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[Draugoth]

• Stalker 2 is out for just 2 days and has already sold over 1 million copies.
• It has even outsold Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which has now been out for almost a month.
• GSC Game World’s title is reportedly showing good engagement on Game Pass too.

Source

Stalker 2 has already beaten Dragon in the number of units sold According to data from Gamalytics, while Stalker 2 has already surpassed 1 million sales Dragon Age: The Veilguard is still somewhere around 650K (not exact confirmed figures). Furthermore, Stalker 2 is available on Game Pass as well.


Stalker 2 is not only doing well on Steam but also has huge engagement on the subscription service. As big of a franchise as Dragon Age is, the same was expected of Bioware’s title.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Good for them!

I'll deffo be picking it up on steam once the bugs are ironed out a bit more.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Would not be surprised - no matter what people on Resetera say - Dragon Age did not have any pull for normies. Average, unremarkable game that was - in addition - openly mocked the original games.

 

[diffusionx]

Clickbait article based on nothing more than some estimates of unknown quality, and in any case, I don't see this as a good thing considering STALKER 2 is ludicrously buggy and unfinished while Veilguard's problems all stem from its writing and design - it's at least a finished and polished game.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

One is totally supportable while the other is big no. No wonder there.

 

[Mr Moose]

Those "copies sold" are widely different. Shit guesstimates.

 

[Cornbread78]

C'mon, lets hear it from the usual MAGA folks,

Must be because of DEI, it's gotta be, right?

 

[GrayChild]

Clickbait article based on nothing more than some estimates of unknown quality, and in any case, I don't see this as a good thing considering STALKER 2 is ludicrously buggy and unfinished while Veilguard's problems all stem from its writing and design - it's at least a finished and polished game.

But from another point of view, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will eventually be great after the bugs are ironed out. There's no saving Failguard unless it gets a full reimagining treatment until it's barely recognizable from its origin.

 

[Schmendrick]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is still somewhere around 650K (not exact confirmed figures). Furthermore, Stalker 2 is available on Game Pass as well.

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Now let EA`s controlling do its magic

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I did my part. Having a great time with it. Graphics are really nice and while taxing on the gpu, I get solid fps and crispy visuals.
Out the box, it was not good, the stutter was fucking awful. After some tinkering, we're good. That and Flawless widescreen.

 

[nicoGec]

On Steam? Sure

 

[diffusionx]

But from another point of view, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will eventually be great after the bugs are ironed out. There's no saving Failguard unless it gets a full reimagining treatment until it's barely recognizable from its origin.

"wow look how well this buggy game sold compared to this polished one" is not a great message to send to publishers when we are already constantly frustrated at the state of game releases.

 

[Flabagast]

there is zero reliable information in this source, please discard

 

[LectureMaster]

I think for sales info I'm gonna wait for a better source than tech4gamer.

 

[mckmas8808]

Clickbait article based on nothing more than some estimates of unknown quality, and in any case, I don't see this as a good thing considering STALKER 2 is ludicrously buggy and unfinished while Veilguard's problems all stem from its writing and design - it's at least a finished and polished game.

Yeah, I'm confused why anybody would "celebrate" this given what you said plus it's just guesstimates.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I've Died more in this game in 2 days than all other games in 23 days.

 

[GymWolf]

How funny that the arguably most broken game of 2024 outsold the arguably most polished game of 2024.

 

[acm2000]

stalker 2, bugs n all, is twice the game dragon age is so its well deserved.

 

[Boss Mog]

How funny that the arguably most broken game of 2024 outsold the arguably most polished game of 2024.

Maybe some things are just more important than polish, like the soul of western civilization.

 

[TheChumpNation]

Won't speak for anyone else, but writing, gameplay, art design and probably a few other factors as well are far more important to me than polish

 

[LordofAllThatIsEvil]

Unless you get profit sharing or own stock, who cares?

 

[Gp1]

So the game made in Ukraine during a frickin war + available on gamepass is selling more than BioWare's hail Mary with almost a decade of development?

Slava Ukraina them!

 

[GymWolf]

Maybe some things are just more important than polish, like the soul of western civilization.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Personally I think STALKER is overrated and I just do not really get the hype. I LOVE the Metro games, although.

