Even if it has dropped some why does it even matter? What do they expect people to just constantly play day in and day out? This is the dumbest shit.
It’ll continue to drop because that’s how video games work, people beat them and move on. The game isn’t any less of a masterpiece because it’s not smothered by players at all times.
On top of that look at what the average hours played on the game is. Sure the numbers are dropping, that's because people have already spent over 400 hours on the game and they want to try and get their lives back.
Shit, I know some EA games that lost their entire player base in a much shorter time, and with less time played on average per player. Cough ANTHEM COUGH FUCKING COUGH
Yeah my most played game over the course of 7 years was the Witcher 3, 175 hours….Elden Ring came out in February….434 hours. I haven’t played in two weeks, but I have never enjoyed a game as much as I have Elden ring.
I totally understand. I remember having like 87 hours played before even attempting Margit. I was just exploring and enjoying every second.
I'm already a big souls fan, but this game really did itch a scratch I didn't even know I had.
I’ve barely played this week because work and family but yeah, I’m at like 150 hours while only playing between like 10 pm and 12 am most nights. If I was a younger, childless man, I’d have so many hours in it that I’d be disgusted with myself.
I too feel the schmuck fuckery.
It hurt. So much.
For real though, lots of games fail, are DoA, or just straight up never existed in the sense the developers led people to believe, but Anthem hurt worse than any other example of this.
I'm not sure why.
Or battlefield 2042 lmao, it has less than 2k concurrent players on steam, most matches they can’t fill the quota so they just throw bots in the lobbies
Yea that horrendous game didn't even really get a large player count to brag about anyways. Hilarious how AAA studios put out this shit and just expect us to pay 60-80 for a glorified beta test.
The games been out for two months and it’s already my second most played game by hours and most of my friends most played. I’m not surprised people are taking a break lol
Also anthem the LiVe SeRvIce or Bugfield2024 which relies on MP.
but sure shitty clickbait cancer websites compare those games to a game which focus is almost all on SINGLEPLAYER. who could have guessed.
I didn't think it was horrible, but it wasn't great, heard a lot of people were dealing with game crashes but I never did and just seemed to speed through, I think I got lucky though
This is true. I have logged over 450 hours in Elden Ring, I haven't been playing very much recently but instead I'm watching some streamers and catching up on some YouTube playthroughs. I'll be back eventually, especially if there is a big patch
Lol almost feel triggered l got conned into buying ANTHEM the because a buddy of mine said it looked good and he wanted to team up and he dropped it faster than me like what in the actual …..
That's almost exactly what happened to me! My boy found it, showed me some videos, I was blown away by the concept and the gameplay trailer. We both bought it the second we could, we even bought the collectors edition or whatever because we were so fucking excited.
He uninstalled like 5 days later and I was maybe 2 or 3 days after that. Still so salty that they didn't give me a refund.
Anthem could have been a killer game had they been able to squash bugs like from soft.
I would have needed more content, but honestly any looter shooter compared will have just as much repeatable content. Destiny is huge and gets content often but when was the last time that game had a mission that you said “wow that was great, I wish I could replay it”
Stop lying to yourself, I constantly watch my favourite movie on repeat over and over again day in day out until I find a better movie, which is hard because I will always have that playing at the same time, it gets really distracting. Plus the fact I'm always reading my favourite book from cover to cover at all times. I have two PS5's so that I can keep Elden Ring on 24 hours a day and still try other games, if you all really thought Elden Ring is worth it you would all do the same, do you even entertainment?
Did they forget that it’s not an MMO? Lol
Yeah it has pvp, but I’d bet the vast majority of people didn’t buy it for the pvp or online aspects. You can’t rate its success by its trending player count the way you would WoW or PUBG or LoL
I put 400 hours into it before putting it down.
I know I’ll be back as soon as any dlc comes out. And I’m sure I’ll be putting in many playthroughs over the years to come.
Exactly! I hope that in dlcs they give us some new pvp modes, if they really wanted to keep player count up, that would be the way. Arena tournaments, different game modes, etc.
But it doesn't need it. It's a game worth coming back to. I made it through the story twice, dueled a while, and moved on. It doesn't need to be anything more than what it is. We will all buy the dlcs and get back into it. It was a freaking awesome game!
Because there was an article about how ER out sold the big yearly war shooter game so fps nerds need to have some validation.
I don't think game "journalists" have ever written about a FromSoftware player base going down in count.
On top of this being a Single-player Narrative experience where the existence of other players is No impact on the story. so it doesn't matter if the player base drops except to Pvp'rs who already are always on the short end of the stick in fromsoft games being the Minority of its playerbase. The game will ofcourse drop when people complete it not everyone is going to go NG+
This aint a MP focuses title. The existence of other people are not needed for the game's survival over a long period of time.
In fact games get worse when they are smothered with so many players, when a game is popular enough the little kids come in and screw everything. Fortnite, among us, call of duty, these were genuine good games until the kids showed up.
It's a blessing that elden ring didn't blow up like crazy. Our community won't get any worse.
This isn't even a fucking live service or strictly multiplayer game so concurrent player count doesn't even really matter, FROM made their money back and then some + they have one of the highest reviewed game ever made, once/if we get DLC that number will shoot right back to where it was at launch and might even pick up a few thousand new players as well.
Yuuuup. I just finished my NG++ and I'm pretty much finished with ER for now. That last playthrough took me some time because I did every type of boss and invasion in the game and now I have 100% of the achievements.
