Black Myth: Wukong’s first week of sales numbers are in, and they firmly inhabit “Don’t take a big sip of coffee before you look at them” territory. 10 million units sold, which, as industry analyst Daniel Ahmad pointed out on X, “The Everything App,” is a record-breaking performance that leaves some of the biggest releases of the past few years in the dust.
For perspective, here are some comparative numbers:
- Hogwarts Legacy: 15 million in three months
- Elden Ring: 13 million in one month
- Cyberpunk 2077: 13.7 million in one month
- Baldur’s Gate 3: 20+ million in five months
- Helldivers 2: 12 million in three months
The only game that comes close is Palworld’s 19 million players in two weeks, a mark that Black Myth: Wukong seems on track to surpass. It’s a sales figure that lines up with Wukong having leapfrogged the competition to be the #2 most-played game in Steam’s history by concurrent players. Before that, it was also the most wishlisted game on the platform after The Day Before met its ignominious end.
I, for one, welcome Chinese devs doing less anime gacha shit and more good videogames.
RETVRN to traditional videogames
Hogwarts Legacy: 15 million in three months
WHY?!The power of brand recognition
Garbage, even garbage with brand recognition, doesn’t always ensure sales. Plenty of licensed tie-ins of movies and books crash and burn because they suck. That game also sucks, but I suppose there was some sort of wagon-circling massed treat defense to own the wokes or whatever.
I still think the longterm effect of this event has negatively harmed the franchise and jk. You see people talk about it often, how they’ve put their books away, how they now find it difficult to enjoy the franchise and not think about those things whenever they hear about it.
The chuds might circle the wagons to do damage mitigation but they won’t last, and the damage will play out. That little seed planted in the hearts of every lib grows over time.
I think it’s more of a spore than a seed, but the point stands.
My personal tinfoil hat theory is that this game was meant as a way to test if the Harry Potter franchise was still commercially viable, like Shadows of the Empire was for the Star Wars franchise in the 90s (except that one has been confirmed, of course). It’s speculation, of course, but considering how badly the second Fantastic Beasts movie did, it’d make sense for them to go after the millennial nostalgia market.
If “Ready Player One” was more successful as a movie, I think late Xer-early millennial nostalgia of the “remember this? Remember that?!” bazinga kind would have stuck around like a particularly stubborn wart even moreso than it is now.
I haven’t seen the movie, but I’ve read parts of the book, and it’s incredibly funny to me that they had to make the references more recent because the people who’d be nostalgic for 80s pop culture were too old when the movie came out.
I saw the book at the store and thought the cover looked neat, so I picked it up to skim a few pages. Holy fuck was the writing bad. I chuckled and threw it back on the shelf.
I was taken completely by surprise to later learn it was a bestseller and being made into a movie. “50 Shades of Grey” for 30-somethings.
Looking back, it’s easy to see why it was a hit: it was slop for slop hogs. It said “what if bibeo bame, and knowing a lot of useless bibeo bame and nostalgia trivia means you eventually win the sex trophy and become the billionaire ruler of a dying planet?”
I saw Overwatch waifu shit in the trailers and my lack of interest somehow found even more lack of interest.
There’s the weird chapter intro about masturbation or the one scene where they rehearse line-for-line a Monty python movie.
Reddit, the novel. Then Reddit, the movie.
The movie removes these scenes and is better than the book, which is not hard. I would not call it good.
The sequel book is worse than both though. It’s horrifying, creepy, loaded with narcissistic excess and “poor me I’m too awesome, the poors are jealous NPCs” jagoff moments, lots of mind control/manipulation sex predator antics shown as “good”, and has a “happy ending” that’s very
coded.
Hated that movie
Because I needed to know for sure if I belong in Huffledorf or Slitherpuff.
It’s just as important as knowing where your power meter stands in relation to Glub Shitto in the Star War.
that’s a crucial new mechanic in the new game
Too many “MY CHILDHOOD” g*mers
They saw the thing and they clapped.
