• Vince@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m surprised by the lack of buzz for it when it came out. Unless it’s unplayable due to bugs, it usually takes a few days to a week for everyone to figure out that a game sucks and for the number of players to drop. This thing seems to have been dead on arrival which is a bigger mystery.

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      2 months ago

      Releasing into a saturated market

      zero unique features compared to competition

      not free to play like the competition

      Boring, generic-looking characters

      zero marketing/promotion before release

      No linux support

      I mean is it really a mystery why it was dead on arrival?

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        No linux support

        Well, you got 4% max that care about that, the rest though.

        And 400mil and no marketing is surprising as usually it seems to go the other way, at least they delivered something… god the bar for AAA is low, but not wasting money on poorly targeted ads and otherwise hyping is new

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    2 months ago

    400 million dollar investment fraud scheme you say?

    Nah just good old incompetence. Damn shame.

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    My favourite part of the saga is that the marketing was poor and yet they managed to get the game represented in an Amazon show