2024 STEAM Concurrent Players(CCU) Official Watch Thread

[derby_440]

Top sellers for the week of 5 Mar — 12 March 2024 (Revenue)​

Week 11

		#	Name	Developer	Release Date
		#1	HELLDIVERS™ 2 #1 last week	Arrowhead Game Studios	8 February 2024
		#2	Counter-Strike 2 Free	Valve	21 August 2012
		#3	Steam Deck #3 last week
		#4	PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS Free	KRAFTON, Inc.	21 December 2017
		#5	Apex Legends™ Free	Respawn Entertainment	5 November 2020
		#6	Dragon's Dogma 2 #21 last week	CAPCOM Co., Ltd.	22 March 2024
		#7	Last Epoch #5 last week	Eleventh Hour Games	21 February 2024
		#8	Destiny 2 Free	Bungie	1 October 2019
		#9	Forza Horizon 5 #68 last week	Playground Games	9 November 2021
		#10	Supermarket Simulator #12 last week	Nokta Games	20 February 2024
		#11	Crusader Kings III #46 last week	Paradox Development Studio	1 September 2020
		#12	Call of Duty® #10 last week	Sledgehammer Games	28 October 2022
		#13	Baldur's Gate 3 #9 last week	Larian Studios	3 August 2023
		#14	HELLDIVERS™ 2 - Upgrade to Super Citizen Edition #6 last week	Arrowhead Game Studios	8 February 2024
		#15	ELDEN RING #7 last week	FromSoftware Inc.	24 February 2022
		#16	Monster Hunter: World #20 last week	CAPCOM Co., Ltd.	9 August 2018
		#17	Hunt: Showdown #86 last week	Crytek	27 August 2019
		#18	WWE 2K24	Visual Concepts	8 March 2024
		#19	NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Free	24 Entertainment	12 August 2021
		#20	Balatro #14 last week	LocalThunk	20 February 2024

Helldivers 2 legs on Steam are insane, 5th week now. And thats just $40 sku, the $60 sku ranked 14th. But looks like HD2 sales are slowing down and next week CS2 may reclaim its throne.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

Helldivers 2 legs on Steam are insane, 5th week now. And thats just $40 sku But looks like HD2 sales are slowing down and next week CS2 may reclaim its throne.

Not just the $40 sku, base game editions also get all the MTX generated by the game included.
But yeah, real strong legs for a game that people were sure was just going to be a niche/middle of the pack MP game just a few weeks ago.

Steam Spring sales this year also begins this Thursday.
Last Year it was the Steam Deck that was #1 over CS2(-10% discount)
Could be another similar thing this year as well.

 

[Godzilla]

Damn Palworld out of top 20? And it's peak it's going below 150k.

Do we have an idea of what's to come for the game besides the random tweet a few weeks ago? feels like it's been just bug fixes and all that, which is fine considering it's an early access game, but still a roadmap with clear dates and indications would do wonders.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

Damn Palworld out of top 20? And it's peak it's going below 150k.

Do we have an idea of what's to come for the game besides the random tweet a few weeks ago? feels like it's been just bug fixes and all that, which is fine considering it's an early access game, but still a roadmap with clear dates and indications would do wonders.

No timeline update on the roadmap from Jan 24th. Don't think those are coming any time soon.
Last patch was Feb 28th, so that's been a awhile.
Maybe the next one will be a little more robust than just bugfixes, but I don't expect new content or anything.

 

[Luke88]

DBD and R6 spiked bumping DD2 into 6th place, it's indeed gonna be a tough last week despite the hype.

 

[Remember_spinal]

I wonder if the palworld devs are actually willing to build upon the game or if they’re just happy they got as many sales as they did. As far as I know there’s no actual MTX in the game (from what i played on gamepass) so is it even worth it for them to keep investing in it?

