I am absolutely fucking flabbergasted they even approached 60k after looking at a single image of the game, truly.
Like if you watch a trailer, look at a screenshot, there shouldn't, realistically, be any reason to draw you into this game, but even more so if you actually like fantasy or Dragon Age.
I am genuinely impressed that they even approached that number, that will be an overwhelming success in their eyes, and this concept will repeat for as long as this is part of the general video game discussion.
The only reason I am saying this is because they will point at any big game and say its numbers are lower for as long as they possibly can.
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.
I am absolutely fucking flabbergasted they even approached 60k after looking at a single image of the game, truly.
Like if you watch a trailer, look at a screenshot, there shouldn't, realistically, be any reason to draw you into this game, but even more so if you actually like fantasy or Dragon Age.
I am genuinely impressed that they even approached that number, that will be an overwhelming success in their eyes, and this concept will repeat for as long as this is part of the general video game discussion.
The only reason I am saying this is because they will point at any big game and say its numbers are lower for as long as they possibly can.
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.