• Gork@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    I think publishers have this unreasonable expectation that everything they release will be a smash hit, and don’t recognize that some are complete flops.

    Not every game will be a Skyrim, Helldivers 2, Valheim, or GTA 5.

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      23 days ago

      Even Helldivers is touch and go. They’ve nearly lost the entire playerbase like 3 times already.

      I love the game but I’ve been at the “I’ll drop in every now and then” stage for months already

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        8 days ago

        That’s also just the natural lifecycle of live service games. The player base spikes after an update, and trails off again as time goes on