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Was Avowed a Success? - Laura Fryer (www.youtube.com)
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"Good enough for game pass"

Laura brings up some excellent points

  • Obsidian shipped on time, after being acquired
  • Obsidian already has outer worlds 2 in the works
  • Obsidian gets the OW team back together

Avowed may not be a win on its own, but in the context of a MS studio it's a win, and they cleared their plate to focus on OW2.

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[–] hellerphant@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 week ago (23 children)

I will admit I haven’t watched the video (I’m going to when I get home) but I thought Avowed was doing pretty well?

A number of major podcasts and outlets are signing its praises. It has some divisive scores for sure, but I’ve certainly anecdotally heard way more praise than criticism from games media, and friends of mine who are playing.

Obsidian have been on a pretty decent roll for quite some time. Avowed is exactly what Gamepass was seeking to support - smaller focused games, and it ain’t even that small. 30-50 hours from what I’m hearing.

I’m not even a massive fan of the genre, or the studio, but I don’t really get the negativity surrounding the game. Seems pretty successful by most metrics to me.

[–] brezel@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

if steam is any indication i would not call it a success: https://steamdb.info/app/2457220/charts/#max

[–] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's not really an indication considering it's a gamepass title

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Its also available on battle net where they keep advertising it to me 😡.

May be diluted by that too.

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