If The Enthusiasm For Elden Ring Waned Three Years After Its Release?
Since its launch in 2022, Elden Ring has won more than 322 global game awards that year, winning almost all game awards and a large number of high scores that year. It is considered one of the greatest games of all time.
It is presented from a third-person perspective. Players can freely explore six areas in the open world to find Elden Ring Items to help advance the game’s quests and complete the game’s quests.
Now that the game has been released for more than three years, the studio’s new work Elden Ring Nightreign is also expected to be released at the end of May. This new work has more exquisite graphics.
However, many players will not give up the original game because of this. Even after three years, players are still interested in Elden Ring, the best soulslike ever.
Current Situation
From the latest data, it can be seen that on Steam platform, more than 45% of Elden Ring players have played the game for more than 100 hours. About 15.7 million copies have been sold on Valve store, making it the largest platform for the game, surpassing Xbox and PlayStation.
Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, which went on sale in June last year, has sold more than 2.4 million copies on Steam.
These players are undoubtedly very passionate about Elden Ring, and 10.2% of players on Steam have achieved all the achievements of the game, and 10.9% of players on PlayStation have completed all the achievements.
On PlayStation and Steam, more than 700,000 players have played for more than 500 hours, which is more than many online games.
Comparing the retention rate of Elden Ring with other games such as Baldur's Gate 3 and Diablo 4, except for D4, which has the highest proportion of 10 to 50 hours, Elden Ring is far ahead in other aspects.
The reason for this may be that it is too easy to earn gold in D4, and too difficult to farm in Baldur’s Gate 3. In comparison, the difficulty of obtaining Elden Ring Runes in Elden Ring is relatively moderate, and the gameplay of Elden Ring is also relatively high compared to others.
Reasons For Continued Popularity
As an open-world RPG, Elden Ring has learned from Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, putting exploration and discovery above all else, which may be the key to its success.
This game has a high degree of freedom and rich exploration content, allowing players to freely explore the game without feeling the urgency of the task. Every corner of the map is full of surprises, allowing players to feel unexpected fun when playing the game.
In addition, the game is constantly looking for new content to keep players interested.
New DLC
By updating DLC to keep the game alive instead of staying the same. Those who return to Elden Ring soon may usher in a new peak, because this work is about to launch a new DLC: Tarnished Edition.
Although the scale of the new DLC is not as large as Shadow of the Erdtree, it will provide more classes, equipment, weapons, appearances and other items.
More IP Cooperation
Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia and A24 recently jointly announced plans to adapt the highly acclaimed action RPG game Elden Ring into a movie.
The game, whose background is from “A Song of Ice and Fire”, aims to bring the grand epic scenes and shocking battle performances to the big screen, so that a wider range of attention can be paid to the grand narrative.
There are dozens of wonderful characters in the game. It is not clear which character will be selected as the main perspective of the movie to unfold the narrative, but it must be a wonderful story, anyway.
Elden Ring has a solid player base with its excellent game design. By continuously launching DLC to further update the game content and expand IP vitality, the movie plan can attract more audiences to build a sustainable game ecosystem, so that the game can always stay alive.
