FYI, PoE2 has passed 1 million in sales. PoE1 and P:Km are about 2 million. And The Outer Worlds is at 3 million. These are actual numbers, publicly mentioned in some form or another by their respective devs/publishers, not Steamspy b.s.
PoE2 made it past 1 million? That's news to me. The way most people talked about it, you'd think it failed completely. Well, relative to its budget, it probably did, Obsidian seems to behave like it performed way under expectations. A good chunk of its sales were probably long after release through sales.
Apparently it picked up after 2019, but a year after release it had sold only around 100K copies. That can answer those who are comparing BG3 and Solasta's sales, a marketing budget goes a long way. We can say PoE was a known brand when PoE2 came out and it bombed hard due to no advertising.
Well, the thing is. I found PoE1 to be extremely boring. It was going for dark and gritty but honestly Tyranny did a better job, had a better story, more actual choices, and the Tyranny combat system made more sense and was more fun.
So when PoE2 came along I was like- meh!
Although now that it has turn based combat I may look at it again.
I guess people expects CRPGS to by like WARZONE and the Wicther nowdays. Combat and action every minute of gameplay. Stuff everywhere to pickup. Loot loot and more loot. I find that MEEEH, boring and repetitive. Point being, that stuff just SELLS. Boardgames is a great example. Shit like monopoly, risk and UNO outsells all the incredible thousands of boardgame that came out the last 20 years...Fast passed brainless luck based games outselling quality stuff. Also the masses prefer gambling and sex to games. But add those to games...oh man, your selling millions. So yea, nothing we can do about it but scram to Indie devs...the last bastion of creativity for games and hope they dont become gobbled up by their ego, AAA beast and mobile daemons.
