Now, more than ever, players and pundits are flocking to SteamDB to track player concurrent numbers for existing live-service titles and recently-released titles to try and piece together whether a game is failing or succeeding. It's not perfect, since most games release on PC and on consoles, but it's as close as a picture we publicly have access to.
Right now, the focus of those efforts is on Marathon, Bungie's latest title. Before its shutdown, that focus was on Highguard. And before that, it was Concord. Sense a pattern there?
Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed that Highguard will being offline next week.
Seemingly not content with the data that there is, a new site has emerged to track titles in real-time to see if they will "flop." Naturally, it's called Flopathon, and, as first spotted by Push Square, it's pulling data from SteamDB, albeit with a different agenda on their minds.
"While publishers hide behind agendas and PR spin, we track what actually matters — the players," the site's homepage reads. "Raw data. Real numbers. No narratives. We don't care about your politics. We care about your game. Don't try to brand us as haters because we call...
