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Yeah, you're prone to having one of the biggest drops when you've got one of the biggest peaks. What a garbage article.
Palworld’s next update and early access roadmap are already on the cards, so it’s now up to Pocketpair to keep supporting the game and listening to players to keep them hooked.
NO IT'S NOT. The only thing it's on them to do is to finish it. They sell the game for $30, and this is not a live service game. They don't need to keep anyone hooked.
not to speak for anyone what they ment but I took hooked the saw way I see satisfactory. keeping engment high by taking in feedback to make a really good end product. not use exploitive tricks to get people addicted to something that is not fun.
It's hard for me to take it that way when the author is citing player count numbers in the headline as though that matters at all in a game with finite content and a low cost of entry. Even you using the word "engagement" in what's meant to be an innocent way just has me thinking about how live service games have poisoned the way people speak and think about video games.
your statement about live service poisoning the way people talk about game updates we can both agree on that.
it's viral game what do you expect?
Gotta say, this one's preeetty simple:
Game comes out
People play game
People play game a lot
Content runs out
People leave
Time passes poof! more content
People come back
Games usually have a pretty finite lifespan unless and usually only when built from the beginning to maintain playerbase.
So a lot of people finished the game and are now playing something else.
It's a real shocker, I guess that means that this game without MTX or subscription service is dead. /s
On Saturday, January 27 Palworld peaked at 2,101,867 concurrents, and now on Saturday, February 10, it has 757,508 according to data from SteamDB
Let’s compare that to a recently released AAA game.
Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League has 2,422 concurrent players, while Rocksteady's predecessor Batman Arkham Knight has 2,654 players,
Do a proper comparison
Game of the week is game of the week. Fall Guys, Dave the Diver, and Among Us unavailable for comment.
Remember when Valheim was all the rage?
It's still hard to believe it's been 3 full years since it released and we only got one new biome since then (and yeah I know it had other smaller updates but considering its success and potential I was hoping for much much more from them).
Valheim still hasn't even been released yet 😭
Heck, I remember when Fall Guys was all the rage.
I remember when it wasn't full of cheaters, didn't require an epic account and only sold items for wins.
It was all about Shotgun Roulette last week
Still awesome! Am halfway through an immersive mode playthrough in prep for Ashlands!
Amongus
That one is a special case. Yes, it got completely annihilated in numbers by even the goose goose duck clone, but, the thing is, the majority of its userbase just started playing on Mobile (where the game is free) well before the game left its popularity peak. So, the steam numbers are hardly representative of its playerbase, and the app's download count shows it.
PUBG did not have a similar story at the time of its release, but does right now. It's one of the most played games in the world... On chinese phones, so, uh, kind of invisible depending where we're looking for. To put it into perspective: PUBG straight up dethroned the biggest, most profitable shooter in the world Crossfire, by splitting the population, and the takeaway there most people would have is "What the hell is a Crossfire????".
I'd be interested with more content in the early to middle game. More things in the world as well. It feels very empty at times.
How utterly predictable
I don't think this should surprise anyone
No surprise lol