 

[ILikeFeet]

I wonder if the palworld devs are actually willing to build upon the game or if they’re just happy they got as many sales as they did. As far as I know there’s no actual MTX in the game (from what i played on gamepass) so is it even worth it for them to keep investing in it?

they did show off a roadmap, but no dates for the new content. I would think they'll accomplish some of that as well as a PS5 release

 

[ILikeFeet]

PUBG had a roadmap video and they announced they'll be moving to UE5 in the future. That may or may not bump the minimum requirements

 

[Guarabyra]

I wonder if the palworld devs are actually willing to build upon the game or if they’re just happy they got as many sales as they did. As far as I know there’s no actual MTX in the game (from what i played on gamepass) so is it even worth it for them to keep investing in it?

They're probably still hiring people to be fair

 

[Evilnemesis8]

DBD and R6 spiked bumping DD2 into 6th place, it's indeed gonna be a tough last week despite the hype.

It's all about the entirety of the week, right now DD2 is above those two as most people have already spent whatever money for what was on offer in terms of MTX.
It was the same when Destiny 2, Hunt: Showdown and Crusader Kings 3 had new stuff last week and yet DD2 managed to chart higher than all of those in the end.

@Anno
@Guarabyra

Baldur's Gate 3 manages to hold on today with a peak CCU of 101,983.
Considering the game is going to go on sale tomorrow as part of the Steam Spring Sales, it looks like the game is going to continue adding on more days to its historic run of over 100k daily CCU.

 

[Damage2]

I really think that people are getting DD2, but dont have any Idea what kind of game this is lol.

I think people are thinking that its some kind of ER/MH style game, just recently a famous streamer that hyped DD2 for a long time(Asmongold), streamed the first game for a few hours and it was terrible lmao.

Maybe it will blowup because its an unique game, you never know.

 

[terrrabyyte]

PUBG had a roadmap video and they announced they'll be moving to UE5 in the future. That may or may not bump the minimum requirements

PUBG's road map is a damn highway in the middle of the desert.
While away from the critique, what keeps PUBG's player count up? Why does the South-East Asian market really hold and keeps the game alive that well? What's it appeal to customers that a Western audience doesn't get but should because of its gun-play coming straight from ARMA's influence in ultra-realism.

I also don't believe that Unreal Engine 5 will affect the player count because of a hardware performance hit. The jump from 4 to 5 is not comparable to the performance hit of Source Engine 1 to 2 on PC hardware. I just wish there were tracking numbers for PUBG mobile as it would express more of the popularity of PUBG in the South-East Asian region.

 

[ikeiv1]

I really think that people are getting DD2, but dont have any Idea what kind of game this is lol.

I think people are thinking that its some kind of ER/MH style game, just recently a famous streamer that hyped DD2 for a long time(Asmongold), streamed the first game for a few hours and it was terrible lmao.

Maybe it will blowup because its an unique game, you never know.

If Baldur’s Gate 3 of all games managed to blow up anything is possible. As long as it reviews well people will give it a chance and streamers like the one you mentioned really have gotten into milking these unique/uncompromising games for views so it won’t lack any visibility.

 

[AshenOne]

PUBG's road map is a damn highway in the middle of the desert.
While away from the critique, what keeps PUBG's player count up? Why does the South-East Asian market really hold and keeps the game alive that well? What's it appeal to customers that a Western audience doesn't get but should because of its gun-play coming straight from ARMA's influence in ultra-realism.

I also don't believe that Unreal Engine 5 will affect the player count because of a hardware performance hit. The jump from 4 to 5 is not comparable to the performance hit of Source Engine 1 to 2 on PC hardware. I just wish there were tracking numbers for PUBG mobile as it would express more of the popularity of PUBG in the South-East Asian region.

PUBG on Mobile is THE game to play on a lot of the world's countries. Even workers and less privileged people in developing countries have access to PUBG using cell phones powerful enough to play it. It is the Roblox of the mobile world in terms of how much penetration it has, imo.

 

[ILikeFeet]

I wonder if we need a dedicated PC news thread?

