Deadfire did great critically but failed commercially. It sold very poorly. Like, crazy bad. According to one investor’s calculations bad on the dismal returns he got on it, it probably sold less than 100k copies.
Yeah, I'm comparing their performance is terms of scores and accolades. Deadfire had no marketing, maybe because the game was too expensive to make, and it shows when you look at its graphics, it is a technical marvel.
Hey neither of you has to convince me on the merits of both the PoE games. I personally LOVE them both. I also was a backer of both with a pretty decent sum of money. I'm only commenting on how I am reading gamers generally. I think when someone says a game is the spiritual successor to some other much-loved older game, the fans of that older game have this rather ridiculous expectation that the new game will be literally EXACTLY the same as the older game. And when it isn't exactly the same, they get angry and bitter and sulky.
I personally LOVE the setting of Eora that Obsidian has created for the PoE games. And I especially LOVE the new mechanics they have created, because I don't care for D&D-style mechanics at all. And most of all, getting into bed with WotC is a recipe for disaster, imo, and I strongly believe studios should create their own new IPs rather than licnsing and recycling old IPs.
