Steam just released their weekly sales chart, and Hogwarts Legacy he gets four of his top five places!
Regardless of the controversy the game has faced for years, Hogwarts Legacy had broken Twitch viewership records and even garnered half a million users 3 days before its official launch (February 7, 2023). The players who paid the most to enjoy the deluxe preview edition were reported to be around 488,000 people.
Although this record does not officially appear in the Steam top 100 because it was before the official release date, Hogwarts Legacy had already surpassed PUBG and was only one place behind Dota 2 since its availability on the market.
The pre-release edition of Hogwarts Legacy also did a lot to improve the overall technical and performance qualities of the game. During the pre-launch period, Warner Bros. has received reports of errors from players, including lag, crashes, and stutters, even if the hardware the game is running on meets the minimum system requirements. Fortunately, the current edition, Hogwarts Legacy: Digital Deluxe, has been reported to have significantly fewer glitches than the preview version.
Steam rated each version of the game as separate products, with Hogwarts Legacy: Digital Deluxe Edition topping the list, and the previous week’s best-seller, the regular version of Hogwarts Legacy, coming in second.
Third and fourth place seem deceptively redundant with similar titles to first and second place, but this is because Steam ranks Hogwarts Legacy’s pre- and post-launch sales accordingly. Simply put, the first 1 and 2 indicate post-launch sales, while the first 3 and 4 indicate pre-launch sales.
Fountain: https://steamdb.info/topsellers/2023W06/
Although the ranking is a bit confusing, it clearly shows one thing: Hogwarts Legacy has had a successful reception since its release date. However, the popularity it has been enjoying is neither surprising nor surprising, not surprising because Harry Potter is one of the most famous book series and film franchises in the world, and surprising due to the years of boycott threats the game has received over the years. years.
For many years, Hogwarts Legacy has been under a lot of controversy and hate from thousands of players who vowed to boycott the game while encouraging all other Harry Potter fans to do the same. The backlash was a backlash to Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s infamous anti-trans comments and stance. Since 2020, Rowling has pioneered campaigns against community acceptance of trans people, implying that while she is sympathetic to them, trans women are men in “disguise” and that progress in trans rights represents a threat to biological women.
Obviously, despite the severe controversy and backlash, Hogwarts Legacy had survived the whole boycott ordeal and even managed to top the charts while gaining millions of users worldwide.