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Despite well-publicized launch issues, a tweet from analyst Alejandro LL. highlights the successful aspects of the PC edition of STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor. It has already surpassed the online presence of the original STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order by a wide margin. The post shows the SteamDB data revealing the new game has already had a peak concurrent player count of 63,597 players. In contrast, SteamDB shows its predecessor peaked four years ago with 46,550 playing online at once. This makes Survivor the second most successful Star Wars game by this metric, following only LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which peaked at 82,517 concurrent players a little over a year ago.

Meanwhile Hogwarts legacy had a total of 879,308 peak player count on release.
 
So I started playing the Final Fantasy 6 pixel remaster. I'd say they did a pretty good job. Maybe a few nitpicky stuff so far, about 8 hours in....but, they did good.
The character sprites from Steam last year looked close but just "off" a little...well, enough people actually spoke up about that, so for consoles, they fixed it....and you know what it was?....certain pixels on characters were too light in shade....just darkening them like how the SNES was made all the difference.
They arranged the soundtrack....again. Well it sounds good, but most songs are missing something that the SNES captured, so thankfully you can switch back to the original version. Like in the area, The Velt, the song originally starts with a deep drum sound, kinda like bongos, or similar. The arranged version sound more like a snare drum....big nope.
Some sound effects are odd, like the save point had a nice ding to it when you walked on it, now it sounds like its been heavily distorted.
Beat a boss, and the original had a loud thunder cracking sound so you knew you'd won. This version its toned way down and weaker sounding.
Nitpicky stuff, but still, us fans have to complain about something...right.
Overall, I'm enjoying it and working towards getting the Platinum trophy.
I've probably played through this game a good 10+ times over the years, but using a guide to make sure I don't miss anything....and wow, there is actually a bit I was missing all those playthroughs.
 
Paul Andrew said:
The 3070 might be part of your issue. Apparently this game really hogs VRAM and 8gb isn't giving it enough headroom.

I'm on a 3070ti and will probably be getting it on Xbox just to get a consistent experience I don't have to fiddle with.
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They put out like a 1.3GB patch this week. Just went 2 hours without a crash. I think FSR2 or whatever it's called is part of the problem. Running from the geforce experience sets the specs up to epic, but turns this off. So, that plus patch is so far so good.
 
So much for cancel culture when it comes to gaming yeah?

Hogwarts Legacy Earns $1B on 15M Sales [11:03 am ET] – Share – 19 Comments​

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2023 Earnings Results, proving a corporation can lose money in a quarter when it generated over $10 billion in income. The report includes sales data on Hogwarts Legacy, the Harry Potter prequel which launched early last year. The game met with controversy due to statements by Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. And while there's no certainty about whether this helped or hurt sales, there's no denying the game was a runaway hit. To the tune of a billion dollars in revenue. In a separate press release, Warner Bros. Games discusses the success of the wizarding game, saying it has now sold over 15 million copies:
Warner Bros. Games today announced Hogwarts Legacy, the critically acclaimed, open-world, action role-playing game (RPG) is now available for PlayStation®4 and Xbox One. The game has sold more than 15 million units and $1 Billion in sales globally since its launch on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S and PC on February 10, 2023.

Hogwarts Legacy invites players to embark on an epic journey as a fifth-year student at Hogwarts, gifted with a rare ability to tap into ancient, powerful magic. Guided by the Wizard's Field Guide and unique instruction from professors and other characters, fans will uncover a compelling storyline filled with thrilling challenges and mysteries. Developed by Avalanche Software and published by Warner Bros. Games under the Portkey Games label, Hogwarts Legacy introduces an original story that puts players at the center of their own wizarding world adventure.
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Pepperbone said:
That's impressive.
I wonder though if that's sell-in or sell-through.
The industry is notorious for making big claims early into a title's release.
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I'm not sure, I'm more of headline reader then pretend like I read the full article...either way they are making some money. It at least proves a few things.

