Announcement: State of Decay 2 Breaks Record with Over 1 Million Players in First Two Days of Global Release

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/05/25/state-of-decay-2-million-players-global-release/#4rYEh45WsSrcFw15.99

Good job State of Decay! Also Gamespot needs to get better reviewers.

Nah gamespot need more people like Eddie magooo

Yay, free game is being played for the first two days of release... but honestly... how many people actually paid for it?

Huh, didn't do 2 million like SOT...

Since Microsoft aimed to have its exclusives launch on GamePass, I imagine success will be measured on ability to get people to subscribe to the service. This is good news. In ways just goes to show how even a game that got hammered critically can find a way for people to play it anyways without being turned off of the idea of purchasing something potentially iffy.

@rafaelmsoares: Where the hell are you getting free game from? You either pay for $30 (or higher for the better edition) or $10 for the game pass. Yeah try again man

Uh, 14 day free trial?

But how many bullets have been shot? Cars crashed? What's the attach rate?

IMPORTANT THINGS, TC!

Ever heard of cancel sub?

No, not really.

Throughout launch, there have been over six million combined hours of State of Decay 2 gameplay, and we’ve watched nearly 3.5M hours of gameplay across Mixer, Twitch and YouTube Gaming from over 41,000 unique broadcasts.

Six million hours in a week. Guess it will be 10 billion by x-mas.

@Ant_17: Yeah that's why I said "you mind reading". I can't see microsofts greedy ass letting people play for 14 days (Enough to time to beat any game on there) without any hidden details.

1 million on a 30 million userbase? Low attach rate, that's like 3% of Xbox userbase.

What an utter failure.

The salt is real

Game Pass?

There is. You can't beat 100 games in 14 days.

But you can beat any 1st party new game. The flaw of the trial is that people use it now to play the new 1st party Bone games.

Just look at the drop rate of players from SOT. From 2 million, to barely 200k.

And this is one million players, not 1 million sales. Another game that will chart on NPD one month and will be completely gone the next. Xbox starvation is a thing for sure.

My son likes it, hasn't experienced anything "broken" about it. Now I'm downloading it.

@BenjaminBanklin: Once again, like I asked you in my other thread. Have you played the game?

@MonsieurX: you can't spot an irony, can you?

TC is in full on meltdown mode.

Xbox always attracts these broken ass people. They hurt the console more than anything.

fanboys always do more to hurt whatever they are fanboying over than they do to help it

PS fanboys are no better (in fact around here lately I'd say they have been worse).

I know a few people who disliked Rick and Morty without ever having seen it just because of the annoying fan base, and I can't say I blame them.

fanboys are fucking awful, period.

@BenjaminBanklin: Yet you are talking shit in a thread for a game you've never played. I don't have to say anything else. Thank you for this win. Brought to you by State of Decay.

This is what a game drought does!

Couldn't have as cows have told me that Xbox has no games.

GOW didn't do much better percentage wise, so I guess it's a utter failure also!

I've played like 20 minutes. Unless they fix the performance I won't be back for sure. And it's a shame because underneath all the technical problems there's a solid game.

Good for them. I am enjoying the game but some of the bugs are annoying. Makes me wonder why they didn't address some of the obvious ones prior to release. Oddly enough none of the these bugs were present in the play through prior to launch.

@recloud: actually if you count the PCs also then the percentage is even worse.

So I guess utter... er failure ?

@rrjim1: it had double the attach rate without being offered for free... On a console that sold more than twice of what the X1 did. How is that "not doing much better?"

Also, those SoD2 players stated in the article include PC players... Keep trying to damage control tho.

@rrjim1: it's hard to be ironic with people that don't come here often .

Its for free? How can you play the game for free?

Damn, how did I miss this?

Watching players create new communities, forge friendships and test survival skills contributed to making State of Decay 2 one of the top-watched titles this week. Across player communities, we’ve seen survivors kill over 675 million zombies, throw over 6 million firecrackers and fireworks (survivors still find ways to celebrate), eat over 6 million bags of snacks, read over 2 million textbooks, and typically survive for about three days (with some players surviving for over an in-game month – a lofty goal to aim for your session this weekend).

LOL! This shit is becoming a parody of itself now. This game is pretty hard up for milestones.

