Given how much they put into paying off and controlling the reviews for metacritic scores, I'd have been more shocked if they didn't put in the money to have at least 50k bots for release week.
Normie gamers seem to make most of their purchases based on hype and FOMO, and botting playing numbers is trivially easy. They've clearly decided to back this game with some serious marketing so it'd be irrational of them not to pad the player numbers at this point.
I mean that all makes sense, I just don't know a person that is interested in this, and as small as my world may be, I'm shocked there is any hype around this at all.
There are things I understand normies falling for, like the Rings of Power or Disney+ shows, games like Spider-Man 2 for ps5/pc, I'm not surprised normies hop along with it and say its so great despite how lackluster it is.
But this is a medium-ish? fantasy series that hasn't had a good game for years and years and years, so this level of support/hype artificially or naturally is very strange to me.
Given how much they put into paying off and controlling the reviews for metacritic scores, I'd have been more shocked if they didn't put in the money to have at least 50k bots for release week.
Normie gamers seem to make most of their purchases based on hype and FOMO, and botting playing numbers is trivially easy. They've clearly decided to back this game with some serious marketing so it'd be irrational of them not to pad the player numbers at this point.
A good 1k are probably streamers streaming it for mockery as well
I mean that all makes sense, I just don't know a person that is interested in this, and as small as my world may be, I'm shocked there is any hype around this at all.
There are things I understand normies falling for, like the Rings of Power or Disney+ shows, games like Spider-Man 2 for ps5/pc, I'm not surprised normies hop along with it and say its so great despite how lackluster it is.
But this is a medium-ish? fantasy series that hasn't had a good game for years and years and years, so this level of support/hype artificially or naturally is very strange to me.