Arf arf arf arf
Dw I’m pretty sure it fell off :)
I wonder how many of those buyers were, ironically, “virtue signaling” their devotion and loyalty to their nostalgia treat.
as industry analyst Daniel Ahmad pointed out on X, “The Everything App,”
Does it even do any of the supposed anything app things?
As far as I know there’s no added features since the musk takeover. Paying for a blue check doesn’t count as a feature.
Oh, you forgot they started requiring logins for following tweet links, they made embedding tweets offsite worse, they added one of the worst stable diffusion models to the subscription, and the bot population got worse. All features :)
I wonder if that’s snarky sarcasm. TrueAnon Liz says that every time they talk about Twitter
I wouldn’t even say it ironically because it’s just going to help it become real
👁️
Why the fuck was Palworld so big
Every middle schooler for the last 30 years has pitched “pokemon with guns” as a game idea, the first one to do it half-decently was bound to be popular
Pokemon with guns thing made it go viral and so people tried it. It got a LOT of free advertising. Apparently it is also a good game in and of itself too, I’ve never played it, but the impression I get is that while it’s a bit rough around the edges it does accomplish some neat stuff that isn’t in other games the same way
Apparently it is also a good game in and of itself too
Who lied to you?
93% positive on Steam speaks for itself. Have you played it?
Aside from the game, the memes spawned from it are pretty good.
93% positive on Steam speaks for itself
Imagine trusting the opinions of g*mers
Have you played it?
I played it on gamepass day 1 with some friends. It’s a bad survival game and a bad monster catching game.
Imagine trusting the opinions of g*mers
I trust the data, the number, there’s a reason the game has such good number of people playing it despite being early access.
I played it on gamepass day 1 with some friends. It’s a bad survival game and a bad monster catching game.
Agree to disagree then, I also don’t like some popular games, but i can see the appeal for those who like it. Like some games are good for some age group, after that not so much, MMORPG for example.
Like…about this game or in general?
Too many people bought in the fake “nintendo is taking down this game in any moment” hype
Survival crafting pokemon game
great shit post concept over the top of arks gameplay, which was already a pretty big splash. it’s actually such a win considering the developers are a pretty small scale and humble team
Palworld is legit a great game. I’ve got a few hundred hours into it.
it’s a comfy and silly fun game?
“What if Pokemon but grimdark gimmicks and guns?”
Pokemon always had a darker side to it from the first game. Team Rocket used to have guns!
Since it says “19 million players” it might be including people who played it for free on Gamepass
These are sales figures. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1447359/palworld-games-sales-worldwide/
It’s not. It got a bunch of players from streamers’ audience and now no one cares about it. It was just another quarterly streamer trend.
Butbutbut get woke go broke!
Woke with Chinese characteristics
This game is woke?
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The original JTTW sure was. There was one chapter where 2 of the 4 male main characters drink water from a magic river, get pregnant, and they have to do a whole ass quest to get those two a magic abortion. It’s beautiful.
Well yeah. It’s chinese.
I’m sure white fashoid G*mers are seething at this.
Probably plenty of liberals too
:same-picture:
They’re tussling whether to side with it because the devs are allegedly misogynist or seethe because china bad
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It apparently uses Denuvo and I have decided I will never purchase a Denuvo-DRMed game ever again. My last one was Doom Eternal.
This game looks great and I wanna play it but its $90 where I live, gonna have to wait a year or two for sale
Denuvo
I have two questions:
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- Does this game have souls-like multiplayer elements? (co-op and/or pvp invasions)
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- Does it have cool boss battles?
1 no, its just single player
2 yes, it has 91 bosses
It has the coolest boss battles
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check DODI because fitgirl is a Zionist
First thing on the page is a picture of the cover
It’s a link to the trailer
Remember it’s devuno
Check the one person who can crack it right now
Cw empress)
Explanation Regard My Upcoming MMO Game Server Concept :
my goal from this is to make a powerful game server that can handle a lot of players, and customize it to fit our plans and needs. currently, it’s all still work-in-progress. this is why the “NEW CULT” will soon open, as a “Bridge” to this game server plan. ————————————— this MMO is going to be our “FUTURE”, because i am developing the server in a way that will make it your “LIFE” there. my vision is that as we progress into making the server ready, the telegram cult will serve more as a “base” in a general sense, while the game server will become our “main” way of our daily meetings & interactions.
