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Black myth: Wukong has broken all time concurrent player number record for a single-player game on Steam

yazenov

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ArtHands said:
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Square Enix right now with FF16 and FF7 Rebirth, watching yet another PC game achieving success
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So is MS right now with the release of Hell blade 2. Oh wait, they did release it on PC day one and it didn't do anything. Carry on...
 
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Boss Mog

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This is great news. To think that DEI scammers wanted to put "diversity" in a Chinese game about Journey to the West, one of the most popular Chinese folk stories. Good on Game Science for refusing but also for publicly exposing these DEI scammers.

Publicly Rejecting DEI is probably the best publicity a game can get these days. Most gamers of all backgrounds don't want woke ideology pushed on them through videogames.
 
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Hopefully this makes consoles and egs buying fucking exclusivity deals much fucking harder, or at the very least they keep that shit confined to the their own playgrounds like helldivers and palworld. Fuck each other around as much as you want just leave the rest of us out of it and epic can eat hard meat for doing this and probably making Alan Wake a dead IP.
 
yet_another_alt

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Fbh said:
Damn I remember seeing a trailer for this a long time ago and never looking it up.

So are Jackie and Arnie actually a big part of it? Or is it one of those bait and switch movies where they only show up for 10 minutes but then get plastered all over the posters and trailers ?
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It's kind of the latter but the highlight of the film is arguably the Arnie vs Jackie fight.
 
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yurinka said:
These percentages are weird, the total of adding the percentages isn't 100%.
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jshackles said:
I agree with you, but I also thought it was funny that the "Simplified Chinese" language make up 103.03% of reviews.
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I think that's just Steam updating both counts at different times. I checked up on those numbers several times within Steam itself yesterday, and there were several instances where that happened, and I've seen it happen on other games as well.

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In addition to this, we have to consider that there are a ton of Chinese speakers who live in other countries, mostly Chinese who migrated to other countries.

In the same way that there are a ton of people who play their games in Spanish but aren't from Spain, or that play it in English and aren't from England.

To know the real amount of reviews of a game in each language you can go to the reviews page of the game in Steam and see the total amount and the amount only for your language. There's this customize button to change the language.
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Yeah, I know how that works. Like I said, I checked out those numbers myself long before I ever saw that Tweet, or those SteamDB stats.

The thing is, even if you include every single Chinese national living outside China, that's still only ~10 million people. If you go a step further and include all people with Chinese ancestry, you'll still end up with only ~60 million people. Those look like big numbers, but the population of China is 1.4 billion. 60 million is only about 1/23 of that, so it's still extremely unlikely that a significant portion of those reviews were written by people living outside China.
 
DavidGzz

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Infested Goblin said:
This is witcher 1 moment that pushed Poland's game dev into a new, high budget single player games era, so we can expect the same for China now
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Wukong 2 will be $70 and have 3 days early access with the $90-$130 version. I was pleasantly surprised they didn't do that with the first game.
 
PeteBull

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kurisu_1974 said:
Oh shit I remember that guy. He was the fucking WORST. Always with the hot takes and virtue signalling. So happy he and his gang of simpletons are gone.
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U never know, bro, we got few sus GAF accounts who keep showing up in threads and white knighting hard, one of them might be that guy, or just maybe dev/family of the dev of particular game, coz they defend those poor choices like their lifehood depends on it :D
 
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PeteBull

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Guilty_AI said:
About anything is a smarter strategy than hiring sweet baby. And like i said, the only reason this game is that big to begin with is that its: A) A chinese product, B) Tame enough that it can get the chinese government support. It's not a viable strategy for any dev outside China.
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Orly?
www.statista.com

Global player spending share on PUBG mobile 2024 | Statista

As of November 2024, China accounted for 66 percent of global player spending on PUBG: Mobile.
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This chart must be totally wrong then :D
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here for normal non mobile pubg version
playercounter.com

PUBG Live Player Count & Statistics 2024

View the PUBG Player Count on PlayerCounter and see how many people are playing PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS all over the world in real-time.
playercounter.com playercounter.com
 
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The_Observer

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Could someone highlight me what problems do the braindead crowd have with this game/developers? I saw that some of you wrote that the journalists and the purple asylum is having problems but it’s not clear what is their issue this time
 
GnomeChimpsky

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makaveli60 said:
Could someone highlight me what problems do the braindead crowd have with this game/developers? I saw that some of you wrote that the journalists and the purple asylum is having problems but it’s not clear what is their issue this time
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Developers wrote some things they didn't like in a chat or something, plus they told their employees not to inject feminist and other woke propaganda into the game.
 
