Metaphor ReFantazio Enters the Top 5 Selling Games on Steam

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The GOATs at Atlus continue to deliver GOAT games, and I am happy to see they are going to be rewarded for it. I hope this is a gigantic hit for Atlus. I can't wait to finally start it, I have been waiting for a follow up to Persona 5 for years now.
 
Thief1987 said:
It's behind 10 years old game, some weird flex
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uh?

You mean Counter-Strike? (well CS2 technically, but same game)

Dude, that game, daily, has >1.3M concurrent players and is almost always #1 in concurrent players. If we look back far enough, the game climbed in popularity well after its release. Those daily players are constant money in. Not surprised one bit CS is #1 sales.
 
Thief1987 said:
It's behind 10 years old game, some weird flex
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Buggy Loop said:
uh?

You mean Counter-Strike? (well CS2 technically, but same game)

Dude, that game, daily, has >1.3M concurrent players and is almost always #1 in concurrent players. If we look back far enough, the game climbed in popularity well after its release. Those daily players are constant money in. Not surprised one bit CS is #1 sales.
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It was behind Stardew Valley when I looked at Steamdb,
 
Atlus is mainstream now. Their games are million sellers, even for new IPs. Not even a ridiculous name such as Metaphor: Refantazio can stop it from topping the charts. Square Enix is probably seething right now out of jealousy.
 
I have been playing the demo for 3 hours today and its good. I brute-force the game to 8k and there is no aliasing, crisp and clean. Looking forward to play the game on release
 
Very excited for this one, and quite happy to see it selling so well. Wonder if we'll see a Metaphor 2 in the future.
 
yogaflame said:
I hope it sells well to save gaming from western twisted woke agenda games.
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People said same thing with Stellar Blade, did it?

I don't know why you guys expecting one game release suddenly change entire western devs mind-set? It won't.
 
Danjin44 said:
People said same thing with Stellar Blade, did it?

I don't know why you guys expecting one game release suddenly change entire western devs mind-set? It won't.
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It's especially funny when a lot of these people are crying on Steam and Twitter about how Metaphor is woke and Atlus fell to the woke agenda lol
 
LakeOf9 said:
It's especially funny when a lot of these people are crying on Steam and Twitter about how Metaphor is woke and Atlus fell to the woke agenda lol
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What? What part of the game is woke?

I'm completely lost what "woke" even means anymore.
 
Thief1987 said:
It's behind 10 years old game, some weird flex
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A 10 year old game that has a decade of psychological manipulation and peer pressure on players to participate in their sanctioned gambling, yeah.

It is fucked up that a "free" game generates the most revenue. Although, they sell some sort of prestige pack or something, right? Something that makes you a VIP so you aren't matched with Chinese or Russian players who cheat.
 
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Danjin44 said:
People said same thing with Stellar Blade, did it?

I don't know why you guys expecting one game release suddenly change entire western devs mind-set? It won't.
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Sadly I agree. It is more of political climate, even if majority does not want twisted woke agenda in the west, but the political climate is still pushing or forcing this agenda, then there is no hope.
 
Danjin44 said:
What? What part of the game is woke?

I'm completely lost what "woke" even means anymore.
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Activists have twisted the meaning of the word to fuel their Crusade of Resentment against humanity. The political and social discourse present in Metaphor's world has been carefully crafted in a way that fits the game and adds mysterious intrigue and encourages the player to learn more about it.

There are plenty of games that have western brainrot embedded in them but Metaphor isn't one of them. Lots of influencers and grifters are grasping at straws to find something bad to say and there isn't much.

And as a SMT fan with the Utopia tidbits I think we know what that Utopia will turn out to be.

Until gamers stop buying things with brainrot the gaming industry is due for a crash. Gamers sadly are akin to Pigeons that grab whatever bread that is thrown their way as long as it is shiny and new enough to grab their attention.

And even games like Stellar Blade with the promise of no Censorship succumbed to Western Pressure and tried to bullshit us. And it got reverted because we were not having any of it. People do not like being lied to.
 
Danjin44 said:
What? What part of the game is woke?

I'm completely lost what "woke" even means anymore.
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Multiple parts of the game talk about inclusivity and tolerance, which the chums and grifters obviously can't accept, and they call it "woke"

There have been lots of arguments over the screenshots and localizations, before it was revealed all of this is in the Japanese game too, grifters like Endymion or whatever have been getting into arguments with others over it, etc.

it's nonsensical. Just like Baldur's Gate 3 last year. Just like anything, really. "Woke" is just a word used when people get stories that aren't just catered exclusively to them and their world views. Not worth paying any attention to at any point in time, and certainly not in a scenario as stupid and flimsy as this.
 
