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In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. (steamdb.info)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.

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[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 29 points 10 months ago

Never even heard of it until now. Marketing failed to do its job.

[-] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 26 points 10 months ago

Denuvo

Pass

[-] Taokan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

And an EA account. And agreement to a 3rd party EULA with EA. For a single player game. That's some real "we're gonna sell you microtransactions later" energy out of a 60 dollar release.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I need to really want to play a game to make an account outside of whatever launcher I'm using, and that's just not true here.

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

It has a super generic name.

If you asked ChatGPT to come up with some names for a generic cheap micro transaction ridden game on the the App Store, in the vein of Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Royal Revolt, etc Immortals of Aveum could be on the list

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 24 points 10 months ago

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world come up with 10 names for a generic cheap micro transaction ridden game on the App Store, in the vein of Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Royal Revolt, etc.

[-] ChatGPT@lemmings.world 31 points 10 months ago
  1. Kingdom Clash Saga
  2. Royal Fortune War
  3. Epic Empire Rumble
  4. Battle Dynasty: Jewel Knights
  5. King's Quest: Legends of War
  6. Castle Conquer: Crown Heroes
  7. Royale Clash Empire
  8. Gold Rush: Kingdoms Collide
  9. Crystal Command: Throne Wars
  10. Queen’s Reign: Clash of Legacies
[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Epic empire rumble sounds kinda cool though

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Sounds like a late 90s early 00s low budget RTS with live action cutscenes that youre pretty sure we're filmed in slme Finnish dudes backyard.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Don't badmouth royal revolt! The first one barely had microtransactions

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

Went to the steam page. I had no idea what this game was. Never heard of it and the title doesn't really do anything for me. So, a minus there. Reviews: Mixed. Minus there. The hero is named Jack and it's high fantasy. That is the most generic name. Minus there. He looks like every other cookie cutter generic white guy main character. The only time he looks different than a movie star clone is the last second of the trailer. Nothing positive there. The hip hop music with high fantasy is not a good mix, IMO. It's published by EA. Minus there. The dialog is very "I'm so edgy with my quips." Minus there.

The villain designs are pretty good. The cinematic trailer is well done.

Reviews say it's really demanding on hardware. Minus there.

Tons of negatives, a few neutrals, one or two positives. Yeah, this ain't worth it.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

The hero is named Jack

Worse. His name is Jak.

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Jak from Jak and Daxter? Oh, no, boring milquetoast Jak from the soooper with-it-and-hip new wannabe-hit videogame, Immortals of Aveum™

Actually I don't remember whether that other Jak was any good either. Haven't played that since it was new 😅

[-] FracturedEel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I dont even think Jak talked I'm pretty sure it was all daxter

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

i think they gave him a voice in the second one

[-] Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

I swear, every third white male protagonist is named Jack.

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Well, when the protag isn't the important part, you try to make him less attention grabbing. Thus white male jack.

This can really work well, but holy fuck can it fall flat.

[-] meant2live218@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I didn't know this existed until I saw the Nextlander guys playing it, and even then I didn't catch the name of the game.

Zero marketing means that unless the game is absolutely amazing, there will be no word of mouth and no buzz, leading to no one noticing the game at all.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Yeah well, Armored Core 6 just released.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago

And some of still haven't come up for air from baulders gate.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

There was another big release, too. I can't remember what. Final Fantasy?

Competing with established titles requires a lot if marketing.

[-] Spacellary@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This game (Immortals of Aveum) already had a lot of controversy when they announced the PC minimum requirements, including an RTX 2080. People knew something wasn't right there (optimization seemed poor, game was made with "upscaling in mind" - aka "we didn't do anything to optimize this other than adding FSR2/DLSS, good luck"). Releases and it's worse than expected with mediocre graphical features and horrible performance, generic cookie cutter garbage.

[-] 123@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

It's just too good to stop playing

[-] QubaXR@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

It does not help that it shares the namesake and general identity aesthetic with a failed Immortals movie franchise.

But yes, it's obvious a ton of work went into this title, but at the same time I can't think of a single reason to pick it up, especially over the games already out or coming out soon.

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

It's also 60 dollars for a 12 hour game.

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I forgot about this game. It looked interesting. I'll wait for it to come to gamepass or be on sale.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

IDK, Denuvo + EA account makes this a hard sell for me. If those are removed, I may consider it at $20, but definitely not $60.

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'll be playing on Xbox, so that doesn't ant matter to me.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I didn't even hear about this game until today.

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