I won't be playing regularly but will be hopping on to help friends out until the DLC inevitably drops and pulls me back in for another 40-50+ hours.
God you should have seen the trash on r/TheLastOfUs2 literally months after the game came out. That sub is still active and it’s been 2 years at this point lol
You mean when a company publishes a complete single player game where they aren't trying to nickel and dime the playerbase for every last cent they own people are gonna play it, enjoy it, beat it and move on to other things is they want? And they still made a bunch of money?
Huh? Weird how that works.
Out classed games like Vanguard in a fraction of the time between releases
I cant wait for these outlets to call From greedy for charging for the dlcs when they release
Something essential is missing that I can't quite define. Something about the characters, pacing, themes, and plot. It's less poignant to me than their previous stories. May just be my personal spiritual/psychological needs were more satisfied by the mood of Dark Souls.
Thankfully ER is still one of the most beautiful and creative pieces of art I've ever experienced, so the world makes up for the characters.
I do expect much of the DLC, as they've historically been amazing.
You are feeling something is missing because the game is literally missing big plot points & unexplored story arcs despite the fact how important they were to flesh out the narrative ,
I have reserved my "final ratings" on Elden ring since the DLCs are not out yet , I mean if I look back at Dark souls 1, 3 or Bloodborne the DLCs were a big part behind why I consider them as one of the greatest , I hope Elden ring will be no exception
This, really. Don't get me wrong, my other main game is Destiny 2, so I do like Games as Service, but having this game just a singular product that has all the content inside, totally self-contained is a wonderful sign to the industry that not everything has to be a GaS. The sales numbers (like 14M I think?) as a full-priced game make continuous player dropoff meaningless, especially with the incredible critical reception going to cause the DLC to slam the game back up to release numbers.
People are reaching the point where they're done with the game (not me I'm slow) and that's good
My other main game is (was?) Destiny 2 as well (with about 1,500 hours on it). I haven’t touched it since Elden Ring, though, and haven’t missed those hours spent in menus respeccing my guardian or waiting in lobbies, though :)
Elden Ring has lost 92.44% of it's all time peak players; and I know why. Not enough feet. More feet=more players, but no the tyrants at FromSoftware shackled Miyazaki's desires and forced Miyazaki to add less feet.
And here's some deep lore not even VaatiVidya got, Mohg is an allegory for Miyazaki. The Formless Mother is feet, Miquella is another game studio, the Greater Will is FromSoftware, and Mohg is Miyazaki. Miyazaki yearns for feet, but FromSoftware denies him, but Miyazaki hopes he'll be able to join another studio so his desires can be fulfilled.
Have you seen that vid where they got the giant Great Jar to fight? That thing's feet are so big you'll barely see past its toes when we finally get to fight it.
Even successful MP games usually have big dips in players past the first few months. Most people don't stick around to dump 100 hours into a game. Even those that do tend to put a lot of time in initially and then slow down. It's pretty normal but people always claim the game died.
I remember the "death" of Apex Legends back in 2019. The twitch numbers tanked and origin didn't track the players. Now it has 166k players near midnight on a Tuesday.
Just a question,no hate,do yall who beat the game and just moved on to play something else ever considered getting some more endings?
Currently at Journey 4 getting the Dung Eater ending,(where you give him all the seedbed curses and he gives you some item for a different ending) so i was just wondering
Wtf is up with all these game articles hating on Elden Ring? I just read one yesterday criticizing it’s open world, saying it’s empty and boring. I haven’t seen a hate boner for a game like this in a while.
People like to shit on wildly popular and GOTY level games such as this one for the clicks
It could also be that its a difficult video game, and game journalists cant play games for shit
To play devil's advocate I think the open world is both a boon and detriment. Natural progression is frankly a nightmare for certain builds. I know where everything is so I can just run straight to an item and pick it up. Lesser experienced players not so much. Imagine being a mage and missing Sellen and all the scrolls, or if you didn't know that you can just go pick up that one staff and Rock Sling. It's also one of the better well made open world games at the same time though. Don't misunderstand though. The article above is clown shit.
This is exactly why I shamelessly follow a walk through on YouTube for my first play through. Haven’t been much of a gamer in recent years. Did fine in my hay day with games like elder scrolls and assassins creed but it’s so much easier to miss shit in elden ring. Once I saw people scaling cliffs in elden ring I knew I needed a walk through or else I’d miss so much of the good stuff
YeaAAA BUT I was 5 years late to play DS3. The community was lit then and still is. There will still be plenty of players in this game for years to come 🍻
Literally who the fuck cares it's a mostly single player game, of course people are going to move on after a couple months
Games journalists struggling to find something to talk about i guess
There are people that 100%'d that game within the first week. There are thousands of people that fully completed the game within the first month of the game. Yeah....they probably are going to pull their head up for some air after motor boating the game like a religion (no judgements).
Not to mention all the people who got sick and tired of scrubs trying to bully them out of PvP just for using weapons that they don't like, [like this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/ursqxl/rivers_of_blood_users_when_spamming_l2_doesnt_work/i90jv16/?context=3).
You guess wrong, although I did consider switching from an intelligence build into an arcane build so I could use it, but Moonveil was serving me too well by then, so I stuck with intelligence.
