Prepared Or Not Console Launch Tops 1m Gross sales Regardless of ‘Censorship’ Controversy

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Prepared or Not‘s console port lastly launched final week, and it is already surpassed a million gross sales. Mixed with gross sales of its early entry PC model, which launched in December 2023, the sport has now topped 10 million models offered.

“Once we launched Prepared or Not on PC, it took about 36 days to succeed in 1 million models offered,” stated VOID CEO, Julio Rodriguez. “On console, it took about 3.6 days. I’m extremely happy with the group and what we’ve completed collectively. It’s an enormous second — and one we don’t take as a right.”

Rodriguez then went on to thank Prepared or Not’s gamers and “everybody who believed within the venture.”

Final week, July 15, VOID Interactive proceeded with adjustments launched to controversial shooter Prepared or Not regardless of widespread condemnation from followers who claimed the developer was “censoring” the sport’s gore and violence by “appeasing console market regulators.”

VOID stated it needed to regulate ranges of gore, nudity, violence, and the “mistreatment of kids” forward of console launch, and somewhat than “sustaining a number of variations with totally different property and mechanics” that might “enhance the probability of bugs,” some points of the PC model would additionally need to be revised.

On the time, VOID insisted the adjustments had been “sufficiently small that most individuals right here would not discover if we did not say something,” but it surely “wished to be clear” with its gamers. Gamers disagreed, and the information prompted Prepared or Not’s Steam person overview score to plummet to “largely damaging” for latest opinions. Up till the controversy, it had accured a “Largely Constructive” score.

Inside 20 minutes of implementing unpopular adjustments to Prepared or Not, nevertheless, a mod was out there to reverse the adjustments.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years expertise working with among the world’s greatest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.

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