Look at the date of the article.
What data have you actually presented? The CEO said Shenmue III did financially fine. Which means it didn't flop as some are determined to say...my "guesstimates" are to provide a very lowball, conservative number for sales and the revenue that would've given to prove that the sales and revenue were likely much higher since the CEO wouldn't have said all of those positive things to shareholders if that weren't the case.
Again, when? Look at the date of the article. It almost predates the Shenmue I & II announcement, let alone its release date(s).
Haha, subjective. I'm not saying it's up there in the 90s, but you said "it didn't review well, at all" which is blatantly false. There are plenty of incredibly positive reviews out there, and not just from "YS/SEGA fans".
Didn't say that at all, just said it was anecdotal. Meaning, go get some of your data to show how popular this genre is.
I'm going to be honest here from a staff viewpoint. I'm not personally attacked or insulted whatsoever. But from observing your behavior for a while, you tend to come off a lot of the time as very arrogant and smug, which is why I entered the fray in the first place. You may not intend to do so, but that's what it comes across as. I know I've heard concerns of such.
Now you did. But I can go back and look at many times where you driveby post, telling someone they are misguided or flat out wrong, while offering next to nothing to back up your point. Such as you did up above, with the whole "Nah, it won't sell 50k" post because, well, you said so? What backs that up? Again, fully acknowledging you may turn out to be 100% right, but that doesn't give you the power to act as if you're the king and all of your royal subjects are blessed by the "reality" you claim you're so helpfully injecting.
The answer John Clark gives is not "the fans really, REALLY wanted VC PC, so we delivered!" like he basically gave as the reason for Shenmue I & II. He says a list of things including demand, are considered when porting PC titles.
And yet if you readed your own article, you'd read that it was still working for a certain range of games. In the case of Shenmue I-II, the CCU at launch was around 1500 players which lines hype with that range of sales (check on steamdb).
Also, 68-69 isnt reviewing well. And it's not "subjective". That's Metacritic's own scale.
As a whole, it didn't review well. It didn't review badly either mind you. But as a whole, it received mixed/average reviews.
Also the fact that Valkyria Chronicles is from a popular genre is far from anecdoctical. Nearing 1 million sales and if you heard of the XCom titles, yeah, you'd know that kind of games are fairly popular on PC.
It's like saying "RTS is popular on PC ? That's anecdoctical and prove it anyway !"
As for the personal attacks, its even worse and it's proving my point:
You're not even replying based on the post you're quoting, but you're replying on possibly PREVIOUS posts and what's being said by some members. You're derailling the conversation for that reason. Then again, was I disrespectful in our exchange ? Not really. The only thing I said is that it was tiring. Not the discussion itself mind you, but as I explained, the angonisation of members who have a negative opinion. When I said that, I didn't say "wow, you people are mean" all I meant to say was "listen, I'm not doing that to troll people, to make them feel annoy or to attack them, my point isn't to shit on you" and even with that it ends up on personnal attacks.
Let's be honest here for a second: This isnt about subjective or opinions nor fact. It's about what's being said. Let's be real, would you have come to those lenghts if my post was: "It wont sell 50k, a lot more on the first month, maybe 200k, based on how similar titles have performed on Steam" ?
Of course not. Would we get all those "who cares your opinion is subjective" if some of us were just saying "Shenmue III is one of the greatest game ever made and Yu-sama is untouched when it comes to game design and direction" ?
Not really.
We're discussing a game, do we have to fallback on personnal attacks ?
And no, I'm not acting like the "king of reality". We're having a discussion. And in a discussion, it's not too bad to have some certainty about some elements. Otherwise, I'd just have to write all my posts like "I'm not so sure but maybe it's a possibility that something might be true". And John Clark's answer is that it's basically demand that led to those titles being ported, since VC is one of those titles that also were from a campaign back then.