[quote=@SleepingSilence]
[@Sen] If you were going to quote bringing you up using the part were I was talking to one person individually...Probably isn't the best place to do it. Because it isn't correct.

But your point remains, kind of. So I'll address it. Because that means someone likes what they are saying, meaning more than one person thinks their point is true.

Controversy can't sell. When that's misinformation I'm debunking, in hope to educate anyone that thinks otherwise.[/quote]

The whole initial point of my first 'lol' post to the guy was that the controversy was not what got GTA 5 to sell millions of copies. My point then became 'controversy from the goobergobbers and ess jays doesn't sell millions of copies of things'. Does controversy get attention? Sure. But when someone on Twitter goes "This game offends me" and you have people on the other side going 'fuckin ess jays ruining vidya' those people badmouthing the offended aren't then going to cause a huge bump in sales. GTA 5 did not sell 60 million copies because people were angry over the lack of a female protagonist on Twitter. The Interview was going to make money regardless of how it came out because a movie with Seth Rogen and James Franco in it gets the people laughing down the aisles. Did being banned help sales? Undoubtedly, but so did Seth Rogen and James Franco promoting the shit out of it because of the ban. 

Controversy is nothing new and people have been using it to sell shit for ages. Like a whole selling point of the 2 Live Crew was that they made songs explicitly talking about sex in an era where that was frowned upon but only one of their albums even managed to move decent numbers. But controversy on its own is not going to increase sales at the millions of copies level. 

[quote]I sound angry because the person came off as condescending to a correct statement telling him they were laughing at how wrong he was. When they weren't. And it stuck a chord with me. I apologize if you feel insulted.[/quote]

I hope you mean me by this because I stand by what I said. I'll even quote it now. 'lol if you think gta made money because of offended people and not because it had the words 'grand theft auto' on the box' 


[quote][color=ed1c24][b]lol if you think gta made money because of offended people and not because it had the words 'grand theft auto' on the box[/b][/color][/quote]

Wait shit, you did it for me. Dammit.

[quote]That is implying that you are looking down on someone/laughing at their face for the opinion that GTA V many controversy didn't sell copies of the game.[/quote]

I'm no more looking down at him for that view as I am for his crack about a Star Wars parody called The SJW Awakens. I assumed it was said in jest. 

I stand by what I said. And I don't know how much more clear I can make it. GTA 5's controversy, whatever one you wanna lump onto it, wasn't what caused the game to sell a massive number of copies. I'm not saying that it HURT sales because obviously it didn't nor am I saying it didn't help sales but to say that offended people are a prime reason why the game sold well is just incorrect. It came out near the end of a console generation and at the start of a new one. It was going to make money from the jump.

[quote]It does not come off tastefully, NOR is it even accurate. You liked it, so you at least agreed with the statement, and possible how it was said.[/quote]

Sen didn't do anything wrong, friendo. 

[quote]I'll will not pretend I'm not being aggressive, but this individual has said things that strike a chord with me. Mostly because of how incorrect it is.[/quote]

What's incorrect about my lol comment about GTA? Like what have we even been discussing this whole time. 

[quote][b][color=ed1c24]Show me where the controversy behind GTA 5 (and what controversy was there?)[/color][/b]

Saying this, I can almost hear the patronizing voice this sentence is in...Like "show me prove, I think your lying, controversy of GTA 5? Ha, What nonsense..." When it had like 10 different freaking controversies, many having to do with the SJW crowd.[/quote]

You are reading way more into my posts than I put into them, friendo. And you're not even putting the full quote in there. I'm not asking you to show me the controversy the game had. I was asking you to show me that the controversy moved sales of the game. I know GTA 5 had controversy. So did GTA 4. So did GTA San Andreas. GTA is a controversial series because it's the video game people not in the know turn to as proof that games are violent murder simulators now that shit like Doom is outdated. 

Watch Dogs also had controversies from the boogeymen ess jay crowds and yet that game didn't move anywhere near GTA numbers. The offended people in the video games world are a much, much smaller percentage of the market than you might think. There's a reason that it's always the same people that get put in the image macros and in the reactionary Youtube videos.

[quote]What am I getting wrong exactly? (aside from granting you, I'm showing how sick I am of people spreading lies like its truth. So I'm not in a great mood and it shows through the text...Everything I've said is correct, and there opinion does seem to be that extreme. There's nothing contrary to it.)
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The only lie I've spread today is that Huniepop is a funny game.