Felessan

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I really don't understand what people talking about there about "politics" in Wukong and Chinese media in general
Wukong literally starts with "corrupt government" (and it's actually contrary to original story where Jade Emperor is righteous and his court is proper)
Their general guidelines is the same as I would like to see in any product - be honest, be humble, be polite (like 7 virtues from bible) and anything that considered harmful (excessive sex or wealth, abuse of power etc) should be portrayed negative.
China has Donghuas which have 10s or even 100s millions views per week that portray evil and corrupt governments as antagonist, so they for certain not so insistent on censure, just made a proper focus what is good and what is bad
 
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Felessan said:
I really don't understand what people talking about there about "politics" in Wukong and Chinese media in general
Wukong literally starts with "corrupt government" (and it's actually contrary to original story where Jade Emperor is righteous and his court is proper)
Their general guidelines is the same as I would like to see in any product - be honest, be humble, be polite (like 7 virtues from bible) and anything that considered harmful (excessive sex or wealth, abuse of power etc) should be portrayed negative.
China has Donghuas which have 10s or even 100s millions views per week that portray evil and corrupt governments as antagonist, so they for certain not so insistent on censure, just made a proper focus what is good and what is bad
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Madflavor

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"I was completely devastated that all my investigative work on Black Myth: Wukong was for nothing"

When are they ever going to learn how little their opinion matters? 99% of gamers don't care, aren't aware, or actively want to do the opposite of what these journalists tell them.

Also fucking lol.
 
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Fake

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Madflavor said:


"I was completely devastated that all my investigative work on Black Myth: Wukong was for nothing"
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WTF is she really think she is some sort of Vice or investigative police/detective?

Go touch the grass.

"Gamers are horrible”
"I'm devastated that my hard work was for nothing and the game had so many players."

Why even cover or work in video game carer at this point?

Go fuck yourself.
 
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jshackles

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Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I mentioned to my wife that Resetera wasn't happy about a new game called Black Myth Wukong (she knows nothing about this game)

With a straight face she asked "Is it because they didn't name the game African American Myth Wukong?"
 
LQX

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China would be proud with the propaganda some are pushing for this game, and the irony it is mostly the folks that would normally call out CHIIINA. I'm still interested, but I'm still recovering from the Elden Ring DLC so I will likely catch it on sale.
 
Guilty_AI

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PeteBull said:
Orly?
www.statista.com

Global player spending share on PUBG mobile 2024 | Statista

As of November 2024, China accounted for 66 percent of global player spending on PUBG: Mobile.
www.statista.com www.statista.com
This chart must be totally wrong then :D
edit:
here for normal non mobile pubg version
playercounter.com

PUBG Live Player Count & Statistics 2024

View the PUBG Player Count on PlayerCounter and see how many people are playing PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS all over the world in real-time.
playercounter.com playercounter.com
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Are you telling me PUBG utilized the same business models and strategies as Black Myth? Gachas and f2p are very popular in China and, guess what, everyone has been trying that exact strategy for years and failing most of the time since GAAS are hard markets to breakthrough to begin with.
 
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Fbh

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makaveli60 said:
Could someone highlight me what problems do the braindead crowd have with this game/developers? I saw that some of you wrote that the journalists and the purple asylum is having problems but it’s not clear what is their issue this time
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As far as I know it all boils down to the dev studio still having the dreaded "boys club mentality".
The head of the studio made some posts on social media with sexual innuendos, they've made jokes about jerking off to sexy female characters, they had some recruitment posters (like 9 years ago) with sexually suggestive imagery, etc

It's basically a lot of the stuff that used to be normal in game development almost everywhere back in the 90's and early 00's but has since gone away for amore sterile corporate approach.
 
Aenima

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Madflavor said:


"I was completely devastated that all my investigative work on Black Myth: Wukong was for nothing"

When are they ever going to learn how little their opinion matters? 99% of gamers don't care, aren't aware, or actively want to do the opposite of what these journalists tell them.

