Immortals of Aveum director blames poor sales on busy release calendar and says "no one anticipated" Baldur's Gate 3 to be so successful

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When Immortals of Aveum, the EA Original FPS from Ascendant Studios, launched back in August, Iꦡ wondered if it would be buried under the weight of higher-profile releases like Starfield, and apparentl🐻y I was right to.

Ascendant CEO and Immortals of Aveum game director Bret Robbins told t🎀hat the extraordinarily busy release calendar this year made it hard for the studio's debut title to find an audience.

"We were⛦ not in a position where we could deꩵlay or push out of our launch window," Robbins said. "You set those windows quite a bit ahead of time because you're spending marketing dollars, you have commitments to a particular date."

Robbins added that "no one anticipated" 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 to become the phenomenon that it has, further complicating Immortals of Aveum's path to success. In fairness, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Larian's Gol♔den Joystick-winning RPG released just a few weeks before Immortals of Aveum and utte🥀rly dominated⛎ the conversation, crushing expectations and garnering universal acclaim from critics and players alike.

"I've never seen a year like this," he said. "It's always hard to break through the noise when you're a new IP or a studio people haven't heard of before. Trying to create awareness for us was ♒really, really difficult. It🧜's always hard for a new IP and this year made it 10 times harder."

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The shooter's𝄹 first big update, Echollector, recently added new endgame content, a bu𝕴nch of performance improvements, some quality-of-life tweaks, a New Game Plus mode, and more.

Immortals of Aveum didn't quite make the cut for our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best FPS games of all time.

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