Wukong DLC claimed to be arriving in January – WGB

A month after launching, Black Fable: Wukong continues to do extraordinarily effectively. Over on Steam, it’s nonetheless persistently bringing over 700,000 concurrent gamers each single day, and the final we heard it had offered via 18m copies.

Given its big success, it’s hardly stunning that developer Sport Science already has an enlargement within the works. However when is it being deliberate for?

Properly, it may be earlier than anticipated. In response to Daniel Camilo, an analyst residing in China, “very dependable first hand sources” have knowledgeable him that the enlargement will launch round Chinese language New Yr, 2025. In different phrases, someday round January, 2025.

He does point out that issues can all the time change and launch dates may be pushed again.

It will be an impressively fast turn-around for an enlargement. This means it may be primarily based on content material reduce from the principle sport. Early trailers for the sport present sequences that by no means seem within the full launch, and Sport Science themselves have commented on numerous issues being taken out for funds and time causes.

Camilo, who has written for numerous web sites up to now together with Gameindustry.biz, additionally says the sport has surpassed 20m in gross sales and that he expects round 20% of the viewers to choose up the enlargement. That’s round 4m individuals, although by the point it launches I’m certain that the full gross sales may have gone up by a couple of million extra.

For a fast comparability, Elden Ring has offered round 25m copies, and the enlargement has managed 5m copies. In different phrases, 20% of the individuals who purchased Elden Ring went on to purchase the enlargement as effectively.

Camilo says this estimate comes from a couple of components, together with the sport’s problem. Proper now, about 34% of gamers on Steam have managed to beat the ultimate boss and see one of many sport’s endings.

“..at the very least a couple of tens of millions of the individuals who purchased the sport in China aren’t core/hardcore players. For a lot of of these customers, dlc merely received’t be an attention-grabbing proposition.” says Camilo.

Camilo additionally says that 70% of the sport’s gross sales have come from China, and that by the point the enlargement releases, “Novelty & Nationwide delight issue will likely be gone for Chinese language customers.”