>>718603561
You keep bringing up this lie. There's no evidence that it's true.

An actual smash hit single-player RPG will have a well-sustained playerbase for years because new players will be picking it up, especially on sales, due to the game's great reputation.

Let's take Persona 5 Royal for instance, a game which E33 shills tried to shit on hard by saying it's a game only made for "weebs" and that "E33 is so much better!!" P5R peaks at a decent 10k-ish players every day, jumping as high as 20k during major sales. Leaked Sega sales statistics also revealed recently that P5R sells well over a million new copies every single year since it released on Steam/PS5/Switch/Xbox.

This is a 5 year old game, 3 years old if you go by its Steam release. And yet today it peaked at only 5k less players than Clair Obscur did. The game which /v/ and Reddit was convinced had "outclassed all Japanese RPGs!!!" will undoubtedly soon be overtaken by a 5 year old JRPG in concurrent players. That's pathetic for a game like E33 which we were told was an "unprecedented success" in its genre.