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Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide
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Culture wars sell games. If not for all of the noise surrounding JK Rowling, the right wing contingent of the internet probably would have passed it over as "a game for kids". If comment sections are any metric to go by, everyone that played it either thought it was completely mid or bought it to own the libs.
I don't get the whole "this game isn't even good, there's no way it was the best selling game of the year without rightoids overwhelmingly buying it simply to own the libs" idea when year after year after year the best selling games are Call of Duty X+1, Madden X+1, and FIFA X+1
A game doesn't need to be good to be popular, and I'd bet probably 99% of the owners are just normal people who aren't even aware of the controversy
Right, but COD is good. Good in the sense that it's been refined over the years to give gamers the ultimate fast paced arcade FPS experience. The controls are tight and responsive, and the game is easy to understand. It's essentially one of the hallmarks of the genre. But yes, the political controversy surrounding the game was above and beyond the controversy surrounding yearly COD releases. The sales numbers speak for themselves.
Why you downvoted? You're right. They're mean fucking trolls with the character of a child. They're obsessed with triggering others. This is their MO.
I came here to write something along the lines of "fuck that Nazi terf piece of shit" but saw your comment first.
What's hilarious to me is that, while the downvotes mean nothing in the long run, I'm hardly sharing a unique opinion, even on this thread.
Because they are wrong? You don't actually think everyone that bought it is a trumptard do you? Please touch grass, twitter drama isn't relevant to the real world.
Correct. I've never bought a video game in my life and I ain't about to start but everyone had a take on that shit, it was so tiresome, I imagine for a lot of babytrans/babylgbt it might've been a shock that people will choose a game of their beloved childhood corporate intellectual property over being allies and that being allies was to a lot of people always virtue signaling, but I was far too cynical to let that bother me at that point.