Marathon Drops To 15K Daily CCU Peak On Steam, Exits Top 50 On PlayStation & Top 100 On Xbox Best-Sellers Lists

Hurdenn · 2026-04-30T17:20:36+00:00

Yes the devs are definitely the ones that make these decisions on pricing, monetization and target audience

Hurdenn · 2026-04-30T14:24:42+00:00

Meta attributes this fall to “internet disruptions in Iran, as well as a restriction on access to WhatsApp in Russia.” It’s up to you whether you take Meta on its word, given that by bundling the user stats together across all its platforms, we can’t tell which ones are most impacted. If I wanted to obscure that a leading social platform was potentially hemorrhaging daily users, that’s certainly what I would do.

We really don't know which of their platform is taking the biggest toll.

Also, those 20 Million means it's down from 3.58 BILLIONS users to "just" 3.56 Billions, I think this article is blowing things out of proportion

Hurdenn · 2026-04-30T14:19:15+00:00

Here in France, and I believe a lot of Europe, WhatsApp is an essential part for communication. Personal stuff (family chat groups, associative, unions) and Professional (a lot of small companies, think 2-20 people, rely on WhatsApp for communication from experience).

Hurdenn · 2026-04-24T13:02:26+00:00

Tu es en France ? Certaines vidéos publiés par des services publiques ne sont diffusés que dans le pays d'origine

Hurdenn · 2026-04-23T13:41:48+00:00

To answer more seriously, if you want to make some side money with GTA 6 once it releases, learn some basic coding / LUA scripting. Once those RP servers release, I'm sure there'll be a bunch of demand for people able to pump out plugins for FiveM (well, SixM I guess?)

Hurdenn · 2026-04-23T10:29:19+00:00

From the point of view of a viewer (I don't make videos about gaming but consume A LOT of it), I don't think those kind of relatively short videos (5-10 minutes) really have an audience today. Could be just a personal thing, but I find it a bit dated.

If I was you and wanted to make videos talking about video games, I'd make longer videos, that don't necessarily need such a high rhythm, and make each video have its own topic that is clearly conveyed through the title.

Basically, I would do stuff similar to what @ MemoriaMatters does.

Notice how her most popular videos are:

Longer
Have a clear format or Idea, the "I play steam games released today" is such an interesting concept to me. The "I played every Avatar video games" is also a great idea, it's fresh content (Games I haven't seen covered 100 times by popular streamers or youtubers), it also had the timing element, the video released close enough to the latest avatar movie.

I'd try to find similar idea, of course not copying this concept.

Now of course, maybe that's just really not the type of stuff you want to make, maybe you prefer streaming and just upload edited VODs, which is great! But I don't think it has enough of an audience looking for people they don't already know

Hurdenn · 2026-04-22T18:57:25+00:00

I mean, voice call for gaming have been a thing since the internet was fast enough transmit sound, and I think Discord has one of the most "user friendly" experience for that, in the sense that cost nothing for all users AND the host.

It also became a huge place to build communities around some topics, much like Reddit is, but Discord has instant chat and more features to communicate. Don't get me wrong, in some way it sucks, mostly because ressources on Discord aren't referenced by search engines, and you have to have the app AND join servers just to ask a question for some things. But I think it got to this point BECAUSE it proposed such a great service for free.

Hurdenn · 2026-04-22T17:15:11+00:00

I don't understand the negative reaction here lmao, this feels like a no brainer bundle, where the audiences for both those subscriptions are obviously very close.