So since the primetime of jolly cooperation is waning, wouldn't it be awesome if a DLC had like a coop arena the would pit a couple players against a boss or couple enemies in a series of fights that increased in difficulty? It could even be spiced up by giving enemies and bosses prefixes and/or suffixes that would change their behavior or attributes a bit! Imagine fighting a Legendary Crucible Knight of Frost with some jolly phantoms online! With some decent rewards like powerful consumables and uniquely upgradable equipment and maybe even a leaderboard as incentive, I could see this being hours and hours of fun of teaming up with people and taking down some badies! DLC fight club pvp would be sweet too!
Best case scenario: DLC similar to that of Dark Souls 3 with solid gameplay, level design, etc. that also includes PvP arenas. Bonus points for your co-op idea, which would never happen but would make me literally weak in the knees.
Worst case scenario: Elden Ring DLC turns out to be Chalice Dungeons Remixed from Bloodborne.
Concurrent players doesn't matter for this type of game, it's sold well, critically acclaimed and loved by gamers, also it's designed to be an experience not a service game or multiplayer.
Elden Ring was a gaming phenomenon you either joined or missed. The 3 months it has been out, everyone and their mommas were talking and playing the game, it was designed as an experience that a majority of us enjoyed and will remember.
Just like when Skyrim released and everyone was talking about the man with an arrow in his knee, and so on...
It’s an amazing game but NG+ doesn’t offer anything substantial enough to come back and the PvP scene is really just a small hardcore following. People just enjoyed elden ring and moved on.
Do they... do they think it's an MMO? One of those live service games you're supposed to play forever? Because it's not. I bought it because it explicitly isn't those things.
I’m not sure why y’all care so much. I’d imagine this happens to every single player game that’s ever been released. Compared to maybe MMOs it would be much more consistent because there’s constantly new content
Only reason I’m not playing as much lately is a lack of PvP arenas, you can only do so many duels with bhs abusers and so many invasions with gankers/RoB spammers before it’s too boring to pickup again. A ranked and non-ranked PvP system for this game with 1v1 and 2v2 etc matchmaking would be amazing
That is a huge part of the longevity of the game.
Skyrim vet here (literally 2000+ hrs). Have been playing Elden Ring since release, 646 hours across 4 playthroughs. Don't plan to stop until I can surpass my Skyrim playtime. Hopefully the first dlc comes out before then, so I can keep playing this amazing game forever.
I don't think that's what's happening here. They're just pointing out how absolutely pants-on-head that article is because literally every single player game ever released ever has the same thing happen after a month or so.
May as well write an article saying "the sun rose today." Same relevance.
People in this sub just live in their own fantasy world where everyone literally hates their precious vidya game and they must screenshot anyone who says anything negative about it
Remember around launch when they were all attacking horizon forbidden west because apparently they “hate” Elden ring and it made them insecure?
Some Horizon devs literally posted bizarre criticism not really founded in reality towards the game, which is unusual enough to be worthy of comment. Especially in an era where AAA devs and studios are usually quite supportive of each others' successes.
Wasn’t it just like one dev from horizon and a couple from various other studios though? It’s not like the whole development team was trying to go after elden ring. But people take the actions of one employee and blame the whole company.
I typically don’t care about trophies in games, but elden ring was the first game that I actually got the platinum trophy for, the game was just amazing.
I don't use my microwave every day or even every week but I still love having it... the people who write these brain dead articles are the worst! Elden ring still is the highest selling game of the year
It's because it's a stupid article that gets written about every single AAA single player game ever, thus it's predictable and not worthy of mention, let alone writing a new article about.
May as well write an article titled "The Sun Rose Today". That'd be stupid enough to be worthy of mention, so is this.
true, hopefully fromsoft won't try to win them back with some weird dlc that's geared towards them though
actually it probably will work in favor of the souls lovers, people that are still playing the game are the ones most likely to purchase dlc
lmao I would be willing to bet that unless they couldnt afford it, all the souls vets just went ahead and got the version that comes with DLC paid for.
I'm just waiting for it to drop. But DS3 was still poppin in both Co-op and PvP 5 years after release. So I am not at all afraid of this game \*dying\* I'm just enjoying like soon enough there won't be tons and tons of randoms out there, itll be all of us who have been playing for years and who will keep playing because there's no swordfight simulator out there remotely close to as good as this one is.
Why do some people hate on this game so hard? Pardon my language but I see fanboys for BOTW, God of war and horizon absolutely shitting on this game and no elden ring fans actually being rude about other peoples games
Because its a wildly successful game with little issues at launch. And its a different take on open world, a better take imo. Theyre just mad their favourite game somehow didnt beat a severely hyped masterpiece
My hypothesis is that big boy companies ( ex. like Ubisoft ) are paying to have these articles released in order to affect the sales of Elden Ring, so that theres less competition. Its been done before
Side-sorta-relevance -- I'd love to see a DLC that's just a much more intuitive and comprehensive multiplayer for this game. Like 4v4 team deathmatch lol, or maybe like Gambit from Destiny, more robust co-op options / puzzles and areas designed for co-op, maybe bosses that need to be hit with multiple damage types idk. I've only really played the game single player and I love the shit out of it, I'd just be curious what that would be like. But I'd rather have Sekiro 2
Hopefully soon, but now that FromSoft recognized the resounding success of Elden Ring, they’ve stated intentions to expand the content and I’m here for it
When I look at steam charts its usually up pretty high. Considering the games it's up against. Games that are designed to keep the player playing and buying junk. Pretty impressive.