Also fucking lol.
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What a fucking roach. She tried to cancel Black Myth with mistranslation quotes from the devs, then blame it on the gamers cuz the game is a success and no one cared about her story where the only intention was to hurt the studio and the game.

This chinese female youtuber explain where IGN just got stuff out of context cuz language barrier and just got things wrong.

 
CherryFalls

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So when she says her work was ''for nothing'' because the game has ''so many players'' shes admitting her intentions where to financially hurt the studio and the people, and this was apparently acceptable to ign.

So basically we have institutions that have professional 'witch hunters' that will try and make people destitute if they have the wrong political take.
 
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laynelane

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Madflavor said:


"I was completely devastated that all my investigative work on Black Myth: Wukong was for nothing"

When are they ever going to learn how little their opinion matters? 99% of gamers don't care, aren't aware, or actively want to do the opposite of what these journalists tell them.

Also fucking lol.
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It's become so acceptable for people like this to say they hate "gamers" - to generalize and insult a huge group of people they know nothing about. I like to substitute the actual words for who they mean - in this case, 'audience' would fit. 'Customer' also fits in many situations where activist types talk about hating gamers. And given that, I have no sympathy for when their opinions are ill-received or they're publicly mocked. Seeing someone like this get so frustrated because the audience wasn't interested in her bullshit is something I cannot commiserate with. It would have been better if she just left, but it was probably too tempting to blame everyone else for her errors in judgement.
 
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yazenov

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Madflavor said:


"I was completely devastated that all my investigative work on Black Myth: Wukong was for nothing"

When are they ever going to learn how little their opinion matters? 99% of gamers don't care, aren't aware, or actively want to do the opposite of what these journalists tell them.

Also fucking lol.
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I'm genuinely happy that she is "completely devastated" for her failed attempt to sabotage the innocent devs and their game . I'm I an A hole? :p

If she is devastated now, wait till the game top the year to date charts in the Npd/Circana reports and the European charts. I can't fucking wait.
 
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//DEVIL// said:
I guess you missed the sweet baby inc drama .. where they requested to get paid to consult on wukong otherwise they would trash it ...
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You're right I did miss it, but not sure how some random no name company constitute as "international" granted I am not so wired in the online nonsense these days so maybe they have more power than I think
 
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Unknown Soldier

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Madflavor said:


"I was completely devastated that all my investigative work on Black Myth: Wukong was for nothing"

When are they ever going to learn how little their opinion matters? 99% of gamers don't care, aren't aware, or actively want to do the opposite of what these journalists tell them.

Also fucking lol.
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Using Google Translate and then purposely writing fake news based on a machine translation which was refuted by actual native Chinese speakers is "investigative work" now?

No wonder everyone hates "journalists" these days
 
Alebrije

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protonion said:
7 million for Sweet Baby!!!!

Western studios are filled with max level cretins.
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Wow honestly tought the cost of thier services would be around $50,000.00 U.S. 7 md is insane and why they protect so much their business. It's a golden mine and Bet they just do the same with every developer not specialiced work/research for every Game just the same Power point with a list of names, shapes, colors, etc..
 
Freeman76

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yazenov said:
I'm genuinely happy that she is "completely devastated" for her failed attempt to sabotage the innocent devs and their game . I'm I an A hole? :p

If she is devastated now, wait till the game top the year to date charts in the Npd/Circana reports and the European charts. I can't fucking wait.
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yep one less cunt moaning about shit no sane person cares about, good riddance to her
 
Kings Field

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Good for them. Gonna play this weekend.

When are these devs going to wake up and realize that no one wants to play their toxic garbage and that making a good/fun game is what sells?
 
Mithos

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spons said:
Well that's your average consulting firm. They ask $$$ for their services. This is absolutely not limited to Sweet Baby.
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Do these average consulting firms try to force themself into someones company/projects without being invited first, and then if turned down try to "threaten" and try to ruin your company/projects?
 
Puscifer

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James Sawyer Ford said:
What the fuck?

How is this game so popular?

I guess the Chinese market is much bigger than I expected? Wonder what the regional split is
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Chinese middle class is exploding on some baby boomer type shit. The amount of small computer stores going through high end computer parts are nuts
 
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