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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

All this does is to show bias in what gamesphere you dwell in.

This is something that really can't be overstated. The social media we consume (which includes virtually everything that comprises the public discourse around a given game unless there's enough controversy to make news headlines) is actively tailored to our interests. That means people who are interested in BG3 and other CRPGs are going to see lots of BG3-related content, and people who are interested in TotK and other Zelda games are going to see lots of TotK-related content. Those who aren't interested in one or the other are going to end up seeing very little content related to it.

Personally, I saw TotK-related content for much, much longer post-release than I did BG3 content. But that's because I've played TotK, actively sought out discussions about it, watched youtube videos that seemed interesting, and paused scrolling through Facebook when TotK content popped up. I haven't played BG3 (not for lack of interest, I just have a sizable backlog of older CRPGs that I want to play before dropping $60 on a new one) and haven't sought out discussions or media content around it, so very little shows up in my media feeds. When I finished TotK and stopped engaging with related content, it slowly disappeared from my feeds, not because content stopped being made, but because the algorithms delivering content to me figured out that I was less likely to engage with it. I expect that if I got back into it, there'd be plenty more content. I also expect the same would be true of BG3 if I picked it up and started looking up videos and articles and memes.

It's always been the case that people tend to underestimate how popular something is if they don't care about it, just because not caring enough to engage with discourse around it introduces a bias, but that bias has become quite dramatically enhanced by media algorithms preferentially showing us stuff we've shown we care about and hiding stuff we don't. Now more than ever, you really can't draw conclusions about how little attention something has received if you haven't been paying attention to it personally.