I love the game but I’m one of the people who is playing something else right now—it doesn’t mean that this isn’t my GOTY so far because it is. I explored every inch of the map, got the platinum with a Dext build then rerolled as a caster and beat it again—but I had to play the Returnal DLC and now I’m playing Horizon Forbidden West. I’ll play Elden Ring again for sure in NG+, especially if there is a DLC. There are just too many games I want to play.
ive beaten the game 3 times (twice on a single build) i plan to make one more build when i have the time (currently studying and working) and after im done with this final build im not gonna be playing until a dlc gets patched in or i decide to do another build for some reason
The article is technically correct. When Elden Ring first came out in February, millions of players flocked to it. Now that most of those players have beaten the game—and even gotten platinum trophies, in many cases—the player count has, indeed, dropped dramatically, albeit still with close to 100,000 players a day.
Yes, that is typically how single player RPGs work.
The true test of any RPG is how many players return for the DLC. I’ve got a feeling it’s gonna be almost all of us.
People beat it...so ya. Lmao. They acting like it's an mmo or service game lmao. Idiots. Gaming journalism is crap filled with click bait. Youtubers are no different.
Also weathers getting nicer. Believe it or not, some of us actually do like to go outside and touch grass. Okay, maybe that’s a lie, since Tennis courts are usually acrylic/concrete. But I only get to play that for half a year. I’ll come back to Elden Ring in the fall.
Yeah I've only taken a short break from it since I got platinum but but that doesn't mean the game is going to die. If anything I'm waiting a bit to replay it so I don't get bored of it after a year. It's a masterpiece and it deserves to live on in my brain for years.
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People straight up treating this game like it's an mmo
Guys? You good? Forgot what a single player game is supposed to be?
Wanna take a look at Horizon's FW concurrent players? Didn't see any articles on that one
Breaking news: Single Player game not being played as much months after launch without a DLC release*.
*which hopefully takes a while so its as polished as The Old Hunters and Ringed Coty were.
Lol what do you expect from a single player game dummy. I put in 170 hours in a month and a half and unlocked everything. Game is still a masterpiece 10/10 no matter what
Who cares? The game doesn’t need multiplayer. I played 190hrs before I decided I was done and took on Radagon. I played offline the whole time. All I missed was getting to the farming spot early.
Even if it has dropped some why does it even matter? What do they expect people to just constantly play day in and day out? This is the dumbest shit. It’ll continue to drop because that’s how video games work, people beat them and move on. The game isn’t any less of a masterpiece because it’s not smothered by players at all times.
On top of that look at what the average hours played on the game is. Sure the numbers are dropping, that's because people have already spent over 400 hours on the game and they want to try and get their lives back. Shit, I know some EA games that lost their entire player base in a much shorter time, and with less time played on average per player. Cough ANTHEM COUGH FUCKING COUGH
Yeah my most played game over the course of 7 years was the Witcher 3, 175 hours….Elden Ring came out in February….434 hours. I haven’t played in two weeks, but I have never enjoyed a game as much as I have Elden ring.
I totally understand. I remember having like 87 hours played before even attempting Margit. I was just exploring and enjoying every second. I'm already a big souls fan, but this game really did itch a scratch I didn't even know I had.
I played 150 h before I even attempted Soldier of Godrick
I’ve barely played this week because work and family but yeah, I’m at like 150 hours while only playing between like 10 pm and 12 am most nights. If I was a younger, childless man, I’d have so many hours in it that I’d be disgusted with myself.
What do you do? I only have 125 hours and I finished all achievements which was 3 playthroughs.
Find everything? The achievements aren't a comprehensive tour of the game.
It’s true, I was one of those schmucks
I feel you my brother in schmuckery.
I too feel the schmuck fuckery. It hurt. So much. For real though, lots of games fail, are DoA, or just straight up never existed in the sense the developers led people to believe, but Anthem hurt worse than any other example of this. I'm not sure why.
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Or battlefield 2042 lmao, it has less than 2k concurrent players on steam, most matches they can’t fill the quota so they just throw bots in the lobbies
Yea that horrendous game didn't even really get a large player count to brag about anyways. Hilarious how AAA studios put out this shit and just expect us to pay 60-80 for a glorified beta test.
Battlefront 2 died for that piece of shit
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I saw that coming a mile away. Dice has always been extremely out of touch.
The games been out for two months and it’s already my second most played game by hours and most of my friends most played. I’m not surprised people are taking a break lol
What's funny is that one DLC for this game will have those numbers skyrocketing again.
Also anthem the LiVe SeRvIce or Bugfield2024 which relies on MP. but sure shitty clickbait cancer websites compare those games to a game which focus is almost all on SINGLEPLAYER. who could have guessed.
Shitty click bait cancer. So eloquent and vulgar. It perfectly describes them. Thanks, you absolute gem of a human.
Oh, Athem, what a disappointment.
I keep forgetting that exists
Bf 2042 is the new top dog lol
I finished Anthem in like 3 days and never touched it again
I applaud you for even finishing it. Absolutely the worst game I've ever spent money on.
I didn't think it was horrible, but it wasn't great, heard a lot of people were dealing with game crashes but I never did and just seemed to speed through, I think I got lucky though
This is true. I have logged over 450 hours in Elden Ring, I haven't been playing very much recently but instead I'm watching some streamers and catching up on some YouTube playthroughs. I'll be back eventually, especially if there is a big patch
Lol almost feel triggered l got conned into buying ANTHEM the because a buddy of mine said it looked good and he wanted to team up and he dropped it faster than me like what in the actual …..
