Bandai Namco released Elden Ring on PC on February 25th and according to SteamSpy, the game has already sold 5 million copies on Steam. Not only that, but the game had an all-time peak of 891,638 concurrent players.
As we’ve already said, SteamSpy only shows estimates for a game’s sales (based on the number of players who own a game). SteamSpy also only tracks public profiles, meaning that those with private profiles (that own the game) are not counted. Therefore, and theoretically, the actual PC sales may be higher.
To be honest, these numbers do not really surprise me. After all, all previous Dark Souls games sold well on PC. Thus, we were kind of expecting these huge sales numbers.
Although the PC version of Elden Ring is currently in a rough state, modders are already working in order to improve it. This past week, we already saw a mod that add support for ultra-wide monitors/resolutions. There is also a mod that unlocks the game’s framerate. And we should also mention this mod that finally allows you to pause the game.
Stay tuned for more!
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Jesus Christ this industry is doomed.
OMG PEOPLE ENJOY GAMES THAT I DONT LIKE ?? WE ARE DOOMED
poor Dagoat thinks the universe revolves around his crappy boring life lmao
go get showered and clean your room
I think the issue is millions of people preordering and buying broken, half-assed games based on hype alone.
Those numbers are most likely way off though. Steam Spy is pure guesswork based on random, small samples of user accounts.
Broken at 70$
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All of this distress and grief over a video game? get a grip man.
says the dude vomiting under each Elden ring post
delusional tard
🙂
damn you’re way too upset.
go wait for another elden ring post so you can tell everyone you hate the game and get some validation lol
No one here is going to “validate” my opinion because they hate me, I don’t have a reason to seek the approval of others or provoke them, I’m just expressing my opinion same as you.
The problem here is that you feel offended just by me talking sh*t about this game.
I don’t hate you. I respect your thoughts. You have something to offer on games site to give here.
Thanks daddy
No one cares what you play. What annoys people is the mainstream media gushing over a game with PS3 graphics full of bugs with the same old gameplay as all the other titles.
I got pissed off at the media when they started calling this junk “a masterpiece“.
thats because you want it to fail so badly, and cannot stand that minus the stuttering its a great game, that fact is making you upset it seems
It’s not just the stuttering. It’s the fact that this was not mentioned in any review (not even the PC reviews), and the fact that tons of reviewers gave this game a 10/10.
10/10 used to go to games that are either perfect or really innovative, of which Elden Ring is neither.
Nor did I appreciate the insane disproportionate attention given to this game. Including by DSOGaming that literally said NOTHING about Horizon Forbidden West when it came out, but spewed article after article about Elden Ring.
You are being too harsh on Elden Ring, it improves on all what made the souls games great, takes it a step further, the game is open world and not a single repeated area or quest, heck, all areas have special bosses, and small enemies, each area has npcs that you talk to, each area has secrets and dungeons
you are discovering a new thing every minute
the combat is well made, you have more tools to make you beat the hard bosses, so you cannot get stuck if the boss is too hard, you can just go somewhere else, or summon your soldiers to help you
I dont think all of reviewers agreeing that the game is great is a bad a mere coincidence
How is an open world with secrets and bosses and NPCs to talk to is innovative?
Most people here grew up as PC gamers, we’re not console gamers who turned into PC gamers. Elden ring is awful to many of us, you need to deal with it or get out of here.
He is probably a troll, he post his bs Alloy Shem@le on every Elden Ring article.
PC game site doesn’t talk about console exclusive…. LMAO
No one here is more upset than you bud.
What stuttering. I had zero, still have zero. 2k@max settings.
we gonna get more and more souls clones.
truly, instead of games we get torture and propaganda..
Jesus Christ be praised!
Sorry, just finished my first playthrough of Kingdom Come.
Nice game, but it also stutters a lot in my setup lmao.
Well, good games do sell well!
Which is not the case here, so I’m confused.
Bad games sell well maybe?
same as why people keeping COD games. Even though Elden R is actually good no the game is amazing for me at least
5.000.000 sound so fake its like 6.000.000
That being said no effort was put on anti piracy, just make a game that people actually want to buy.
Dying light 2 put effort on piracy and sold similar numbers, but at least they did us pirates a favor…
Epic now #Fromsoftware should just fix the PC FPS drop issue
Watered down and bloated Dark Souls, no wonder it has mass appeal.
If someone likes a thing, you make even more of that thing. That’s the story of sequels in videogames. But hey, at least it doesn’t look like an Ubisoft style sandbox.
