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Cowen downgrades EA's stock as it thinks Titanfall 2's sales will be disappointing
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they have a star wars jedi game in active development, they will be fine
Barrel Cannon
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Well I'm still buying it and will hopefully enjoy it. Hopefully it does well enough and has legs.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Level design is something I think would turn some people away...
Hari Seldon
Member
Buying the first one was a giant mistake so I am not buying this. I absolute do not trust reviews about shooters.
This. Wish people stopped with the kneejerk idiotic posts but this is a gaming forum afterall.
Game will be fine. The first TF sold 10 million and I never had trouble finding games in it until they fucked up and tried to sell new maps as DLC. This one is going the siege route. Siege has been INCREASING it's player count with every free expansion release.
Titanfall is also an amazing MP game like siege so if they support it people will play it. Hell it's worth full price for that SP campaign alone. It's the closest to Vanquish 2 we will ever get.
Woa! Wait, what?!
This I gotta see!
As for the multi legs? Eh. I'm not sure this will have the legs of something like Battlefield but, unless you only play the more obscure modes, will it matter? I was late to the party with the first game and never had to wait to get into matches of Attrition.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Did Doom and Wolfenstein come out against 2 big shooters? Did the original TF?
There's no room for it. Everyone will be playing CoD and BF, they aren't buying a third shooter. You positivity is admirable but it's not realistic.
It didn't. It was 10 million*
*unique users.
This is anecdotal as it's my singular store, but the GameStop I used to work at had abysmal pre-orders. I can't remember exact numbers for the high ones but it went something like this:
Battlefield 1 had pre-orders in the 80's
Titanfall 2 had 7
Call of Duty is over 120
Placing in between those two games was one of the weirdest decisions I've seen this year.
For reference, Skyrim SE that also came out today had 29 pre-orders. I asked my old boss when I went to pick up TF2.
Battlefield 1 had pre-orders in the 80's
Titanfall 2 had 7
Call of Duty is over 120
Placing in between those two games was one of the weirdest decisions I've seen this year.
For reference, Skyrim SE that also came out today had 29 pre-orders. I asked my old boss when I went to pick up TF2.
Because there is an INFINITY WARD Call of Duty game coming out next week.
EA doesn't own Respawn, if they throw Respawn under the bus, Respawn leaves and takes Titanfall with them. Respawn had to be okay with this for it to happen this way.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Stuff like this is just too cool. Stolen from the Titanfall 2 thread:
Great point. I was considering mentioned Siege in my post actually. Great support can bring better than launch numbers. We'll see if they can pull it off, especially without any microtransaction cash to keep execs happy.
Oh, I meant that section as keep people around longer than 1. I'd imagine the level design is a factor that will do the opposite because, yeah, it's bad.
Doom did release near Uncharted 4 and then Overwatch came out a week or two later but honestly the games were all doing very different stuff so I doubt their was much pollution. Wolfenstein released really close to it's closest competitor, Borderlands 2... for Vita.
TF released with no director competitors in sights for a few months.
I agree with people talking about Spring releases. I get that a lot of games sell in the winter because of Christmas, but every year there are like 3 big games that get tons of hype and sell well because they are the only big releases outside of the holiday window. Bloodborne, Witcher 3, and Arkham Knight come to mind as games that dominated discussion before and after they came out because they release in a time of relative calm, with not a lot of other games in their genres.
Thewonandonly
Junior Member
I'm in the same boat. If two years ago you would have told me I wouldn't get titanfall 2 on launch day I would have called you fucking crazy, but here we are....
dragonflys545
Member
Bought it and returned BF. One more time Dice demonstrated they are unable to create worthy campaigns and I wasn't even satisfied with the MP. TF on the other side delivered, well done Respawn
I don't know man...
http://bf1stats.com/
Titanfall 2 is going to struggle getting this type of numbers in terms of players base.
AHA-Lambda
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Complicated
Banned
With it playing more like Call of Duty I expect it to die faster than the first game. I'd get Infinite warfare just for MW Remastered before I got Titanfall 2, but BF1 is by far the best choice and it's all I'm getting right now.
GhostOfSparta305
Banned
SunBroDave
Member
It's a shame that Titanfall 2 was released right between BF1 and COD, especially because by many accounts TF2 is looking like it might be the best one of the three. It just doesn't have the same reach as the other franchises.
I think it's a crazy decision but I understand it. Not sure how so many people seem to miss it.
With how things are going, despite the good review scores I have to imagine this will be like Battleborn was to Overwatch.
They picked a fight with a Giant and are going to be surprised when they get squashed under it's foot.
Conkerkid11
Member
It's such a good game too.I feel so sorry for Reapawn...
Liking it a lot more than BF1 so far.
Easily the most confusing releas date choice this year, like, why would you choose to do this to your own game? I would have delayed it a few months into next year and released it the same time they put out the first, during early march. They would have likely been on their own, advertising would have been easier and cheaper, and they would be able to try and take the players who slowly fall off the other big shooters they decided to ram themselves in between.
