Piff Perkins
Veteran
Go back and look at some of the stuff ResetEra posters and activist twitter accounts were saying. Especially before the first wave of reviews, where there was some question of whether it was actually good or not. Or when they were claiming nobody was playing the game two weeks after release based on some (normal) player count fall off on Steam.Realistically, who thought that was going to flop on the internet?
These are the same people who have claimed for years that no one cares about Harry Potter anymore because of Rowling so it's not surprising they tried to spin this early.