Wasn't that the excuse for Sea of Thieves? People got two 14 day trials? Is that going to be said every time?

It's not like those are impressive numbers that need to be damage controlled sold or free.

1 million "players" in 2 days with 30million Xbox base and available on PC?

Where is your "user base" narrative for this...?

@cainetao11:

Well they offer it, so yes. Unless they specifically announce what is what. You can assume whatever you want to assume.

What record was broken.? I don't see the record in question and the past record holder.

But how well is it actually selling? According to Bungie's own server stats, there have already been 1,216,715 unique players in the last 24 hours.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2007/09/12-million-halo-players-have-killed-around-402-million-baddies-online/

Halo 3 did 1.2 million in 24 hours on xbox 360,so i don't see what record was broke here.

@tormentos:

Unique players means nothing. When there is a free option.

I guess reviews mean shit.

nice sig my friend.

Well I guess 3million sold out of 80 Million for GoW after a few days wasn't impressive either.

Strange how the W10 store for PC is LOL to you guys, but when you want to increase numbers you include it completely contradicting the notion that nobody uses it and Steam is what counts LOL

LOL like all 8 billion people on the planet are going to use the trial one after the other. That way it can always be an excuse.

Why are you deflecting to God of War?

You already said in the GoW sales thread that you thought the numbers weren't impressive for an 80 million user base so why are you bringing that up AGAIN for the numbers and users for this State of Decay 2 thread? No body asked you about GoW.

Try to stay on topic.

State of Decay 2 on xbox one 30 million users also available on PC...that's the topic! You must have God of War knee jerk arguments on the brain.

Also stop deflecting and making excuses for the fact that the game is available on PC it's pathetic for someone like yourself who was aggressively pushing the user base narrative for a single platform with no shame before.

I'll ask again...where is your user base narrative for this???

Whos deflecting? Are you so stupid you cant see a direct correlation?

LINK ME TO A POST IN WHICH I SAID THE SALES WERE NOT IMPRESSIVE FOR GOW, PLEASE. You're a liar.

Halo 3 didn't have a free option,which make it even worse for SOD2..

Halo 3 also didn't have a dev team of 40 people

Yes, it will be. Until they either remove the trial, or make it 2 hours or 1 day, it's still going to linger over 1st party Bone games.

There is no excuse.

Can somebody create a account for free and and play the game for a day and quit it entirely but still become a active number in there statistics?

Yes.

Then it's possible.

It could very well be that there are only 10 paying xbox gamers playing the game and all the others are pc gamers on free trail. So the game could have sold only 10 copy's. Is that high likely? no. But is it possible? yes.

It's also possible all of them are paying consumers, does there data tell any of this? nope.

So is it a excuse? no.

Only 1-2m people playing sea of thieves, lets say half of that sits with a free to play 14 day trail. How many people on PC and Xbox can still have free trail time and could have used it for this game hundreds of millions? exactly.

So why does microsoft talk about "accounts created" and not about sales and gives us a simple showdown on what's going on? because the numbers aren't going to impress so why talk about it?

Every company does this. Spin with numbers until they get dizzy.

This crap has been happening endless amounts of times on PC also. Remember final fantasy 14 accounts? oh we got loads of active players. And its a subscription based model so they make hella bank and have a high cut in the market.

Nope.

Why not?

They had a free to play trail 2 weeks before for 1 week of free game play, i created a account played 2 levels and quited. I also am a statistic, but did i pay? nope. Did they mention me? yes.

Why do console company's not announce specifications of there console when it's not favorable? Why do they scream of the rooftops if it is favorable for them?

Either microsoft comes out with numbers that mean something or they will get ridiculed because of it. You can aspect the best in favor of microsoft i can aspect the worst result.

They have the numbers show them? show us how many player current sea of thieves has or any of your games? why not? you know what they would showcase? we got 3 million created accounts ! but after a free weekend of gameplay for everybody. So it sounds like it actually is something. that the game barely holds 100 players on there server active in a day isn't something they gonna talk about.

Even blizzard does it, oh crap wow goes down the drain. Let's stop announcing players anymore. Then legion comes out player base rises and guess what? numbers got shouted of the rooftops again.

Sorry but i already run a bit longer in this market and frankly for a mostly PC gamer the way they talk is like lissening towards a old commercial car salesman.