However, I'm glad for those based Ukrainians. This is one of the few Western games that's not inundated with DEI type shit. It's still good to see a game like this become very successful.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Dragon Age doesn't even look like an interesting game before we even go into the cringe, forced eye roll worthy writing. It looks nothing like DA:O which was where the bar was set and they didn't get close to it from what I saw. Just another generic action RPG that doesn't have much of a personality.

At least STALKER 2 looks like an interesting game.

 

[StereoVsn]

"wow look how well this buggy game sold compared to this polished one" is not a great message to send to publishers when we are already constantly frustrated at the state of game releases.

Polished turds shouldn’t sell well. Stalker 3 has its share of issues, sure, but Veilguard’s problems can’t be fixed.

 

[StereoVsn]

I've Died more in this game in 2 days than all other games in 23 days.

Elden Ring DLC has entered the chat.

 

[LordCBH]

Good.

 

[Kacho]

I don't doubt for a second that Stalker 2 outperformed Dragon Age Veilguard on Steam.

 

[adamsapple]

Can we use a more reliable source ?

 

[LordOcidax]

Go WOKE go Broke… Deserved.

 

[ReBurn]

Now let EA`s controlling do its magic

That image is disturbing

 

[Diatribe1974]

There's some serious copium from the Dragon Age people here. I'm a former diehard Bioware person and while part of me still is curious about the game, more of me is interested in Stalker 2 and this is coming from someone who only got about halfway through the original and had over 200 hours in the original Dragon Age.

 

[Gamezone]

Dragon Age still sold too much for what it is to be honest.

 

[Zathalus]

It almost certainly did on PC. Considering it is on Gamepass and is a Xbox console exclusive I doubt it did it on consoles. How the totals compare is anyone’s guess, but if Stalker gets improved by the developer and eventually releases on the PS5 it is almost certain to be the better seller.

 

[dorkimoe]

what a shame because dragon age is better. you guys can keep up your little war on "woke" though

 

[ClanOfNone]

Veilguard was doomed going up against Inquisition’s numbers from the start.
Then they further fucked themselves by splitting the user base by turning it into an action game with zero actual role playing options.
Then they further split the user base by shoehorning in a bunch of dei stuff that was terribly written to boot.

It’s a bummer, I wonder what the original vision for Dreadwolf was versus the steaming pile that was delivered.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

C'mon, lets hear it from the usual MAGA folks,

Must be because of DEI, it's gotta be, right?

It is weird how that stellar writing and to the wall gameplay didn't draw people in.

 

[GymWolf]

That image is disturbing

It reminds me of that first enemy in pe2...

 

[Denton]

Clickbait article based on nothing more than some estimates of unknown quality, and in any case, I don't see this as a good thing considering STALKER 2 is ludicrously buggy and unfinished while Veilguard's problems all stem from its writing and design - it's at least a finished and polished game.

While STALKER 2 being released in non-admitted early access is bad, I will always prefer great but buggy game over perfectly polished mediocrity. You can fix bugs, you can't fix low quality game.

 

[Fake]

Clickbait article based on nothing more than some estimates of unknown quality, and in any case, I don't see this as a good thing considering STALKER 2 is ludicrously buggy and unfinished while Veilguard's problems all stem from its writing and design - it's at least a finished and polished game.

Well, maybe is proving that gamers are OK with bug in games, if the game is good.


I mean, Elden Ring launch with a loads of perfomance issues, bugs here and there.

 

[R3TRODYCE]

Stalker 2 doesn’t deserve half of those sales, buggy pos.

 

[saintjules]

Weird comparison since these are two different genre based games with different audiences?

 

[FoxMcChief]

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I'm not surprised

 

[Zacfoldor]

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

What's funny is that the Video Game journalists praised the garbage Dragon Age... and criticized S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Being a great game.

I would buy an Xbox for that game, but it will be released on PS5.

 

[phant0m]

Man this GAF’s hate boner for DA is really getting sad

 

[PuaPua]

How funny that the arguably most broken game of 2024 outsold the arguably most polished game of 2024.

The game is not broken after the day zero patch.

 

[GymWolf]

The game is not broken after the day zero patch.

The game is less buggy than it was, but still super buggy, people are unable to advance in the campaign, and most of the game is undercooked and unbalanced and a-life is basically completely absent and in its place there is a terrible spawn system that make feel the world not more believable than your average far cry game.

Me and many other people are still having fun but we are not gonna hide our heads into the sand and ignore the amount of broken stuff there is in the game.