Thanks to the nature of its hype cycle (years of silence followed by a lot of information all at once creating buzz), followed by absolutely incredible reviews on release (it charted a 97 on Metacritic, which is the highest average score a From game has ever gotten by at least 5 points) has led to the most incredible newbie boom the "Souls series" has ever seen. By March 5th, it had managed almost nine times the peak player concurrency of Dark Souls III on Steam, and the game managed to sell twelve million copies inside of a month. By way of comparison, DS3 took four years to reach eight-figure sales.
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