Comment on In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller

echodot@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I get where you're coming from, I found out Borderlands 4 launched when I saw the news about it having performance issues. That said, if you look at Steam charts Borderlands 4 is just smidge below Silksong numbers and at the time of writing this comment Silksong is the 4th most popular game and Borderlands is 6th most popular game, barely beaten out by a game called Banana (which I've never even heard of and I have no clue why it's that popular).

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  • Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Banana (which I’ve never even heard of and I have no clue why it’s that popular).

    It’s an idle/clicker game that drops steam items that can, theoretically, be sold for money. I can’t recommend it.

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I get what kind of a game it is. I don't get how that is so popular. We're talking about player counts that not even Destiny 2 could reach. The only rational conclusion I came come to is that those numbers have to be botted.

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      • Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        my guess is that a lot of people let the game idle in the background to farm items, that’s why it’s so “popular”. It’s not “active players”, it’s just a large number of people farming items in the hopes to get one they can sell for a larger sum.
        Afaik it has been in the top charts for over a year.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought steam banned those kind of games.

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      • Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can’t find any info about a blanket ban on idle/clicker games, and quite frankly, I don’t see why valve would ban them.

        For them, it’s free money:

        1. the developer has to pay a flat fee for the game to appear on the storefront
        2. the developer has to pay an additional fee to enable community items
        3. both the developer as well as valve receive a percentage cut of the sale price in the community marketplace

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• MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was going to comment the same thing. Maybe it’s just the circles i’m in, but like the only thing i’ve heard about it is the price and the performance issues on PC

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Boards like these don’t talk about Call of Duty or Assassin’s Creed much either, but all of these are multi billion dollar franchises.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah but I would have known thwy had released because they would have been advertising or something. I don’t feel like anyone’s spoken about Borderlands since that comment about how it should be $90 or whatever.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s interesting, because without even really looking for it, it came up in Nintendo Directs, Keighley presentations, Sony presentations, and any discourse about games moving around release dates on account of GTA VI. For whatever reason, this game’s release date was moved up by a couple of weeks over its initial release date announcement, and that pretty much never happens, so it made headlines for that too.

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• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Record launch. 200k concurrent.

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