No Man's Sky's concurrent players drop by 89 percent
Remember when rabid fans proclaimed it the last game they'd ever need to buy?
Just over a week ago, over 212,000 concurrent players were exploring No Man's Sky's 18 quintillion planets together (sort of) on Steam. According to new statistics, concurrent players have plummeted by 89 percent, to just shy of 23,000.
Specifically, the count of 22,935 represents peak concurrent players within the last 24 hours.
Why is No Man's Sky shedding players? Take your pick: vague and superlative marketing that raised the bar impossibly high, mixed reviews among both consumers and critics, a plethora of performance issues and other bugs, only some of which have been resolved. And, let's face it: even the hottest game only stays hot for a short time before giving way to the next big thing. It could be a simple matter of No Man's Sky passing its crown to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
One will have to follow statistics month by month to get a more accurate assessment of how No Man's Sky stacks up, of course. Even so, that's a staggering drop-off for the game that many hoped would last them the rest of their lifetime.
Source: Crave Online
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, No Man's Sky's concurrent players drop by 89 percent
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To the same degree or less? I would suspect it is worse with NMS because there's only so much you can do before the game becomes dull. Once you have all the upgrades, there's no point in mining, trading, upgrading inventory space, upgrading your ship, or making money. The center of the universe isn't worth the time jumping towards it, either.
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THIS. So much this. As someone who worked at an MMO Developer/Publisher, this is exceedingly common and even predictable. NMS may not be an MMO, but has plenty of the strappings. The 'looky-loos' bounce after a few weeks until you rest on your true player base.
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Did it happen for ...Der Witcher 3?
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Steam tracks players who have the game launched, irrespective of MP or SP content: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
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Now if only just as many people would stop bitching about NMS...
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we have an app dev at work who brings it up every fucking day, i swear imma strangle him
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I'm so tired of it. I wish more Shackers would just ignore NMS threads, instead of rehashing the same crap.
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You know how when you're paid to do a job, you do the job regardless of your feelings about it? Yeah?
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Thanks! :) Believe me, I'm not even the slightest bit miffed. Just kind of surprised people don't know how this aspect of the business works by now, and that those same people have enough free time to make a "THIS IS NEWS?!?! LOL" post.
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Right now you get a lot of traffic if your article contains the words no man's sky.
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I suppose that's probably it. I'd rather see something more positive though, rather than a headline that basically says "All these people stopped playing the game after two weeks", implying that it must be shit and not worth anyone's time. Nevermind that the same fucking thing happened with nuDoom: https://steamdb.info/app/379720/graphs/
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What do you deem newsworthy?
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I wasn’t readily aware of the concurrent player drop of NMS to have gone down 89%. Apparently I should have auto known this as easily as I should know the sky is blue. Its not really fanning flames in my eyes so much as its showing just how much hate there seems to be fore the game in a quantifiable way, instead of just going off number of replies in a NMS hate post.
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Maybe because the game has been in the news recently?
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if you don't like it move on to the next post, they can't cater to all of us. jesus christ
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nobody gives a fuck what you think is newsworthy.
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That's just Dravenport for you, he's good people. Too bad his taste in comic book women is flawed though.
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This! Why is this newsworthy for No Man's Sky? The same thing happened for Doom and I don't remember seeing any articles about its concurrent player drop-off: https://steamdb.info/app/379720/graphs/
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Well the popular opinion of DooM was basically the opposite of NMS, both before and after their respective releases.
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I would say there's a bit of a difference just between the two games mentioned, NMS had about a 80% drop off in a week, whereas DooM had around a 43% drop off in the same amount of time.
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These figures are pretty interesting. Fallout 4 had about a 38% drop off in a week. Stardew Valley had between a 10-34% drop off depending on if you're looking at a week timeframe or from a the first peak to the first valley, respectively.
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And then Starbound had a 31% drop off a week after the 1.0 release. I havent quite figured out how to see figures on this site more than a year out.
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Witcher 3 had about a 38% drop off from the second peak to the second valley (appears to be the largest drop off within the first few weeks)
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I hesitate to even call it a failure. It has sold almost 800k copies on Steam, which is very not bad for a $60 release from such a small studio. But the media reaction seems to be "shitting on this game gets us clicks" so we get all these articles about how awful it is and how everyone hates it.
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Might want to revise that to be "failing" or you will get piled with those WoW articles about how they shed a couple million users and it is still wildly successful.
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I think your problem is that you said "newsworthy" when your core problem was the context and style with which it was presented. If the context was there you wouldn't have really complained, but as it was placed it was there for the narrative currently riding about the game.
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I'll give you Eurogamer but Polygon? The only thing readable there is the long form and that's at best a once a month interval.
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Yes, Polygon. The quality of their written content is superior, and they exercise better judgment in their editorial decision making. They are of course a larger website with more resources, so they are able to attract better talent to work for them. Shacknews appears to have a high attrition rate among its staff, which can't help the situation. If I had to highlight one failure here, it would be letting RPS scoop up Alice O'Connor. Shacknews can't afford to lose strong voices like hers.
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LOL, sure it is.
