• rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This has nothing to do with the shitstorm (it mostly hit Arrowhead anyway), and I think the review bombing didn’t affect their decision making that much. What I think happened was, Sony saw the massive refunds. They got hit right into the wallet 😩

    This makes me smile.

    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      The refunds may have hurt, but what hurt more was the fact that in the last week HD2 went from #1/2 on the Steam global top sellers to #11. The big red “Overwhelmingly Negative” next to a title is a huge turnoff to new buyers.

      Some executive somewhere has a chart showing daily sales numbers and watched them fall off a cliff in the last week.