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Our obsession with the concept of the \u201cdead game\u201d and player counts is unhealthy for the video game industry and gamers, one of the developers behind Palworld<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n

Palworld, dubbed \u201cPok\u00e9mon with guns,\u201d launched in early access form to record-breaking success. It is the second most-played game ever on Steam, with an incredible concurrent player count of 2,101,867 on Valve\u2019s platform. Only battle royale PUBG is ahead of Palworld in Steam\u2019s all-time peak concurrents chart.<\/p>\n

Palworld\u2019s Steam concurrents have fallen since that explosive launch earlier this year, and now usually hit a peak in the tens of thousands rather than millions. The decline has caused some to call Palworld a \u201cdead game,\u201d but it is far from the only game to be called that in recent years.<\/p>\n

For example, Rocksteady\u2019s catastrophic Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League<\/a>, whose Steam concurrents usually peak in the hundreds of players, was called a dead game upon its release. Arrowhead’s Helldivers 2, Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones, and Blizzard\u2019s Overwatch 2 are also often called dead games. Sony\u2019s live service hero shooter Concord<\/a> has been labeled “dead on arrival\u201d before launch because of low beta concurrents on Steam.<\/p>\n

The \u201cdead game\u201d narrative is exacerbated by an industry currently pumping out more live service games than the market can perhaps support, or even wants, and by publishers who walk away from their live service games amid low player numbers. This month Capcom announced plans to move on from dinosaur-themed shooter Exoprimal just a year after launch<\/a>, with Steam concurrents brutally low.<\/p>\n

John \u201cBucky\u201d Buckley, community chief at Palworld developer Pocketpair, has been a vocal critic of the \u201cdead game\u201d phrase, and in social media posts has called on the industry, media, and gamers to ditch the fixation on concurrents and player counts.<\/p>\n

Bucky followed up on these posts in an interview with YouTube channel Going Indie<\/a> for a video titled, \u2018Dead Games Are A Good Thing, Actually.’<\/a> In it, Bucky called out publishers and developers who try to brute-force mechanics designed to keep players playing forever into games they’re not suited to, declaring it “unhealthy.”<\/p>\n

\u201cJust play the games you like,\u201d Bucky said. \u201cIf you finish in a day, cool. Good job. I\u2019m glad you enjoyed it. Play the next one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it really serves anyone to push gamers to just play the same game day in, day out. There are games that you can play every single day for months on end and never burn out. League of Legends, Dota, most MMOs, but they\u2019re designed to be like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhereas what we\u2019re seeing now is a trend of… I won\u2019t necessarily say who\u2019s trying to push it, but a lot more people are trying to push gamers to play games that aren\u2019t really designed to be played for months on end, for months on end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who cares if there\u2019s only five people playing it? Just enjoy yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you need to be pushing yourself to play the same game all the time,\u201d Bucky continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not healthy for us, it\u2019s not healthy for developers, it\u2019s not healthy for gamers, it\u2019s not healthy for the gaming media. And it\u2019s just not healthy for our industry, because the more we push this kind of narrative, the more very large companies are going to just say \u2018gamers want more live service.\u2019 And we\u2019re just going to get more of these really soulless live service games that come out and then get shut down nine months later, 12 months later, because they\u2019re not making enough money. And we all lose in that case.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlay all the indIes you can. Spend as much money on indies as you can. Who cares if there\u2019s only five people playing it? Just enjoy yourself. Just enjoy games. I don\u2019t think it needs to be any more complex than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

But will the industry, the media, and gamers listen? The \u201cdead game\u201d narrative is in part fueled by the video game industry\u2019s obsession with secrecy. Unlike Hollywood, which makes movie budgets and box office figures public, video game publishers tend not to announce video game sales and\/or revenue unless they\u2019re truly spectacular, with development budgets almost always kept a closely guarded secret. In truth, it\u2019s almost impossible to determine whether a video game has met expectations, which is why vague publisher comments made by CEOs in investor-focused financial calls get so much attention.<\/p>\n

This secrecy means gamers and the media have just one publicly available performance metric with which to gauge performance: Steam concurrents. Valve continues to make this stat available for the world to see, and so the world has developed a hyper-focus around it, in turn leading to an over-reliance.<\/p>\n

In any case, there have been plenty of examples of live service video games that were prematurely consigned to the scrap heap. Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege suffered a disastrous launch but went on to become one of the biggest live service games around. Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky is another redemption story, as is CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077. And let’s not forget the humble origins of Fortnite, what began as a lackluster tower defense game but ended up perhaps the biggest live service of them all.<\/p>\n

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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