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MithosLowell posted...

Tell Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3 Playrate is the most important factor of strength.

Its not. Its always been how many people loved it and re willing to support it in a 1v1 or contest format

You cannot tell me Hollow Knight has anywhere NEAR the same playrate as FFXV on this site. Or even GTA against PErsona 4 Golden. Theres just no fucking way. If its a contest of "Have you played this" The older the game is and from a more established franchise the more likely someone has played it.

Playrate is still in important factor for strength. It determines your strength ceiling, but does not actually dictate what your actual strength is. Higher playrate means a higher potential maximum strength. How well-loved (or hated) a game is what ultimately determines how that playrate translates to being a strong game or a game that is very weak. But a game is still at a severe disadvantage for having a low playrate, as a majority of voters require hands on exposure with the game to actually vote for it in a match. Only the extreme contest diehards like us would go as far as vote for a game we haven't played. It doesn't matter how well-loved a game is when very few people have played it. Tell that to Tales of Berseria, which was very well-loved by Tales fans and was a top 3 game in the series by most fans who have played it. But the game ended up being extremely weak despite being well-loved, which suggests that it has a low playrate that is severely limiting its strength.

Persona 4 Golden isn't a good example here because that game was clearly a proxy for the original Persona 4, so it's one of the few cases where playrate doesn't apply. The playrate for the original Persona 4 is likely quite excellent.
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