Elden Ring has sold 28.6 million copies so far.

[Knight Barida]

According to https://www.fromsoftware.jp/jp/pressrelease_detail.html?tgt=20241213_eldenring_nightreign_debut, the Elden Ring game has sold as many as 28.6 million copies. Are you really impressed with these much sales by one of the best games around for 5 years now?

[Shagger]

I saw a topic posted just the other day about Cyberpunk 2077, and this is what I had to say then;

 

On 12/13/2024 at 1:58 PM, Shagger said:

I'll say this everyone somebody posts a thread like.  Why care?

 

We're not CDPR investors, executives or employees, we're gamers. Honestly, who gives a shit about game sales?  It doesn't make a game better nor worse, it doesn't make a game more or less suited you one's taste, it means nothing.  Why gamers are so obsessed with this I will never understand.

 

And I'll echo similar sentiments here.  We gamers have no good reason to care about game sales.  In the case of Elden Ring, I will never buy it because I'm not interested.  I don't care if a billion people buy it, I still won't. 

 

And if I did buy it, then they got me!  Good for them, I bought the game!  The sales figures, if anything, would mean even less to me then. 

 

The point is there are games I love that I feel as if I'm almost the only person who has played them (Like The Vagrant or Nights of Azure). Likewise, there are games that are bought by everyone and thier mother that I can't stand (GTA IV, Bloodborne, Destiny and Call of Duty come to mind).  I know that typically when games sell well it's for a reason, but it garuntees nothing.  In the end, it means nothing.  And once again, I do not get why people are so obsessed with this.

[killamch89]

As someone who plays Elden Ring often enough, I honestly don't care that much about this. It's fantastic that people are still buying the game but it honestly does nothing for me.