Taiwanese Retailer Offers TLOU2 for Free with a Purchase of 3 Games for $1990 NTD (~$68 USD)
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Don't forget Bethesda and retailers desperately trying to unload copies of FO76
Short version is that after FO76 turned out to be terrible at launch, retailers started dropping the price after a week or two. Couple months after release, at least some retailers were just giving it away similar to what the story above sounds like.
I remember I was at GameStop on the Saturday of the week it was released and a guy got into a fight with his grandfather who told him not to get it or he would disconnect the internet and everyone was telling him it was a bad game. He bought it and opened it on the counter. ?
At least with FO76 that makes since, live games need a player base. The same isn’t true for single player games.
This is just sad.
It’s the case of overshipment. The Neil Druckmann boot lickers will point to the 4 million sales, but they don’t realize that the vast majority of those sales were preorders and folks who were unaware of the leaked plot.
Now that several non-access media reviews (e.g. Jeremy Jahns, SomeOrdinaryGamers, Jim Sterling, AngryJoe, Upper Echelon Gaming, Skill Up) are out, I would guess that sales slowed down quicker than expected.