https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87dH1H-jF2w
I found watching this fascinating, doing some maths autism on the games market again but looking at the searches and comparing it to the steam data makes you think. The keyword searches are probably a fairly accurate gauge of interest in these games because even with botting it's probably going to account for people looking up things like guides for the games and generally searching it up.
As opposed to steam where yes, people will buy the game in question but then it will be dead as anything if you actually log into the multiplayer or you find it's completely broken and there's something deeply suspicious about the reviews.
It was fun to see Diablo IV fall off completely. And although I don't hate Starfield like some people, it's fun to see it fall off too. Hopefully patches, DLC, mods, or some combination thereof help it become a better game too, at some point.
It was also nice to see Cyberpunk at least partially redeemed.
To each their own, but I find it pretty annoying that the top games, search-wise, are Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite, often. You know that's mostly kids watching clickbait videos and stuff.
Also, based on the sticking popularity of GTA5, and the insane spikes of GTA6 interest, even if the game is bad, you know it's going to crush the charts for some time on release. Whether it's got staying power, and whether it succeeds, are separate matters, but it will dominate on release, unless it's an absolutely unplayable bug-ridden mess.
No, that just means more people become roped into the DEI messaging Bethesda was pushing. Hoping woke games become "good" means more people accepting the message.