God of War PC Nearing 75,000 Concurrent Players on Steam

With those numbers it’s hardly gonna kill console like some people speculate. 50k new players is a definite plus for the company though.

Its awfully nice of you to suggest even a single soul would use epic Games over steam to buy this

I know the Sony execs are most probably drolling with dollar sign eyes at the moment 🙂 I think Bloodborne, Spider-man and Tlou2 PC ports will come out later in the year. Good and/or bad we have to begin to get used to how things will be 🤷

@AhmadSumadi That’s 50000 playing at the same time, not total

That isn’t even a lot, monster hunter rise hit double that yesterday

@GorosBat This. You'd think one of the greatest games of all time would be selling more, but its getting outsold by a port of a Monster Hunter game.

I'm gonna buy it after dinner. I can't wait to see what it looks like with a 3080.

That sounds shockingly low tbh. That was the peak? So much buzz and high praise. I really don't think it'll get higher than that unless the game gets its first sale. But seeing the other games being much more played, one can tell there's a hugh difference between console gamers and PC gamers. I hoped for more to be frank. That's my favorite game right there. Regardless, I can't wait for God of War Ragnarok.

@JAMes-BroWWWn It’s a bit silly trying to act as if console players have seemingly better taste based on the other games PC gamers are playing. Console players are the main FIFA, 2K and CoD market.

@nessisonett I don't know how you come up with "better", it's clearly different. That's all I said. It's rather silly to imply that different means better. Looking through Steam top 100, there's a concrete differentiation of games being played. Nothing wrong with that, at all. And funny that you mentioned FIFA being a main console game when even FIFA on Steam had more players than God of War. I guess, there are some overlapping incidents after all.

Hmmm. With GoW and hzd and other ps titles on steam, the steamdeck may be my unofficial playstation portable when it comes out.

I didn't think my pc would be able to run it but it actually runs surprisingly well & looks great

PC players get to play a masterpiece, Sony gets to sell a game that costs $20, or is free on PS+/now, for $50. Everyone wins.

@lolwhatno They have what now? We all have smartphones and tons of consoles games have a computer to browse on. I don’t think that there’s a difference in available information.

And very soon Sony will have to deal with the inevitable pirated copies and torrent release and see that pc sales will plummet.

With so many native PS games coming to PC, maybe Push 🔲 is bound to change it's name to Push control+X and write steam news with the same effort as the PS ones...

@zebric21 very likely, but still, the fact that GoW is so talked about after years, is a win for Sony. It helps build hype for Ragnarok

@lolwhatno The devs? Devs can always share gameplay easier. And I think a PC only indie game has more to do with it then knowing about it. Not fair to ask a console owner to know about a game not on console.
And while people stream more often on discord I imagine, streaming gameplay is actually a bit easier on PS5 than on PC. Saving a short gameplay clip is too, but that one could be because I’ve never tried to do that on Steam, but I don’t know that saving the last 1-30 min of gameplay is been possible on PC without setting specific software for it. Could be my ignorance on that, but watching a stream on PS5 is also much easier unless you’re wanting toss it up on a separate monitor altogether.

@zebric21
It's already been pirated (GoW). It's started to appear on torrent sites. Persona 4 Golden was pirated less than 24 hours after it released on PC despite them begging for a port for nearly a decade.

This is one of the reasons I feel PC players don't deserve the console games they beg for. With Persona they had the audacity to complain on Reddit of poor performance of the pirated copy. Unbelievable. Their entitlement sickens me.

I'll probably get called out for this comment as it's a touchy subject but PC game piracy is a huge problem that will never go away due to the nature of the open platform.

Slightly off topic and about the new generation consoles and games.
Certain games like FH5, HFW and third party cross generation games. When played on the top models of the old generation, Xbox one x, PS4 Pro.
We really haven’t come that far this new generation.
For all the specifications and SSDs and new tech in the new generation the top end of the old generation are hardly behind. Yes some better effects, slight improvement on resolution and fps, but even those seem to have limits on the new generation.
When went from one generation to the next in the old days, like SNES to N64 you knew about, with games like Mario 64 and Wave Racer, on release day.
Maybe more power is catching up with diminishing returns.
Maybe to unleash more power of this new generation would cost so much time and money to develop for to make a game so graphically amazing that it showed a big step, it wouldn’t make business sense.
So far this new generation is like someone doing 10% better at something.

