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It has gotten a decent bump in the sells ranking on PSN too despite still being at full price(US).

 

[JaksGhost]

Yes, it's a coincidence.

The TGA promo without the update would have been basically a zero bump. This update without the TGA promo would have created almost the same bump. Update + TGA promo = what we got.

TGA promos don't generate huge CCU peaks. Many games already released on Steam also got a TGA promo and none of them got this bump. This one got it because it had a ton of content that a lot of players were asking for since months ago.

Big updates for GaaS with highly awaited meaty/important/heavily awaited content like this one (new enemy faction + new setting + new vehicles + new weapon types + more) generates big CCU peaks without TGA promo. Example: when in SF5 or SF6 -or fighting games in general- the game gets a new beloved character or gets a big rebalance update that fixes some issues the player were asking to fix.

But the players didn't know this update was coming though. This was a surprise update announced AND released during the The Game Awards which correlates with the spikes. Answer this, did you know this update was coming in hot at 9pm on a Thursday? I could understand your perspective if this was known information but it was not. This isn't the first time PlayStation has surprised dropped a major update at TGA. Last year they did the same thing when the Valhalla DLC was surprised announced at TGA which brought that game back into the limelight.