One of the most common sources of alienation for me is seeing what other people, my alleged peers, spend their money on.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if everyone’s spending habits became like mine. Lot of industries and practices would die.
Could be an echo effect. 90% of people don’t really pay attention to gaming media or hate trains - they just see a cool new game in stores while most of their attention is elsewhere.
The “echo” element would be that if most of their knowledge of gaming is from playing things, not reading about them, they may decide “Wow, Sony usually makes great stuff, but last one I bought wasn’t great. I may sit this out.” I sort of saw that with Assassin’s Creed Unity / Syndicate. Unity was shitty and released with terrible bugs, but Syndicate was sort of okay - and Syndicate was the one that saw lots of lost sales.
It’s always funny to see people on lemmy calling for boycotts, saying how stupid companies are for not making products they want to buy and predicting how badly things will fail only for the masses to completely ignore all this and spend money on the same shit as always.
wow…shocking
well, not that shocking…
Idiots will buy anything.
Let people have fun. Maybe even try it yourself.
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You’re not because I’m not playing it.
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Such a telling and disheartening message…
What does it tell you?
That you don’t understand that the fun your referencing has a cost and the cost is paid by others in various ways. A lot of suffering involved with “fun”.
anything I don’t like is bad and anyone who plays it is an idiot
This is a great example of misinterpreting what’s being said with an emotional response.
In this specific instance that statement is entirely accurate
Why do you have to be so toxic at all times?
Accurately identifying garbage isn’t being toxic, you’re just butthurt as usual
Idiots will pre-order anything. There were probably a lot of sales before the controversy even started.
This right here.
I mean sometimes you want to just zone out and play something dumb. You don’t get any gamer credibility but nothing wrong with having fun.
You’re paying $60 (or is this 70?) for “something dumb”, though. If there’s no passion for it, why buy now? I might buy Sonic 06 for $5 and have a laugh, but at launch there’s no way (even if Wolverine is less “bad” and more “easy”, point still stands)
Doesn’t sound like it’s a bad game, it’s just not anything amazing
I won a copy so I will play it one day
I can’t imagine any reason to watch or play a game about american superheroes. Cringe asf.
Wolverine is Canadian.
Seems like an alright $5 buy down the road.
I’m not convinced it’s even worth my time, much less money.
Proof that gamers have no spine (once again. See also Switch 2 and PS5 sales) and that online discourse holds no prediction of real world value.
What?? 2M is not a good number for a first-party Sony game. For example, God of War 2018 estimated to have sold 4M on PC alone.
They’re just having a shit year overall, so 2M is their best.
You think this id a good number? One of the reasons Sony dropped Kojima is supposedly that DS2 “only” sold 2M.
Tbf all of this bad press and 1.9 mil = maximum $120 million on a $300 million budget IS an extreme $180 million loss (so far)
buddy of mine bought this and I went over to his place to play it. It’s boring. it holds your hand for everything and it’s impossible to fail QTEs so there’s just no point in doing them.
To be honest, the only good quick time event is the one you don’t have to do.
Yes, because has Sony released so many successful first party games in 2026…
Lol I had to double check because I couldn’t remember any.
We got…
- Marathon
- Saros
- MLB The Show 26
- Marvel Tōken: fighting souls
And this.
This did better than Tokon? That makes me pretty sad
Tokon launch has been a bumpy road & fighting games don’t sell like Sony Marvel IPs
What other exclusives did they release this year? Saros?
They also put out Ghost of Yotei and Marathon (yikes).
Marvel Tokon too if you count console exclusives that are also on PC.
Edit: Whoops, I forgot Ghost of Yotei was late last year. Unless you’re counting fiscal year starting in October I guess.
Marathon. The best game most people will never play.
It really is very good.
They’re reworking it into something else now in an attempt to salvage it, but for me personally, unless that involves being able to host the server myself, I’m not giving it the time of day.
I don’t know what Bungie was thinking putting all their effort into Marathon. People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out. Didnt help they delayed it and had the art theft debacle.
That game was going to struggle no matter how good it was at launch. THEN they stopped work on Destiny 2 right as Marathon came out despite Bungie promising the two games would co-exist and just pissed everyone off.
Masterclass in running a studio into the ground.
Marathon is not an exclusive.
True, forgot that abomination got a PC release too.
What are your top3 reasons it qualifies as „abomination“?
Other than the plagiarism, butchering of a classic IP, and fad genre bandwagoning?
It’s a grindy game in a genre that otherwise caters to F2P but comes with an extra $40 price tag. It’s also just plain bland and soulless, which really represents how far Bungie has fallen as a developer. The only thing they can really do is give bad consulting advice to other Sony studios on how to make live service games, which has not worked out yet for even one of them. And Destiny died for this game to happen.
Not to mention that it makes Sony money. Regardless of how defeatist it is or how little the general public cares, they remain on my personal “do not buy” list.
Have you played e.g. marathon 2? Since you haven bought it, I can assume you haven’t played Marathon, so it’s a bit weird you are so opinionated on it? Is it because you are a D2 player? Because i am playing that still. Its as alive as its ever been.
This might be a lot but keep in mind the INSANE budget for this game so despite this it’s still nowhere near breaking even
Even the insane funds, it looks like it was a complete failure.
I suspect you may have seen the video of people going out of bounds in that one area? They were able to find larger portions of cities, small towns and so forth.
It looks like the game was originally meant to be open world or closer to it, but probably due to constraints they bailed on that.
I’m guessing that’s the source of a lot of people’s dislike.
Yeah I’ve seen the OOB areas. But I don’t think people dislike the game because it’s linear. Tho hearing the word “constraints” when talking about a $300mil+ budget is kinda funny.