• Black Myth Wu Kong and Naraka Bladepoint getting Path Tracing
• Star Wars Outlaws getting Nvidia sponsorship and will leverage Nvidia (not-exclusive) tech with RTXDI
  • Ubisoft Massive's previous game, Avatar, was AMD sponsored. so this is a surprising shift

DLSS 3.5 and Full Ray Tracing Coming To Black Myth: Wukong, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Portal with RTX; Star Wars™ Outlaws Launching With DLSS 3 and Ray Tracing

Plus, Diablo IV’s ray tracing update arrives March 26, Sengoku Dynasty is available now with DLSS 3, and The First Berserker: Khazan will launch with day-one DLSS 3 support.<br/>

www.nvidia.com

 

[Guarabyra]

I thought Massive was locked into a deal with AMD for years. Surprised(and happy) SW: Outlaws is getting RTXDI and DLSS3.

Edit: Source for the AMD stuff https://wccftech.com/avatar-star-wars-snowdrop-engine-amd-patnership-rx-7900-xtx-80fps-4k-rt/

 

[Evilnemesis8]

I wonder if we need a dedicated PC news thread?

Maybe? PC news thread could also serve as a rendering tech hotspot as well?
Although, I don't have an idea of what the OP would look like on the top of my head.

• Black Myth Wu Kong and Naraka Bladepoint getting Path Tracing
• Star Wars Outlaws getting Nvidia sponsorship and will leverage Nvidia (not-exclusive) tech with RTXDI
  • Ubisoft Massive's previous game, Avatar, was AMD sponsored. so this is a surprising shift

DLSS 3.5 and Full Ray Tracing Coming To Black Myth: Wukong, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Portal with RTX; Star Wars™ Outlaws Launching With DLSS 3 and Ray Tracing

Plus, Diablo IV’s ray tracing update arrives March 26, Sengoku Dynasty is available now with DLSS 3, and The First Berserker: Khazan will launch with day-one DLSS 3 support.<br/>

www.nvidia.com

Star Wars Outlaws is a pretty surprising shift indeed.
I feel like Nvidia sponsored games(besides the fact they're less likely to not use other 3rd party tech) generally are of better performance. It looks like, at least to me, the Nvidia software team are a better help to developers in terms of product optimization.


Palworld all the way down to 110,237 daily peak today. Still hasn't stabilized.

Granblue Fantasy Relink had a new content patch today(new boss).
The game peaked at 86,097.
Yesterday's peak was 43,993 and the all-time peak was 114,054.
That is a pretty noticeable bump in player engagement and fairly close to the all time peak.
People still like the game, bodes well for future content.


Calm before the storm right now, less than 1 hour and 30 minutes until the Steam Spring Sale goes live.

 

[Damage2]

Granblue Relink must be pretty close to 1.5M by now, no?

 

[Evilnemesis8]

Granblue Relink must be pretty close to 1.5M by now, no?

Estimates(and review numbers) puts way above Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth and P3R on Steam but we've seen the console shipments for the game for PlayStation worlwide and they were much lower.
The Steam version might account for an absurd ratio for this game.
All in all it is hard to know considering we have no new milestone for any of those 3 games that came out relatively at the same time.

 

[master94ga]

I thought Massive was locked into a deal with AMD for years. Surprised(and happy) SW: Outlaws is getting RTXDI and DLSS3.

Edit: Source for the AMD stuff https://wccftech.com/avatar-star-wars-snowdrop-engine-amd-patnership-rx-7900-xtx-80fps-4k-rt/

Star Wars Outlaws is a pretty surprising shift indeed.
I feel like Nvidia sponsored games(besides the fact they're less likely to not use other 3rd party tech) generally are of better performance. It looks like, at least to me, the Nvidia software team are a better help to developers in terms of product optimization.

Well not that much surprising, they go for who pays better.

However Avatar was the best game of the year technical wise (Digital Foundry), if those deals have any indication of the quality of the graphics the AMD one worked extremely well for them.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

Baldur's Gate 3, with the help of the Steam Sale starting a few hours ago has managed to land at a daily CCU peak of 100,850. The streak continues.