It is, each zone has
the exactmission types, it’s just that they are not marked. 2-3 chalice dungeons, 1 tree and 1 unique dungeon. Occasionally with 1 variation. It gets pretty samey, just that it takes longer because content isn’t marked.iT hAs thE eXaCt MiSsIoN tYpEs
That’s too bad, they could take a lesson or two from gothic games.
there seems to be a general hate towards this game. some coming from playstation players, angry that horizon forbidden men got forgotten so fast. some coming from pc saying it’s a bad port, who clearly didn’t play the first dark souls without dsfix, or batman arkham knight, mk10, or some 360 era ports.
So atrocious ports is an excuse for a bad port?
shove it
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Ah you are that horizon fanboy lmao. So when will they fix Aloy face?
Old news, mate. In-game Aloy looks like a carbon copy of her face model.
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Interesting, she is a reptilian who shape shift eyes, and her jaw got slighty bigger in the sequel.
If the game have issues, it have issues, facts are facts.
5 millon of players playing a stuttering fest game.
Does it stutters in all setups?
yes, for everyone.
NO it doesn’t nor did it it.
You are a liar. ROCK STEADY 60FPS MAX settings @ 2k
I had one issue, I got stuck once in terrain. I have 90 hours play time.
Don’t lie.
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I’ve spent more than 50 hours and those reports are exaggerated. It’s 98% smooth with constant 60fps even when visiting new areas (excluding the first Tree Sentinel battle. Ironically, there aren’t any stutters when you face other similar enemies… or even when facing two Tree Sentinels). I’ve even let friends (who game on PS5) play it and the first thing they said was “Damn, this looks and runs so much better than on my PS5”.
98% smooth, a joke for a GPU more expensive than a PS5.
From your review:
“Elden Ring suffers from stuttering issues.”
“(though there were drops to mid-50s due to the game’s stuttering issues).”
“its biggest issues right now are undoubtedly its stuttering issues.”
That was for the launch version. The game has already received two patches that address most of the stutters.
No, you have less stuttering due to shaders cache.
You should only speak about things you really know. We know how shader cache works. We’ve tested the game numerous times with different GPUs and drivers (since we are benchmarking other games these days).
And that’s why have less stuttering.
You should only speak about things you really know. We know how shader cache works. We’ve tested the game numerous times with different GPUs and drivers (since we are benchmarking other games these days).
I never had an issue. I had some frame drops at first. NOthing a setting or two in Nvidia settings couldn’t fix. Runs buttery smooth @2560x1440p MAX settings
Honestly, the issues lie with the hardware/software/settings on the end user side more times than naught…
Being a PC gamer is more in-depth than being a console scrub. Yet, so many can’t seem to figure it out. I’d suggest they stick with kindergarten consoles.
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buying out the mainstream media sells copies…what a shocker
FromSoftware is not some massive corporation like EA, Ubisoft, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Rockstar, Activision Blizzard, Tencent, etc. FromSoftware can’t afford to buy out the mainstream media. They’re not big enough to pull off such a feat.
Don’t be ridiculous, From Software is big enough to buy out the chumps at IGN and Gamespot.
From Software was also smart enough to avoid giving the bugged PC version to most. That alone should tell you this company is up to no good.
All these 10/10 scores for a bugged game that looks like a PS3 title did not happen by chance.
you sound like an idiot you know that.
Elden Ring’s publisher is Bandai Namco Entertainment whose parent company Bandai Namco Holdings has total assets valued at circa $4.7 billion and an operating income of $6.4 billion.
I’d say that’s a “massive corporation”.
Can’t say for sure, but there is also the case of the media following their audience and playing it safe with scores, as if deducting 1 point would make the nerds foam at the mouth.
Absolutely. No media outlet wishes to look uncool and out of step with the perceived likes of their audience and thus risk paying advertisers taking their custom elsewhere.
Advertising revenues are increasingly directed to influencers on YouTube, Twitch and social media. Old legacy media like the websites giving all those 10/10 review ratings have becomes much less relevant and are left desperately fighting for the remaining scraps off the table so they do whatever it takes to keep the paying advertisers sweet.
Yeah and that mostly happens with franchises with big fanbases such as From soft, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
Yep, and it’s getting a whole lot worse due to power being further consolidated in the hands of mega corporations as a consequence of the myriad studios having been bought out over the years and the recent multi-billion dollar acquisitions.
Thank you, I’m so glad I searched for this before I respond to that uneducated individual. Man these people give me headache. You know I really try to be polite, I really do man. Then I read a comment like that and I just explode.
Ignorance is bliss!
FromSoftware is the developer. Bandai Namco publishes it´s games.
stfu NPC and consume next product verified by woke outlets and plebbit hype
Only reason i can see that the game is mixed on Steam is due to Performance issues. So other than techinical issues (that should be called out) the game is getting nothing but praise. Is only those who hated FromSoft already that seem to have problems with it.