It was such an odd decision, more so than Tomb Raider last year as at least that was alone in its own genre on the same day as Fallout and between CoD and Battlefield.
It was such an odd decision, more so than Tomb Raider last year as at least that was alone in its own genre on the same day as Fallout and between CoD and Battlefield.
Titanfall 2 barely made it into the Amazon.de top 100 sales charts today. It was in the hundreds before. I always said the release time is stupid. Should have picked somewhere in Q1 instead. Hell at least could have picked December. I am basically not getting it because I picked up Gears and BF1. There is no time or money for a third shooter as cool as it looks. Because of it possibly not doing well I don't even know if it will be worth picking up down the line. Who knows how long the online population will actually stay big enough.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Looking at Live with Playstation stats (Certainly not a barometer of how many copies it's selling) but TF2 has slightly more streamers than Overwatch. Skyrim, BF and BLOPs have far more. Which for launch day is pathetic. Potentially a sign of its sales though. I don't think it's looking good for it.
Going to remembered along side this tweet. TF2 may be leagues better, but COD is going to eat Respawn's lunch.
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Hope I'm wrong, because the reviews say this deserves to sell well but I kinda think this will happen too. I really don't know what they were thinking, dropping TitanFall 2 between Battlefield and COD.
Titanfall didn't exactly light the world on fire when it came out, so its nowhere near as popular as the two biggest shooters in gaming.
Good on them for showing they have confidence in the game but it could also backfire and results in poor sales.
Titanfall didn't exactly light the world on fire when it came out, so its nowhere near as popular as the two biggest shooters in gaming.
Good on them for showing they have confidence in the game but it could also backfire and results in poor sales.
hogendaz85
Member
Titanfalls gameplay is much more exhilarating than both BeeF1 and COD: IW
Here's an idea folks, step outside your comfort zone and try something different.
Here's an idea folks, step outside your comfort zone and try something different.
I was super jealous when xbox got TF1. Pre ordered the sequel as soon as I got the chance and it's a ton of fun. So worth it, I really hope the game doesn't bomb
Hari Seldon
Member
Yeah this is going to be a major sales flop. I wouldn't even consider this on PC, it will have no community at all.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Do you trust us?
Utterly irrelevant in a sales discussion, but thanks.
Obligatory reminder that Respawn is independent and can split up with EA at any time but haven't, and have in fact set up more projects with them, suggesting that the relationship is not soured by this. They are also mostly ex-Infinity Ward people, so them wanting to go toe-to-toe with an Infinity Ward Call of Duty makes a certain amount of sense.
LapinAgile
Member
Not when sales haven't been tallied and word of mouth still has potential to launch the game beyond projected estimates.
It may make sense but it was a stupid decision that will not pay off for them. If anything it shows they were high on their own history and assumed TF2 would sell amazingly well because of that.
If anything, it makes them seem worse than if EA decided the release date. Cause if they felt they wanted to go up against CoD, then they were doing so within their own grave.
TimeEffect
Member
Hopefully it has legs
Could be one of those games where word of mouth can help it throughout its release and eventually outsells TF1.
lol @RIP Respawn, a studio that makes what some people say is the best shooter of this year or generation doesn't just die because their shitty publisher decided to sandwich its game release with another major shooter IP.
lol @RIP Respawn, a studio that makes what some people say is the best shooter of this year or generation doesn't just die because their shitty publisher decided to sandwich its game release with another major shooter IP.
Most game sales are still made in in the first week of release. Games that actually do what you suggest are rather rare. Rainbow Six: Siege is one of those rare exceptions. It's not something I would just assume with this game.
Hari Seldon
Member
Shooters are completely subjective, and I hated the first one. Considering what I am seeing is that this is basically just like the first one, I will be passing.
I'll probably be picking up TF2 as my yearly big AAA FPS purchase. BF1 looks to have a terrible half assed campaign from all things and while the mp is the draw, doesn't look as interesting overall for me. Infinite Warfare while fun looking seems like a half step below what I wanted out of the series in a heavily scifi setting which seems to be where TF2 steps in. Combine all this with the fact the SP campaign of TF2 is getting some serious praise helps a lot as well.
If poor receptions to betas and negative sentiment determine a games sales, then Infinite Warfare is also a flop.
Too bad there isn't synergy between the two titles; renamed it Battlefield: Titanfall with cheezy marketing (fight in the past, AND the future).
Its a shame too because they threw cash at the promotion. That said, there are 2 months till the holidays really start and considering how polished and acclaimed it is I have no doubt it will have legs
Its a shame too because they threw cash at the promotion. That said, there are 2 months till the holidays really start and considering how polished and acclaimed it is I have no doubt it will have legs
Trogdor1123
Member
Same
LapinAgile
Member
Borderlands also managed it. This is a unique situation for sure but I wouldn't discount anything this early on.