Helldivers 2 is up 50K~(49.5K) day on day on its Thursday EU evening.
This is about double the usual(20-25K) increase on a typical Thursday.

I would've thought that it would get back at #1 pretty quickly today on the Global Top Sellers with the warbond.
But I forgot CS2 has a major about to start with PGL Copenhagen 2024 and the CS lads are spending on the usual things they can spend money on.

However Avatar was the best game of the year technical wise (Digital Foundry), if those deals have any indication of the quality of the graphics the AMD one worked extremely well for them.

This is why this was more of a general statement, about the titles(that I've observed over the last few years).
The folks at Massive and their Snowdrop Engine has always been stellar and performant and Avatar was no exception, especially impressive with both the PC and the consoles were quite well tailored to the hardware.

 

[Anno]

The Steam sale starting and helping BG3 *just* cross the line probably gives it another 10-14 days at least.

I can’t imagine what game is going to unseat this particular record. It’s so far and away from anything else and probably will be for many years.

 

[Guarabyra]

Well not that much surprising, they go for who pays better.

However Avatar was the best game of the year technical wise (Digital Foundry), if those deals have any indication of the quality of the graphics the AMD one worked extremely well for them.

Usually NVIDIA sponsored games push more RT features which I'm very partial to(even bought a 4070 super) and Star Wars is going to use RTXDI(https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx/ray-tracing/rtxdi) so cities should look amazing with tons of lights.

 

[Luke88]

The Steam sale starting and helping BG3 *just* cross the line probably gives it another 10-14 days at least.

I can’t imagine what game is going to unseat this particular record. It’s so far and away from anything else and probably will be for many years.

With Steam breaking consistently the record of active users I think it's gonna get easier and easier for this record to be broken, but it will certainly take some years, maybe even Larian's next game!

 

[ILikeFeet]

Palworld is getting a raid. no date yet

 

[Luke88]

Battlefield 2042 seems to have gotten a decent bump with the new season+Steam sale, it's the first time it crossed 20k CCU since mid february. I heard pretty good things about the update, but I've heard "Battlefield 2042 is good now" so many times over the past few years that I don't think this boat can be salvaged at this point. Still curious of what numbers it will pull off in the WE.

Edit:To clarify the actual launch of Season 7 is on the 19th of March, I read some previews.

DD2 weathered the Steam Sale Storm pretty well I'd say.

 

[Belthazar]

I was expecting BG3 to pass Helldivers 2 in the global top sellers... But then again, it's just 10% off. I guess people were expecting more to jump in.

 

[Guarabyra]

I was expecting BG3 to pass Helldivers 2 in the global top sellers... But then again, it's just 10% off. I guess people were expecting more to jump in.

BG3 also has much better regional pricing and it's seven months at this point. I thought they were going to time their mod plans announcement with this sale for an extra boost, but Larian doesn't do things the usual way.

Edit: Seeing Helldivers 2 continue to do so well makes me even hungrier for numbers lol

 

[Evilnemesis8]

Battlefield 2042 seems to have gotten a decent bump with the new season+Steam sale, it's the first time it crossed 20k CCU since mid february. I heard pretty good things about the update, but I've heard "Battlefield 2042 is good now" so many times over the past few years that I don't think this boat can be salvaged at this point. Still curious of what numbers it will pull off in the WE.

Battlefield IP has truly been through a couple rocky years and considering some of the departure and studio closure at EA related to Battlefield, doesn't seem like it's smooth sailing any time soon.

DD2 weathered the Steam Sale Storm pretty well I'd say.

Yeah if things stay relatively the same through Fri--->Tue DD2 will probably end up #4-5 for the week.
RE4R was #6 for that last pre-launch week.

I will be doing a little 24 hours after the sales began breakdown for noteworthy titles in the Top 100~
I'll start that in about 10-15 minutes past the 24 hours mark(1:10-1:15 PM EST).


