[grawp]

It is not so strange. Game journalism is mostly completely out of touch with majority of gamers and often part of 'woke' echo chambers with their fallback usually being blaming things on review bombing and other problems.

Fortunatelly we have free market.

[Ekaros]

Black Myth Wukong and response to it is good proving point. By all reasonable metrics it was massive success in west as well. Million or two million copies sold at least to western market for new studio in freshly launched IP is nothing to scoff at.

It really tells you that buyers of games do not really care about stuff journalist talk about. It really has rather little affect on their purchasing decisions. And that is really what should matter when you are trying to sell something.