Cool. Great sales for a game of this style.
I don't disagree with any of your points, nor am I covering for Sony. I'm pointing out that people on here make inherently inconsistent criticisms all the time.
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Everyone when this remaster was announced: We don't need this! It's a waste of time! Everyone who wanted HZD has already bought it!
Everyone now: They took down the old version of HZD! That's unacceptable! I was totally going to buy HZD on PC in three years! How dare they!
Also, while Cyberpunk had bugs on PC at launch and is undeniably improved now, a huge part of the backlash stemmed from the terrible versions of the game they put out on PS4 and Xbox One, back when everyone was still pushing the "install base" narrative. The problems with those versions had a lot less to do with the game being crappy and far more to do with the systems being obsolete.
Lol I'm sure we'd start hearing about teraflops again.
Actually the physical version, which is launching soon, includes this expansion.
Even if Concord causes a change in direction now, there are probably several projects, including this one, that are already well past the halfway point in development, that they aren't just going to cancel. I mean they would lose a ton of money whether they cancel an almost completed game or they launch it and it flops, so they probably feel that whatever reputation points they save by canceling won't be worth it. If they launch these types of games they've already worked on, ther...
They advertised this game wrong. If you hype it up as a AAAA experience, people are going to set their expectations accordingly. Just because a game is a Star Wars game doesn't mean it has to be AAA though. There were plenty of Star Wars games in earlier generations that weren't crazy, big budget experiences (Jedi: Power Battles, Bounty Hunter, etc). Even Squadrons launched at $40. They should have sold this as a $40-$50 AA title and then many of its issues would have been charming, r...
I'm sure someone in Nebraska saw stacks of them at his local Best Buy.
That's an obscure observation. But I guess it takes all sorts of apples to make an orchard.
Smart Delivery lol. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Except they didn't. People on here were having a meltdown that it was going to be a $70 remake of a seven year old game, not a small $10 upgrade. You can literally see a few of them in that screenshot. You trying to retcon what everyone was saying a week ago is the exact reason he saved the screenshot, and you just justified his reason for doing it.
I'm convinced that if this had been Ghost of Tsushima 2, the same people who are now whining about "No Jin" would have been whining that "the game looks the same and has basically the same map," just like they did with God of War Ragnarok and Spiderman 2. You can't please some people.
People really don't know what the word "debunk" means. A rumor isn't debunked just because someone states their belief that it isn't true. Whether the $400 million rumor is true or not (it admittedly seems farfetched), someone saying "I don't think that's true" on Twitter doesn't debunk it. If that were the case, it was debunked by about ten different people on here within thirty minutes of the story being posted.
The people who owned this studio and sold it to Sony pulled off an amazing heist. I don't know exactly how much Sony paid for the studio, but given the money funneled into the studio's only real project, it must have been substantial. So the owners became millionaires off that sale, and in some/all cases probably continued on at Sony getting handsome salaries for several more years. All for a game and IP that have no value at all.
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Definitely not BC2. I love the Bad Company games (even though everyone always pretends the first one didn't exist), but even though BC2 has achieved great respect in hindsight, at the time it came out a lot of casuals who bought COD every year either didn't know of Battlefield's existence or saw it as a knockoff of COD. Plus coming out in spring 2010 it was competing against MW2 (the original one) which came out the prior fall.
I really thought Starfield would have more of an impact than that. Just looking at the numbers from the last year, it's hard to see that it had any impact at all.
The best opportunity was BF1 vs. Infinite Warfare. I've never actually seen a worldwide sales comparison so I'm not convinced BF1 didn't eventually win, but I do know COD sold better in the US at launch, because it was the NPD #1 that year, while BF was #2.
Still available on US PSN. It's under "Until Dawn 2015." $20.