But also...
Supermarket Simulator did actually manage to hit a new CCU record yesterday - 47,806
It is also trending to do so again today(30 minutes ahead of yesterday) 4th weekend CCU peak incoming!
Also France is continuing to carry the game.
It is currently #27 on the global list but it is #3 in the France local list, that's a pretty large gap.
It is also #6 in Belgium(I imagine the French speaking portion is carrying here?)
It is #8 on the Spanish store.

I was expecting BG3 to pass Helldivers 2 in the global top sellers... But then again, it's just 10% off. I guess people were expecting more to jump in.

BG3 has been within the Top 15~ for all of its life.
I do think people waiting that have not yet jumped in are probably waiting on a deeper sale like you said.
Considering their current headcount, Larian Studios would be wise to squeeze the most revenue possible out of this game and be conservative with discounts, especially considering the game is selling decently at full price after all this time.
Larian is not coming out with another game any time soon after all.

And BG3 has much better regional pricing.

There's that too, which is certainly one of the major reasons why the game is sticking so high on the top sellers list week after week.

 

[Belthazar]

BG3 also has much better regional pricing

Yup, coincidentally here in Brazil BG3 costs the same as Helldivers 2 on Steam. Even with the huge disparity in US Dollar price.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

Steam Global Top Sellers after 24hours~ of the Steam Spring Sale.

#4 Baldur's Gate 3(10% discount) / 10~ positon jump, a decent increase but nothing spectacular.
#5 Dragon's Dogma 2 - Game continues to hang on near the top with good daily pre-order sales.
#6 CP2077 Base Edition(50% discount) - The usual 50% CP2077 that has been a staple each sales.
#8 Red Dead Redemption 2(67% discount) - Same thing here, game always does well in sales.

#9 FF7 Remake Integrade(50% discount) - Usually opens at around Top 20-30~
This time , quite possibly due to the hype of Rebirth, it has over performed relative to what it usually does at 50% off.

#11 EA FC 24(80% discount, newest low) - Bargain bin prices are now officially here, will continue until the next game.
#12 Hogwarts Legacy(50% discount)
#14 Palworld(10% discount) - Why not? Bumps the game up from the 25-30~ it was previously.
#15 CP2077 Bundle Edition(43% discount)
#17 Ready or Not(33% discount, lowest price out of Early Access)
#19 Elden Ring - No discount to be seen, missed opportunity?


#23 Sekiro(50% discount) - Has been at 50% discount in pretty much every sales since 2021, generally does well so no further price drop yet for the game.
#25 It Takes Two(75% discount) - I wonder what the sales are at(last figure Feb 2023 with 10M)
#29 Enshrouded(10% discount) - Same 10% discount as Palworld(their EA launch price)

#31 Persona 5 Royal(50% discount) - Seems like the game will probably hang around at that discount for a few more sales, it does less and less every time but its generally just 4-5~ positions less(at the 24hour mark) every time.
#32 Battlefield 2042(85% discount, new low(by 1%!)
#35 Star Wars Jedi Survivor(55% discount, new low) - A shame what happened with the PC port at launch.
#38 Dave the Diver(25% discount, new low) - IIRC thats a similar placement to last sales.


#40 Diablo IV(40% discount, new low) - Game really took a nosedive with Season 3, so much rides with Season 4.
#41 LaD:Infinite Wealth(first discount, 20%) - Makes a reapparance in the Top 100.
SEGA's other JRPG that released around the same time(P3R) did not get a discount at the same time.
#47 Witcher 3 Base Edition(75% discount) - Eternal seller continue to do its thing.
#49 Lethal Company(20% discount) - I really want to know how much this game has sold, it is finally sliding down the list week over week. Still, for a solodev game, they've become multi multi millionares.
Can't ask for much more here .


#54 Stardew Valley(20% discount) - One last little discount till the 1.6 patch releasing on Match 19th.
CCU numbers on that day will be something to track. Almost guaranteed to be the newest high for the game.
#58 Nier Automata(60% discount) - What a success story this game has been over the years.
#59 RimWorld(20% discount) - The game has been at that pricepoint for sales for a while.

