>Lord, I can't change>Won't you fly HIGHGUARD, YEAH!
I was told by trustworthy sources that HIGHGUARD™ has over 40 million players on the PlayStation 5®
>>732341707how long can they keep the lights on? ex-EA devs are very expensive
It's highguarding time
Well I’m having a BLAST playing highguard, I don’t care about your opinion!
>WOW 50K PLAYERS THATS HUGE>25K IS COMFY>5K is huge for a game like this, the devs only expected this many>200 g-guys? where is everyone?>100 its alright... we are like a huge family and it's great>10 is enough for 1 match as long as no one leaves
>>732342564ooooo I AM BLASTING
Why does /v/ perpetually crave tortanics?
>>732341707I really don't understand all the hateHaters should just play the game and shut upI'm having a blast
Now I'd like to uh slow things down a little bit.
>>732342736it's fun to watch them lose their jobs and get publicly ridiculed
>>732342736the AAA market needs to die already
>>732342736that's what they get for not specifically pandering to me anymore
>>732342736I'm just not the target audience.
>>732342575Isn't it a 3v3 game
>>732343195there is a 5v5 gamemode now
>>732342736I want bad games to fail so that maybe one day good games are made again
>>732342736It's an acquired tastYou wouldn't get it
>>732341707Oof. I'm trying to get all the achievements as soon as possible on the Xbox version. This game will likely be EOS by the end of the year .It's actually a pretty fun game imo but it's clearly not gonna survive for long
>>732342736It's fun seeing people fail when they were told their ideas were stupid.
>>732342736I'm not playing games with niggers and/or ugly women in them and neither does any real gamer. SJW niggers and trannies are not real gamers and they don't play this shit either. Until they get the point, the flops will continue.
>>732343456what do you mean? nobody knew this game existed before gameawardsman did the thing.
>>732343412>I have to force myself to play shitty games because achievements Console plebs are their very own kind of retard.
>>732342736seeing wokies fail is funny
>>732342736>MOM SAID IT WAS MY TURN TO BRING UP TORTANIC
>>732341707Holy shit, at this rate it'll have less players than the wost rated game on steam
>>732342564You need to buy a lot of skins so the studio can keep the lights on.
>>732342736I use Linux and it doesnt run on Linux so I want it to fail
>woke rarely flopslol
>>732344236Geoff put the iceberg in their path
>>732346489based Dorito King
niggas be lettin their guard downGuardians, SQUAD UP!
>>732343412>pretty fun gameDisagree. Could have been pretty fun game but it feels like they followed the chat gpt output without a second thought.Locked game phases should not be a thing. Bases should have upgradable defense/offense/utility. Random loot shouldn't be a thing. Resource gathering should ideally be automated but require human input in the form of defending something.Basically they fucked up everything there's no saving this turd.
>>732347072I'm not defending it, I was just curious.There are maybe a thousand video games released each month? I barely have time to play games I'm interested in. I just don't see the point in investing time in discussing the failure (or success) of games I'm not interested in.Tbh other boards do it too. /tv/ loves seeing hollywood slop fail too.
>>732347072Same way migas now defend blackrock and to my surprise even epstein.
>>732342736So western devs can take notice
>>732347072They don't have any beliefs other than "own the chuds"
>>732347384Without Epstein there would be no 4chan. Do you really think moot could have afforded to keep 4chan going on his own?
>>732345905LEAVE THE CORPORATION ALONE(didn't read btw)
>>732342736I'm just minding my own business
>>732347836>Without Epstein there would be no 4chan.Then I would be free.
>>732341707STOP THE COUNT
>>732342736because just when /v/ comes close to going clean, a new tortanic drops and gets /v/ addicted again
>>732349479
LOL they are currently losing about 1000 players a day! At this rate they'll lose all PC players by the 10th of this month.
>>732351451seethe brownie
>>732342736Watching the industry course correct is funny, watching live service garbage fail is cathartic.
>>732351592yeah because spaming the same shit steam charts about some shit game literally no one cares about is not seethingbot or npc, either way brainless
freebird is a shitty fucking song and I'm tired of hearing itthe guitar solo isn't even that good
>>732351894kek it's so easy to bait you retards
>>732351959
>>732341707So realistically how long will it stay up? There is no way anyone is spending money on this, the artstyle is generic as fuck, the heroes look unappealing, there is no coombait, nobody is buying skins for the brocolli hair jeet. At 2,5k it would be a miracle if even 50 people spent money on microtransactions, this doesn't look financially viable at all.
>>732352927could u hedge a bet against it going offline on polymarket and they will have an incentive to stay up?
>>732342736Tortanics wouldn't be a thing if there wasn't a pattern.
