Jigsaah
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Mmmm...mmm. MMMMMMMMYou love to see it.
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Helldivers 2 has overtaken Palworld as #1 selling game on Steam in the US | Also #1 most pre-ordered game on PSN US & other regions
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FalsettoVibe
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Just this one.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
I’ve always wanted Christmas in February.You love to see it.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Hopefully it can have over 100,000 users concurrently on Steam by the end of the week. Or is that asking too much?
BlackTron
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$31 on cdkeys
HELLDIVERS 2 PC
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Ill give it a whirl this weekend but I’m neck deep in infinite wealth and tekken
I usually never preorder and wanted to wait until it's already out to read real life impressions but that is really tempting for thirty bucks...
Mercenary09
Member
Absolutely love to see it
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
And this is with putting out physical media too for this game.
Crayon
Member
Got curious, checked out monetization. Frome steam forums:
1. Premium Warbonds = Gives you things you can unlock through medals earned through gameplay. Think of this as talent trees (except talents replaced with weapons/armor) that cost money to unlock access to.
2. Cosmetic cash shop. - Sells cosmetic armor and helmets, maybe capes/symbols/etc.
I've played mechwarrior online and Warframe and they had this style. The money in spent to the fun I had was actually a pretty good deal. I'm a tourist though. So I don't really know if either were good or bad for regular players.
This one is $40 though so that's different. Lower tolerance for intrusive stuff. Hopefully this has a good balance.
With fighting games they come out with season passes. Some with cosmetics on the side. This works out great. They are mapped out and you know how much you're gonna pay. Tekken 8 is $100 with the season pass bundle, then you do around another $100 over the life of the game. $200 game. Fair deal, I'll take it.
I hear mk monetization is horrific but you should not be playing round eye fighting games.
SF2CE was the og season pass. $70 1992 dollars. Again. And these days it's similar. You pretty much pay for the game over again to get the characters. But you get all the functional updates with the base game free so it's definitely better than back then.
1. Premium Warbonds = Gives you things you can unlock through medals earned through gameplay. Think of this as talent trees (except talents replaced with weapons/armor) that cost money to unlock access to.
2. Cosmetic cash shop. - Sells cosmetic armor and helmets, maybe capes/symbols/etc.
I've played mechwarrior online and Warframe and they had this style. The money in spent to the fun I had was actually a pretty good deal. I'm a tourist though. So I don't really know if either were good or bad for regular players.
This one is $40 though so that's different. Lower tolerance for intrusive stuff. Hopefully this has a good balance.
With fighting games they come out with season passes. Some with cosmetics on the side. This works out great. They are mapped out and you know how much you're gonna pay. Tekken 8 is $100 with the season pass bundle, then you do around another $100 over the life of the game. $200 game. Fair deal, I'll take it.
I hear mk monetization is horrific but you should not be playing round eye fighting games.
SF2CE was the og season pass. $70 1992 dollars. Again. And these days it's similar. You pretty much pay for the game over again to get the characters. But you get all the functional updates with the base game free so it's definitely better than back then.
StueyDuck
Member
But... but... the trailers... gaf told me the trailers were bad and no one wants the game
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I thought Christmas only came once a year....
This is co op fun, I hope anyway....I've not been this excited since left 4 dead 2.
Can't wait for later. I'll be on after work.
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STARSBarry
Gold Member
One thing to keep in mind is Steam best sellers is based on revenue generated as helldivers base price is around half that of anouther recently released GaaS title that means it would need to sell around twice as many copies compared to that game to hit the best seller list as the revenue generated is lower per copy sold.
This also applies to Palworld as its even lower, so Helldivers might currently be selling less copy's but generating more revenue, but it would be close for that to be the case. This is not to detract from the success of Helldivers, entering number 1 in the steam charts can be hard to crack, many other bigger budget AAA games from Rocksolid veteran studios are often unable to do so, one recent example saw a game sent out to die by its developers as it was a shit game that no one asked for.
Looks like this is anything but.
