Only because of game pass. I played it for a couple of hours. Haven't went back.

Glad to see the game having success as it's well deserved

I am an Xbox advocate and here to tell you this game runs like shit, even on my X. Tired of so called fans defending crappy products. Demand better!!

Sorry, but we already know how Microsoft report sales....

"Throughout launch, there have been over six million combined hours of State of Decay 2 gameplay, and we’ve watched nearly 3.5M hours of gameplay across Mixer, Twitch and YouTube Gaming from over 41,000 unique broadcasts."

"Across player communities, we’ve seen survivors kill over 675 million zombies, throw over 6 million firecrackers and fireworks (survivors still find ways to celebrate), eat over 6 million bags of snacks, read over 2 million textbooks, and typically survive for about three days (with some players surviving for over an in-game month – a lofty goal to aim for your session this weekend)."

Lol...

What record did they break? Most firecrackers thrown in a game?

Cool fun game, buggy as hell fun hoping they fix it rather than just leave it

No buyers remorse? Gamepass?

Forget how many are on game pass just release physical and digital sales numbers for the game.

Why does this guy still have a job, cut his bloated salary and put it into games.

Show them how its done Microsoft!

pretty good. congrats Undead Labs and MS.

How many actual copies I wonder.

Gotta pick this up soon n part 1

Terrible co-op network code, laggy, gameplay can fill stiff but it's a fun game, especially when co-op is working right. I have faith that UL will fix the stability issues and add more to this game down the road.A million players in 2 days is nothing to sniff at, it's also something to think about when working on patches. A lot of issues and people still enjoy the game, fix the issues and we can enjoy it more.

I know MS has to stay on top of these smaller studios, give them full access to azure, waive the patch certification fees. Do whatever it takes to stop having games come out with empty content or in a broken mess.

These companies and their games reflect Microsoft.

Thank gamepass for that. Would be interested to see what actual sales were

Microsoft and their “massive” numbers to make a game sound successful lol. Worked in the 360 days. At the present day, please come up with something better

Microsoft again with this claim? What record did they supposedly break?

Weak

erm........ there latest game release given to everyone almost free? sure of course there gonna try it.
next week or week after its gonna be 'half of state of decay users go after week one'

I'm sure game pass is artificially inflating these figures.

They gave some crappy stats with SOT as well. lol. Microsoft is embarrassing themselves and funny thing is they don't even realize it.

Just more XBL stats lol.

To me it didn't break any record since the 1st one didn't have a rental sevice to boost those numbers up.

It’s sad that this is the only thing Microsoft can prop up as a positive

This is the problem with game pass, it is a place for MS to dump their lesser games and brag about how good they are to their consumers by spinning a story like this. I wonder how many people actually went out and bought the game?

You thank the fans by fixing the game not running your mouth!!!

If you are making up the records it doesn’t count

Does Microsoft need some new people on their PR team? because they just don't learn. Where can I send my CV? Anyone can do a better job then this.

By this time they should already know that will backfire. If they don't want to reveal the numbers, that's ok..., but stop, just stop with laps, shots fired, bombs droped, hours online and so on....

Lol and probably all game pass players since there’s no real sales figures here. How is that possible when Microsoft has soooo many other exclusives to choose from hmmmm?

Once you see the name Aaron Greenberg you can be 100% sure some spins, lies and data manipulation are coming in.

Their tactics are very pathetic.

good for Microsoft

Number of firecrackers? Seriously MS?

Don't care for the way they measure success. This game was teleased with too many bugs. This site is so obvious, they put admin notes on negative Sony articles and so called positive MS articles.

Should admin's really be correcting the title? This is an official title from Microsoft. Maybe they broke some record they haven't explained.

You can tell who is informed and who isn't on this thread. MS is clearly stating SOD2 broke the previous numbers on the release of SOD1. Stop trying to protect your precious Sony turf for one minute and let MS enjoy a little sunshine. MS didn't lie to anyone and what Greenburg claim's is true. If you got a problem with it take it up with Sony and go get your own Game Pass program.

Phenomenal game. Well done!

Congrats, I still haven't gotten a chance to play it yet(busy with jobs). Been watching streams

That's easy to say when players are also counted on Game Pass.

What are the sales numbers?

i tried this game with the free trial of that games pass, and it was very underwhleming, tbh. i was actually excited about it going in since i hadn’t played the first one, but it seemd like everything i’d want in a zombie survival game. it’s very rough around the edges and just doesn’t make you want to keep playing. doesn’t help that they messed up the co-op progression so badly too.

This is becoming a joke. If the game is selling so well then have the stones to announce units sold like Sony did with God of War.

This method of misleading people about sales isn't even helping the actual sales. They pulled this with Quantum Break and it flopped anyway. They just did this with Sea of Thieves and it only sold 200k units the first week. Microsoft is losing all credibility.

well 25mil users got no games to play
1mil is so low though lol
i expected atleast 10

Is that all?

Can’t wait to buy today!!! This game goin continue to grow !! Team xbox

68 metacritic score. These are uninformed early adopter numbers sure to dwindle fast.

SMoke and mirrors, dont concentrate on what we dont have just concentrate on what we show you. phil spencer is way worse than don mattric ever will be

Aarons stats are all fake - he posted on Twitter than 41k streamers streamed the game to the sum of 35m hours. That means that on average the streamers had streamed 84 hours. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but there aren't 84 hours in two days, so how is that possible?

Now, I believe he means 3.5 million minutes, as that places it at about 1h45m on average. That figure would make more sense, but he turned minutes into hours for the purpose of blowing things out of proportion once again.

I understand he is the marketing guy, but straight up lying to everyone instead of revealing meaningful stats is pathetic and wrong.

Look at that. They may have actually set a record. This may be the first time N4G admin has corrected the actual title from the source material, let alone when the source is a console manufacturer.

You can only use the free trial game pass once!! Since the game pass arrive most of been used that free trial pass!
Stop hating and give state of decay it’s props

But how much did the game sell? Oh never mind. MS is too afraid to share game sales.

State of decay 2, 9 out of 10 dentists agree.

That’s a lot of disappointed people...

Lol all of you must feel silly

This is across two platforms.

Fun so far