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Welcome to No Man's Pokémonews
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Serious question, how does this compare to other recent major releases?
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That would require research.
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I got bored of it after 3 days... on to Deus Ex!
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Is that information available for all games? How far back does it go?
I'm curious to know how that trend fits with other games, maybe give it a 'genre' axis. And also integrate with how long it takes to beat on average, was it single or multi-player game, etc.
Not shitting on the article - I'm just genuinely curious how much of this trend can be attributed to NMS being the kind of game it is, vs the issues it's had since launch. Maybe everyone swapped over to playing Deus Ex or WoW:Legion or something else shiny that came out this week?-
The numbers on something like the new WoW expansion would be pretty interesting, I think. It's too bad that they don’t really report those numbers anymore.
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https://steamdb.info/ is a great resource for this kind of information.
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Might want to have a look at what this site does too.
http://steamcharts.com/
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A bad game is a bad game. If 10 people make a bad game it's a bad game. If a 100 people make a bad game it's a bad game. There is too much "in defence of the small dev" around these parts.
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Considering the hype,this is kind of a big deal for Hello Games more than anyone else.
If they were planning paid DLC,then a drop like that could mean a major loss in revenue.
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I wonder what a typical drop is for a single player game. 89% does seem awfully high for game as apparently limitless as this.
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Just going by steamdb numbers (which seems to be where they got this figure from), it seems on average you see on average between 30-40% drop off a week after release.
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Based on that, this is a very notable drop for a high-profile game like this. That's too bad.
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That's a topic in itself, but VR is a different genre. This is comparing SP games with other SP games.
Accessories and peripherals don't belong in this comparison, especially VR, which is a whole new product.
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But I'd like to know if VR is more of a fad or people are still actively using it.
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Lol+wtf
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I sing that every time I put socks on.
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dude TRUST ME those guys are swimming in hookers and mountains of coke right now $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and Kaz Hirai bought all the YACHTS and the SHOTS and the LIQUOR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY LETS GO MAKE THAT BITCH PUT IT DOWN PUT THE ASS IN THA AIR MAKE IT MUTHAFUCKIN RAIN LIKE YA JUST DONT CARE //MAKE A BAD SPACE SIM FOR SOME MUTHERFUCKIN CUCKS AND MAKE A FACE LIKE YA DO WHEN SHE SUCKIN WHEN YOU NUT$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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pretty much, once the money is gone opinions dont really matter, only voice is the wallet.
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I like you. You're funny.
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I got what I expected out of it. I had fun learning the different languages, and hearing the story of how Korvax were exploring the edges of the galaxy, most of them far from home. The First Spawn figured out the Korvax homeworld was unprotected, and then The First Spawn of the Gek kicked the Korvax ass. And while that was going on how the Vy'keen & Hirk went to war with the Sentinels, and were actually winning. But then the First Spawn betrayed their Peace Treaty with the Vy'Keen and kicked the Vy'Keen ass because they were weakened with the long Sentinel war. And Hirk sacrificed himself rather than go down to the First Spawn. BUT Then how the Sentinels exterminated the First Spawn leadership while they were celebrating being masters of the universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJolYw8tnk and then absorbed what was left of the Gek, making them work for the Sentinels. The what was left of the Korvax got ahold of some Atlas tech, most of them went insane, and they were left helpless,and had to bow down to the Sentinels to be healed. What's left of the Vy'keen are either hunting down Sentinels continuing their old war, or hunting Gek for their betrayal.
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I just fly around and see some space shiiiiiiiit and honestly, I fuckin' love it to this day.
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I'm in this camp. There is a serious lack of space shit to see on the PS4 and I'm grateful for NMS just for that.
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I am having a lot of fun just wandering around. Each planet is its own weird, which is great.
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Yeah, I figure just that alone will last me another couple of weeks.
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That includes ME! I quit it. Feels great. I'm giving Fallout 4 the college try. I'm gunna finish it this time. Thanks No Man's Sky, you're such a boring/broken/unfinished game you make Fallout 4 playable!
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http://www.pcgamer.com/concurrent-players-no-mans-sky/
But compared to other, better-received recent releases, NMS may not be cratering as badly as it appears. Far Cry Primal, for instance, saw its peak player count slide 82 percent over its first month of release; Fallout 4 dropped by 74 percent; Doom fell by 85 percent; Battleborn slid by 82 percent; Stellaris dropped by 82 percent; even The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which we recently placed atop our Top 100 Games list, saw its peak player count slide by 71 percent during its first month of release.-
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It's been a week since release. Big difference.
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Their statement makes no sense. If larger games dropped off that amount in a month, then logically the NMS playerbase will have an even greater dropoff once we reach one month since the release date.
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Context.
*unzips*
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Told you guys the game will die in 2 weeks. http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=35292827#item_35292827
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Not quite dead just yet,but it's getting there. You actually responded to my post,and I'll revise what I said before. I figured that this game would be where it's at now by year's end. Now I don't see it even making it through the year. Dec. 31,this game will more than likely be all but completely dead.
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So this is a 90% drop of steam users, which is what, 1/5th of the entire NMS population?
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I stopped playing the game because my house flooded.
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