MagiusNecros said:
Activists have twisted the meaning of the word to fuel their Crusade of Resentment against humanity. The political and social discourse present in Metaphor's world has been carefully crafted in a way that fits the game and adds mysterious intrigue and encourages the player to learn more about it.

There are plenty of games that have western brainrot embedded in them but Metaphor isn't one of them. Lots of influencers and grifters are grasping at straws to find something bad to say and there isn't much.

And as a SMT fan with the Utopia tidbits I think we know what that Utopia will turn out to be.

Until gamers stop buying things with brainrot the gaming industry is due for a crash. Gamers sadly are akin to Pigeons that grab whatever bread that is thrown their way as long as it is shiny and new enough to grab their attention.

And even games like Stellar Blade with the promise of no Censorship succumbed to Western Pressure and tried to bullshit us. And it got reverted because we were not having any of it. People do not like being lied to.
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LakeOf9 said:
Multiple parts of the game talk about inclusivity and tolerance, which the chums and grifters obviously can't accept, and they call it "woke"

There have been lots of arguments over the screenshots and localizations, before it was revealed all of this is in the Japanese game too, grifters like Endymion or whatever have been getting into arguments with others over it, etc.

it's nonsensical. Just like Baldur's Gate 3 last year. Just like anything, really. "Woke" is just a word used when people get stories that aren't just catered exclusively to them and their world views. Not worth paying any attention to at any point in time, and certainly not in a scenario as stupid and flimsy as this.
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People just taking this whole "anti-woke" way too fucking far.....heck even people called new Zelda game "woke" because you play as Zelda which fucked up.

This is not helping their cause, in fact it will make people not take them seriously because they cried wolf too many times.
 
Danjin44 said:
People just taking this whole "anti-woke" way too fucking far.....heck even people called new Zelda game "woke" because you play as Zelda which fucked up.

This is not helping their cause, in fact it will make people not take them seriously because they cried wolf too many times.
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Yeah the Zelda thing was hilarious because it objectively wasn't true. They just mad Zelda came into their house and broke all their pots.

Yeah at some point people will tire of the lying boy who cried wolf and karma comes for the boy.
 
LakeOf9 said:
Multiple parts of the game talk about inclusivity and tolerance, which the chums and grifters obviously can't accept, and they call it "woke"

There have been lots of arguments over the screenshots and localizations, before it was revealed all of this is in the Japanese game too, grifters like Endymion or whatever have been getting into arguments with others over it, etc.

it's nonsensical. Just like Baldur's Gate 3 last year. Just like anything, really. "Woke" is just a word used when people get stories that aren't just catered exclusively to them and their world views. Not worth paying any attention to at any point in time, and certainly not in a scenario as stupid and flimsy as this.
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Off topic: Inclusivity and diversity true meaning is more about equality on job opportunity, services, and benefits regardless of race, sex and religion. Sadly it Inclusivity and diversity true meaning was distorted by the west, by forcelfully adding twisted agendas like twisted gender ideology like trans and misuse of pronouns, etc. and extreme feminism.
 
Danjin44 said:
People just taking this whole "anti-woke" way too fucking far.....heck even people called new Zelda game "woke" because you play as Zelda which fucked up.

This is not helping their cause, in fact it will make people not take them seriously because they cried wolf too many times.
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Kinda like what happened with the other side when their crusade started. The nutbags took what was fair complaints and ran with it; ultimately undermining whatever point they had and pushing reasonable people away.
 
LakeOf9 said:
It's especially funny when a lot of these people are crying on Steam and Twitter about how Metaphor is woke and Atlus fell to the woke agenda lol
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They cry and cry until a game is a hit, then turn around and claim that this game should be the example all game devs should learn from when they cry about the next one.
 
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Astray said:
They cry and cry until a game is a hit, then turn around and claim that this game should be the example all game devs should learn from when they cry about the next one.
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Ah yes.

Before success: You'll never amount to anything

After success: I always supported you
 
Mr Hyde said:
Atlus is mainstream now. Their games are million sellers, even for new IPs. Not even a ridiculous name such as Metaphor: Refantazio can stop it from topping the charts. Square Enix is probably seething right now out of jealousy.
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It will be forgotten in a month with total sales numbering 1 million.

Let's get serious here.
 
Revolutionary said:
Would be even higher if it counted third party sellers. The standard edition is already sold out on Green Man Gaming
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I can't even find the title on green man gaming, does the page of the game disappear when sold out?

edit - oh, apparently not available in my region (Canada), wtf.
 
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Revolutionary said:
Would be even higher if it counted third party sellers. The standard edition is already sold out on Green Man Gaming
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Yeah I got my key from a reseller the moment I say it, 50€ is a very nice price for such a long and cool game.
 
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