firstly we will integrate most of my telegram activities inside the game, with even periodic “times” and “locations” for things like daily philosophies/live piano/stories/etc. PLUS, many fresh & exciting activities by making use of the game’s mechanics, which will be revealed later.
secondly, i am planning to make “Ranking” system within the game universe, which also connects to your telegram roles.
rankings will be as follows :
- King/Queen
- Prince/Princess
- Duke/Duchess
- Admiral
- Captain
- Commander
- Elite [not final and changes to the list could occur later]
to earn higher rankings, it all depends on you and your capabilities. it goes from basic things such as “playtime”, to “pvp battles”, “dungeon mastery”, or “special events scores”, and much more.
Forget about DENUVO games, this will be your new long sticking addiction. not only because it will be the most realistic and engaging way of “interactions” between everyone, but also because you will finally get a “LEGIT” way to learn some REAL reverse engineering from me directly inside the game. i will be making periodic lessons from time to time available to those with “certain ranks” and pass certain “Conditions”. so naturally only the “BEST” will get such honor, as it should be.
thirdly :
—want to be a BETA TESTER ?, sure. make sure to defeat some of my highest ranked guards in PVP, and you got it.
—want a HINT on the next release?, sure. maybe if you can defeat me personally in PVP i will tell you, and so on. the ideas never end.
*AND… since i fully developing the server myself and own it, the game universe will be uncensored haven for me, and we can easily say this will bring my “NFOs” to the NEXT LEVEL, which i am sure you all cannot wait for. AND especially because there are many removeds that i will be WIPING THE FLOOR WITH, soon enough.
Last but not least :
later onward, i actually may end up with a helping hand in the future for my work, and then we can strike a powerful partnership in destroying evil and doing greatness, all while conquering dungeons and bosses within the game as a side quest! 🔥
She’s now developing a new scam game. Jesus Christ.
I heard that supposedly the fitgirl post was completely fabricated and she never posted anything saying that. Might wanna check that but I remember coming across a post saying it was fake. Although that could be fake. Maybe its all fake? Maybe hexbear is fake?
yeah, just learning this too but it seems there is no evidence it was a real post. she does have some wack opinions but that may have been totally fabricated
A lot of tech people have really wack opinions. Makes it really hard to use anything. Very libertarian like a lot of musicians very frustrating .
Sometimes i think it may be push back from empress orbiters but I’m going way too far into the most terminally online internet shit
Looks like the brains behind her operation left or devuno patched the method she used. Either way, we’re not getting it for a while.
Who cares
the point of piracy is you don’t pay anyone moneyIt also tragically can’t be pirated for a while
This probably has more to do with timing than anything else. There’s been a lull in the big flashy game department.
Where are the sales coming from? I would guess the majority are coming from within China?
I guess I’m just surprised that a Wukong game would be such a hit with westerners, especially in the very saturated soulslike genre. I also haven’t seen anyone say anything about the game other than “it’s a soulslike”, so I’m wondering what’s resonating
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From what i seen its more like a character action game (like bayonetta) with rpg elements than a soulslike
The primary driver of Wukong’s sales success is its popularity in China, where developer Game Science is based. Games industry analyst firm Niko has an in-depth article by Daniel Ahmad breaking this down. 93% of Wukong’s Steam reviews are in simplified Chinese, and Steam shattered its previous download bandwidth record (set during Cyberpunk’s launch) by a whopping 28 terabytes per second on Wukong’s August 20 launch—82% of that traffic originated in East Asia. Gameplay videos and previews of Wukong have also been dominating Chinese social networks like bilibili.
Thanks. I thought so
The only reason I haven’t joined the Black Myth bandwagon is that I HATE RPG elements in videogames. How bad are those elements in this game?
we are finally returning to monke
The only game that comes close is Palworld’s 19 million players in two weeks
Somehow i’m not surprised that slavery and exploitation simulator with cutesy packaging being advertised by their devs as slavery and exploitation simulator get so popular