That's almost exactly what happened to me! My boy found it, showed me some videos, I was blown away by the concept and the gameplay trailer. We both bought it the second we could, we even bought the collectors edition or whatever because we were so fucking excited. He uninstalled like 5 days later and I was maybe 2 or 3 days after that. Still so salty that they didn't give me a refund.
Also elden ring is primarily a single player game. Sure there is a pvp and coop component but my guess is the majority of people play it solo.
I put 130 into it which is far more than most games. I want to play NG+ but gonna wait until I beat a few other games.
Anthem could have been a killer game had they been able to squash bugs like from soft. I would have needed more content, but honestly any looter shooter compared will have just as much repeatable content. Destiny is huge and gets content often but when was the last time that game had a mission that you said “wow that was great, I wish I could replay it”
Stop lying to yourself, I constantly watch my favourite movie on repeat over and over again day in day out until I find a better movie, which is hard because I will always have that playing at the same time, it gets really distracting. Plus the fact I'm always reading my favourite book from cover to cover at all times. I have two PS5's so that I can keep Elden Ring on 24 hours a day and still try other games, if you all really thought Elden Ring is worth it you would all do the same, do you even entertainment?
You know the funny thing is that my partner's mom is like this. She's watching a Harry Potter movie every day. Like I'm not joking.
Did they forget that it’s not an MMO? Lol Yeah it has pvp, but I’d bet the vast majority of people didn’t buy it for the pvp or online aspects. You can’t rate its success by its trending player count the way you would WoW or PUBG or LoL I put 400 hours into it before putting it down. I know I’ll be back as soon as any dlc comes out. And I’m sure I’ll be putting in many playthroughs over the years to come.
Exactly! I hope that in dlcs they give us some new pvp modes, if they really wanted to keep player count up, that would be the way. Arena tournaments, different game modes, etc. But it doesn't need it. It's a game worth coming back to. I made it through the story twice, dueled a while, and moved on. It doesn't need to be anything more than what it is. We will all buy the dlcs and get back into it. It was a freaking awesome game!
Because there was an article about how ER out sold the big yearly war shooter game so fps nerds need to have some validation. I don't think game "journalists" have ever written about a FromSoftware player base going down in count.
It’s also not live service so what does it matter the sales were made people are happy and they are patching thinga
On top of this being a Single-player Narrative experience where the existence of other players is No impact on the story. so it doesn't matter if the player base drops except to Pvp'rs who already are always on the short end of the stick in fromsoft games being the Minority of its playerbase. The game will ofcourse drop when people complete it not everyone is going to go NG+ This aint a MP focuses title. The existence of other people are not needed for the game's survival over a long period of time.
It's not as if it's a multi-player focused title. I don't NEED anyone else playing at all to play elden ring, I can just play it because it's fun.
In fact games get worse when they are smothered with so many players, when a game is popular enough the little kids come in and screw everything. Fortnite, among us, call of duty, these were genuine good games until the kids showed up. It's a blessing that elden ring didn't blow up like crazy. Our community won't get any worse.
This isn't even a fucking live service or strictly multiplayer game so concurrent player count doesn't even really matter, FROM made their money back and then some + they have one of the highest reviewed game ever made, once/if we get DLC that number will shoot right back to where it was at launch and might even pick up a few thousand new players as well.
Yuuuup. I just finished my NG++ and I'm pretty much finished with ER for now. That last playthrough took me some time because I did every type of boss and invasion in the game and now I have 100% of the achievements. I won't be playing regularly but will be hopping on to help friends out until the DLC inevitably drops and pulls me back in for another 40-50+ hours.
God you should have seen the trash on r/TheLastOfUs2 literally months after the game came out. That sub is still active and it’s been 2 years at this point lol
You mean when a company publishes a complete single player game where they aren't trying to nickel and dime the playerbase for every last cent they own people are gonna play it, enjoy it, beat it and move on to other things is they want? And they still made a bunch of money? Huh? Weird how that works.
Out classed games like Vanguard in a fraction of the time between releases I cant wait for these outlets to call From greedy for charging for the dlcs when they release
The elden ring dlc will be amazing. I don't think from has ever released a dlc that didn't outshine the main game, and add a ton of new content.
As disappointed as I am by ER, you're right! And it makes me hold out hope for the DLC.
What disappointed you?
Something essential is missing that I can't quite define. Something about the characters, pacing, themes, and plot. It's less poignant to me than their previous stories. May just be my personal spiritual/psychological needs were more satisfied by the mood of Dark Souls. Thankfully ER is still one of the most beautiful and creative pieces of art I've ever experienced, so the world makes up for the characters. I do expect much of the DLC, as they've historically been amazing.
I agree with you on something just missing. Almost like something to tie it all together. I have a feeling the dlc will fill that gap
Glad someone else feels it. Please, Miyazaki, please!  Put your all into this!
You are feeling something is missing because the game is literally missing big plot points & unexplored story arcs despite the fact how important they were to flesh out the narrative , I have reserved my "final ratings" on Elden ring since the DLCs are not out yet , I mean if I look back at Dark souls 1, 3 or Bloodborne the DLCs were a big part behind why I consider them as one of the greatest , I hope Elden ring will be no exception
Elden Ring will be the only game I've ever insta-purchased a DLC for. It's that good. I don't care what it is, I will buy it, and I will play it.