@zebric21 Already most seeded/leeched on the RARBG site.

It's like people forget some PC players have consoles too. I plat Gow already. Better graphics on my PC isn't reason enough for me to pay again for the same game.

I think most people who have PC also have a PS4 to be honest. As one of those people, I don't feel compelled to buy this again, especially for 50 dollars. For 20 or even 30? Sure. But I've already experienced God of War. What would REALLY be a good comparison is if there is a day and date release. But that isn't going to happen any time soon.

@NinjaWaddleDee on the Pc it’s a new release and they put a lot of effort in it. It’s a very good pc version.
If we want cheaper prices for a game that’s „older“ but I can understand the price tag here with 50 USD as a new release on pc.

@Reeneman I understand the 50 dollars. But I think ALOT of people played the game already on PS4, so that's why sales aren't higher.

@NinjaWaddleDee agree. But it’s still a nice move to offer the game to the pc only players.

Do you guys even have steam ffs? Lmao it is the N01 top-selling game there it doesn't get any better than that this is a huge win for sony.

@Reeneman I agree absolutely. If Ragnarok comes to steam I'm getting it day one, even if it releases on PS5 first. After switching to PC this gen I'm learning to wait now.

@NinjaWaddleDee we don't know what the sales figures are though. HZD sold 716000 in its first month on steam, and GOW has a much higher profile, better scores and is a better port.
As Arisen says, its sitting at No1 on steam at the moment, and it was no1 when preorders started. At the moment it has 62k concurrent players. I'd be amazed if it hasn't sold over 1 million by the end of the month.

@Serialsid Hopefully this sends a message to Sony that PC players do in fact want their games. Maybe not day 1 per say, but it's my hope that they at least push up the releases to 6 months after instead of multiple years.

@lolwhatno You are totally right. For indies getting on Steam isn't a matter of preference; it's business necessity.

@lolwhatno Agreed. Steam does a much better job of making them accessible and promoted. It’s also a lot easier to sort through them by category and stuff. PS Store definitely needs an overhaul for that stuff.

Almost a peak of 67k concurrent players on Steam now is very impressive for a 4-year old game.

To put it in perspective, Forza Horizon 5 had a ton of hype behind it last year, was a brand new game, and features online play and reached a peak of 80k concurrent on Steam.

Congrats to God of War on the PC success and this is going to drum up even more interest in Ragnarok.

@GADG3Tx87 yes let’s punish the many for the sins of the few.

Now we need trophies on PC. Make it happen Sony.

@zebric21 it's already been pirated

Well that's more than halo infinite currently and god of war is what, 3 years old

Sony better hope they don’t start pushing people to PC. I imagine they stand to lose quite a bit of profits if people start leaving their PlayStation store. They get a piece of every single purchase in their store.

I told someone who sort of follows gaming a bit that 'God of War' is on PC now and they said 'WHAT??? WHY???' They was shocked that a PlayStation icon and Exclusive was on PC now to. Oh well good old Jim Ryan will destroy the PlayStation brand for a quick bit of CA$H :-/

@Jaz007 Both Nvidia and AMD offer the last 1-30 minutes footage capture via their driver software and windows 10-11 both have that feature built in.

@Carl-G I've been hearing it for a while, yet I don't see playstation slowing down at all. Just making record breaking sales and profits. Let's see how long this narrative keeps going when it's contradicted by facts.

@claytortot213 who are the many and who are the few in this case, though?

@Carl-G oh don't be such a sour fanboy, more people playing an amazing game like God of War is a good thing! I have friends who would never in a million years buy a PlayStation, but now they get to experience this gem, Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone. Microsoft have given up on exclusives, they release everything on PC too, it's only Nintendo left with that strategy.

