How popular is BeamNG.drive?

I think we'll be waiting a long time for career mode, but hey, who knows. Only one of my friends knows of the game (I told him about RoR), and the rest are basically clueless except for what I've told them, with one of my friends referring to it as "BNH Simulator".

 

Pretty much popular I know a few friend who know the game

 

I don’t think I know anyone who knows about this game.

 

I believe BeamNG.Drive was more popular in 2013/14 cause many people including some youtubers that now do games like FH4 and other big games that only ever played the original, some examples include Jacksepticeye, AR12 gaming. It would impress people like them to see how far the game has come since then.

 

I feel like BeamNG is the most popular game on YouTube but i literally have not heard anyone knowing BeamNG neither has anyone at my School heard or knows about this game. But theres some Fortnite addict in my class who says "This game sucks Fortnite is better!11".

 

Probably not.

 

my friend in my class has it and a person i met at my swim club has it also

 

I dont know anyone else who has the game irl

 

Beamng is high on the top selling and whats popular lists in steams racing category. It beats games like Iracing, dirt rally, project cars 2, and rocket league. I know a few people who know about this game irl. My friend saw the thumbnail on my google new tab page and he said, "oh you know beamng drive? I like watching youtube videos and seeing the cars crash"

 

Nearly everyone in my bus has it.

 

Highly incorrect. Rocket League is leaps and bounds ahead in terms of popularity.

Oh hey, 528th message.

 

In my opinion, BeamNG isn't THAT known to be noticably popular, mainly due to repetetive gameplay & only a small-ish amount of content available (official & modded). If the second thing would somehow improve, then BeamNG's popularity would gain some more traction, but right now it is what it is

 

Enough where people make this:


Basically what happens at the Lego one at 2:29
*Knock*
*Drag drag*
*SOFT BABY CRYING SOUND EFFECT*

 

Beamng.drive blew the entire gaming community when it showed the soft body demo back in 20 but the state of Beamng.drive lacks the content it needs to keep the community alive. Beamng.Drive is a game that orients around destruction instead of creating which makes it hard for content creators to get involved. Many other games have interfaces that allow the user to create content; in this case Beamng.Drive has a sizable modding comunity but it's more complex than say Space Engineers. Modding requires you to rewrite code or upload objects from Blender which the majority of the community doesn't have the tools or skills to do. As a result the community isn't churning enough content out for users to get interested and it explains why interest in Beamng.drive drop after the demo video was released. The content creation issue is also why hype generated over the Beamng-Automation collaboration because Automation has a pre-existing content creation interface

 

I have one friend that used to play it. Probably an old version of it though and didnt really love it. Im probably the only car fanatic in my classroom.

 

I had an idea that would help a little, a Forza style skin maker...

 

I'm just going to mention Google Trends. I use it quite a bit to see popularity of searches, including games. It's good to compare the popularity of searches.

Here is a link: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today 5-y&q=/m/010gng9z

 

Not in all places do schools get out at 3pm, here in USA CST in Tennessee (EST border is about 20 minutes east of me, Knoxville an hour away is EST), most of the kids get out just after 2pm around here from what I know.

 

I think another interesting thing to consider is not just *if* it's popular, or *how* popular it is; but also how people learned about it and happened upon it.

I know for me, I found it purely by accident through a Google Search. I was looking for diecast model cars, and Ebay sales of dealership promo cars (plastic or resin 1:24 model cars that were given away at dealerships back in the 50's-70's to entice potential customers to buy). I think I did a search for "model Ford LTD", and the old BeamNG mod for the 1975 Ford LTD came up, and looking further into it, I wondered what BeamNG was... and so that was the ahh-hahh moment for me.

I did further research, watched a few videos, the crashing soft physics looked interesting, but more important for me, the idea of collecting models of something I see or saw on the streets, without having to pay the high price of some diecast models, impressed me. I guess I'm more of a car collector than a crasher.