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Amazing game, with BG3, they're the best titles since the mid 2000s, but we gotta remember something important, Elden Ring is a COVID game. The perfect game to invest a shitload of time on when you're stuck at home for weeks/months. It would have been very successful without COVID, but not on the scale that it is currently.

It absolutely was not a covid game.

The shutdown policies ended/relaxed by the middle of 2021. Elden Ring released in May of 2022

Animal Crossing was the big cozy covid game.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

No, I think you're just misremembering. The world was not locked down by 2022.

Possibly in the US, but Canada was certainly locked. And even if it wasn't like in 2020 or 2021, i know that many were working from home, and games like these is what occupy people for a while. In most of the official elden ring vids on youtube, if you read the comments section, you will see a bunch of people mention the fact that ER helped em to pass time during covid.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

It absolutely was not a covid game.

The shutdown policies ended/relaxed by the middle of 2021. Elden Ring released in May of 2022

Animal Crossing was the big cozy covid game.

ER came out in February 2022, very close to 2021. The reason why everyone was talking about nothing but ER for months, is because a lot of people had a bunch of free time.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Possibly in the US, but Canada was certainly locked.

You have anything other than YouTube comments? I really think you're mixing up years

Quick google search says by December 2021 in Canada only 22% of Canadian employees were working from home. Pre-pandemic it was 7%, so only 15% of people had not yet returned to the office

people overwhelmingly were back to work by 2022 in Canada

edit: fwiw, 89% of people in USA had already returned to work, so it is accurate to say Canada was a bit behind the USA when it comes to returning to normalcy

but for both the USA and Canada, the vast majority of people had returned to work by the end of 2021

 

[Sgt. Pinback]

Possibly in the US, but Canada was certainly locked. And even if it wasn't like in 2020 or 2021, i know that many were working from home, and games like these is what occupy people for a while. In most of the official elden ring vids on youtube, if you read the comments section, you will see a bunch of people mention the fact that ER helped em to pass time during covid.

Yeah. Could be.

Another explanation: You're wrong, and you stated something that is incorrect. Which, frankly, is the very obvious one.

 

[firegamer273]

I know. Just teasing the resident PCMR warrior.

yea sure when a game doesnt have highest players on playstation numbers are always madeup . playstation fanboys are the worst .

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

You have anything other than YouTube comments? I really think you're mixing up years

Quick google search says by December 2021 in Canada only 22% of Canadian employees were working from home. Pre-pandemic it was 7%, so only 15% of people had not yet returned to the office

people overwhelmingly were back to work by 2022 in Canada

edit: fwiw, 89% of people in USA had already returned to work, so it is accurate to say Canada was a bit behind the USA when it comes to returning to normalcy

but for both the USA and Canada, the vast majority of people had returned to work by the end of 2021

I didn't read the whole article in your link, but what i am seeing is that they're only mentioning those still working full time. Lots of people weren't working at all during those days. There were also plenty of schools closed for a while, or had online classes instead. Youtube comments and twitter posts, especially during that time, is pretty accurate to see what's happening with the broader community. Not like IGN would write an article about something like that.

 

[Soodanim]

I'm in the 500h+ 2.1% camp.

My biggest problem now is that I burned out on Souls, and unless it's to play the ever elusive Bloodborne or Sekiro 2 I don't even want more Souls-likes any time soon - especially open world. I need a break.