Vidya Games Thread

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

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"My Dad was waiting for this [Half-Life 3] for so long. Miss ya Dad! I'll have a great time playing it and remembering him"

You reading your kids' comments, gramps?

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

Warframe launched the Xaku Prime update the other day, Baruuk Prime and weapons have been sent back to the vault, and a week later both Oberon Prime and Ivara Prime will re-emerge from the vault. Personally, I was betting on Nidus Prime being brought back in time for 1999, because this is the infested expansion. Maybe after New Year's?



They're also getting ready for the influx of new and returning players coming in for the 1999 hype, including writing guides on...how to get the Excalibur frame? (For the unaware, you can choose it as your 'starter' Warframe at the beginning of the game, and can farm it in less than half a day otherwise, or obtain Excalibur Umbra by playing the story)





First thing that comes to my mind is that they may want Warframe: 1999 to be its own multi-media franchise, they already have the comic and anime in production, and all signs point to future story with this cast of characters + additional Protoframes afterward.

I'm surprised more chuubas aren't streaming Warframe leading up to 1999 next month, because once the hype goes into full-swing near release, it's going to be more and more difficult to make the several hundred hours of progress needed to catch up without burning out. I'll have to keep doing my part in spreading the word, and advertising the 2-views I'm watching while playing the game myself.

For example, a new Warframe: 1999 track dropped last month, the full version from the TennoCon 2024 demo, and it's ripe for covers, if not at the very least interest by more anime women! The Devil May Cry-ification of Warframe will continue until morale improves.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

Warframe launched the Xaku Prime update the other day, Baruuk Prime and weapons have been sent back to the vault, and a week later both Oberon Prime and Ivara Prime will re-emerge from the vault. Personally, I was betting on Nidus Prime being brought back in time for 1999, because this is the infested expansion. Maybe after New Year's?



They're also getting ready for the influx of new and returning players coming in for the 1999 hype, including writing guides on...how to get the Excalibur frame? (For the unaware, you can choose it as your 'starter' Warframe at the beginning of the game, and can farm it in less than half a day otherwise, or obtain Excalibur Umbra by playing the story)





First thing that comes to my mind is that they may want Warframe: 1999 to be its own multi-media franchise, they already have the comic and anime in production, and all signs point to future story with this cast of characters + additional Protoframes afterward.

I'm surprised more chuubas aren't streaming Warframe leading up to 1999 next month, because once the hype goes into full-swing near release, it's going to be more and more difficult to make the several hundred hours of progress needed to catch up without burning out. I'll have to keep doing my part in spreading the word, and advertising the 2-views I'm watching while playing the game myself.

For example, a new Warframe: 1999 track dropped last month, the full version from the TennoCon 2024 demo, and it's ripe for covers, if not at the very least interest by more anime women! The Devil May Cry-ification of Warframe will continue until morale improves.

I think Warframe hit after most Vtubers really would have gotten invested, it also doesn't do good numbers on YT or Twitch anymore. It's actually a MASSIVE game by player counters and revenue (as far as I can tell, it makes a lot more money than Destiny does), but it's social media space is pretty limited at this point in time.

 

[Security]

I think Warframe hit after most Vtubers really would have gotten invested, it also doesn't do good numbers on YT or Twitch anymore. It's actually a MASSIVE game by player counters and revenue (as far as I can tell, it makes a lot more money than Destiny does), but it's social media space is pretty limited at this point in time.

Kind surprised they haven't just started throwing money at vtubers in the way of sponsored streams, like gacha game studios do.

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

I think Warframe hit after most Vtubers really would have gotten invested, it also doesn't do good numbers on YT or Twitch anymore. It's actually a MASSIVE game by player counters and revenue (as far as I can tell, it makes a lot more money than Destiny does), but it's social media space is pretty limited at this point in time.

Kind surprised they haven't just started throwing money at vtubers in the way of sponsored streams, like gacha game studios do.

There was Ayame's stream about a month ago with HoloLive, which I thought would have kicked off some of the bigger names to follow suit, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Most chuubas I see streaming the game are 2-3 view, and they get a stable viewership during those streams (in comparison to their size). I found a lot of chuubas that I otherwise normally wouldn't have watched, because they're actually streaming Warframe on a regular basis, and I want to help reward that behavior.

If I want to see more chuubas play and stream Warframe, I'm going to have to eternally fight against the brainworms of "Where Big Number", and the Catch-22 effect of it not being a VTuber meta game, which in turn means less chuubas stream it, so it doesn't become the meta, etc. Convincing thousands of anime people that long-term stability with an established gaming community is a viable method of gradual, steady growth - let alone that both the Warframe community and developers have proven to support their regular streamers - is going to be a Sisyphean task itself.

1999 is the best chance for Warframe to penetrate the VTuber community overall with the sheer amount of hype behind it. If I have to shed the name of John VTuber, start over from zero and become a Warframe creator to show them how it's done out of sheer frustration, then I will practice what I preach, and do it myself.

 

[VSoyBoy]

Get your bets in. Which media darlings will get undeserving courtesy nods?

 

[Security]

Award shows are meaningless at best, and are usually indications of industry collusion and bribery.

How about a nice game of chess?

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Get your bets in. Which media darlings will get undeserving courtesy nods?

DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD SWEEP BBY!!!!!!!

