I think a better a question is how can people question and doubt DOA that haven't even played it with all the hard work Team NINJA puts into it. So it's designed to educate people, and as proven by Fortnite, there are some people that need something proven to them; that the game is financially decent or popular.
Because it comes down to how well they go with it and have people -
actually stay-. Despite how shit Fortnite is and how overrated it is (Battle Royale games in general), it's statistics are higher valued and proven since they have a base number of hundreds of thousands of people actually playing it. Doesn't matter how much TN puts work into it, you could buy a game for reasons and then leave it for reasons. Let's not just justify portions and be a DOA hero here, that stuff gets old quick. There is literally nothing educational of downloads aside from bragging rights with undocumented numbers of suppose-to-be genuine downloads except for what? promotional tactics to trick people into downloading it because of the amount of downloads it had? Shit, people could download DOA6 or DOA5 by mistake. DOA has better achievements than this and downloads is not one of them.
The 12 million count also proves that DOA is more relevant than it ever has been before.
So if somebody downloads it once and then deletes it 3 minutes later, does it now create a sort of "Ha, you downloaded it, now I am special"?
I mean once it's deleted, it's no longer relevant in that individual's console/PC. Not bashing DOA here but this is actually pretty funny.
Eclipsing anything 2 or 3 million extra in physical sales would have done. There are now countless ways to dump your money into DOA.
It's Core Fighters on the massive output though. Which is *Free* mind you. Let's not be oblivious to DOA marketing here. Once the human brain sees something free and it's pretty good, they'll download it. But do they actually stay? depends, but most cases? they don't. Downloads just feels like a fabricated degree just to prove you have work done. Again, not dismantling TN realistically here because I love TN, but there are times where they make themselves look silly where you'd have to tell them and say "look, let's not use that trick. It's a children's trick to make you feel or look good".
Majority of the downloads is Core Fighters by the way.
You can't question them for that without questioning Internet and digital economy as a whole... which I question every day.
Well that's interesting and ironic because that's exactly what I'm saying but in reverse. To "you". Funny how the world works.
I have purchased many games at full price with the intention of playing it but never getting around to it. Does it now suddenly mean that my purchase wasn't genuine? Sure. Does it matter or change the statistic? No it still counts as my drop in the bucket.
Purchasing a game is not a subject nor used as a tool to further boost the claim regarding downloads because you actually provided support for TN regarding the game. You
bought the game. People who downloaded core fighters did not and may or may not bought some content within it because it has unproven numbers as well as having a high potential to may have deleted it afterwards. Again, it's walking towards a mist in a forest. You got in and got out with nothing but a piece of paper with numbers that didn't really mean anything. Show it to a museum curator and he'd give you money for a very small cheap price despite how long you took in there in a mist forest.
So to answer your question that's apparently being used here, does your purchase make it genuine? yes. In fact, TN probably should of used this instead of core fighter downloads. Least if people deleted it, they got their money worth.
Downloading the game for free without a spec of those million players checking on this site, playing the game online, PC, FB, Twitter etc. without a hint of proven numbers that those 12 million downloads are actual players who actually stayed with the game? no.
