• Viri4thus@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Where’s Veilguard, I saw so many articles from major publications saying it was a massive success and yet it can’t even match space marine or helldiversII? Were they being untruthful? What?

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      On Steam, it is in the Bronze category. Considering it only released in october and people seem to have quite some issues with the game, I still consider that quite successful

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        It’s in the same tier as Enshrouded, a crafting survival adventure indie game that doesn’t even come close to it in Budget, market and scale. Yeah, no, it wasn’t a success.

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          In the new release, yes. Though by that metric, no game is a success as Manor Lord is platinum. Interestingly, Enshrouded is not in the top sellers, even though it is older by quite a few months.

          Comparing it only to its peers in the category to measure success is a pitfall. Manor Lord is in the highest, platinum, tier, and that is an RTS, colony sim made by a single dev. Does that make all other games in the platinum tier no success?

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            21 hours ago

            If they cost the same as veilguard, absolutely, resounding failure to end up in bronze.

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                7 hours ago

                I meant cost the same to make which is the point here. Veilguard’s marketing budget alone could have generated dozens of Enshrouded games.