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How is ESO doing in Popularity?
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liquid_wolf✭✭✭✭Earth is pretty popular. Lots of activity there. But beyond that?
Not seeing much on Mars or Jupiter's Moons, though. Overall it seems like the universe is pretty empty.
Must not be very enjoyable if we can't see anyone else. Except for those die-hard fanboys on Earth, overall it seems the universe is failing hard.
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✭✭GossiTheDog wrote: »Skyrim shipped 20m units on consoles - that by far dwarves the PC audience.
An announcement was made in January that they sold over 20m copies of the game in total at that point, not just on consoles.
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Fuzzylumpkins✭✭✭✭liquid_wolf wrote: »Earth is pretty popular. Lots of activity there. But beyond that?
Not seeing much on Mars or Jupiter's Moons, though. Overall it seems like the universe is pretty empty.
Must not be very enjoyable if we can't see anyone else. Except for those die-hard fanboys on Earth, overall it seems the universe is failing hard.
Can't wait for it to go Free to Play.
This seems like one of the post where a poster types to hear themselves peck at the keys and reads nothing else. It will not go free to play- stated hands down by ZoS. Privately funded game means if they do not see a profitable future for keeping the game up, servers come down. End of.
Now stating you cant wait for it to fail, is an emotion you can express that wouldn't have an impossible outcome tied to it. However while the game is doing poorly in many ways, if you are unhappy with it, why not move on?
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GossiTheDog✭✭✭✭✭IcyDeadPeople wrote: »GossiTheDog wrote: »Skyrim shipped 20m units on consoles - that by far dwarves the PC audience.
An announcement was made in January that they sold over 20m copies of the game in total at that point, not just on consoles. If I understand correctly, this corresponds to 8m units on Xbox360, 5m units on PS3, 4m packaged retail copies on PC and somewhere in the range of another 2-3m PC digital downloads.
Ah, I stand corrected - 20m included PC, you're right. The XB360 and PS3 units are speculation, I believe, as they weren't included in the release.
Still, though, to put this into perspective even if it sold 'just' 8m on Xbox, that's more than Grand Theft Auto 5 at release on both platforms. Skyrim was huge. To put it into perspective, it's on Amazon UK's highest selling games of all time list, behind just Call of Duty and FIFA.
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Brizz✭✭✭✭GossiTheDog wrote: »IcyDeadPeople wrote: »GossiTheDog wrote: »Skyrim shipped 20m units on consoles - that by far dwarves the PC audience.
An announcement was made in January that they sold over 20m copies of the game in total at that point, not just on consoles. If I understand correctly, this corresponds to 8m units on Xbox360, 5m units on PS3, 4m packaged retail copies on PC and somewhere in the range of another 2-3m PC digital downloads.
Ah, I stand corrected - 20m included PC, you're right. The XB360 and PS3 units are speculation, I believe, as they weren't included in the release.
Still, though, to put this into perspective even if it sold 'just' 8m on Xbox, that's more than Grand Theft Auto 5 at release on both platforms. Skyrim was huge. To put it into perspective, it's on Amazon UK's highest selling games of all time list, behind just Call of Duty and FIFA.
But alas, this is FAR from Skyrim, sadly. I bought and tried Skyrim because, you guessed it, word of mouth. The "Popularity" of this game and it's known issues will result in the console version being one of the worst releases in Bethesda/ZoS history - I'm calling it!
They seem to not care what the PC gamers think of the current upkeep/changes/broken mechanics/bugs, and it really puts me off - and it WILL effect their console version.
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I agree with the notion that there has been an exodus of players. And i find it disappointing - I feel that this is a game with a lot of launch content that has a solid plan for the future. Yes, the vet levels are interminable - but I treat them as a side distraction. I am doing the alternate quest lines interspersed with Craglorn and dungeons. I feel the gaming press unreasonably demonized this game with a huge amount of effort while simultaneously praising weaker efforts like Wildstar. My opinion - but I think the combat is lively enough but still manageable - and this game is more a victim of liberal gaming bias than actual quality.1
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And I am the first to agree that it lacks the vertical depth of Skyrim - and with an I7 3770k I still have cpu bottleneck. There are problems - but I have never found an mmorpg this engaging for such a time.2
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Fuzzylumpkins✭✭✭✭dcyoumans9257 wrote: »I agree with the notion that there has been an exodus of players. And i find it disappointing - I feel that this is a game with a lot of launch content that has a solid plan for the future. Yes, the vet levels are interminable - but I treat them as a side distraction. I am doing the alternate quest lines interspersed with Craglorn and dungeons. I feel the gaming press unreasonably demonized this game with a huge amount of effort while simultaneously praising weaker efforts like Wildstar. My opinion - but I think the combat is lively enough but still manageable - and this game is more a victim of liberal gaming bias than actual quality.
Liberal gaming bias, victim, demonised? That is your opinions for sure and mine is your's are seriously diluted. The game released with progression breaking bugs that had been reported for months during beta- After 30 hours of questing in your alliance zones you are then sent on a journey to repeat the exact same quests for other factions... Okay before I get on a soapbox recanting all that is wrong with the game and horrible glitches/ breaks/ leaks and bad execution of mechanics, I will ask you to cover your eyes next time you look at the sun too long. It is dangerous. And can have negative effects on perception of reality.
Wildstar has nothing to do with this topic and it's praise was for releasing with a working model that delivered what it said it would plus player housing. Does that make it a better game? Heck no (imo horrible game) BUT it makes it a player/ consumer friendly game and ESO has been neither. The game has been an uphill and losing struggle since mid beta.
TL;DR The topic is questioning player interest in the game not what your opinion is of other games of why this one was so poorly received.
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wllstrt75b14_ESO✭✭✭dcyoumans9257 wrote: »I agree with the notion that there has been an exodus of players. And i find it disappointing - I feel that this is a game with a lot of launch content that has a solid plan for the future. Yes, the vet levels are interminable - but I treat them as a side distraction. I am doing the alternate quest lines interspersed with Craglorn and dungeons. I feel the gaming press unreasonably demonized this game with a huge amount of effort while simultaneously praising weaker efforts like Wildstar. My opinion - but I think the combat is lively enough but still manageable - and this game is more a victim of liberal gaming bias than actual quality.
what is this quality you speak of?
The awesome 3 FPS you get in cryodil? the seemingly never ending grind of boredom via vet quests? the number of quests that break with every new patch?
it seems all you care about are the ideas that zenimax is willing to dump more content on a server that has obvious coding issues making the situation more complex and deteriorating performance even more.
That is not quality that is *** poor management and completely ignoring the issues that plague the game.
how about continuing to nerf a class thats the weakest in the game(NB) while boosting all other classes? Again *** poor management.
I have seen Indy development teams do much better jobs with 1 millionth the budget...
It is simply pathetic tbh.
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Moomins✭✭✭There are currently over 770,000 active subscribers according to: http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-digital-games-market/
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If it isn't from ZoS's mouth then it's not likely to be accurate, only a general guesstimate based on market sales data.tishromanoveb17_ESO wrote: »There are currently over 770,000 active subscribers according to: http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-digital-games-market/0 -
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2018 and I still see players everyplace I go, a lot different than many 4 year old MMOs!
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