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Azzanation on 27 May 2018
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Aeolus451 said:
Azzanation said:

I am still a little confused on why it matters. The general public who buy video games don't ask the store people how well a game is selling for them to make a purchase, nor does a game selling extremely well or not will make that difference. Iv worked in retail long enough to know that customers rarely approach me on how good a game is selling for them to make a purchase. If someone is after a Zombie Survival game than most times they will pick up the SOD2 box and start reading the back info, not how much it has sold in general.

MS are saying 1m people are playing SOD2, regardless of platform, that is a good number across the broad, do we need accurate information? No I don't think we do. Is the game doing well? Well enough for MS to comment on it, that's all that really matters. 

Honestly games like SOD2 and Sea of Thieves are designed for Game Pass, its not about the short term sales, these are games that hold 100+ hours of gameplay, this is what MS seem to be focusing on to convince customers to subscribe to Live and Game Pass. The longer the game the higher the chance to increase those Game Pass memberships per month.

Anyone would want to know how good a game is via reviews, youtube vids or by whatever means. If a game is reviewed badly or okay, it's sales will reflect it. Personally, if a game has mp, I want to know how many concurrent players it has.

MS will comment on any game and find the biggest number to use (likely one that doesn't mean anything to gamers) in their pr. 10 million players that played it doesn't mean anything if it was off of a free trial or if they played it for a few hours and stopped playing it entirely or if they bought the game to play it.

SoT doesn't have the content to get most gamers to play for that long.

SoT doesn't have the content now, because they have chopped it up to come out through-out the year. That's what will get gamers to resign to Live or Game Pass.  SoD2 is also designed around longativity. Its pretty clear to see MS are focusing around the World of Warcraft formula, just need 1 game to make your money not 5.

As for knowing if the game is good, that's what reviews are for. I don't know how 1m players can be a negative since the game is cross play between Xbox and PC. You know how cross play works right? If not ill explain in advance. If you buy the Xbox version it works on both your Windows 10 PC and Xbox consoles, so working out who's playing on what should not matter.. because like myself 1 day ill play it on the X and the other ill play it on my PC. As for GamePass? well how do you count sales from GamePass since its a service not a direct purchase to the game. So just saying 1m players sounds a lot more simpler than trying to estimate how many gamers brought GamePass for SoD2 (Which they wont know) and trying to work out who's playing on PC and Xbox systems.