@Bread_or_Decide: You have no idea how to evaluate a sales number do you? Because that argument is shallow.

A sales number is evaluated on the background of the budget that they laid for the game. This involves the marketing etc. If the budget sticks out, its a success. If the sales are WAY beyond the expected, its a huge success.

As an external stakeholder, we only have a tiny bit of the whole picture. We won't be able to judge whether it was a success or not, unless you look into their numbers, which I doubt that you will.

@playstationzone: This is a brand new game for the West, and only recently released in Japan?

Making critic is okay, but if you know nothing about the subject and doesn't care to atleast do a quick google search, you're just making useless noise.

@dorog1995: Oh ok, sorry for putting words in your mouth then. Well that depends on how you see the GOTY. I for one like when someone tries to do something new, being innovative, and then pulls it off, that they get rewarded for it.

I haven't come around to play Alien Isolation yet, but it doesn't strike me as a game trying something new.

But yeah, depends on what you see as most important for GOTY: Quality, story, innovative etc.

@dorog1995: Oh yeah it has to be the money conspiracy, because people can't objectively like this game. People who like like this game is actually brainwashed to like it, because it was the GOTY that year, for which the publisher PAID all game reviewers.

That, or maybe the innovative nemesis system that they made. The flowing combat. The deep skill system. The variety of how to attack enemies. You could kill the Warchiefs yourself or make your branded orcs fight on your side and help you kill the Warchiefs.

Nah you're right. It's the money.

@greek5: the price of games hasnt changed, but making games has become way more expensive.

Its either paying 100 for a game or 60 and DLC's like now, to have a healthy business :)

@gamingdevil800: "died"

@dev-raid1: to that point i can agree

@dev-raid1: Yes I read your post and "solid" argumentation for why the number isn't useful. Why do you want to make the number more important that it is? It's purely informational and directed towards the stakeholders of Niantic. The whole presentation they did was purely informational and focused on statistics (Like every other freaking company in the world does it).

Yes you downloaded it and then deleted it? So what? Who hasn't done that with apps in the past? The total download is a pretty standard KPI for every app creator, whether you find it useful or not.

@revanxknight: id recommend reading up on WW1. The war was not at all "last resort" but was forced through because some leaders wanted to show off their army and test it in action. Franz Ferdinand was anti-war and had been able to keep the peace even though the austrian-hungarian military leaders wanted war. The war wasnt some sort of revenge for Franz Ferdinand, not at all.

@dev-raid1: What truth? A fact is a fact, and whatever you thought about the end product, isn't going to change the total number of downloads.

You counted towards that number, but when they look at the active player base instead, you're not in the equation anymore.

It's called key performance indicators.