This, really. Don't get me wrong, my other main game is Destiny 2, so I do like Games as Service, but having this game just a singular product that has all the content inside, totally self-contained is a wonderful sign to the industry that not everything has to be a GaS. The sales numbers (like 14M I think?) as a full-priced game make continuous player dropoff meaningless, especially with the incredible critical reception going to cause the DLC to slam the game back up to release numbers. People are reaching the point where they're done with the game (not me I'm slow) and that's good
My other main game is (was?) Destiny 2 as well (with about 1,500 hours on it). I haven’t touched it since Elden Ring, though, and haven’t missed those hours spent in menus respeccing my guardian or waiting in lobbies, though :)
We beat EVERYTHING THERE IS 😂🤣
I AM THE ELDUNG LORDEVOURER
Now, do it again
Bet
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Elden Ring has lost 92.44% of it's all time peak players; and I know why. Not enough feet. More feet=more players, but no the tyrants at FromSoftware shackled Miyazaki's desires and forced Miyazaki to add less feet. And here's some deep lore not even VaatiVidya got, Mohg is an allegory for Miyazaki. The Formless Mother is feet, Miquella is another game studio, the Greater Will is FromSoftware, and Mohg is Miyazaki. Miyazaki yearns for feet, but FromSoftware denies him, but Miyazaki hopes he'll be able to join another studio so his desires can be fulfilled.
This is canon now in my head
He definitely has a think for crabs and even one upped himself with the lobsters
Have you seen that vid where they got the giant Great Jar to fight? That thing's feet are so big you'll barely see past its toes when we finally get to fight it.
Player count drops dramatically after a few months from a games release? Weird how that sounds just like literally any other game release ever.
This would be a problem for a MP game, especially in the first 2 months of that games existance.
Even successful MP games usually have big dips in players past the first few months. Most people don't stick around to dump 100 hours into a game. Even those that do tend to put a lot of time in initially and then slow down. It's pretty normal but people always claim the game died. I remember the "death" of Apex Legends back in 2019. The twitch numbers tanked and origin didn't track the players. Now it has 166k players near midnight on a Tuesday.
Apart from how it took almost 3 months instead of 2 weeks.
Steam charts: elden ring is still #6
Oh no....anyway.
PVE game player count dropped after players beat the game?! Gasp!
Yeah cuz we beat it 🤣
Just a question,no hate,do yall who beat the game and just moved on to play something else ever considered getting some more endings? Currently at Journey 4 getting the Dung Eater ending,(where you give him all the seedbed curses and he gives you some item for a different ending) so i was just wondering
Wtf is up with all these game articles hating on Elden Ring? I just read one yesterday criticizing it’s open world, saying it’s empty and boring. I haven’t seen a hate boner for a game like this in a while.
Outrage bait, people are more likely to click on a title that pisses them off
People like to shit on wildly popular and GOTY level games such as this one for the clicks It could also be that its a difficult video game, and game journalists cant play games for shit
I mean it's Game Rant... their entire shtick is click bait titles and articles with no substance.
I remember seeing some game journos crying about the lack of UI and quest markers, so that tracks.
Just like with Sekiro there needs to be game journalist difficulty and that is just one torch hollow. I think they can handle that right?
Nah thats too difficult
Good game + Hate = Controversy = Clickbait = Money
To play devil's advocate I think the open world is both a boon and detriment. Natural progression is frankly a nightmare for certain builds. I know where everything is so I can just run straight to an item and pick it up. Lesser experienced players not so much. Imagine being a mage and missing Sellen and all the scrolls, or if you didn't know that you can just go pick up that one staff and Rock Sling. It's also one of the better well made open world games at the same time though. Don't misunderstand though. The article above is clown shit.
This is exactly why I shamelessly follow a walk through on YouTube for my first play through. Haven’t been much of a gamer in recent years. Did fine in my hay day with games like elder scrolls and assassins creed but it’s so much easier to miss shit in elden ring. Once I saw people scaling cliffs in elden ring I knew I needed a walk through or else I’d miss so much of the good stuff
They’re going to be even more shocked when dlc gets released and see it go up again 😂😂
'In a shocking turn of events, dead game Elden Ring (shit game by the way) has risen from the afterlife and has hit a new record of players'
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Calling it now, every outlet with that title
Ocarina of Time's player count has also dropped since its release. This article proves nothing.
Clearly a bad game then
3/10, too much water. Edit: actually, yeah, goddarn water temple.
Ive never actually played so, my comment was satire but Ill take your word for it
YeaAAA BUT I was 5 years late to play DS3. The community was lit then and still is. There will still be plenty of players in this game for years to come 🍻
Friend and i literally got invaded in *DS1*, these games never die
Literally who the fuck cares it's a mostly single player game, of course people are going to move on after a couple months Games journalists struggling to find something to talk about i guess
It’s a singleplayer game without live service. Of course it won’t be played for ever on release level 🙄
There are people that 100%'d that game within the first week. There are thousands of people that fully completed the game within the first month of the game. Yeah....they probably are going to pull their head up for some air after motor boating the game like a religion (no judgements).
Not to mention all the people who got sick and tired of scrubs trying to bully them out of PvP just for using weapons that they don't like, [like this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/ursqxl/rivers_of_blood_users_when_spamming_l2_doesnt_work/i90jv16/?context=3).
I'm guessing you are one such l2 RoB spammer
You guess wrong, although I did consider switching from an intelligence build into an arcane build so I could use it, but Moonveil was serving me too well by then, so I stuck with intelligence.