#61 Terraria(50% discount) - Another eternal PC seller with an incredibly base price and great regional pricing.
#62 Witcher 3 Complete Edition(75% discount) - Same as Base Edition, it keeps printing money.
#63 God of War 2018(50% discount) - Decent decline at the same 50% discount over the last two sales, probably have to go lower to get more revenue in the future if that's a priority.

#72 Lies of P(25% discount) - Same discount as last February, not moving a lot of units. A bit of a shame, I think this game deserved more.
#75 Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered(40% discount) - Same as GoW, it's been at 40% for the last 5 sales and it is experiencing diminishing returns. Probably a 50% discount relatively soon is on the horizon.

#80 Back 4 Blood(90% discount, new low) - The game everyone desperately wanted to be the new Left 4 Dead, but it was not meant to be.
#85 TLoU Part 1(33% discount) - This game had the potential to be one of the best sellers for PlayStation on Steam, but SIE released their most horrible port since Horizon Zero Dawn and not only crippled the sales potential of this game but certainly negatively impacted the sales potential of Part 2 in a big way as well.
Biggest faux-pas of PlayStation PC iniative.

#88 Age of Empires II DE(50% discount) - The most eternal of eternal PC games(that and Counter-Strike).
First released in 1999 and still seeing daily CCU peaks of 20K~ every single day since its DE release all the way back in 2019.

 

[Damage2]

Final Fantasy VII Remake doing well, Square still doing 50% at most

 

[Vena]

Palworld is getting a raid. no date yet

I wonder how much if any impact this will have, feels like the fleeting interest of the fickle gamer has moved to other pastures at this point.

 

[ILikeFeet]

if that's all that's being added, I don't think there would be too noticeable of a bump. especially over time

 

[Luke88]

I wonder how much if any impact this will have, feels like the fleeting interest of the fickle gamer has moved to other pastures at this point.

I think if this doesn't come before next friday when the next big releases come out it will have very little impact, and even then, yeah it doesn't seem substantial enough to warrant a recurring return to the game.

 

[Belthazar]

And Helldivers 2 is back on top of the global best sellers. The new battlepass must be doing numbers I guess.

 

[Damage2]

Dragons Dogma 2 not being that high on the Top Sellers in China(#22), makes me think its not going to be a big game in China like BG3 and Granblue

 

[ikeiv1]

I think if this doesn't come before next friday when the next big releases come out it will have very little impact, and even then, yeah it doesn't seem substantial enough to warrant a recurring return to the game.

These numbers look very similar to BG3’s early access. I don’t think it’s going to have much trouble garnering interest when it gets the first few meaty updates. For comparison, BG3 had way more people involved and the first patch adding some content took about 2 months, with the Druid class being added 4 months after EA, by which point CCU was at 5% of the launch peak.

Analyzing these numbers without taking into account its EA nature is a somewhat futile exercise imo, but maybe there are other early access titles that were more successful in retaining an audience.

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Btw, Starfield is fairly low in the global top sellers. Limited legs despite a 33% discount despite other games available on Game Pass being way higher in the list. Mixed reviews probably keeping a lot of people from trying it.

 

[Luke88]

These numbers look very similar to BG3’s early access. I don’t think it’s going to have much trouble garnering interest when it gets the first few meaty updates. For comparison, BG3 had way more people involved and the first patch adding some content took about 2 months, with the Druid class being added 4 months after EA, by which point CCU was at 5% of the launch peak.

Analyzing these numbers without taking into account its EA nature is a somewhat futile exercise imo, but maybe there are other early access titles that were more successful in retaining an audience.

I think ironically this is one of the few examples where it's warranted to expect people to come back to a singleplayer game moreso than others, BG3's EA was only a fraction of the story, people were expected to come back because they'd want to learn how it progressed. I think if people got their 20/30/40 hours out of Palworld they could be totally fine moving on. By no means I'm saying it's dead, I just agreed in saying raids isn't what's gonna bring back a lot of players.

