It seems to be a success but only monetarily. No one is really praising the game in any way. The people who are talking about the non-controversial bits all say its a downgrade from the first in nearly every way, though apparently still good enough.
His actions have proven that he isn't fully in it for the money, he wants the accolades and fluffing. And so far the Woke crowd doesn't give a shit about him pandering to them, and everyone else either hates him or is blase to it.
So while right now he is "winning," in like a month's time he will be driving himself mad still fighting on twitter and his game will be forgotten. Double so because he released it early in the year, meaning by the time of Game Awards no one will remember it at all.
I wonder if all the stuff Trump did since he got in to office took away from Vavra's thunder. It is hard to care about turning Henry gay or having a black dude lecture you about how much central/ eastern Europe sucks when woke propaganda is being dismantled.
Although this is US and his main target audience I assume is Europe so who knows.
I think the timing on that worked in his favor. People were too high on winning leading up to the release to care about the leaks, and then about the time for release Trump slowed down (and the Gaza thing sprung up) which took a lot of that train away so people could begin talking about the game a lot (giving it a lot of free marketing).
Also American politics is European politics more than European elections and governments are, they are that obsessed with us, so that wouldn't effect it.
It seems to be a success but only monetarily. No one is really praising the game in any way. The people who are talking about the non-controversial bits all say its a downgrade from the first in nearly every way, though apparently still good enough.
His actions have proven that he isn't fully in it for the money, he wants the accolades and fluffing. And so far the Woke crowd doesn't give a shit about him pandering to them, and everyone else either hates him or is blase to it.
So while right now he is "winning," in like a month's time he will be driving himself mad still fighting on twitter and his game will be forgotten. Double so because he released it early in the year, meaning by the time of Game Awards no one will remember it at all.
I wonder if all the stuff Trump did since he got in to office took away from Vavra's thunder. It is hard to care about turning Henry gay or having a black dude lecture you about how much central/ eastern Europe sucks when woke propaganda is being dismantled.
Although this is US and his main target audience I assume is Europe so who knows.
I think the timing on that worked in his favor. People were too high on winning leading up to the release to care about the leaks, and then about the time for release Trump slowed down (and the Gaza thing sprung up) which took a lot of that train away so people could begin talking about the game a lot (giving it a lot of free marketing).
Also American politics is European politics more than European elections and governments are, they are that obsessed with us, so that wouldn't effect it.