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 bought.

“After we launched Prepared or Not on PC, it took about 36 days to achieve 1 million models bought,” stated VOID CEO, Julio Rodriguez. “On console, it took about 3.6 days. I’m extremely happy with the crew and what we’ve achieved collectively. It’s an enormous second — and one we don’t take without any consideration.”

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

Final week, July 15, VOID Interactive proceeded with modifications 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 alter ranges of gore, nudity, violence, and the “mistreatment of youngsters” forward of console launch, and reasonably than “sustaining a number of variations with completely different property and mechanics” that may “improve the probability of bugs,” some facets of the PC model would additionally need to be revised.

On the time, VOID insisted the modifications had been “sufficiently small that most individuals right here would not discover if we did not say something,” however it “wished to be clear” with its gamers. Gamers disagreed, and the information induced Prepared or Not’s Steam consumer evaluation ranking to plummet to “largely destructive” for latest evaluations. Up till the controversy, it had accured a “Largely Optimistic” ranking.

Inside 20 minutes of implementing unpopular modifications to Prepared or Not, nevertheless, a mod was obtainable to reverse the modifications.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and guide with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s largest 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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