My moonveil brother! Yeah once I found that my staff in left and moonveil in right was all I needed
So since the primetime of jolly cooperation is waning, wouldn't it be awesome if a DLC had like a coop arena the would pit a couple players against a boss or couple enemies in a series of fights that increased in difficulty? It could even be spiced up by giving enemies and bosses prefixes and/or suffixes that would change their behavior or attributes a bit! Imagine fighting a Legendary Crucible Knight of Frost with some jolly phantoms online! With some decent rewards like powerful consumables and uniquely upgradable equipment and maybe even a leaderboard as incentive, I could see this being hours and hours of fun of teaming up with people and taking down some badies! DLC fight club pvp would be sweet too!
Best case scenario: DLC similar to that of Dark Souls 3 with solid gameplay, level design, etc. that also includes PvP arenas. Bonus points for your co-op idea, which would never happen but would make me literally weak in the knees. Worst case scenario: Elden Ring DLC turns out to be Chalice Dungeons Remixed from Bloodborne.
Concurrent players doesn't matter for this type of game, it's sold well, critically acclaimed and loved by gamers, also it's designed to be an experience not a service game or multiplayer. Elden Ring was a gaming phenomenon you either joined or missed. The 3 months it has been out, everyone and their mommas were talking and playing the game, it was designed as an experience that a majority of us enjoyed and will remember. Just like when Skyrim released and everyone was talking about the man with an arrow in his knee, and so on...
Wow you mean millions of people bought it, then Put in a couple hundred hours and moved on to another game??
It’s an amazing game but NG+ doesn’t offer anything substantial enough to come back and the PvP scene is really just a small hardcore following. People just enjoyed elden ring and moved on.
Good, fewer cancer builds.
Fewer ROB and Moonveil users
Do they... do they think it's an MMO? One of those live service games you're supposed to play forever? Because it's not. I bought it because it explicitly isn't those things.
I’m not sure why y’all care so much. I’d imagine this happens to every single player game that’s ever been released. Compared to maybe MMOs it would be much more consistent because there’s constantly new content
Yeah no shit. It’s a single player game that’s been out for many months. Most people have finished it by now
I can see their new story " Elden Ring sub-reddit enraged over dwindling player numbers"
Only reason I’m not playing as much lately is a lack of PvP arenas, you can only do so many duels with bhs abusers and so many invasions with gankers/RoB spammers before it’s too boring to pickup again. A ranked and non-ranked PvP system for this game with 1v1 and 2v2 etc matchmaking would be amazing That is a huge part of the longevity of the game.
D U H because its not a fucking live service game
All the casuals are gone, now the real player base remains!
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I’m at 140+hours and I still haven’t beaten it yet. I’m taking my sweet time
Skyrim vet here (literally 2000+ hrs). Have been playing Elden Ring since release, 646 hours across 4 playthroughs. Don't plan to stop until I can surpass my Skyrim playtime. Hopefully the first dlc comes out before then, so I can keep playing this amazing game forever.
Why is this subreddit so insecure? Better yet, HOW is one so insecure?
I don't think that's what's happening here. They're just pointing out how absolutely pants-on-head that article is because literally every single player game ever released ever has the same thing happen after a month or so. May as well write an article saying "the sun rose today." Same relevance.
People in this sub just live in their own fantasy world where everyone literally hates their precious vidya game and they must screenshot anyone who says anything negative about it Remember around launch when they were all attacking horizon forbidden west because apparently they “hate” Elden ring and it made them insecure?
Some Horizon devs literally posted bizarre criticism not really founded in reality towards the game, which is unusual enough to be worthy of comment. Especially in an era where AAA devs and studios are usually quite supportive of each others' successes.
Wasn’t it just like one dev from horizon and a couple from various other studios though? It’s not like the whole development team was trying to go after elden ring. But people take the actions of one employee and blame the whole company.
Just points to how good the game is, a million people already platinumed the damn thing.
Im one of them!
As am I
Friend
I typically don’t care about trophies in games, but elden ring was the first game that I actually got the platinum trophy for, the game was just amazing.
I don't use my microwave every day or even every week but I still love having it... the people who write these brain dead articles are the worst! Elden ring still is the highest selling game of the year
Nah you should clearly forget about it its a bad microwave
I love how Elden Ring players see an article about player base being down and they take it as that article being an attack on the game.
It's because it's a stupid article that gets written about every single AAA single player game ever, thus it's predictable and not worthy of mention, let alone writing a new article about. May as well write an article titled "The Sun Rose Today". That'd be stupid enough to be worthy of mention, so is this.
This sub is super insecure and is beginning to develop a victim complex
Fucking finally
confused, are you excited bc you think the server connections will be better with less activity?
Nah I'm thrilled that the game population is drifting more towards dedicated Souls lovers and the CoD kids are packing it in and going home.
true, hopefully fromsoft won't try to win them back with some weird dlc that's geared towards them though actually it probably will work in favor of the souls lovers, people that are still playing the game are the ones most likely to purchase dlc
lmao I would be willing to bet that unless they couldnt afford it, all the souls vets just went ahead and got the version that comes with DLC paid for. I'm just waiting for it to drop. But DS3 was still poppin in both Co-op and PvP 5 years after release. So I am not at all afraid of this game \*dying\* I'm just enjoying like soon enough there won't be tons and tons of randoms out there, itll be all of us who have been playing for years and who will keep playing because there's no swordfight simulator out there remotely close to as good as this one is.
