Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Year 3: Research report: Killing floor 2

killing floor 2


With the first game in the series killing floor one being a massive success with glowing reviews and massive amount of sales is suing the developers use the early access program in order to launch their next game in the series. Killing floor 2 was released on "21st of April 2015" Steam store: Killing floor 2 (2015). The game is a co-op survival game in which you and players up to a maximum of six player  had to survive up to 10 rounds until you have completed that level.  Outside of the survival aspect there is a leveling off system in which you level up as of this moment for classes that are in the game's classes are medics, support, commando and berserker. As you level up you gain perks which you can use to gain different advantages in the game to many different effects affecting all classes.

Over the recent years co-op survival games have become increasingly popular on the PC platform with games like left four dead 1&2, Payday 1&2 and the original killing floor. with a lot of the community claiming that the original killing floor started off this strength having a very good reputation among the community the original killing floor was liked by many so does killing floor to live up to the legend of the original of inward to find out is to look at the financial and community stats of the game.

looking at the total sales for the game going to the website steam spy according to them the game has sold "780,000" copies.  the game sells an average of $30 quickly calculate myself equals to $23.4 million in revenue the game has brought in over a eight month period. The cost of the development of novel released by the company bought given that Ark: survival evolved had a budget of $2 million to develop its it's not hard to imagine that killing floor 2 had a similar budget may be more evil way shows that this game moved a howl of a lot of money in profits.

So was killing floor a success of the community is much that was a financial one? Well the only way to know is to look at the community's reaction as well as reviewers. On the steam store page from killing floor 2 the game has "17,000" Steam store: killing floor 2 (2015) user reviews from its community. With 15,000 of these reviews being positive and 2000 the review is being negative show an overall a mostly positive reception to the game.

it seems like this game could live up to  the original killing for overtime as it still is  in early access and the game's only been out for a month and still has plenty of content updates that are still to come with many of the DLC for the game being released free to the community  it shows that the developers have a good attitude with community by giving this away to people who've bought the game before it is fully completes.  If the developers keep this mentality of this game could surpass the old one and become even better but only time will tell whether game and the company go.



Bibliography
.Valve (2015) Steam store: killing floor 2 [online] available from: http://store.steampowered.com/app/232090/

.Gamesindustry.biz (2015) Steamspy: Killing floor 2 [online] available from: http://steamspy.com/app/232090


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