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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8552954" data-attributes="member: 18">I do.It was universally panned and games which are basically never make money unless there is a meme or fad attached, which wasn't the case here. It has a Metacritic of 53% and generally unless your game has Mario, Zelda, Pokémon or similar in the title getting anywhere below 70% is death. And D&D isn't a brand associated with quality in videogames, largely thanks to WotC/Hasbro consistently giving licenses to losers post-Black Isle/Obsidian. There are some not-bad games sure, and BG3 is shaping up to be a classic (big improvements in most recent patches) on full release so that will help, but the last 15 years of D&D videogames is a story of them being anywhere from ok to awful in most cases.Anyway I strongly suspect that, if, as WotC directly claimed, Tuque was staffed up like a ln AAA studio (expensive) then it lost money. The deal to get it on day 1 on Game Pass will have helped, but sales have to have been dismal, given that on Steam it peaked at 3k players and rapidly dropped to double digits. Compare that with Warhammer 3 which also was day 1 on Game Pass yet had 156k peak on Steam So yeah TLDR we have good reason to believe it didn't make money. If it did, expect a sequel, but that seems unlikely.</blockquote>