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Will dbd suffer witen GTA VI is released

bazarama
bazarama Member Posts: 273
in General Discussions

Firstly happy new year to one and all and may 2025 bring you peace and good health.

Obviously there isn't a release date yet but when GTA VI does hit the market I think it's inevitable a lot of games including dbd will take a player hit.

I for one will probably drop everything for the first month at least to play GTA VI.

It makes me wonder if the devs have some big event or licence in the background to try to combat the release of probably the most anticipated and eagerly awaited game in recent memory?

Or will it be a case of take the player hit until the initial surge subsides or have they even gave it some thought?

Comments

  • TheSingularity
    TheSingularity Member Posts: 329

    I doubt it no.

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 16,389

    It is not unlikely that playercount will drop. And I think this will mainly impact SWFs a bit more (if 4 people regularly play together and 2 or 3 want to play GTA6, you will not see the remaining ones in DBD being Solo/2 man SWF).

    But usually this is only for a short time. Same happened when Elden Ring released and probably other games as well. But this is nothing which only affects DBD and it is also nothing which will really have a long-lasting impact on DBD.

  • LockerLurk
    LockerLurk Member Posts: 29

    They aren't in any way similar so no. I don't think so.

  • Smoe
    Smoe Member Posts: 2,994

    Reminds me of when people said same- if not more about Elden Ring back when it came out.

  • tjt85
    tjt85 Member Posts: 1,012

    Is the new GTA really coming out soon? I'm not a fan of the series, so I genuinely don't know.

    I kinda expected to be reading the next Song of Ice and Fire book before GTA 6 was released, it's been in development for that long. I mean, Nintendo even made two giant open world Zelda games within the same development period.

    While I'm sure most games will take a player count hit when it finally drops, it probably won't be a huge one for DBD.

  • Xernoton
    Xernoton Member Posts: 5,900

    Will it suffer? Yes. Absolutely. For a few days many people will play GTA VI instead of DBD, so BHVR will sell less Feng skins. We've seen that happen before with many highly awaited games. But eventually these players come back to DBD. They always do.

  • MaTtRoSiTy
    MaTtRoSiTy Member Posts: 2,160

    No. It's a different player base, there is some overlap maybe but people who play that wont stop playing this as you can still play more than one game regularly

  • SoGo
    SoGo Member Posts: 1,570

    There is almost no overlap between the 2 games. They can function independently.