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[MayauMiao]

You sure? I don't see it anywhere, boycott worked bros




ah reeee, you never cease to amaze me with your delusional craziness

Normal people : Why is your UK Physical Chart didn't mention No.1 seller?

REEEsetEra: We do not speak its name!

 

[Oddvintagechap]

I hope from now on we will celebrate success of every soulless ubisoft-like openworld fast-food game.

Like Elder Ring.

 

[Flutta]

Like Elder Ring.

How is elden ring ”soulless”?

 

[mckmas8808]

Is this sales, total sales? If so, how close is it to 20 million unit?

 

[Adam_802]

Honestly not surprising. Game is amazing and constantly looked great since the day it was revealed.

 

[Dazraell]

Not all games has the name ”Harry Potter” on the cover. Just sayin

Bruh, you can say a lot of things, but this success wasn't earned only because of the name on a cover. If this would be a case, Fantastic Beasts 3 would be a much bigger success and entire franchise wouldn't be shelved. This movie not only had the lowest box office out of all current Wizarding World movies, but it was about half of what first movie earned

 

[Tripolygon]

Can't believe Elden Ring is bombing like this.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Needs a ER character’s head shopped on for maximum effect.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Can't believe Elden Ring is bombing like this.

They should have bunderu

 

[oji-san]

Amazing boycott!

 

[dave_d]

5. Get free of charge marketing by loony town.

I wonder how many of us wouldn't have even paid attention to this game if they hadn't done that. (Still haven't bought it but the only reason it even came up on my radar is the "boycott")

 

[EN250]

Hahaha. Cant find the thread. Can you please link it

It's on the PlayStation OT, post #18277, can't/don't know how to link reee stuff cause I'm not crazy enough to have an account there

 

[yazenov]

Hogwarts Legacy continues to sell the vast majority of its boxed copies on PS5 (83 per cent to be precise)

UK Sales Charts: Hogwarts Legacy Immovable While Wo Long Falls 25 Places

Magic

www.pushsquare.com

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

You sure? I don't see it anywhere, boycott worked bros




ah reeee, you never cease to amaze me with your delusional craziness

 

[Dural]

I bought it just to walk around in the Harry Potter universe as it looked so faithful.

 

[Chiggs]

Can’t people in the UK actually visit the real Hogwarts? Get off your asses and out of your houses, you fat, lazy fucks!

 

[Gamerfan81]

Very well deserved! Normal people just want to live their lives and then have a little bit of down time with a little bit of entertainment, whether its movies, shows, and yes video games. They don't want to be bombarded all the time and everytime about some crazy real world stuff.

 

[Mr Moose]

Can’t people in the UK actually visit the real Hogwarts? Get off your asses and out of your houses, you fat, lazy fucks!

It's cold as balls, I ain't going further North.

 

[MMaRsu]

79% drop for Metroid after week 1, damn

What do you expect for such an old ass game?

 

[Roufianos]

I hope from now on we will celebrate success of every soulless ubisoft-like openworld fast-food game.

I'll never understand how this is getting a free pass yet people consistently shit on Horizon FW, which actually had much more thoughtful content than this.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

5. Use the most popular IP of the last few decades

Don't pretend Harry Potter games were selling anywhere near this well before Hogwarts Legacy, lol.

Sure there’re alot of factors that help sell a game, but what i’m saying is that if this game wasn’t associated with Harry Potter it wouldn’t have had the same success imo. So In this case it helped alot.

Spider man is a good example. It sold well during the act days even if it had alot quality issues. Also it’s hard to compare the gaming market in those days with today, you can’t have a clare cut comparison like that due to alot of factors in play.

The power of a brand name can carry a product even if said product is trash. See Pokemon.

What? Activision didn't get the franchise until 2000, before that Spider man wasn't a big seller. But didn't start selling big until 2002 with the reboot game based off the reboot film, which became an unexpected success with positive to mixed reviews, and then they improved and peaked with Spider man 2, and after that had a decline in sales for games leading up to Spider man 3, which also flopped.

So I have no clue what you're talking about in regards to the brand doing the selling here. If anything you would have a better argument bringing up the politics surrounding the game instead of the "brand name" lol.

Harry Potter wasn't selling hot cakes before, and neither was Spider Man in the Activision games outside the games with good ratings. They had to built to those bigger successes.

I mean the last 3 non-mobile Harry Potter games before Hogwarts Legacy were Kinect and Move games. Before that Deathly Hollows and half prince basically didn't do much of anything.

If the Brand Name was the reason we would have seen results previously to show for it.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Can’t people in the UK actually visit the real Hogwarts? Get off your asses and out of your houses, you fat, lazy fucks!

Muggles can't see or get near Hogwarts so I can the problem there fufu~

 

[geary]

Another UK thread? it's like that patch of isles are the center of gaming

 

[mxbison]

Don't pretend Harry Potter games were selling anywhere near this well before Hogwarts Legacy, lol.

And? Star Wars or Marvel games don't always sell well either.

It's still a massive IP and important aspect of the game. Nothing other than the world is special about this game.

 

[MMaRsu]

And? Star Wars or Marvel games don't always sell well either.

