Half-Life: Alyx Preloads [Mar 21, 2020, 2:54 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Preloads are now underway for Half-Life: Alyx
on Steam.
paving the way for Monday's launch of the new virtual reality installment in the
Half-Life series. This may be useful to more gamers than imagined at
first. Despite the fact that it requires a virtual reality headset,
PlayTracker reports more than 300,000 gamers have preordered the VR shooter
(thanks
VideoGamer.com). Here's word:
Valve's return to City 17 is poised to make sales record headlines next week. PlayTracker Insight tracking is showing Half-Life: Alyx has already surpassed 300.000 owners ahead of its launch on Monday, March 23rd.
This already puts the game within striking distance of the biggest Steam releases of 2020 so far like TemTem, Wolcen, Borderlands 3, Metro Exodus, and, amusingly, Black Mesa - Crowbar Collective's re-imagining of the original Half-Life game. Launch sales should propel the game into first place, pending a surprising over-performance by Doom Eternal this weekend.
VR owners account for only 1% of Steam users according to the Steam Hardware Survey, making this sales performance quite an impressive achievement.
I'm truly happy for all VR *knowledgeable* users.
I envy you, but gladly, and hope to join you in a few months.
Some people tried VR with early hardware and felt underwhelmed.
Sadly, some have somatic problems, but that's a problem similar to not
being able to enjoy certain sports, because of poor coordinating, or poor orientation, or just being not agile or fast enough.
It is what it is.
Maybe you just don´t like 3D or fast movement.
I know people that can´t stand it in a monitor, forget VR.
You may just don´t like VR, no problem. It´s all fine.
Hope that progress in quality and prices allow more gamers to enjoy in time.
On a side note:
There is a glaring case in this and many threads, with always disparaging lazy one-liners.
No added info, no discussing, just unselfconscious mean and petty repetitiveness.
I admit never seeing such masterful ability in use before, so, congratulations to you !!,
You know who you are, no ?, though probably not, smh.
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