>>732347257>niggas be lettin their guard down>Guardians, SQUAD UP!very guardians, much galaxy
why did they put a jeet on the cover of their gamethey 100% know that people will hate it and yet they do it... this is some satanic ritual by the elitesthey do it for fun to demoralize the remaining whites
>>732354223But the is clearly a proud American.
>>732345905if a game has brown characters then its woke, thats how it worksno one wants to play as a brown, not even brown people
the most generic looking dei slop characters ever createdare they trying to pull a Concord?
>>732352395Why is Tony Hawk upset?
>>732341707Weekendbros...
>>732354493The Concord cast was repulsive, this is just generic, like if you asked an AI to generate you hero shooter characters, it's not offensive to look at at least. Girl in the center is kinda hot
>>732341707The Bitcoin chart is far worse.
How much did the game awards get to pretend to like this crap lol
>>732355076>Girl in the center is kinda hot
>>732354493Would fuck middle girl and the redhead. Maybe even the black chick.
96 employees. 96. No layoffs yet announced.Free to play payer conversion rates sit at 1-5%, this game likely sitting on the low end of that.Will be generous and say they got less then 1 million players across all platforms(I never saw a 1 million highguardians post). Player counts today on steam are at about 5% of that, so likely less then 52k active now across all platforms.Taking the number of players and estimated % of payers, we get maybe 1300 payers playing.Payers of console/pc f2p games spend on average $325/y(North america)- $120/y(europoor). This game is definetly NA coded, so will estimate that to $260/y as it likely leans Americans.Its only February and that $260 is across all games they will play this year, so they will have spent an average of $22 so far, and that will have been spread across 2 games on average. So on average for a paying customer, highguard has seen around $11.All this together, I estimate highguards total revenue to date to be less then $100k.Concord, prior to refunds being handed out, sold an estimated 25000 copies-about $1m worth of sales for its $400m budget. For highguard to be a bigger failure then concord, it needs to have a budget higher then $40m.
>>732342736I want AAA devs to waste as much money as possible making as many failed live service games as possible so they fucking stop trying it so much. It's been so long that people unironically believe the "only pubstompers want community servers back" (non-)argument.
>>732355076
>>732342736you have this group of really annoying people who constantly go on and on about huge, modern audiences and massive profits if only you do everything they say. it's funny watching them fail non-stop and twist themselves crazy coming up with new ways to explain it all away
>>732355493>the "only pubstompers want community servers back" (non-)argument.I never got this one. The same people making these arguments will also scream about smurfs and rigged matchmaking.
>>732355459>it needs to have a budget higher then $40m.>96 employees>located in Seattle and LA>average salary for a programmer (yeah, let's imagine they're ALL programmers) is probably around 5000 on the lowest of low ends>game took 4 years to makethat's already like 23 million just in salaries
>>732355459>96 employeesAll in LA, all former AAA devs.
>>732355608she's hot, shame she's stuck in a shit tier comp slop game and there can only be so many casino simulators.
>>732342736Reminder that tortanicfags lost to Deadlock.
>>732354493How did that one white guy get past the censors?
>>732357418Gay
>>732341707I think dunking on this trash is already old news. It will be gone in 6 months.
>>732355459Your live service wouldn’t inspire much confidence if you announced layoffs 10 days after launch.
>>732347276Im having fun like the anon you (you)'d to, but I do agree with everything you said. If this game had more half assed basebuilding mechanics, and had some pve enemies within the map I think it'd be a legitimate blast, and not a blast™.
WE'RE SO BACKhttps://youtu.be/60VKz8rGm-A?si=JNm3OqNIfXqBheOI
>>732342736Because the game industry keeps pouring money into a pointless shit that nobody wants.Here's a new example:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JubgL46Xkmk
There simply is too many competetive games. There is limitted supply of people who will waste their life playing video games in "competetive" manner. I wish i got my leaque years back
>>732361093But /v/ doesn't buy games? Why would they listen to us?
>>732361205Twittards also don't buy games yet industry loves listening to them.
>>732342736No one *wants* games to fail outright, it's more like people want to see bad decisions (like not listening to your customerbase, for instance) punished.
>>732342359like not at all, its a f2p game. They're probably well into the red
>>732361390Do they?
>>732361643If you only "listen to your customerbase", you get the same shit over and over again.
>>732342736Feels good to be vindicated in my hatred of the modern AAA industry
>>732360905Marabros...
>>732342736The industry as a whole has turned extremely hostile towards gamers. It's only natural to want to see your enemies fail. Notice how nobody cheers when good games fail, but only when it's pozzed corpo slop?
