The first State of Decay has sold over five million copies!

[Boskabo]

The article has been updated:

The first State of Decay has now seen almost five million unique players, according to Strain.

The older version did indeed say sold:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160614050931/http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/14/e3-2016-state-of-decay-2-is-4-player-co-op-isnt-an-mmo

So the game did not sell five million copies.

What's a little shocking to me is that the story was corrected but the article contains no mention of this. Beyond terrible reporting on Ryan McCaffrey's end, you really should mention that because else misinformation keeps spreading...