Speaking of Veilguard, apparently it has leaked that the game has just barely sold 500k copies. So yeah, that's a huge loss considering the game's budget and how long it has been out. So yeah, it will sweep the awards like TLOU2 or it will at least get a bunch of awards like Alan Wake 2.

 

[Smelliest007]

DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD SWEEP BBY!!!!!!!

Speaking of Veilguard, apparently it has leaked that the game has just barely sold 500k copies. So yeah, that's a huge loss considering the game's budget and how long it has been out. So yeah, it will sweep the awards like TLOU2 or it will at least get a bunch of awards like Alan Wake 2.

I saw SmashJT's most recent video where he says his insider is claiming Bioware is internally telling devs they just sold 1 million copies. Even if they sold 1 million at this point they would need to sell another 5 million to break even with the lowball estimate of their budget.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

I saw SmashJT's most recent video where he says his insider is claiming Bioware is internally telling devs they just sold 1 million copies. Even if they sold 1 million at this point they would need to sell another 5 million to break even with the lowball estimate of their budget.

Yeah, the development length and the marketing costs put this fucker in a bad spot. This has been the year where DEI shit just flops hard while shit like "Toxic Masculinity The Game" is just printing money.

 

[Security]

Yeah, the development length and the marketing costs put this fucker in a bad spot. This has been the year where DEI shit just flops hard while shit like "Toxic Masculinity The Game" is just printing money.

Gives me some optimism for the future, but also greatly saddens me that you can label a game as "Toxic Masculinity The Game" and have people know what you mean - whereas in the 90s (or, hell, even in the 00s), if you were to say "Masculinity The Game" people wouldn't even ask you to narrow it down, as they would just be caught puzzled why you're basically asking for a game where you press buttons.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

Kind surprised they haven't just started throwing money at vtubers in the way of sponsored streams, like gacha game studios do.

There was Ayame's stream about a month ago with HoloLive, which I thought would have kicked off some of the bigger names to follow suit, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Most chuubas I see streaming the game are 2-3 view, and they get a stable viewership during those streams (in comparison to their size). I found a lot of chuubas that I otherwise normally wouldn't have watched, because they're actually streaming Warframe on a regular basis, and I want to help reward that behavior.

If I want to see more chuubas play and stream Warframe, I'm going to have to eternally fight against the brainworms of "Where Big Number", and the Catch-22 effect of it not being a VTuber meta game, which in turn means less chuubas stream it, so it doesn't become the meta, etc. Convincing thousands of anime people that long-term stability with an established gaming community is a viable method of gradual, steady growth - let alone that both the Warframe community and developers have proven to support their regular streamers - is going to be a Sisyphean task itself.

1999 is the best chance for Warframe to penetrate the VTuber community overall with the sheer amount of hype behind it. If I have to shed the name of John VTuber, start over from zero and become a Warframe creator to show them how it's done out of sheer frustration, then I will practice what I preach, and do it myself.

I shall mention there's some actually dedicated Warframe Vtubers. Low 3 view types, but there's a couple around. The primary issue is that Warframe is LONG game. Even some of the basic story quests you won't get to in the first 50 hours, and then there's another 15 after those. And then there's the deeper, grindy chunks of the game where you won't unlock until 100s of hours in.

Funny bit is the former game director outright mentioned they didn't work a lot of the New Player Experience because their data was really stark. You were either "in" for the game or "out" in the first 30 minutes. It was like incredibly stark, which is probably why they spent so much time reworking tool tip menus and the like. It's still a "wiki" game through & through, if you're interested.

That said, you can get completely into the combat loop in the first 5 minutes. Excalibur hitting things with a bo staff is just enjoyable and never actually gets old.

I saw SmashJT's most recent video where he says his insider is claiming Bioware is internally telling devs they just sold 1 million copies. Even if they sold 1 million at this point they would need to sell another 5 million to break even with the lowball estimate of their budget.

Passing 1 mil sounds about right for the player counts we've seen. It also means the life time sales will leave it as a pretty brutal loss for EA. Which internal EA will then take as a sign they never should have changed it from being a zone-based live service game. (Unironically, I think that probably could have worked better than what they delivered, but neither decision making set was ever correct.)

 

[MrProcessor]

I should really play more Holocure:

Edit: I'll add this too:

 

[Smelliest007]

Passing 1 mil sounds about right for the player counts we've seen. It also means the life time sales will leave it as a pretty brutal loss for EA. Which internal EA will then take as a sign they never should have changed it from being a zone-based live service game. (Unironically, I think that probably could have worked better than what they delivered, but neither decision making set was ever correct.)

Just skimmed a new video by Endymion, he's claiming the 1 million is actually units shipped rather than sold.

 

[Security]

Just skimmed a new video by Endymion, he's claiming the 1 million is actually units shipped rather than sold.

I wonder how much of this is also people who "played" it on stuff like EA Play Pro...

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

I wonder how much of this is also people who "played" it on stuff like EA Play Pro...

This is how they inflated Andromeda's numbers back in the way. It was such a smashing success that they killed the dev near right away

 

[Security]

This is how they inflated Andromeda's numbers back in the way. It was such a smashing success that they killed the dev near right away

If they're including people playing it on a subscription service then it's extra super hysterical that a Dragon Age game is barely cracking 1 million.

 

[thhrang]

TF2bros... it's over...

 

[Topo Chico]

TF2bros... it's over...
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Damn, TF2 never getting out the ghetto

 

[httn]

HL2 20th. If you are the 1% of people that have never played the game it is free on steam for a while.

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