1. Gamers don't care, they want their drug
2. that's it.
 
janglesworthy said:
I'm not sure, I'm more of headline reader then pretend like I read the full article...either way they are making some money. It at least proves a few things.

1. Gamers don't care, they want their drug
2. that's it.
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At least some of the game's sales were from people who had 0 interest or intention of ever playing the game but they bought copies to either show support for the game or as a means of counter protest. Either way, those extra sales were in direct response to the calls for canceling the game and everybody involved as well as the antics and shenanigans by those people.
 
Riceball said:
At least some of the game's sales were from people who had 0 interest or intention of ever playing the game but they bought copies to either show support for the game or as a means of counter protest. Either way, those extra sales were in direct response to the calls for canceling the game and everybody involved as well as the antics and shenanigans by those people.
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I just can't believe a Harry Potter game absolutely smashed Jedi Survivor in day 1 player counts by 800k players on PC alone. Is HP more popular than star wars now?
 
janglesworthy said:
I just can't believe a Harry Potter game absolutely smashed Jedi Survivor in day 1 player counts by 800k players on PC alone. Is HP more popular than star wars now?
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No, I just think that all of the negative publicity really helped push sales. It probably put the game on the radar of people who might have otherwise known about it and there were who knows how many protest buys from people who are maybe casual fans or non-gamers and bought it out of support and another bunch who bought and have no intention of playing just as a way of saying F U to the cancel anything and everything Harry Potter crowd.
 
It will be very interesting to see what her game ends up being. From what I remember she had already put around 4/5 years into the game.
 
janglesworthy said:
So much for cancel culture when it comes to gaming yeah?

Hogwarts Legacy Earns $1B on 15M Sales [11:03 am ET] – Share – 19 Comments​

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2023 Earnings Results, proving a corporation can lose money in a quarter when it generated over $10 billion in income. The report includes sales data on Hogwarts Legacy, the Harry Potter prequel which launched early last year. The game met with controversy due to statements by Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. And while there's no certainty about whether this helped or hurt sales, there's no denying the game was a runaway hit. To the tune of a billion dollars in revenue. In a separate press release, Warner Bros. Games discusses the success of the wizarding game, saying it has now sold over 15 million copies:
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It's the Streisand Effect in action.
 
janglesworthy said:
I just can't believe a Harry Potter game absolutely smashed Jedi Survivor in day 1 player counts by 800k players on PC alone. Is HP more popular than star wars now?
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How many recent Star Wars games there are compared to Harry Potter-verse ones will have an effect.
janglesworthy said:
What's the Streisand effect? I've never heard of that one.
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A situation where trying to hide something or stop it, causes it to be more public. Named after Barbara Streisand and the photo of her house.
 
Pepperbone said:
That's impressive.
I wonder though if that's sell-in or sell-through.
The industry is notorious for making big claims early into a title's release.
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I don't know. This is a crew that had all night events - for book releases. And this was AFTER you could order the book online for day one (or before) delivery. I've never seen 2+ people ever in line for any book, ever, yet these drew SW 1977 level crowds to book stores. You can't reduce this to SW Movie fandom and HP Movie fandom. The books had much larger fanbases. Several years ago, they opened a HP site and it started off huge, too, IIRC.

The numbers seem a bit off, i'll agree. I'll say those numbers are for Steam, there are more services than steam. Mine's through EA, not steam for example. Also, look in this thread alone to see what people say about PC ports - which this is. They're notoriously bad these days and this one is up at the top of the bad stack. I don't know if i'd have gotten counted in the steam numbers if i used steam as i couldn't get the damn thing to play very long at all and I eventually gave up. So, the @$^tty por factor like plays into it as well.
 
Just finished Final Fantasy 6 with the Platinum trophy in the early morning hours, then went to sleep.
Still such a great game 29 years later.
My first time playing was in 96, after playing through Chrono Trigger a ton.
That makes 31 Platinums.
Was looking at the others, back on May 5th 2016, got the Platinum to Dragon's Crown. Seven years sure went by fast.
 
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