It's a good achievement indeed, keeping in mind that most fans of the franchise already played it on PS.
And that's only the "concurrent players" number, not the sale number, which is certainly higher.
I preordered it on Steam too, even though i already played it on PS4 Pro and PS5. It's an awesome game, and I'm glad Sony is considering bringing it's exclusive games to PC, and the ports it makes are of very good quality. So I wanted to show my support. For now i did not start a playthrough on PC, but will do that in the near future.

To the people worried a PC port will chip away from the console's sale numbers: as one can see from the 3 exclusives already released on PC - this happens after 2-3 years of exclusivity, during which time millions of copies are sold (google and see the numbers).
Just like Matt DeWald (from Sony SM) said "We’ve sold almost 20 million, like 19.5 million copies [of God of War] on console,” “There are still people out there that have never played it, and if they haven’t played it on console by now, they’re probably not going to play it on console"
So a PC port will allow Sony to reach a broader audience. That can only have positive effects in the long run.
And it's exciting for the devs too, to see the result of years of their hard work being appreciated by a new audience, even years after the initial release.
Not to mention there's new revenue to be gained from a PC release, along with new reputation, appreciation, awards and attention, that can only help the Studios that worked on it.
So, imo, it's best to leave the "closed minded fanboy-ism" behind, and judge those PC releases objectively, with a little vision towards the broader picture.

There is one problem, however. It seems Sony does not use a very good protection (like Denuvo for example), just like they did with Horizon ZD and Days Gone. God Of War was cracked in less than 1 day after release. So the actual number of people playing it is much higher than the Steam numbers show... The biggest disadvantage of releasing a game on PC.
Sony should have watched closely at how things are done when releasing a console game on PC.
I.e. Death Stranding had Denuvo when it released on Steam, and it had it for about 1 year. After that, they removed it. It was cracked right after, but the impact on the sales due to piracy was certainly lowered. A similar solution was applied to Resident Evil 2 Remake on PC and others.
That is the best idea, imo. They protect the game ensuring sales in the first year of it's lifecycle. Then they remove it so the ppl that bought it don't have to bother on the long term with the shortcomings that such a protection has (lower FPS and performance is the most important one).

@claytortot213 Steam has it's own Achievements already, so do Epic Store, Ubisoft connect and others. If you bought the game on Steam, you need only play to win them. If you play a pirated copy, however, you're out of luck.
Imo, it's good that each platform has it's own Trophies or Achievements. They can act as an incentive when you're considering replaying the game.

@Shinnok789 I know but being able to earn trophies towards my PlayStation account would be way cooler.

Now that the seed is in place that PS games could come to PC, how much will this effect sales numbers?

I'm not quite ready to get GoW:R and H:FW on release day, happy to wait for a sale, or maybe a PC version.

@Shinnok789 As a PC gamer I hope that Sony never adds any sort of DRM like Denuvo. Even with Denuvo games will still be cracked. All you're doing is harming the people that purchased and supported the company day 1 with bad performance. That does far harm more than the people who pirate the game. As now you just turned people off buying period or push more people to pirate the game.

I’m surprised I haven’t seen this on the news. You’d think they’d report on the world ending lol

@Shinnok789 even pirated games have achievements, it's not tied to any platform but you can earn them using a separate tool

@Floki there's one cracker of denuvo right now

@claytortot213 maybe Sony might look into making their own storefront on pc you never know although I doubt they'd want to compete against steam

PC players are trying to get bloodborne on there 😂

Put Bloodborne on Pc... I've always wanted to see the internet melt.

@Krysus Honestly a PS5/PC port with better framerate is much needed.

Really this just tells me how great GoW is and how PC players really wanted to play it, the more playing that masterpiece the better.

@Would_you_kindly ya I think I would rather not have trophy support if it means another launcher lol

@WallyWest

True story, if you have a modded PS4 there’s an enhancement patch for Bloodborne that really improves the game. It’s a 60fps patch. It’s a little unstable based on the videos I’ve watched on it (it seems to hover around 60 in many cases, but when the combat gets heavy it can drop down to the 40s) but it’s still very impressive with what the fan community was able to achieve on base PS4 hardware. It runs even better on Pro apparently.