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.