One small thought: Ignore the Steam charts, they usually mean nothing and help literally nobody.

I want to make a point because I heard this game got something like 1 million on the Steam wishlist, and I feel like expectations are huge now.

Please, don't obsess over Steam charts. It won't bring you anything but misery, no matter if this game gets 100k daily players constantly or 10k in the long run. The devs already said what success means to them in terms of player numbers. If that number doesn't drop for long periods of time, you shouldn't pay attention to whatever doom posting or hype posting talks about how many players the game lost or gained at a certain moment.

I've been there, you know. I was addicted to ARC Raiders before the beta. I saw that game's massive success and felt happy every time its numbers increased on Steam, but I also felt pretty bad when I saw how badly it declined in terms of player numbers.

I was there for Marathon too, since its first days, and I was happy because it was a game that wasn't too casual and filled a more hardcore niche. Sure, the numbers weren't big enough if you consider that a multi billion dollar corporation spent billions on the company that made the game, and hundreds of millions on the game itself (if I remember correctly). But from a player number perspective, not just a financial one, that was good enough in its early days, when the game hovered between 40k and 80k.

On the other hand, I'm now in love with games like Hunt: Showdown and The Division 2, which I don't think were ever in the "big player numbers" league. Even so, they're supported, they got a new life, updates, roadmaps, and so on, and as far as I know, Hunt actually generates money.

I gave you those examples for one reason: I've seen too many people quit playing a game just because doom posters flooded Reddit with nonsense. I've also seen a lot of people throw money at a game they knew nothing about, only to abandon it later. Neither of these extremes helps anybody.

So if you love the game, just put down Reddit and the doom posters and hype posters, because they won't do anything for you or for the game's health in the long run.

P.S. I'm not saying this game won't succeed, god no. There are too many things it already does right, not just "potential," that word everyone throws around when they'd rather talk about what the game could become instead of focusing on what it already is. Personally, I think I found the game I'll sink many hours into, and I'll ignore Reddit while doing it.

I'm just saying, let the dust settle, let the hype fade, see what remains, and figure things out from there. See you tomorrow in the beta.