I woudn’t base scores on peformance issues tbf. There’s a lot of dubious quality games with “overwhelming positive” reviews that makes it hard to trust steam reviews as a metric.
Johnny Boy can’t stop spreading false information for a few dozen clicks to this garbage infested site…
If it’s an ‘estimate’ from a source that magically generates numbers based on a few public numbers, why base an article off them at all?
Because the low number of that estimate is 100% accurate. But you would know that if you could use your brain 😛
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Are you a highschool dropout or what? That is idiotic nonsense. Both low and high are estimated from a few available stats and put together with a simple algorithm and that doesn’t mean that neither end is accurate at all.
https://steamdb.info/app/1245620/graphs/We have 3 “sources” here, each of them spewing out totally different numbers. The minimum could be 2.6M owners, but not 5M. That’s ridiculous.
We know from past data that the steam concurent number times eight gives you a pretty accurate estimation of the total sales. The almost 900 thousand users that Elden Ring sustained for several days puts the sales at more than 7 million.
The low end figure that steamspy shows is 100% true. Those are all public accounts that have the game. Its 100% at least 5 million.
But the reality is around 7.5 million as of now. Elden Ring is the 7th most played game in gaming history, on steam. In the history of gaming. Its self explanatory that the sale numbers are enourmous
Why are you so disrespectful. Why do you feel the need to speak with such disrespect to another grown man? Get it together man. There is no reason to respond with such hostility to someone that’s speaking to you in a rational way.
The idiot spoke again? I blocked him. He is really dam.
Why are you so upset? Do you need a sippy cup?
poor timmy tencent, these numbers on the epic fail store will never make them LOOL
Thanks to the mainstream media that lied about the game.
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Phil Fish and others got flak a few years ago for saying that Japanese games tend to suck, that they get disproportionate media attention and that they get far higher review scores than they deserve.
All the weaboos attacked him for saying it, and no one has dared to say it again.
But he is 100% right. The mainstream media drewls over games like Elden Ring with outdated graphics and outdated gameplay, calling it a masterpiece.
And if Gamespot or IGN can invite one of those Japanese developers that can barely speak a word of English, they suck up to them like they have never seen a Japanese person. Even though most of these Japanese developers have the charisma of an automated robot and are a bore to listen to.
Meanwhile Western designers and studios are making actual good AAA games like Horizon Forbidden West, Baldur’s Gate III and tons of indie games, that push the boundaries of gameplay and graphics, and they get trashed by the Western mainstream media. Ridiculous.
“Phil Fish and others got flak a few years ago for saying that Japanese games tend to suck, that they get disproportionate media attention and that they get far higher review scores than they deserve.”
As a mediocre developer, he doesn’t have much ground to make that kind of criticism. It’s perfectly fine to believe that as a gamer tough.
“Meanwhile Western designers and studios are making actual good AAA games like Horizon Forbidden West, Baldur’s Gate III and tons of indie games”
These indie games you speak of are souls clones lmao.
The same thing happens with Korean soap series and Korea pop.
“omg it’s from Korea, and omg, it’s so cool”
Korea discovered Pop boybands 2 decades after the West, copied the exact same formula, and suddenly it’s the best thing since slice bread and you have koreaboos everywhere.
It’s the exact same crap with the mainstream media gushing over Asian games. Genshin was a piece of garbage but the mainstream media couldn’t shut up about it.
You seem to have problem with the countries those devs come from rather than the actual game itself. Is this bias toward the west ? No one said Horizon Forbidden West, Baldur’s Gate III are bad they are good but Elden Ring, Genshin, Lost ark, FF14 atc… success by being a good game and they make people interested. Same with FNight, overwatch, WOW, pubg, COD …. Your comment make you seem like you dont like any company success if they dont come from the west
From my point of view, the game is exactly what the DS fans wanted but issues are blocking its success. The only reason this is getting positive reviews on Steam latetly, it is coming from sculpers trying to hold the hype high thus the price of the collector´s edition.
Aside from the odd random stutter.. been really enjoying the game.
wow these comments have massive hate for elden ring, I have been loving the sh*t out of elden ring and you can tell they put a lot of love into the game from all the unique enemies and dungeons. I play on ps5 so i can’t chime in on PC player’s plight but I feel like you all hate the game on a deeper level than the stuttering.
Did Ubihard published anytime how much copies of Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed does it sold?? ??
I’m not judging those who bought this, after all, it’s not my money.
Buuuuuut, this thing really svcks! Shltty graphics, shltty mechanics, shltty colour palette, shltty enemies and no story to follow.
I mean, what do one do in a “game” like this? Walk around and smash buttons? I mean, is that what they call funny in this thing?
You know, it’s best to play Sonic 3 for that. At least it have a plot.