Apparently it's an important aspect to people, otherwise Skyrim alone wouldn't have sold 3 times of what The Witcher 3 did. Or the game on itself as much as the whole Witcher series. Or how Fallout 4 shipped more copies in 24 hours than TW3 in 1 year... talking about who is actually spitting in someone's face. Immersion is subjective after all. Just because you don't think it's necessary it doesn't mean it's not working. Apparently the trade-off is worth it and the overwhelming majority of the gaming audience seems to not care about framerate.
Don't be knocking my Skyrim Sweetrolls lol. It is pretty ridiculous really.
I never said that object manipulation is tied to game sales. The previous poster stated it's an excuse and adds little to immersion, while I disagree due to the series's popularity. I do think though that the promise and decent execution of full immersion is selling games. You don't need to have spectacular physics it in your game but it's working for Bethesda. You can't deny that. Yeah their games perform like crap but it doesn't seem to bother people which you can see when you look at the sales numbers. Just trying to push the lazy dev narrative isn't working. There's a reason why they stick to that concept and try to build around the engines limitations, rather than developing something like The Elder Scrolls Online which has a far more potent engine for online games. And the one thing I was bothered about in ESO all those years was how static, theme-park-like everything felt because interactions always felt very superficial and immersion-breaking.
Nothing immerses me more in a wasteland than hearing DankBoi420 eat chips through his always on mic.
