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Gelf

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Question for the day; Which intellectual properties or licenses can you think of that belong a company that should not own them? And you wish another, better steward company had them instead?
Sony owns Psygnosis a company that before they were acquired and eventually shut down had a big computer gaming heritage. Anything from back then will probably never see the light again unless Sony can find a way to make a 3rd person over the shoulder adventure/RPG lite(or perhaps a terrible live service) game out of them. The catalogue is one of the big holes of classic PC games still not available on GOG at this point.

Lemmings for example should be owned by someone like Team 17 so we could at least have had re-releases, dozen and dozens of so-so spinoffs and the occasional good ones just like Worms.
 

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This is probably bullshit, but man this would be the hypest shit ever. Just the imagine the "abandon your daughter" quick time event with full-on raytracing and DLSS lmao.
After playing Ragnarok and finishing the Valhalla DLC today, I want this so bad lol. I'd love to replay the trilogy and I never got around to playing Ascension (and the second PSP game, I think). I would love to have the entire series on PC.
 
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Assassin's Creed games are on sale and since Ubi finally decided to get their head out of their ass and add achievements to Valhalla, I bought it along with Odyssey. Funny how that works. :upside-down-face:

I don't expect them to go back and add them for every game but I really hope the days of having to wonder for every single release are over. It's not that
complicated: if you release a game on Steam, then support basic Steam features.

I'm tempted to replay Origins before getting into them but these games are so fucking long now. Maybe I'll just watch a story recap on youtube or something.
 

Kyougar

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$62.40B Nintendo
$38.85B Electronic Arts
$27.99B Roblox
$27.70B Take-Two
$14.57B Bandai Namco
$12.54B Konami
$9.50B Capcom
$4.58B CD Projekt
$4.55B Square Enix
$3.88B Sega Sammy
$3.51B Koei Tecmo
$3.17B Embracer
$2.20B Ubisoft
$1.51B Paradox

Ubisoft nearly overtaken by the struggling Paradox.
 

Mivey

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Metaphor passed Final Fantasy XVI's peak concurrent in 45 minutes. Who knew day 1 PC releases were a good thing?
Weren't you saying that at best i'd do like SMTVV ?;)
Yep.

But I also had my doubts it would be a big hit, comparing it with Soul Hackers 2. I am happy I was off the mark. Nice to see Atlus getting in another big hit after Persona 5, though.
 

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But I also had my doubts it would be a big hit, comparing it with Soul Hackers 2.
I was extremely surprised by that. It's not mainstream obviously, but the overall "vibe" in the gaming sphere from my perspective was that it's an event on an entirely different scale of hype compared to Soul Hackers 2. In general (and to my continued surprise, since I just don't think the fundamentals of their games are that good compared to other JRPGs), the Persona team at Atlus seems to have more of a grasp on how to make JRPGs that people want to buy -- especially on Steam -- than anyone else. And while it's not Persona, for me Metaphor is to that a bit like e.g. a Sekiro or a Bloodborne is to Dark Souls.

Of course it's too early for me to go all "I told you so", since I expected at least 50k CCU peak. If they don't reach it I'll just blame the technical quality putting a damper on the reception of the game :p
 

Durante

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I just did a bit of SteamDB browsing -- is Persona 3 Reload really the second highest peak CCU JRPG on Steam (at 45k, behind Arise at 60k)?

When I made my 50k prediction I didn't realize that I was predicting the second most successful JRPG launch ever on Steam.
 
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I just did a bit of SteamDB browsing -- is Persona 3 Reload really the second highest peak CCU JRPG on Steam (at 45k, behind Arise at 60k)?

When I made my 50k prediction I didn't realize that I was predicting the second most successful JRPG launch ever on Steam.
Yessir, right now podium is Arise > P3P > Metaphor
 

Arc

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Weren't you saying that at best i'd do like SMTVV ?;)
Yep.

But I also had my doubts it would be a big hit, comparing it with Soul Hackers 2. I am happy I was off the mark. Nice to see Atlus getting in another big hit after Persona 5, though.
Happy to be wrong. I need to finish my work for the week then I can spend all weekend playing.
 

Ascheroth

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I just did a bit of SteamDB browsing -- is Persona 3 Reload really the second highest peak CCU JRPG on Steam (at 45k, behind Arise at 60k)?

When I made my 50k prediction I didn't realize that I was predicting the second most successful JRPG launch ever on Steam.
Yessir, right now podium is Arise > P3P > Metaphor
Granblue Fantasy: Relink is #1 with 114k right now, unless that doesn't count (haven't played it).
 

Durante

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Granblue Fantasy: Relink is #1 with 114k right now, unless that doesn't count (haven't played it).
I completely forgot about that (I also haven't played it). I guess the original ranking could still be valid if it's limited to games without online multiplayer.
 
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Granblue Fantasy: Relink is #1 with 114k right now, unless that doesn't count (haven't played it).
As someone who has played GBF: Relink it's more monhun-like than JRPG so I wouldn't count it.

I completely forgot about Relink lol
You forgot about Infinite Wealth that slightly beat P3R by like 1k.

I believe the order is Arise > IW > P3R.

I found that I underestimated a lot of things this year (Palworld, Helldivers, Wukong, Space Marines) and since Steam is growing. I ended up predicting Metaphor and Sparking Zero to take the top spots for JRPGs and the DB Franchise.

Happy that Sparking Zero is doing big numbers and broke the 100k mark, it's Dragon Ball Z fanservice to the max. It looks like Metaphor might overtake P3R and IW soon. Lets see how the weekend goes.
 
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