This also applies to Palworld as its even lower, so Helldivers might currently be selling less copy's but generating more revenue, but it would be close for that to be the case. This is not to detract from the success of Helldivers, entering number 1 in the steam charts can be hard to crack, many other bigger budget AAA games from Rocksolid veteran studios are often unable to do so, one recent example saw a game sent out to die by its developers as it was a shit game that no one asked for.
Looks like this is anything but.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I just hope the servers hold up, the game is fun and the DRM doesn't cause any issues. Because if the first and last thing happen it could kill the momentum and I hope this game is fun and a massive hit for the devs so they keep my bug swatting addiction in check.
Pulls out bug a salt 3.0
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Well that's not ideal...
crackajack
Member
I know only the first one, which was pretty much the same from videos I see, just another view. It was also supposed to be coop, but I played most of the time solo. I guess the real hard stuff was impossible that way, or my lack of skills holding me back, but it was definitely possible to enjoy it. Iirc you have to rush a bit more, since doing the objectives alerted the opponents and once they are on you, you better be done and just run. With a team you always have to look out to protect them and that is naturally more complicated to coordinate, especially since the action needed to happen on one screen- couch coop style-, which could be quite different now, with the ego perspective.
I very much hope that in the course of the gaas roadmap they also add some HD1 mode for the top down view.
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
What the hell? Was the first one that popular?
DenchDeckard
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No hype on this forum, really. But theres a few of us who felt the connection. Looks like others are too. GG steam users!
Neofire
Member
This 1000%, they need to get back to work on single player masterpieces.
TrebleShot
Member
cross play right so this wont die a death, 10 mins till we dive
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BlackTron
Member
Well that's not ideal...
I just bought a copy using the CDkeys link on this page for 30 bucks after reading this, so there are still ways out there if you're dead set on it
Some negative reviews are mentioning the cash shop aswell.
RGB'D
Member
*PC gamers enjoying those day and date sales. This proves that SONY should keep it with every release
Sony eyeing those day and date Steam sales
GHG
Member
Steam reviews aren't looking too hot so far. Complaints about servers not working, sloppy mouse controls and ridiculous microtransactions.
They deserve to get raked over the coals for this if the last one is true. Firmly in the avoid category for me right now.
They will for GAAS games as they always said they would. Enjoy.
They deserve to get raked over the coals for this if the last one is true. Firmly in the avoid category for me right now.
They will for GAAS games as they always said they would. Enjoy.
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GHG
Member
Fucks sake. And people wonder how and why companies keep doing this and getting away with it.
People need to keep on complaining about it until it stops. Games shouldn't be designed around this crap.
The artful mincer
Member
Well level of Success doesn't always correlate with dev team size and budget!
Arachnid
Member
No, but it was quality. I could see it being one of those games that picked up steam over the years as people played it. Hopefully it takes the series from niche to AAA and widespread.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Wait, there is pay to win? in a co op game? FFS.
Clever move Sony and the dev for not having reviews ready for launch then.
Clever move Sony and the dev for not having reviews ready for launch then.
crazepharmacist
Member
Playing now on pc and mouse feels great. had to turn off mouse smoothing. That is on by default for some reason.Steam reviews aren't looking too hot so far. Complaints about servers not working, sloppy mouse controls and ridiculous microtransactions.
They deserve to get raked over the coals for this if the last one is true. Firmly in the avoid category for me right now.
They will for GAAS games as they always said they would. Enjoy.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Steam reviews aren't looking too hot so far. Complaints about servers not working, sloppy mouse controls and ridiculous microtransactions.
They deserve to get raked over the coals for this if the last one is true. Firmly in the avoid category for me right now.
Oh shit, worse than Starfield!
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
I'd give it more than 3 hours...
GHG
Member
In the same ballpark, two games of the generation going head to head. What an intense battle.
Always wait for reviews my man. At the very least steam reviews if playing on PC.
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
GHG
Member
I don't think helldivers goes up dramatically unless they revise their microtransaction policy.
ultrazilla
Gold Member
Ouch.
Glad I held off.
Glad I held off.