“Soulframe, the new free-to-play multiplayer fantasy RPG in development at Digital Extremes…” (emphasis mine).
I get that there’s knock-on monetization, but - come on - it’s literally the first sentence of the article.
Active player counts on launch is a metric that is undoubtedly used to judge the game and potentially is tied to dev bonuses. Like obsidian and fallout new Vegas.
I don’t see any corporation being above artificially inflating any of their numbers.
I’ve noticed that when confronted regarding an error or mistake people on Lemmy double down about half the time.
Why? Why not just stay silent? Why not edit your comment? Why not admit you made a boo-boo? Why not delete your comment? Why not just ignore my comment and pretend nobody ever called you out?
All these choices and you went with doubling down. Makes no sense whatsoever.
I agonized over it but in the end decided the upvotes under the false pretence were acceptable. 😏