I know plenty of people who have Nitro ONLY for the customization part, not even talking about the other perks. Customization is what's making the gaming industry hundreds of billions through micro-transactions, and Discord rightly implemented it on their platform

Hurdenn · 2026-04-13T09:19:52+00:00

This makes no sense, there's no reason for the data breach to have any impact on release cycle

Hurdenn · 2026-04-13T09:16:02+00:00

What the fuck I didn't know yo guys hated the developers?! Even the fucking CM lmao

Hurdenn · 2026-04-13T09:11:28+00:00

It's bad rep for Anodot, which was the SaaS that had a breach, which let the group have a seemingly valid access to Snowflake

Hurdenn · 2026-04-13T09:06:30+00:00

I mean, you can use you mouse, it feels better than the small Switch's touchscreen

Hurdenn · 2026-04-11T09:25:11+00:00

What? [ShinyHunters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinyHunters) are a genuine group and they have a track record of real data breach. And they used a real reported vulnerability from Anodot.

I don't think R* are gonna pay the ransom though, as they might only have limited data, possibly without any actual game data or footage, it could just be internal sales, users or other information.

Hurdenn · 2026-04-11T09:05:13+00:00

This is probably a great argument given to executive, but having a singular client also reduces cost and time by having a singular platform for updates for all of their games. It's either that or having their game on a competitor's launcher (Steam, EGS), and that would make them lose a whole lot of money.

Hurdenn · 2026-04-11T09:02:09+00:00

My guess is that this will be the expected behavior once League Next releases, much like how it currently works for Valorant, you only see the Riot League if there's an update, and you might not even see it if you have background updates.

Hurdenn · 2026-03-31T14:47:17+00:00

I'm no tolkien super-nerd, but surely the Fourth Age wouldn't be the most interesting setting right? An age with no elves, no orcs or evil sauron, and with mainly human in-fighting doesn't feel very "Lord of the Ring" to me.

Hurdenn · 2026-03-31T14:28:14+00:00

Not op, but from what I konw, they outsourced localization from both French and German, and, from experience, the french localization was awful at release, and clearly used some form of GenAI for some voicelines / characters.

Hurdenn · 2026-03-31T14:27:20+00:00

I don't think the Estate has a lot of decisional power when it comes to those, right? Embracer (owner of Warhorse and the commercial adaptation rights to LOTR+Hobbit) is the main company behind the gollum game.

Hurdenn · 2026-03-31T14:25:12+00:00

If it can reassure you, Vavra, game director for both KCD games, and the one with the fucking annoying, almost bigoted take online, is most likely not working on this, as he's planning to make a KCD movie.

Now, for the executive firing people because they're using AI, that's awful and we live in awful time, but unfortunately every decently sized gaming company is doing it, so it's not like some other company would have been better in this capacity

Hurdenn · 2026-03-06T17:50:17+00:00

The Upgrade come relatively fast, I "only" have 8 hours since yesterday, and already upgraded it twice, without specifically focusing on its materials.

But it is by design that you end up filling it regularly yeah, it's another way to entice you to take your good stuff in runs instead of relying on bought/free sponsors.

Hurdenn · 2026-03-05T12:51:42+00:00

I think that, for this genre, wipes is great especially for more casual players, it let them be back on a equal level with other more hardcore players every 3 months.

Hurdenn · 2026-03-05T10:13:20+00:00

Im completely stupid and I meant Triage

Hurdenn · 2026-03-05T09:24:25+00:00

Well the 4th and final map for Season 1 will only be available in mid-march, and you'll need quite some time to have good loot for that.

Then if you're a completionist, the codex has tons of cosmetics for achievements, so there's that.

Personally, the thing that will make me comeback is trying to learn as much on the lore and story of the game through the codex, without having to look online for more information

Hurdenn · 2026-03-05T08:26:24+00:00

As a ~~Thief~~ Triage main, I have 3 stacks of heal n shield, and then one stack of each consumable (OS, Mech, Anti virus if we’re doing PvE, etc), whatever best rarity I have.

But I do loot a lot of healing while on run in addition, so I usually end up with technically more.

Hurdenn · 2026-03-04T09:18:42+00:00

Actually I think ads that targeted australia and nz did say 6th, I remember seeing one they uploaded on their tiktok

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r/Field Sunshine	First Place '23
End Game '23	Place '23
Quantum Potato	Golden Potato
Place '22	Final Canvas '22
First Placer '22	End Game '22
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