>>732341707why are chuds so hard to dislodge in the videogame hobby as opposed to other forms of entertainment?movie/cartoon/music/comicbook/art/sport/tabletop chuds were beaten and finally displaced,but videogame chuds for some reason are a tougher nut to crack.what gives?
>>732342736I merely lol at devs who get forced to make shit nobody wants
>>732362260Games are the easiest form of entertrainment to engage with, so bottom of the barrel dregs latch onto it. And because games are so personalized, it's very easy to pretend you've played games you're never even heard about, who's gonna question you if you say a game is too hard or easy?
>>732361838>gamers get what they want over and overoh no, sounds awful. like the 90s
>>732362260isn't all the shit you listed on life support?
>>732360905>the black one dies first (and as the only one)classic
>>732362736name a piece of media/entertainment type that isn't on life support except porn.
>>732360905>they have someone on payroll to heart comments and type out embarrassing repliesI physically recoiled, this is going too far
>>732342736Why does a fag always come into these threads where anons are enjoying the dumpster fire? Fuck outta here >>>/y/
>>732341707>We don't care about numbers>Our goal is to catter to playerbase we haveI don't think you're gonna make money back even if everyone of those 5600 players buy your microtransactions
A new Guardian. We are saved HighGuard bros!
>>732343016This isn't even an AAA game lol
>>732363534kek I thought those were 2 mushroom clouds for a second
>>732342736Because the people actively trying to ruin video games by putting out this slop deserve it?
>>732362938that's my entire point
>>732342736it validates uswe keep telling corpos not to do it, but they keep doing it. and we give them this advice for free
>>732342810>I'm having a blasthello there, fellow enjoyer. i too am having a great blast on the game Highguard
>>732366930NTA, but I use the phrase 'I'm having a blast!' precisely because I know it will trigger schizos.
>>732342736The destruction of AAA gaming will become the foundation of something better.
>>732362260Because gaming was founded by chuds and made for all the other chuds who were chased off. They were forced into one giantanic hobby that accepts all forms of entertainment. Chuds make games for other chuds and this attracts other chuds in an neverending cycle.
I just got the platinum trophy and uninstalled it.The game is in trouble. Steamcharts numbers aside, there's literally zero reason to but any money into the game. There's not a single cosmetic that looks good and none of the characters have any kind of charm to make you want to buy skins for them anyway.I've played the game all week and I truthfully don't know what the main black guy's name is.
>>732342736I hate video game developers almost as much as they hate me.
>>732354493Would you laugh if I told you the art director of concord jumped ship to work on highguardyeah
>>732363534>anon discovers social media managers
>>732342736because I want the games industry to burn
>>732342736The western games industry these days often creates games with contempt for you, specifically, in mind. People enjoy when this blows up, even though we're already aware that making money was never the goal in the first place.
>>732341707>$50M game>$0 made on game sales>50000 active players / day>each player must spend $1,000 on cosmetics just to break evenlmao
>>732341707It must be their peak character designs
>>732369141His hair is kinda silly, but at least he's a light skinned guy with a handsome face, so I don't really see the problem.
>>732341707>They bought at the dip!
>>732357418He’s a California surfer.
>>732354493what I've noticed with these games recently is they'll have 1-2 token attractive characters. It's like they think if they include a steak in the middle of a giant turd, people will eat the shit
HIGHGUARD IS SAVED!
>>732370873
>>732371173Shit, it's black Geralt with dreadlocks!
>>732371173Not the worst character design ever but damn I bet they are scrambling to dump whatever content they have available to try and save this game
>>732355608Hhnnnnngggggg....... drain me mommy Mara!
>>732347257Erm chud its wardens you fake fan
>>732369141not really sure what you thought you did here, you give AI a very detailed prompt and it will usually do something close to it
>>732341707It's time to high my guard
>>732342736I so much want GTAVI to fail.
>>732371173maybe its time to just throw in the towel guys
my pc cant run this so i looked at a few twitch streams. why are games so fucking bright now? it feels like my eyes are being assaulted.
nigger.
>>732372210This. Highguard is too much. We can't beat it.
>>732367641This isn't a AAA game tho
>>732371173He looks kinda cool, ngl.
>>732368082You've got Mara and uhhhh Ken from Street Fighter and uhhh
>>732362259Who of the highguard devs is hostile to gamers?
>>732368659There's a few ex Firewalk devs working on Highguard. Imagine getting double tapped from back to back studios. I'd probably change careers.
>>732368786Anon, if you understood that you're dumb and stopped trying to fight it you might even understand simple things like that guys post.
>>732370213>light skinned guyYou can't fool me, mysterymeat-anon.
>>732342736live service game fatigue
When are they adding yinglets?
As milquetoast as their social media presence is, at least they're not BADASS or inflammatory toward the public like those Saints Row devs.
