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In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. (steamdb.info)
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After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't know anything about the game, maybe there was some big outrage I don't know. Everyone always mad about games these days.

But that's kind of sad. Doesn't make me happy to see success siloed so much these days. In this industry it feels like there's no space for anyone but the giant success stories, or the bedroom developer that can live on tiny indie sales

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 2 years ago

    There isn't any outrage or anything, I wouldn't feel too bad about it because it seems like an extremely generic shooter with mictrotransactions and menus that look exactly like Destiny. It just had terrible marketing and was very uninspired.

    Also the minimum specs are so high that most people can't play it, and it runs very poorly.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It was put out by EA, and this flop very likely solidifies their logic that "Singleplayer games don't sell" - although I'm sure most people around here would confidently say it failed for other reasons.

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