xSinghx: No one knows how much it sold except THQ Nordic and PB themselves but from the steam concurrent user data we have - we know it's not a hit: https://steamcharts.com/app/411300. Further the metacritic score regardless of which platform you look at is fucking abysmal https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/elex. Lastly if the game were such a success it hardly explains why the game was discounted to half price a mere 3 or so months after release and less than a year later down to $20. By contrast GTA V (the most selling entertainment product in history) which has been out for some 5yrs now only just went down to $20 here in the US last month for a sale (prior the sale price was around $25-$30).

So why then are they making another? Well who says they are? Feel free to link a press release from PB because I certainly can't find one. Anything less would be speculation and rumor. But even if it were the case there's any number of reasons companies make bad decisions. Maybe they've already invested a significant amount of money or time on parts of both - together. Maybe it's cheap to reuse assets instead of going with a brand new IP even if your first outing was a failure. Maybe the funding and contracts they signed required more than one entry. Who knows. Maybe a lot of things. But the potential mere existence of a 2nd entry really says nothing about how successful the first is. That's magical thinking on your part.

As for who made me the arbiter of truth - I don't remember claiming to be. If you're triggered by my disrespect to a forum troll that will spam every criticism of a game with his tiresome rebuttals as if it's meaningful or worth anyone's time reading well yeah you don't have my sympathy.

Elex is a mess and those consistently whitewashing its faults are doing a disservice to the (unlikely) future of PB.

xSinghx: You're no fanboy? Then why are you in a thread critical of a game responding as a cheerleader to every perceived slight against the game you obviously evangelize for?

No one wants to read your delusional straw-men 'people like to b*tch about everything.' Like I said - fuck off and make your own thread about how great you think the game is and see how much agreement you stir up - or did you already try and that's why you're here? No one there to talk to you, huh?

Faenrir: 1) Why are YOU here ? You're crying over a game that you don't like ...for some reason.

Faenrir: You don't like it ? That's fine. But there's no reason to lie about the reasons why you don't like it. You lie, i correct your lies to tell the truth.

Faenrir: You also think insulting people is the way to win an argument...well it's not

Faenrir: 2) For comparison, Dragon Ball Fighterz usually has the same number of players

Faenrir: I'm sure it sold at least half of that on steam and there's also the gog version + the console ones. Stop hating and think for a second.

Faenrir: 3) You're the forum troll here, not me...go buy a mirror, man.

Faenrir: 4) You tell me to start my own thread but come on this thread to troll lol...

Faenrir: No one wants to read some delusional singh guy hating on a game randomly...get lost, man.

Faenrir: Poor design ? Are you crazy ? This is leagues above any gothic game, design-wise and gameplay-wise.
Just because you don't like the scifi setting doesn't mean you need to bash this game for stupid reasons. Faenrir: I hate it when open world games try to keep you somewhere by putting an army of high level monsters (like Fallout New Vegas which really sucked ass). It's open world. There should be high level monsters of course but you should be able to evade them with careful planning and that's exactly what you can do in Elex.
Putting all the high level enemies in the same place is terrible design.

The gothic series was so clunky, gameplay was terrible. This game is way better.