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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>
>So, there's some new information from Circana (a market research
>group; it's okay if you've never heard of them) showing the top-ten
>selling PC/console games from the last 23 years*. I put a list of the
>highest-selling games each year below.
>
>And, you know, looking at the list, I can't help but think. I give
>companies like EA and Ubisoft and BlizzaVision a hard-time for
>constantly putting out uninspired sequels year after year rather than,
>you know, investing in something new that might challenge gamers more
>than the same ol' pabulum... but at the same time, it's hard to blame
>them.
>
>People BUY that shit. Happily. Year after year. If you have the choice
>of pouring your heart and soul (and a lot of money) into a new project
>that may or may not be accepted by the masses versus some garbage
>project you can easily hack up without much effort, can you really
>blame somebody if they go the easy route?
>
>Triple-A publishers are a definite scourge on the hobby... but we
>gamers deserve a lot of the blame too. 12 years Call of Duty was the
>best selling game! No wonder the industry is in the state it is.
>
>
>2000	Pokemon Gold/Silver
>2001	Madden NFL 2002
>2002	Grand Theft Auto Vice City
>2003	Madden NFL 2004
>2004	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
>2005	Madden NFL 2006
>2006	Madden NFL 07
>2007	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
>2008	Rock Band
>2009	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
>2010	Call of Duty: Black Ops
>2011	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
>2012	Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
>2013	Grand Theft Auto V
>2014	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
>2015	Call of Duty: Black Ops III
>2016	Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
>2017	Call of Duty: WWII
>2018	Red Dead Redemption
>2019	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
>2020	Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War
>2021	Call of Duty: Vanguard
>2022	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022)
>2023	Hogwart's Legacy

I can happily announce I bought exactly *none* of these games.

Oh wait, older games on list, vice city and san andreas I did buy.

Interesting GTA 4 is not on the list, which since it would not install
cause of the need for MS's game service, that they fucking cancelled!

GTA5 was never even an option.

Never even thought about buying any of the Call of Shitty games.

Xocyll