Halo: Campaign Evolved Gets a Sluggish Start on Steam but Manages Third Place Among Popular Releases

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Halo: Campaign Evolved officially launched for PC and consoles yesterday, and while sales numbers have not been released for Sony or Xbox, Steam’s are not looking overly impressive. You never know for sure how well a remake will do, which can often incur much higher costs to develop versus a remaster, especially when working with […]

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[DAPUNISHER]

Yeah, Steam is a terrible indicator of how well it's doing. Many play on game pass or got the Microsoft store version. Playstation as you noted, further limits the usefulness of Steam's numbers.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

On a related note: Something I found out the other day from John of digital foundry, is that XeSS is not supported on any game from the MS store. I like my ARC cards even if they are a box of chocolates. And sometimes it looks better than FSR on AMD and GTX cards. I was mildly surprised to learn it, as the coined term Wintel was with us for decades. Now, not so much.

 

[LazyGamer]

Still running great until I get to the same specific spot, about 20% into the campaign?

Looks like there's a 3.7GB update, see if that fixes anything.

 

[LazyGamer]

Yeah, Steam is a terrible indicator of how well it's doing. Many play on game pass or got the Microsoft store version. Playstation as you noted, further limits the usefulness of Steam's numbers.

I'm playing it on PC on game pass myself.

I'd actually be impressed if Microsoft were to port game pass to Steam - same for the others.

 

[MadMummy76]

Yeah, Steam is a terrible indicator of how well it's doing. Many play on game pass or got the Microsoft store version. Playstation as you noted, further limits the usefulness of Steam's numbers.

Wrong. Steam is an excellent indicator of how games are doing. One could say it is the only reliable indicator as this is the only number that corporations can't astroturf or hide. Remember when ubisoft wanted it gone?

The "oh but think of games pass" excuse was trotted out for indiana jones, avowed, outer world 2, and god knows what other failed games as well. But the fact of the matter is if a game is popular it will do well on steam in spite of being on games pass. Just look at Oblivion Remastered. It was on games pass and still did 200k+ concurrent on steam.

You can bet if Halo struggles on Steam it will be struggling on games pass too.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I agree that Steam's numbers can be a mixed bag, but they do often seem to end up mirroring the industry as a whole, whereas MS will claim successes but then counter itself later on with a "where did the money go" type scenario leading to layoffs. Intel did similar tactics for about a decade, and we know how that went.