 

[Guarabyra]

Steam hit a new CCU record(35.752.751) today it seems

 

[Kirby]

Dragons Dogma 2 not being that high on the Top Sellers in China(#22), makes me think its not going to be a big game in China like BG3 and Granblue

DD: Dark Arisen Chinese reviews are 11.5%, Granblue Fantasy Relink over 60%.

 

[Damage2]

DD: Dark Arisen Chinese reviews are 11.5%, Granblue Fantasy Relink over 60%.

Thats why i said it lol

I believe its going to be quite Europe centric
Btw, do you know what site can i use to see the percentage of reviews?

 

[Kirby]

Thats why i said it lol

I believe its going to be quite Europe centric
Btw, do you know what site can i use to see the percentage of reviews?

SteamScout v2.1 - The Steam Reviews Analyzer

ARPG
DD: Dark Arisen 11.5%
Granblue Fantasy Relink 62%
Elden Ring 24.4%
Monster Hunter World 42.5%
Monster Hunter Rise 34.4%

CRPG
Baldur's Gate 3 11.5%
Divinity OS2 25.1%
Disco Elysium 21.5%

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising 12.8%

Granblue Fantasy Relink is the outlier. I can see DD2 doing 10-15% in China.

 

[Guarabyra]

2.7m increase yoy I think?

 

[Evilnemesis8]

Supermarket Simulator new CCU record - 51,363
Game has officially crossed the 50k barrier.
This shows people do want to own food and price gouge everyone else just like what's happening to them IRL.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 has been 95% of the time at #3 on the global list for the last 2+ days.
Earlier in the thread I said DD2 was looking to be at #4-5 at the end of the week, but it's going to be at #3-4 and realistically at this point #3 is more likely than not.
Very strong last pre-order week for the game, all that is left now is the reviews.

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Two long time GaaS games have been increasing their CCUs in recent times

Rainbow Six Siege just released a new season/operator a few days ago and also put the game at 80% discount(lowest before that was 60%) to coincide with the new content launch as part of a big marketing push.
Yesterday the game reached a peak daily of 186,273.
The last time CCUs were that high was during a free weekend all the way back March 2021. That month the game hit its current all-time CCU peak of 201,053.

PUBG hit a daily CCU peak of 706,785 today.
This is the first time the game has gone over 700k CCU in a LONG time.
The game achieved a peak daily CCU of 699,792 back in Jan 2022 when it went F2P.
If we want to know the last time the game hit over 700k we have to go all the way back to April 2022 with a CCU of 925,699(big spike in a single week).

 

[Luke88]

R6S's lead on saturday is 17k meaning it could barely break the peak CCU by a few thousand units in the next hour or so.

Edit: and new peak it was! 201,933 CCU just a few hundreds more than the previous record, but still incredible for a game this old.

 

[nextgeneration]

Dragons Dogma 2 not being that high on the Top Sellers in China(#22), makes me think its not going to be a big game in China like BG3 and Granblue

Looks like it's climbed up quite a few spots since. It's shot up to #4 in China now.

 

[Evilnemesis8]

R6S's lead on saturday is 17k meaning it could barely break the peak CCU by a few thousand units in the next hour or so.
Edit: and new peak it was! 201,933 CCU just a few hundreds more than the previous record, but still incredible for a game this old.

Ubisoft have been trying for a number of years to have another GaaS success like for R6S but that has eluded them so far. Ubi, right now, is at pre-2016 levels of stock value.
It's been a tough last couple of years for them.

Looks like it's climbed up quite a few spots since. It's shot up to #4 in China now.

Yeah in a matter of less than 2 days it went from 20-15 to 6(last night before I went to bed) and now 4.
Pretty fast climb for the game, wonder what happened there.

 

[Damage2]

It doesnt look that theres any hype for Horizon Forbidden West on PC, not even on TOP 20

 

[ILikeFeet]

It doesnt look that theres any hype for Horizon Forbidden West on PC, not even on TOP 20

Horizon and poor timing. name a better duo