One can no longer dispute Obsidian's success anymore.
https://steamdb.info/app/2457220/charts/
17,000 peak concurrent players is a great success for a Indy release
For a 200 person studio, that might not be enough.
Success generally means the investment paid itself back and beat a stock market investment over the same time period. I'm not sure Avowed has demonstrated that yet.
Launched day one on Xbox Game pass for PC so that's where I'm playing it.
This, if they don't post stats anywhere, they really should consider it.
I'm going to play it, but I'm certainly not buying it for 70โฌ.
Yea this game is a 3+ years down the road for me kinda game. I also want to play the pillars games first even if I don't HAVE to.
I expect Avowed to be a worse game than PoE 2 for my taste, which is one of my favourite games of all time! Definitely worth playing those, especially since Avowed is set only a few years after PoE 2.
I was really scratching my head trying to figure out how Avowed and Path of Exile 2 are connected.... ๐
It's indeed pretty unfortunate that Path of Exile and Pillars of Eternity have the exact same initials, but I thought it's clear in this context!
Pillars of Ethernet
Power over Exile
I've only completed the first Pillars game and it's an ok game.
A bit linear for a crpg in my opinion, but the story is pretty good. Like, you only really have a couple of choices that have any consequenses.
So not top tier rpg, but ok. But that's just my unsolicited two cents.
Yeah, I've heard it's more oblivion than pillars. t's not gonna be worth more than $30 if that's true, probably closer to 50 if it's actually a decent pillars game.
It's pretty much impossible to replicate the tactical combat of an isometric CRPG in a first person game, so yeah, it's definitely more similar to a Elder Scrolls. Though it looks like the combat in Avowed is at least somewhat intricate and entertaining, a low bar that Elder Scrolls games keep missing.
I love Pillars of Eternity so I bought it immediately. Unfortunately, even though it has a platinum rating on ProtonDB I can't get it to even run in EndeavorOS.
On another topic, while trying to get the game to launch I went to the Steam community page for Avowed and it was full of incel like posts claiming the game is woke and shit, or that even queer people weren't supporting a woke game. I don't look at community posts very often and was shocked that these kind of people are still around and can be so vocal without pushback.
Steam > Settings > Library > Disable Community Content = On
Community content has always been garbage. Save your bandwidth and sanity.
Hmmm, strange. I guess you could try ProtonUp-Qt and inject GE's newest Proton in and see if that works. Also, there are some games that wouldn't run for me until I installed the Steamworks Common Redistributables from the tools page in my library. Threw me off recently because I swear that the last time I was on Arch those autoinstalled after switching my compatibility over to Proton.
Ignore steam forums. They were always a horrible kid's playground. Since the term woke emerged, it's totally bonkers. They really go nuts these days when you can't choose man/woman but body type 1/body type 2. How could anyone give a damn about such things if the game does not suck? Like in kingdom come 2 where you could do a lot of things that finally lead to one gay scene. And then they complain about that. It's an RPG. Stop doing gay things if you don't like gay ๐
There's been quite a few titles that launched as "#1 Seller" that underperformed lately.
So yeah, I'll happily dispute this as a sign of success.
Yeah, the game has around 15k concurrent players on steam as of now.
Definitely not a strong start. For context, it has the same concurrent players of The Elder Scrolls Online, a 10+ Years old live service
We'll no doubt see that number jump a bit over the weekend, but atm it's anyones guess if it will do well or not.
So I wouldn't crack any party poppers just yet.
In the US and Worldwide
The US isn't part of "worldwide"?
Edit: OK, it's a microsoft game. Pack it up. Fuck that shit.
There is a long-standing hope that one day, the US will become part of the world. ๐
I don't know how Steam tracks their numbers, but if they split domestic and international sales it's possible that the US isn't part of "worldwide" in this context.
But even if it is, something can be the #1 seller in one but not the other, so "both" is noteworthy.
Skyrim is still much better with a lot of attentions on details. So yeah, this game will either die in few weeks or will need a big discount.
Be fair. Skyrim without mods is a horribly boring bug-fest of yesteryear. But with mods (and a lot of work putting into modding it correctly and WORKING) you're right.
Dunno, even without mods it took hundreds of hours of my life, but yeah, bethesda games are buggy AF.
Without mods it took a good while, true. Back when it first came out. But mods really turn this old bugger around some times and then some. And that took most of the time i've put into the old bugfest. Though the community fixed most of those bugs, really runs like a charm nowadays.
Have any Linux users had luck getting it to work through Battlenet? I still got a few months left on my three years of Xbox membership. I got battlenet running through Steam and got it to install the game, but it reports a problem updating when trying to launch.
What does Battlenet even do for a single player game? And I thought Battlenet was exclusive to Blizzard games ... ?
Battlenet has it. I'm not sure why, maybe it is a sign of things to come for Microsoft? I couldn't very well try the Microsoft Store as it has 0 compatibility with linux.
This games on battlenet? But try running via bottles,h eroic games launcher or, lutirs instead that might work better not sure.
I guess its worth a try. The only downside is I think each time I try I need to download the 70ishgb game. I will give bottles a shot.
I still don't get what it is?
It looks like a mix of Oblivion and like Dishonored with no explanation of it's progression system
I've played a few hours of it and I can't quite explain it myself.
Best I can do is it is a mix of a few games, and I thought it would feel clunky like New Vegas and The Outer Worlds felt, but it feels smooth.
You can play first person so it is like an Elder Scrolls type and also third person which kind of feels like Enshrouded to me, minus the base building and survival aspects.
It feels like a modern take on TeS games, almost a mix of FPS in it as well and its mechanics. Like you can grab edges and pull yourself up.
I'm enjoying it so far, playing on Game Pass so I haven't dished out the full amount for it.
I'd classify it as an action RPG.
So, how's the writing? The only review I've seen so far was deeply unequipped to say anything about the game
Honestly, I'm not the best person to ask about this.
I usually breeze through dialogue, but so far it doesn't seem... weak or lame to me.
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