• bionicjoey
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    11 months ago

    Does this stat take release date into account? Otherwise it seems like a pretty meaningless metric. An AAA game that releases in January is going to have better sales for the year compared to one that releases in October.

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      11 months ago

      It doesn’t, but most game sales are front loaded at release. Having 8 months on the shelf still makes a difference, for sure, but it’s still notable that it was number 1.

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    11 months ago

    What’s crazy to me is that after the first week or two, I didn’t see anyone talking about it. I kind of assumed it either flopped or was mediocre but I guess people just silently played it?

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      11 months ago

      It has that mainstream appeal as in being a brand parents know (Harry Potter) and being pretty inoffensive (i.e. no guns and blood or sex and partying) so I imagine just about every kid with a system it runs on and in the age bracket of 6-16 got it for Christmas or their Birthday despite not being on the wishlist.

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    11 months ago

    I think that boycott did the opposite of what it was supposed to

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        11 months ago

        Something something Streisand effect.

        But probably not, I’m guessing most people weren’t aware there was a boycott.

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      11 months ago

      If assholes wanna play a boring game to own the libs, then that’s on them, lmao. Similar to them buying barbie and bud light shit just to set it on fire when they are mad

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        11 months ago

        Own the trans-commubity you mean. And people played it because bassically nobody could give a rats ass about the boycott…

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      11 months ago

      Looks like the original tweet ended as (Rock Band) to indicate the game that took #1 back in 2008, and either OP or the auto-titler missed the parentheses?

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      11 months ago

      TBF the graphics, setup and intro were pretty good (esp if you’re a fan of the series). The problem was that it went absolutely nowhere after that, beyond “you’re at Hogwarts and it looks pretty”. I guess that was good enough for enough people to put it over the top.