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Millions of people played South of Midnight even if sales didn't reflect it. Xbox Game Pass has done a lot to make Xbox sales figures hard to compare.
by WorldMaker 3mo ago
Millions of people played South of Midnight even if sales didn't reflect it. Xbox Game Pass has done a lot to make Xbox sales figures hard to compare.
- ChocolateGod 3mo agoHow many people would have played if it wasn't on Game Pass though? I doubt many. Expedition 33 was on game pass and still sold 8 million copies.
- WorldMaker 3mo agoAt least from what I saw the game had a huge amount of hype leading up to its launch and the thing that kept people from buying it was just playing enough of it on Game Pass. For some players it was too short and everything they wanted to accomplish was easily done with Game Pass shortly after its launch. For other players like me we bounced off of its tone while playing it. The stop motion animated intro felt like a bait and switch going into its game play, and I had a bunch of uncomfortable feelings about cultural appropriation from a Montreal studio trying to capture a "deep South bayou" aesthetic and failing at some of the subtleties, from what I saw.
- etchalon 3mo agoExpedition 33 was released across multiple platforms simultaneously. SoM was an Xbox/PC/Game Pass exclusive for a year. It's not a perfect comparison.
- darkhorse13 3mo agoI find that extremely hard to believe given that South of Midnight peaked on Steam with only 1.5k players. Let's be honest here.