Has anyone actually seen a hate campaign work against a game?
I have been thinking about how this supposed hate campaign the Marathon subreddit spouts all the time and wanted to post some ruminations. I would have posted in the Marathon Steam Charts megathread on the actual sub but they would likely delete comment and maybe ban. Might as well post elsewhere. Also feel that this sub needs more overall discussion than just steamcharts. Anyways, we'll take a look at The Last of Us 2 since I feel that game is pretty relevant here.
To start off, The Last of Us 2 release timeline recap. This goes through the entire timeline of The Last of Us 2 to Release. To the people who don't know, most of the Last of Us 2 plot got revealed months before game release. During that time stirred many a person outraged over the game's choices. 3 days before release, the entire story is leaked and the crowd who had been raging before went into full meltdown. If you had been anywhere near the gaming community during that time, you definitely heard about tLoU2 and it's controversy. You also witnessed the rise of certain subreddits turning legit into toxic hellholes that could rival Chernobyl because of this game. Like 2 months after game has been out and people aren't just hating the game, they hate anything that touched the game. Actors, studio, DEI practices, and more (they may cleaned up the subreddit since then. Also not linking to subreddit but you can probably find out easily enough which one I am talking about)
The point? That game had such a hate fetish that I don't think I have ever quite seen again. Clearly must have messed up their sales right???
- The Last of Us 2 sells 4 million in 8 days.
- The Last of Us 2 sold at least 10 million copies by June 2022.
All of this to just get at the fact that "hate campaign" is just a counterfeit rebuttal for a game that at the end of the day is just not fun enough and lacks too much as a game. It just isn't enough. The key phrase for both Bungie and Marathon is this: A day late and a dollar short.
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