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fatslob-:O on 15 December 2013
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Nirvana_Nut85 said:
fatslob-:O said:
Nirvana_Nut85 said:

Well if they are informed and Sales = quality then Carnival Games Wii > your PC games list. Yes or No?

Sure. I'm not some flip flopper compared to the others in this forum who drops away an actual point in order to further their own dumb agendas. 


Good. It's nice to see someone stick to there belief. However, I whole heartedly disagree with you on this one. There are so many factors that contribute to game sales. Activision or EA could put out a mediocre game, throw in some guns and explosions and back it with tens of millions of dollars in ads  and it will sell somewhat well as long as it sits around a 7 (metacritic). A smaller developer could self publish the same sort of game with better gameplay mechanics, deeper storyline, better graphics, meta rating of 9.5 etc and sell 1/3rd of what the mediocre game does due to less awareness, smaller marketing budget and not being established like the other two publishers. We as a game community tend to have more variables in factoring in a purchase for a specific game than your average Joe.

Anyways, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. 

Do you seriously believe in metascores ? COD ghosts has a lower metascore than BF4 yet I see many people keep saying that the campaign is better, casual or hardcore and the likes. 

Many people would seriously disagree with you using metascores to measure the quality of the game on this forum. Sure sales is based on what people like subjectively but the objective part is we should all have equal voting rights when buying a game. Just because I buy games different from casuals does not mean that my votes have a bigger effect because they clearly don't. 

To further my point as to why sales determine quality is that most people on this forum and other gaming forums agree that japanese game quality has dropped significantly too and did you know else dropped ? Their game sales come crashing to the grounds never seen before levels and all that has to do is with the quality of these games dropping. Once japanese game developers start to realize what quality means their game sales will skyrocket to never seen before levels and we'll have to stop ignoring their relevancy. This is one reason I keep saying that quality is linked to sales. 

Game sales determines relevancy of a franchise just as console sales determine the relevancy of consoles. Guess what ? The WII U is deemed as trash by the PS360 base and the mass market also agrees with them too. The WII U has demonstrated that it's software is irrelevant and thus it shows that the WII Us software lacks quality to be bought by anyone other than nintendo fans. 

To each and his own I guess.