[quote] And don't even get me started how well Huniepop did because of them.[/quote]
Actually Huniepop did well because of marketing through well recognized internet personalities who promoted the game through their articles and youtube channels. Whilst yeah, the “controversy” was there and had an impact it was not the major selling point of the game.

For the most part on this topic I agree that controversy doesn’t [i]make[/i] games— though it [i]can[/i] (and has in the last thirty years quite well) [b]helped[/b] the hype machine turn and inspired people to pick up games to see what the big deal was about. In video games very often the case is “any publicity is good publicity” because generally only two major countries are strict on legislation regarding them (Australia, Germany).