SuperData has shared its monthly report, stating that Valorant had the biggest launch ever for a free-to-play game on the PC. According to the company, the game’s revenue and player numbers put it ahead of what the PC version of Apex Legends achieved in February 2019.
Valorant also made more than its closest competitor, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in June despite the Valve title having a slightly larger audience. CS:GO user numbers and revenue were also down for the second straight month in June. This could indicate that Valorant is siphoning away players.
Now we should note that Apex Legends did earn more overall at launch due to its console version. So yeah, that multi-platform release actually paid off.
For what it’s worth, Riot Games was criticized for the anti-cheat system he used in Valorant. Since then, the team has been trying to improve it and make it more user-friendly.
In other news, Destiny 2 revenue and player numbers rose substantially. According to SuperData, this was a result of a new season and announced expansion packs. Preorders for the Beyond Light expansion and spending caused monthly earnings to rise 221% in June. According to SuperData, this is the highest level since October 2019. Player numbers also jumped 45% to a record total for the game. Furthermore, millions of users who had previously quit the game returned in June.
Lastly, here are the top selling games per platform for June 2020.
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Of course, they paid all the streamers of the universe to play their game and the sheep followed as usual
True
It’s definitely a bad thing, that’s not healthy marketing because you’re paying people to play your game and of course say good things on it, it’s the same thing as paid reviews, perhaps even more dangerous because the children playing those games don’t even know what’s happening behind, all they see is that people are playing the game so they have to do so
The fact that anyone in existence would be “influenced” by any of these jagoffs, is a testament to the collective stupidity of the human race.
It reveals the sad truth about people.
That for the most people, some paid advertisement by a silver-tongued celebrity is more important than the quality of the product itself. This lack of critical thinking is, for example, why some “nice” things happened in 2020.
To some extent, I care, and it isn’t sad. If some stupid and really popular trend emerges, I’m bound to feel the consequences of it.
For example: kiddos spend boatloads of money on GTA V’s Shark Cards. So what, you say?
So I, I won’t be able to play GTA VI anytime soon. Why wouldn’t I care about BS like this?
The only sad thing here, is that you even had to explain this. It’s amazing just how f**king stupid some people are out there.
I don’t buy that he’s a troll, I get the impression that he genuinely believes what he spews.
ohh he REKT u mr troll .. there there it’s ok you’ll get em next time.
God everytime I look at PC list what people play I want to vomit.
I can somewhat understand world of warcraft (since I played it myself) , the other ones pure trash.
“the game’s revenue and player numbers”
Would be nice if, you know, we actually got to see the damn numbers…?!
Wow you have some personal issues.
1, 3 and 4 never heard of them in my life, never seen them. probably ching chong autists made them popular.
You’re on a PC website and you’ve never heard of crossfire??It’s literally just a free to play CS 1.6 clone that is popular in China and south America.
People say Valorant is the first competition for CS are lying because crossfire exists.
no i’m not an autist.
Ain’t no way to make for a Kernel 0 anti-cheat system.
Fk that.
True i hate them. Fairness is the base of online gaming. When it’s gone. Fun is gone aswell.
Stop supporting Communist Party spyware people.
Your political ignorance is showing.
Free to play games are a mistake.
Not for their devs/publishers
Well, it looks like stupidity is alive and well in 2020. What a surprise.
The PC list is pathetic. The console list is not much better. The Mobile list is irrelevant.
Sadly the console list is better in fact, at least they have 3 SP games, the PC list is 100% GAAS, truth to be told, mainstream PC audience is pushing for Online crap more than console audience
Yeah and that’s why they ditched all their SP DLC plans for their 2 last games, all i wanted to say is if i have to choose one of these lists, i definitely pick the console list even if i have no real interest for these games, the only SP game on the PC list is The Sims 4…
I think is just the Covid, more people in home playing games. 2021 will tell if I am right or wrong.
https://youtu.be/UNuMNv4CXIE
seriously first time hearing this game.
all pubg players should stop playing and start playing this..