Nearly Half a Billion Users Played Among Us In November (theverge.com) 37
Roughly half a billion people played Among Us in November, becoming "by far the most popular game ever in terms of monthly players," according to Nielsen's SuperData. The Verge reports: The success is even more remarkable because InnerSloth -- the company that makes Among Us -- only has four employees. That's roughly 125 million players per person who works on the game. It's proven to be so popular that the studio decided to cancel a sequel that was in the works and just put all its effort into improving the original. It even caught the attention of sitting congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who livestreamed herself playing it to try to encourage people to vote, with an audience on Twitch that peaked at over 400 thousand viewers.
In an email to The Verge, Carter Rogers, Principal Analyst at SuperData, said that the next-most popular game in terms of monthly active users only clocked in at 300 million. Rogers notes that Nielsen arrives at its figures through a mix of "point-of-sale and event data from publishers, developers and payment service providers." Among Us' release on the Nintendo Switch was recent enough that it didn't have an appreciable impact on the game's total numbers in Nielsen's analysis.
In an email to The Verge, Carter Rogers, Principal Analyst at SuperData, said that the next-most popular game in terms of monthly active users only clocked in at 300 million. Rogers notes that Nielsen arrives at its figures through a mix of "point-of-sale and event data from publishers, developers and payment service providers." Among Us' release on the Nintendo Switch was recent enough that it didn't have an appreciable impact on the game's total numbers in Nielsen's analysis.
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Hell, you can go to some cities now and if you only speak English, you won't understand a fucking thing.
Pretty sure the above is a comment from a racist asshole.
Re: Language barrier (Score:2)
Or just an illiterate neurally deaf person. ;)
Than again, what's the difference.
No wonder they think someody that they say has no education and doesn't speak their language can take their job and girl.
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What is racist about that statement? It's true and shows how America is a melting pot. Large cities you can get lost and find yourself in a neighborhood that don't speak your language or barely. Like Orlando there's a Haitian area deep in Pine Hills where you're lucky to find an English speaker, then you can ride through other areas like a China town, a German area, etc. Kinda normal in large cities. There's nothing racist about pointing out facts.
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It's true and shows how America is a melting pot. Large cities you can get lost and find yourself in a neighborhood that don't speak your language or barely.
In developed countries we call this ghettoization and segregation. But yeah, 'melting pot'.
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Yet, you don't to live in America.
Hell, you can go to some cities now and if you only speak English, you won't understand a fucking thing.
My how things change in a relatively shot period of time.
Slept in history class much?
Large swathes of what is US territory today belonged to France, Spain, then Mexico, just a couple hundred years ago. Just 100 years ago you could visit areas in New Orleans where people only spoke French. In south-western states Spanish has been spoken since the first Europeans arrived and since far longer than English. In cities on the east coast it was perfectly normal to walk into quarters where only Italian, German, Polish, Chinese... was being spoken on the streets, due to t
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Hololive didn't need that.
I can see the appeal (Score:3)
Is this a free game? (Score:1)
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It's been pimped pretty heavily by Steam for the past few months. Harder than Cyberpunk even. I'd get an ad for it every time I signed in until very recently.
Not free, but close, Currently on sale for $4. Strangely enough, it seems to have come out over 2 years ago.
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It's free on mobile (Android/iOS), but there are ads. You can pay to remove the ads, or just buy any in-app thing (which is purely cosmetic) to remove ads as well.
On PC its $5, and I think its $5 on consoles as well, except its free ob Xbox Game Pass.
It's a remarkably addictive game - nothing more fun than accusing people and defending against it. and a strategy of winding down the voting clock.
Apparently I'm incredibly suspicious and get accused either way.
Can't be (Score:2)
Nobody played among me.
Yeah, and? Why are you telling us this? (Score:2)
Populartry clearly never was an argument for anything.
It correlates much more with being an argument against something.
But in this case, still not in a useful way. It's not stealing and eating babies suddenly became popular and you should hide your newborn, or anything.
Quit wasting our time. (We can do that perfetly well ourselves, thank you very much! ;)
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Course not, which is why none of us are here.
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Personally, I think it's pretty remarkable. The game was out for ... eighteen months? Something like that before streamers picked it up and it became popular skyrocketed in cultural significance. Even my kids who've never played it know it and make jokes and memes about it. It's a strong counter to the "streamers steal our game and give us nothing in return" argument publishers have tested the waters with. It's got cute art and to be bringing so much entertainment to so many from four employees is pre
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I'll keep playing Civ II on SheepShaver. It's old, but at least I won't run into any moron politicians there.
... or any girls at all, for that matter!
Every politician should play this (Score:2)
This is so revealing as to how the person responds that I consider streaming this gameplay superior in every way an actual debate. I can’t believe we’ve gone this long
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Who doesn't know politicians lie?
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Who doesn't know politicians lie?
This is like saying who doesn’t know heavy weight boxers can fight. Of course. It’s the head to head competition of who is best at deception and unmasking deception.
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What do you learn from that?
I like game too (Score:1)