I’m not really tracking this at all. I never said Morrowind had better numbers and I’m not clear on what you mean by the idea of gatekeeping. I was drawing a distinction between the average person who just buys whatever is popular at the time and the consistent community that has been very vocal over the years
Gatekeeping who is or is not a fan. The community that is vocal about Morrowind is just probably not as large as the one that would buy Oblivion again. Many of their fans are only fans because they started playing Bethesda games with Oblivion. Many of them probably went back and played Morrowind and didn’t care for it but stuck with all of those subsequent releases.
I’m not really tracking this at all. I never said Morrowind had better numbers and I’m not clear on what you mean by the idea of gatekeeping. I was drawing a distinction between the average person who just buys whatever is popular at the time and the consistent community that has been very vocal over the years
Gatekeeping who is or is not a fan. The community that is vocal about Morrowind is just probably not as large as the one that would buy Oblivion again. Many of their fans are only fans because they started playing Bethesda games with Oblivion. Many of them probably went back and played Morrowind and didn’t care for it but stuck with all of those subsequent releases.