Yeah, if you missed the point: the recent "COD lost $300m because of GamePass" isn't true in my opinion.

They lost it because the series is getting worse for what was supposed to be their target audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D7M4_KZL2U
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Firebreak? More like fired and broke: the new multiplayer game from Remedy struggles to find the audience.

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How to show everyone that you've never played Battlefield before...

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Meanwhile, Arc Raiders, a paid extraction shooter by Embark Studio (ex-Dice team, created The Finals), is getting over 300K CCU on Steam!

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Both gamers and critics are disappointed in Black Ops 7.

The campaign is messy surreal and pointless. It may find the audience later, same as it happened with Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare.

But the story is online only, which means, the campaign will only live while servers are up. The campaign doesn't even allow you to pause it, since it's technically a Warzone-like instance running, so escape just shows the menu, while the bots are still fighting.

And the multiplayer is just a digested mix of all previous games and has no personality. They are making it all look and feel like a reference to the series and not the new game in the series.

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Tarkov is also not doing great on Steam... thanks to their launcher that simply doesn't work for like half of the people.

Even so, 20K CCU for a relatively niche game is OK. But not absolutely fine, since Duckov (a parody, dammit) has six times more.

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Oh, wait, this game IS ON PS4 and Xbox One?! The input delay and frame drops are nuts...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GND2CNOun0I
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Bullets in Battlefield can hit each other mid-flight, and you can counter a sniper shot that way.

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Can we talk for a sec: fans were able to make it multiplayer? But CDPR considered it nearly impossible?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdV8cH4ndGQ
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Here's what happens if someone kills you in PvE lobby in Arc Raiders

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My teammates!

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Folks, Overwatch just doubled its previous CCU record by simply removing 2 from the title! It's amazing!

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Battlefield is facing criticism over their long-delayed and low-effort Season 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=766TFeVD-iw
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Just tried Highguard as it could be the last few days to try it out. The biggest issue (outside of being bland) is melee combat.

You have to press twice to break walls and mine minerals. Hit + precise second click for it to work. In a fast-paced FPS with horses. Absolutely breaking the immersion and flow.

And on my 5070 and Ryzen 5600x I can barely play it in native QHD resolution (unless I want 40-60 FPS). With blurry DLSS setup it is floating at about 90.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3673200346
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Marathon free Beta gained over 140K CCU on Steam and quickly lowered to around 50K. The players are generally impressed with the polished shooting mechanics. So, a good game, right? Not quite!

The art direction is questionable and hard to use — the navigation patterns in the environment, the characters, etc. It's all over the place.

The overall gameplay loop is considered to be bland in contrast to the art direction.

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And after 12+ hours I changed the review to be positive, so Steam removed all the likes. You can drop yours ❤️

https://steamcommunity.com/id/rinocrosser/recommended/4128260

A bit of context: it's a very odd beast but it don't deserve the hate. A lot of things are done wrong or better be excluded. It seemed that they missed the feedback loop from the outside.

But when you get into the flow, you're gone. Despite a very limited set of features so far, it isn't getting boring the way The Finals did to me.

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The demo of Marathon is failing to retain players. And it's a free run of a generally paid game. As of now, nothing indicates that sales will be good. People have tried it — PlayStation fans, Bungie fans, but they didn't get the point.

My bet: 5-10K online upon paid release. What do you think?

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