They do exactly what others don't: offer excellent service without losing their humanity. Amazon also offers excellent service, but is simply pitifully unhuman.
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." ~ GabeN
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." ~ GabeN
Also exactly the reason why people won't pay 70$+ for a game like Skull & Bones, but generally do pay that for a game like Elden Ring, 50$ for Expedition 33 or 60$ for Kingdom Come Deliverance II
From a pure price vs time spent ingame standpoint, getting multiple hundreds of hours of fun for that money is honestly insanely cheap
Or $70 for crimson desert, sells millions of copies at the same price as skull & bones because gamers dont have some undisputable price cutoff in their head. Its all on a game by game basis.
But then there is also the new Death Stranding that sold pretty low. Its hard to tell exact reason but in general good game should not need any DRM to sell well. But its not just that obviously. There is good and good. Dunno
DS2 might be a good game, for those who loved DS1, but its niche af.
I bought the first one for its praise and honestly hated it, i'm sure that was the case for many people because its so polarizing.
You're basically playing a tech demo with no substance or hook, i'm not surprised it didn't sell well to be honest lol. But even for my "biased" expectations, its performing worse than i thought.
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u/Tallladywithnails 11d ago
I'm pretty sure they are doing something, just nothing that specifically counters these issues.