72 points

‘You’re all making fun of it and yet you buy it’

No, those are two different groups. Gamers ™ are not a monolithic block. Some like it, some hate it, some in between. To lump that all together is moronic.

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15 points

Yes, and the most outspoken Gamers™ represent a minority. There’s a reason studios don’t pander to them.

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Outspoken Gamers™ are not a monolithic block either. That’s the funny thing about people.

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Most Outspoken Gamerstm nowadays don’t even play the games they’re being outspoken about. Look at all the clowns calling Ghost of Yotei “woke” for having a female protagonist when Tsushima already had multiple female warriors.

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2 points

It’s a classic tactic to shut down criticism.

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58 points

Nesmith said he no longer remembers the exact sales figures for the add-on, but he remembers it being a lot. “It must have been in the millions, it had to be millions,” he said.

So… No accounting for how many of these sales came from bundles/GOTY editions, and we are just going off his memory of the sales numbers?

Great reporting, this really vindicated Horse Armor’s legacy…

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Yeah I had the GOTY edition with shivering isles etc, but if it came with the horse armor I have no memory of it. I certainly didn’t buy it with horse armor in mind. I’d like to know if that was included in the figures.

We know pretty damn well that people buy cosmetics though, especially in the current gaming landscape. So he’s right, and we all lost something important here

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4 points

Did you expect him to put in a request for that information with their archive accounting department for transactions from 18 years ago? Come on, man!

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I didn’t expect him to do anything. But does he expect anecdotal evidence provided without context to change my mind on horse armor? Come on man!

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I mean, if you asked me something like that about our system’s sales, I’d have an answer for you in a few minutes. But then, I’m BI and not Accounting, so I’m probably more proficient at pulling aggregated data straight from the archive DB.

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47 points

It was included with the game of the year edition, I wonder if that factors into the sales

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Sssoooooo… they can’t fathom that the millions that bought it aren’t the same people as the tens of millions that made fun of it?

How do these people run companies?

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7 points

By selling more stuff, not by making better games.

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5 points

The issue is they didnt need the tens of millions to buy it they only needed the millions that did buy it to make bank and not care

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2 points

Because its not a meritocracy. We need to stop assuming these people somehow “deserve” the power and/or wealth that they’ve accumulated.

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1 point

To be fair running a company you would likely want to focus on the people that give you money, not the group that complains and doesn’t.

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28 points

Truly a watershed moment for the enshittification of microtransactions

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19 points

That was one of the earliest console DLCs. They came out of the gate shitty.

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