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Stranger Things. How many new players did it bring in?

XavierBoah17
XavierBoah17 Member Posts: 204
in General Discussions

Overall enjoying the new chapter. I love everything from the chase music to the caged rat giving away my position. I just wanted to know how many new/returning players came for the new update?

Comments

  • BBQnDemogorgon
    BBQnDemogorgon Member Posts: 3,615
    edited September 2019

    Hard to say...

    This double bp weekend actually brought more people on at once than the ST release day. 🤷‍♀️

    No records were broken either despite a free event.

    According to steam charts at least.

  • Kilmeran
    Kilmeran Member Posts: 3,142

    @XavierBoah17 The question should not be how many new players it brought in, but how many new players it retains overall. Dead by Daylight has never had an issue bringing in new players, but it has been unable to retain them for slightly over a year now.

    Every time there is a 50% off sale, for example, the Steamcharts numbers increase for a couple of weeks before retracting back to the normal 20k-25k daily peak users it showed before the sale. Indicating that it failed to retain them.

    I made note of the Steamchart numbers increased during the release of the Stranger Things chapter and the 50% off sale. I'm going to be watching over the next month to see how the numbers go. Right now it's a bloodhunt, which also brings back Vets every time they have one, so numbers can't really be gauged yet.

    Now, I can't speak for consoles, of course, because we have no external way to track that like we do for PC.

  • Horus
    Horus Member Posts: 850

    now check how many people left after they bought the game and got hard bullied

  • pAncrop900
    pAncrop900 Member Posts: 44
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/719386#Comment_719386

    Or after they find out the queue times

  • Xboned
    Xboned Member Posts: 461

    Or the torturous grind.

    This game has a lot of ways to turn off new players, I'm not even remotely surprised to hear that it has trouble retaining them. I love this game with all my heart, but I can't recommend it to friends.

  • Angelicus23
    Angelicus23 Member Posts: 2,547

    The question is:

    How many will stay?

  • AshleyWB
    AshleyWB Member Posts: 4,061

    If I had to guess I would say...17,406 and 9,854 of those have played over 10 hours as of today.

    Yippee

  • Chicagopimp2019
    Chicagopimp2019 Member Posts: 458

    Ironically, it actually got me interested in the actual Stranger Things show...lol. I never followed it prior to the DLC being released and decided to check it out. Now I'm a fan!

  • indieeden7
    indieeden7 Member Posts: 3,404

    On god, if someone could look into how many copies of the game were bought because of the Stranger Things chapter I'd marry them. I'm doing a business project on Netflix and have already mentioned Netflix giving the rights to Stranger Things to Behaviour Interactive and it would probably be pretty impressive if I could get a rough number on how many people bought the game because of the collaboration.

  • Dr_Loomis
    Dr_Loomis Member Posts: 3,703

    As a long time player of DBD, this Double Blood Event has had the worst killer wait times...