one-armed dwarf Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 It's a bit late for this though I think, Street Fighter will be out by then probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 Even if it is this will bring in so many new players. When DBFZ hit Gamepass that game was so popular I had a 83% win ratio because of how many new people there were. Slice off some players because it isn’t as recognisable as DBFZ, slice off some players because new fighting games might be out. But this will still bring in so many new players it’s going to be awesome. Trying out my Xbox on my new TV the other day I played some quick DBFZ and even then the servers were packed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Still not played that, think Strive is going to be a bit more of a niche release for Xbox players but we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Honestly I'm not sure it has great longevity, it's meta has gotten very stale despite all the updates cause of all the power creep and repetitive interactions of some matchups (which you can even see at tournament level, always the same characters represented). I think it'll be very behind SF and Tekken until it gets its version of 'Rev. 2' which they have to be working on in some capacity I pick it up now and then but drop it more and more quickly each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Strive just had more entrants at Evo than any other game. That’s why it’s grand finals was last (I think). The game sold over a 1,000,000 copies. They’re going out of their way to make an Xbox version. The PC version is really popping. Crossplay coming soon. 🤷♂️ Yeah this game looking terminal, pull the plug The problem I think will be for new players jumping in now. It’s a rough game at this point. But it worked for DBFZ and as long as a lot of new players all join at the same time it should be smooth enough onboarding for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Had more entrants than games which are over half a decade old? wow A lot of its current longevity lies in it having really fucking good netcode, I think, especially during a time when in-person meetups were basically dead for 2 years. But when every tournament is the ramlethal, nago and leo show it gets boring to watch. The game is awesome at the mid and lower tiers to the point that instead of watching tournaments I end up downloading replays of said characters with the in game tools. But the way they have handled adjustments in this game is to make everything more powerful until defensive options feel more hopeless against the straightforwardness of some of the more powerful characters' gameplans. If that aspect of the game doesn't shift at least a little bit then I think yes SF and Tekken will dwarf it. They'll time a revision for the game sometime in the next year I'd bet, with a new boxed release. They have put out surveys to people specifically asking about the things that people have complained about the most so they are listening, they just need to deliver next 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 SF and Tekken will smash Strive regardless and shrink it’s player base. They’re the biggest names in the FGC. Which sort of makes a Gamepass version (both on Xbox and PC) a really good opportunity for the game to keep going by lowering the barrier to entry. Of course even they those new players will play it for a month and then bounce but some will stay. Strive is going to get smaller but it isn’t going anywhere. If they make a new version then that will just keep it going even more I love this game (when it doesn’t make me want to die) so I be getting a bit defensive about it, but this game is here for a while and even if the player base shrinks I don’t think longevity is an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Just resubbed to GP, 25 months for £86 in total, lovely jubly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellow Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 On 21/09/2022 at 16:56, DisturbedSwan said: Just resubbed to GP, 25 months for £86 in total, lovely jubly. Just had a scan thru what's currently available. It's still a bit of an exhausted resource for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 There's a couple of new releases I missed out on trying between July when I cancelled my sub and now that I want to give a spin. I mainly got it for future releases really, there's one this year I want to play Day 1 (Plague Tale 2) maybe a couple others like Pentiment and Scorn I might give a go, but it's really the 2023 releases I've got this for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Thought they may try for some slightly higher profile games for the first month without 360 games... Well you know what thought did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Here we go, October heralds the start of silly season... Quote Leaving October 15 Bloodroots (Cloud, Console, and PC) Echo Generation (Cloud, Console, and PC) Into The Pit (Cloud, Console, and PC) Ring of Pain (Cloud, Console, and PC) Sable (Cloud, Console, and PC) The Good Life (Cloud, Console, and PC) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Will play Scorn and Plague Tale for sure, the rest I won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 As far as I know this is the first time any hard figures have been issued in regards to how much money Game Pass generates... $2.9 billion in 2021 That's not including PC figures... figure came from Brazil's CADE investigation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 A cool stat, it is just revenue though, not income or profit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 I just think it's fairly interesting, it's safe to assume they aren't spending 3 billion a year on getting games in the service and what not so it kind've shows the whole not sustainable argument up.... maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Depends on how you look at it, they're buying up of studios is definitely partly motivated by making GP a more attractive option Feels like subscription models will become the mainstream way people play games after a while 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nag Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 10 minutes ago, one-armed dwarf said: Depends on how you look at it, they're buying up of studios is definitely partly motivated by making GP a more attractive option Yeah that's fair enough, I was thinking more 3rd party timed deals though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Cool, only another 23 years to pay off the Acti-Blizz deal. & that’s just that 1. Great use of money… Obviously there’s hundreds of details and variables I’m missing out of that to be a twat. But still. It’s a properly shit deal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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