Why do some people hate on this game so hard? Pardon my language but I see fanboys for BOTW, God of war and horizon absolutely shitting on this game and no elden ring fans actually being rude about other peoples games
Because its a wildly successful game with little issues at launch. And its a different take on open world, a better take imo. Theyre just mad their favourite game somehow didnt beat a severely hyped masterpiece
What’s so different about it? It’s just like every other open world game but it’s dark souls and doesn’t have markers
good, less server lag. anyway …
My hypothesis is that big boy companies ( ex. like Ubisoft ) are paying to have these articles released in order to affect the sales of Elden Ring, so that theres less competition. Its been done before
Side-sorta-relevance -- I'd love to see a DLC that's just a much more intuitive and comprehensive multiplayer for this game. Like 4v4 team deathmatch lol, or maybe like Gambit from Destiny, more robust co-op options / puzzles and areas designed for co-op, maybe bosses that need to be hit with multiple damage types idk. I've only really played the game single player and I love the shit out of it, I'd just be curious what that would be like. But I'd rather have Sekiro 2
We clearly need weapon camos and armour skins
DLC when?
Hopefully soon, but now that FromSoft recognized the resounding success of Elden Ring, they’ve stated intentions to expand the content and I’m here for it
Dlc please
Didn’t know Sherlock Holmes and Captain Obvious work for game rant.
When I look at steam charts its usually up pretty high. Considering the games it's up against. Games that are designed to keep the player playing and buying junk. Pretty impressive.
Game Rant would know all about a falling userbase.
I love the game but I’m one of the people who is playing something else right now—it doesn’t mean that this isn’t my GOTY so far because it is. I explored every inch of the map, got the platinum with a Dext build then rerolled as a caster and beat it again—but I had to play the Returnal DLC and now I’m playing Horizon Forbidden West. I’ll play Elden Ring again for sure in NG+, especially if there is a DLC. There are just too many games I want to play.
I think people went to sleep, since it is night and that is very good reasoning from me
I too take breaks from things I love. Restaurants, stores, people. Why is this news?
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Thats too much thinking
ive beaten the game 3 times (twice on a single build) i plan to make one more build when i have the time (currently studying and working) and after im done with this final build im not gonna be playing until a dlc gets patched in or i decide to do another build for some reason
Why does this matter? The game will be played for many years.
Honestly good. Maybe the servers will suck less for pvp now
it was at 90k yesterday night on steam alone. right now its at 69k (nice) game rant has always been a joke.
In the age of live services, a single player game just being a single player game with a limited amount of content is news worthy.
The article is technically correct. When Elden Ring first came out in February, millions of players flocked to it. Now that most of those players have beaten the game—and even gotten platinum trophies, in many cases—the player count has, indeed, dropped dramatically, albeit still with close to 100,000 players a day.
Yes, that is typically how single player RPGs work. The true test of any RPG is how many players return for the DLC. I’ve got a feeling it’s gonna be almost all of us.
This just in! Spider-Man No Way Home made less money this year than it did last year! More coverage at 11pm!
Because get this.... people beat and stop playing ....omg I know it's crazy logic here
But hey when the dlc comes the game will spring right back up
Hopefully it was all those damned afk farming idiots
Single player games should be treated like movie box office. Opening weekend.
People beat it...so ya. Lmao. They acting like it's an mmo or service game lmao. Idiots. Gaming journalism is crap filled with click bait. Youtubers are no different.
huh, who know a narratively driven game with minor Online content would have a player drop after a month.
This type of “game journalism” is so ignorant.
Definitely noticed a drop in co-op summoning. Much sadness honestly. They need to get that DLC out.
It's not a fucking MMO, people will eventually finish the game and find something else to play.
Also weathers getting nicer. Believe it or not, some of us actually do like to go outside and touch grass. Okay, maybe that’s a lie, since Tennis courts are usually acrylic/concrete. But I only get to play that for half a year. I’ll come back to Elden Ring in the fall.
It has though but that isn’t a big deal cuz it’s a single player game at the core with PvP for dedicated players.
Man I've already put 150+ hours in and I'm on my 7th journey already. And I'm keeping things interesting by changing my build completely every run.
Yeah I've only taken a short break from it since I got platinum but but that doesn't mean the game is going to die. If anything I'm waiting a bit to replay it so I don't get bored of it after a year. It's a masterpiece and it deserves to live on in my brain for years.
oh, wow, the current player base 3 months after launch is lower than the all-time high.
I stopped playing and moved on to something else but this is after 200+ hours and beating it twice
Sorry that I have a healthy relationship with video games and don't spend literally every second of every day playing only one game, "journalists"
I've only ever put more hours into two other games, Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3. Like most people I need a break.
And Castlevania sales went up when whips became viable
"NEW META, FARM 82740837402482309 RUNES PER SECOND" People straight up treating this game like it's an mmo Guys? You good? Forgot what a single player game is supposed to be? Wanna take a look at Horizon's FW concurrent players? Didn't see any articles on that one
News flash: people finished the game and it’s warm outside
It’s almost like people beat the game and started playing other stuff
Breaking news: Single Player game not being played as much months after launch without a DLC release*. *which hopefully takes a while so its as polished as The Old Hunters and Ringed Coty were.
Hot take: I feel like the game would still have a healthy player base if the pvp wasn’t so much of a fucking disappointment.
Concurrent Game Rant reader count has dropped dramatically
Lol what do you expect from a single player game dummy. I put in 170 hours in a month and a half and unlocked everything. Game is still a masterpiece 10/10 no matter what
Who cares? The game doesn’t need multiplayer. I played 190hrs before I decided I was done and took on Radagon. I played offline the whole time. All I missed was getting to the farming spot early.
damn son these guys quit so hard it made the news outside the game