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Crimson Desert has sold through 4 million copies worldwide

GOTY by far and probably the last 5-10 years. Love it. So much to do in it makes me moist

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begotten said:
Still haven't got around to it, but I'm glad there's a lot of people enjoying it and the sales are still going strong.

Maybe, just maybe we shouldn't listen to reviewers who forced themselves to play a game of this scale just to get their dog-shit review out for the clicks they need to make their pennies.
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While at the same time patiently waiting for Sony/bungie to allow them to launch their Marathon reviews.... mainstream media is a joke
 
Raven117 said:
Why there was such a hate campaign against this game I'll never understand
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They're showing how over-payed (per efficiency) and over-ideological studios in the west are.

A lot of the technical prowess in the game we don't see until Rockstar releases their once a decade bangers.
 
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I am happy for them, but more so, it's stuff like this that just emphasises how shit and subjective game reviews are. Hell, how out of touch gaming media has become. They say one thing, but the audience they are speaking to does something entirely different.
 
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Excellent sales performance. I can't wait to play it.
 
Kotaro said:
because it's not according to Western DEI standard, no LGBTQ+, no diversity
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Its also a huge "sign" to all other devs out there...you dont need to please these reviewer clowns...you need to please yr chud audience and everything will be good! :messenger_winking_tongue:
 
Raven117 said:
Why there was such a hate campaign against this game I'll never understand
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One of the reasons was because people wanted character creator and there isn't one. But when you think about it, the armor/gear you get for Kliff makes it look like you have a completely different character. Especially when you have a helmet on.
 
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Gonzito said:
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Im sorry but it has to be some bad prima aprilis joke, such a bad 6/10 game like crimson deserted couldnt sell well, even above our precious woke games with so much higher scoring reviews, on that note Gonzito Gonzito i need to order some anti_ass pain paste tyvm :P
 
Mr.Phoenix said:
I am happy for them, but more so, it's stuff like this that just emphasises how shit and subjective game reviews are. Hell, how out of touch gaming media has become. They say one thing, but the audience they are speaking to does something entirely different.
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Pretty much. Used to be a 78 metacritic score would be a death sentence for a game. I think a lot of folks don't put nearly as much stock into that shit anymore. That's refreshing.
 
Topher said:
Pretty much. Used to be a 78 metacritic score would be a death sentence for a game. I think a lot of folks don't put nearly as much stock into that shit anymore. That's refreshing.
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Yup, I think a lot of people have just wisened up to how stupid, contradictory, and agenda-driven a lot of these reviewers are. Constantly trying to force tropes and narratives down our throats like we are supposed to give a fuck about shit that we legit do not give a fuck about. Its like they somehow decided that just simply reviewing a game is too boring and decided to start adding in shit that has nothing to do with how the game actually plays.

And don't get me started on product reviewers.... if you just watch tech product reviews when it comes to gaming, you would legit think that EVERYONE has a 5090 and it's pretty much the only way to play games.
 
Bernardougf said:
While at the same time patiently waiting for Sony/bungie to allow them to launch their Marathon reviews.... mainstream media is a joke
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Another reason why reviewers are dogshit and should be completely ignored.

Crimson Desert:
"Let's cram a 200+ hour game into two weeks to shit out a review on launch day"

Marathon:
"Let's take a month to play a shooter with no single[player and three maps before we score it because daddy Bungie needs a win"

Does anyone in their right mind think that if Pearl Abyss had asked reviewers to wait a month before they reviewed the game that any of them would do it? And how much higher do you think CD's overall score would be if they gave them the same grace as Bungie? 100 critics have already reviewed Crimson Desert, 37 have reviewed Marathon in over twice the amount of time. Crimson Desert has about 100x more content than Marathon. Make it make sense.
 
Raven117 said:
Why there was such a hate campaign against this game I'll never understand
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There was another medieval open world RPG that was being developed around the same time. It had you play as a lesbian knight trying to save her princess lover or something like that. When people started flowing over to Crimson Desert, the other devs got mad and started spreading hate that CD wasn't inclusive enough and shouldn't be supported. This caused a Streisand effect that made more people support CD.

No idea if that other game is in development still or has been released, but the defenders of that game continue to trash talk CD.

Humdinger said:
What "hate campaign"? You mean the 78 Metacritic?
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Read the above
 
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tkscz said:
Read the above
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So the "hate campaign" is some other dev talking shit about CD -- which you say resulted in more people supporting CD. I'm not seeing how that's a "hate campaign." It's just one dev talking shit, and it had the opposite effect.

"Hate campaign," at least to me, suggests a wide-spread, organized attempt to crush something for no good reason. I've been following the game (admittedly not closely, but here and there) for quite a while, and I haven't seen a "hate campaign" against it. Sounds like hyperbole to me, but I wanted to give the person who used the phrase a chance to explain.

From my vantage, the only thing that happened was that some reviewers gave it low marks. Okay? Does that mean there was an organized, wide-spread conspiracy to crush the game? Or does it mean that some reviewers thought the game had significant problems? Other reviewers praised the game and gave it high marks. Maybe that was a love campaign, lol.

Anyway, not a big deal. I'm just questioning what sound to me like exaggerated claims of persecution.
 
Minari said:
I have seen enough to know it not a game worth playing for me. Too many good games to play to waste time on this.
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But you are wasting it in a thread of a game you are not interested in. Quite the irony.

It's ok you don't like it, but "mid" this is not, considering that it has better tech than any game you are playing right now and this is not an opinion. Tech is objective. Still, it doesn't make it a better game, but factually the claim of "mid" is incorrect.

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So the "hate campaign" is some other dev talking shit about CD -- which you say resulted in more people supporting CD. I'm not seeing how that's a "hate campaign." It's just one dev talking shit, and it had the opposite effect.

"Hate campaign," at least to me, suggests a wide-spread, organized attempt to crush something for no good reason. I've been following the game (admittedly not closely, but here and there) for quite a while, and I haven't seen a "hate campaign" against it. Sounds like hyperbole to me, but I wanted to give the person who used the phrase a chance to explain.
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It's not only about the outrageous 4,5 and 6 (and yes, those are outrageous scores). It's the discourse around the game, absolutely toxic for no apparent reason. It's very clear when the western media wants to drag someone through the mud. They tried with Shift Up, they did it again with Wukong's devs and they are at it one more time, another Korean dev. Just a coincidence, I presume.
 
Topher said:
Sure. Plenty of games I skip because they don't look like something I'd enjoy. I don't waste time talking about them though
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Im not wasting nothing currently.
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Well deserved, games like Crimson need to succeed. Other devs need to see that there's a market for ambitious games with deep worlds, as opposed to F2P slop that is meant to hook kids onto microtransactions.
 
Angry_Megalodon said:
It's the discourse around the game, absolutely toxic for no apparent reason.
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Is it? I haven't seen that. But then, as I mentioned, I'm following the game but not too closely, so I have probably missed what you are referring to.

I'm reacting to what I perceive as an overly defensive stance on the part of people who love the game (dismissal of legitimate criticism, for instance). But maybe there is a reason for their defensiveness that I haven't seen myself.
 
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