Mercenary, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you aren't intentionally trying to troll. just keep in mind that unfortunately Positive Xbox threads on ERA are like a bat-signal to some Sony fanboys to come in and shit up the thread and derail it. The next part isn't fair at all, but subconsciously to some may play a factor, the fact that you are sporting a God of War avatar doesn't help this as (stereotyping here) a good chunk of those who do are often sporting Sony or Sony game-related avatars. Also in threads where it is in regards to MS releasing Player counts, they always doggedly ask for the sales numbers when it's well-known this generation of gaming that MS doesn't release that information anymore. Yet they still ask.......because they say they are just genuinely curious.
It's an unfair situation, I agree with that, but Then when your posts are:
You start with a comment that is made every single time that MS releases player counts for first party games over the last year
Proceed to post what seems like a defensive post when it was mentioned that FH4 had more player numbers than a Sony game
I don't think anyone can call this anything but a benign post, just put it in so you don't accuse of cherry-picking your posts
Benign on it's own but when combined with others, appears you are trying to continue to downplay the game (FWIW I think it's a valid opinion)
Again appearing that you are having to rush to defend a Sony product/company/studio
We have been hearing the argument from Sony fanboys/MS haters that Sea of Thieves numbers/State of Decay numbers/etc were all due to people using the $1 trials for Gamepass, this point has been beaten to death, esp when users are only able to use that trial period if they are new to the service
And even in your compliment at the very end of this post, it comes across with downplay as you say "to at least try their game once" again, the same thing always brought up in these threads
Mat Piscatella who posts here from NPD stated that ironically GamePass seems to increase sales numbers from what he's been able to see so far. That's info from NPD.....not "PR" fyi
I genuinely believe you aren't intentionally trying to troll. Just showing you why the poster you are going back and forth with thinks you are.