‘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.
It’s a classic tactic to shut down criticism.
Yes, and the most outspoken Gamers™ represent a minority. There’s a reason studios don’t pander to them.
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.
Outspoken Gamers™ are not a monolithic block either. That’s the funny thing about people.
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…
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
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?
Because its not a meritocracy. We need to stop assuming these people somehow “deserve” the power and/or wealth that they’ve accumulated.
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
By selling more stuff, not by making better games.
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.
It was included with the game of the year edition, I wonder if that factors into the sales
No Bruce, the people that complained simply stopped buying and playing Bethesda made games. The people who bought that stuff are different people.
I’ve kept buying their games (not Starfield though), but I never purchased any of these things. I also never purchased all of the DLCs for FO4 or even Skyrim IIRC. They just never seemed worth buying. I’ll buy stuff if they make stuff worth buying, but I’ve become so jaded by them that I have to think really hard about it and I assume it won’t be worth it at this point.
The people who pushed back against it, like myself, didn’t buy the damn thing lol
Game sells millions of copies, but only a few tens of thousands of people online publicly spoke out about it. 🙄 Even in the largest spaces, the majority of us in forums and social media are barely a blip in the total number of people playing and buying things in the game.
Truly a watershed moment for the enshittification of microtransactions
That was one of the earliest console DLCs. They came out of the gate shitty.
“You’re threatening to ruin the entire industry with nickel-and-dime horseshit that only has to sell to a fraction of players to outweigh how angry it makes everyone else.”
“Yeah but a big enough fraction bought it to outweigh how angry you are, so there.”
Yay capitalism!
That’s a bad omen for TEVI
I did not buy it, but thanks for introducing the cancer of microtransactions you jackass!
Of course not, there’s mods for that.
I didn’t, I pirated it
Didn’t Xbox ask Bethesda to charge 10 as they were already selling themes for about that much?
