy CCU over the next few months.
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Just hit a new peak, this is how word of mouth works. Reviewers had a negative impact no doubt. But people are hearing good things from people they trust so more are playing the second weekend.
 
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The devs fixing many aspects of this game post release I think did a solid for this game. The Steam rating at launch wasn't good with all the bugs and QoL issues, but the biggest concerns got fixed and the Steam rating keeps rebounding.
 
Evaluations are at 'Very Positive' now too

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4 hours of gametime and more is almost at 90% which is "Overwhelmingly Positive"

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Madflavor said:
That's pretty crazy. Wonder what some of the reviewers who trashed the game are thinking.
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It is pretty much known they rushed. 2 weeks is simply not enough time to do even main quest let alone explore game.

I am 60hours in and I am YET TO LEAVE STARTING AREA. There are 5 major areas on the game and I am in first area after nearly 60 hours. And I am not done with it. There are like 60-70% quest left in that area. I was mainly focusing on graymanes + exploration where i didn't do much rest of this area quests.

The size of it is insane. Like you are getting MMORPG after few expansions worth of content in single player game on 1.0 release.
 
KyoZz said:
4 hours of gametime and more is almost at 90% which is "Overwhelmingly Positive"
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For english only reviews it is only few days to get to it. For all reviews it will take 2 weeks at this rate.
People have to remember that most of people are still playing game.
A week is nothing for game like this.

Game is almost 9.0 on metacritic user score too.
 
Cant believe my 300-350k guess might come through. Maybe not this weekend, but perhaps next if it keeps trending up. It's right now about 10% higher CCU than last weekend.
 
A really good patch just dropped. I'm personally waiting to get back into it in a few weeks. Got distracted and now it's in my backlog.
 
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