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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the people I know who played BG3 had ever touched D&D. Elden Ring hit a huge audience, many of whom had never tried Souls games before.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Fair enough on Elden Ring actually, I looked up the sales numbers and it did do very well for any videogame rather than "just" very well for a FromSoft game as I had thought