Finally someone mentions Factorio, especially since the DLC just came out.

No.

They don’t need to be connected to their audience. Dumbass people continue to buy loot crates, battle passes, unfinished early access games, overprices skins, etc…

That’s just anecdotal. Be careful as a lot of these answers are often written by bots / ads in disguised.

Diablo franchise already had users, yes.

And will happily drop more cash on microtransactions.

Not just sales. Rockstar is getting paid to launch exclusively on consoles.

I bought it for my friends because I felt bad having only payed 20$ to the devs for thousands of hours of content.

How dense are you?

Not happening.

Normies will continue to pre-order games. You are just shouting at clouds. Please stop wasting our times with these posts. The battle was lost years ago.