It's still a massive IP and important aspect of the game. Nothing other than the world is special about this game.

So?

 

[mxbison]

So?

Not sure what you want from me.

I only added that the IP matters a lot for the success of the game which he seems to think isn't correct.

 

[FunkMiller]

Sadly, this means that at least 50 million transgender people in the UK are now dead.

Where's your sympathy, you bastards?

 

[gow3isben]

Sad that it outsold elden ring in the UK. Gg to developers but goty 2022 didn't deserve to get shafted like this

Oh so Ragnarok got beaten as well? I guess with just being on Sony platforms that makes sense.

 

[Yoboman]

The Hogwarts v Zelda v Spiderman 2 competition is already over

 

[Sybrix]

Single playa gamez are ded!!!!!

 

[kyussman]

You sure? I don't see it anywhere, boycott worked bros




ah reeee, you never cease to amaze me with your delusional craziness

Don't like reality......create your own,the entire playbook of trans ideology.

 

[Dazraell]

Don't like reality......create your own,the entire playbook of trans ideology.

The biggest irony is that they made Voldemort out of this game, which makes this boycott even more stupid

 

[The artful mincer]

The Hogwarts v Zelda v Spiderman 2 competition is already over

But but but what about Zeldas legs!?! Legs Lllllleeeeeeeggggggs!

 

[L.O.R.D]

You sure? I don't see it anywhere, boycott worked bros




ah reeee, you never cease to amaze me with your delusional craziness

which thread is this?

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Honestly, I bought it to piss off the blue hairy potheads and I platinum'ed it to really show it. I'm not at all into the Harry Potter universe, but the game turned out to be pretty good and reminded me a lot of Fable 2.
8/10

 

[DavidGzz]

I was all about this selling like mad....until now. Not my baby.

 

[Tsaki]

Is this sales, total sales? If so, how close is it to 20 million unit?

It is strictly UK sales data. It surpassed ER in the UK. Considering it was at 12m after 2 weeks, I'd say it's at ~15m now. Also there is probably a sales relationship with PS5 console sales. The more PS5s are sold, there will be uptick in Hogwarts numbers.

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Massive power.

 

[Portugeezer]

This has gone too far

It's good but not that good.

 

[Davevil]

You sure? I don't see it anywhere, boycott worked bros




ah reeee, you never cease to amaze me with your delusional craziness

It's for real?

 

[TheGodfather07]

I'm concerned. That's alot of potentially dangerous people. Just imagine these people raising their children teaching them that a male is a male and a female is a female! How dangerous is that?

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

It's still a massive IP and important aspect of the game. Nothing other than the world is special about this game.

Which didn't matter before, so clearly the brand is not the only reason.

 

[Laieon]

You sure? I don't see it anywhere, boycott worked bros




ah reeee, you never cease to amaze me with your delusional craziness

My favorite part of this is I'm pretty sure a lot of them claimed to be boycotting the World Cup too, and yet they're not censoring FIFA.

Can't believe Elden Ring is bombing like this.

It's time for them to circle back to their real masterpiece and give us Lost Kingdoms 3.

 

[Spaceman292]

5. Use the most popular IP of the last few decades

It's a decent game and great effort for their first project of this scale, but let's be honest, behind the beautiful world is pretty much a Ubisoft game.

The Ubi formula isn't inherently bad. If it's done right it's great. Spiderman, Tsushima, etc... That's why so many games use it.

Also being popluar didn't help Avengers.

 

[Laieon]

The Ubi formula isn't inherently bad. If it's done right it's great. Spiderman, Tsushima, etc... That's why so many games use it.

Also being popluar didn't help Avengers.

Yeah, I don't mind the ubi formula as long as it doesn't overstay it's welcome. It gets old in Assassin's Creed because that game doesn't know when to end. It doesn't get in Legacy or Spiderman because those games are relatively short.

Spoiler

But this is also coming from someone who liked Fenyx Rising more than Breath of the Wild

 

[Spaceman292]

Can’t people in the UK actually visit the real Hogwarts? Get off your asses and out of your houses, you fat, lazy fucks!

Nah it's way too touristy now. It's just full of Chinese people with cameras.

 

[belmarduk]

The Hogwarts v Zelda v Spiderman 2 competition is already over

I'm sure Tears of the Kingdom will be a great game and I'm eagerly looking forward to it but they really haven't revealed anything extraordinary about it so far and it seems like they would have by now with its release only a few months away. Breath of the Wild was by far the best-selling game of the Zelda series, they usually don't sell nearly as much.

 

[belmarduk]

Ranrok, Rookwood and Harlow are not the only villains you can defeat by playing this game.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

I had never seen any of the movies until this year, the game got me interested in them so I watched them all and enjoyed them. This game deserves its success, it's fun, has charm and personality and it kind of makes me hope this is what Playground is going to do with fable in some ways. The game play is great for the most part, doing different combos with the spells is very satisfying and the flight controls are well done compared to most other games.

I don't think protests or counter protest buys had any real impact on sales either way it was just people on the internet trying to hijack something for their own personal beliefs, sadly that happens with most things these days. I think it's just the popularity of the IP and the fact that it's actually a good game made by people who loved and respected it that made it work.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]