>>96073356
>Then why did most of the people that bought it DID NOT spend the hours to finish the game?
Holy ESL
The reason is that Steam achievements are a horrible metric and most people don't finish games in general
If you use any mods, achievements stop working, so for Steam where mods are extremely easy to install with Workshop a lot of people will not register as having finished a game even if they've completed it multiple times
Additionally, a lot of people will play a game for say 40 hours, and then move on
It doesn't mean it wasn't fun or they didn't like it, just that other things came up
For some comparisons, BG3 has 90.1% beating the tutorial and 24.5% for beating the game. But Hardspace: Shipbreaker has only 50.2% beating the tutorial and 9.2% beating the game--the massive reduction in tutorial success is due to achievements not being implemented during the Early Access phase. MGS:V has 89.3% beating the tutorial, but 7.5% beating the game. And finally Grim Dawn has my favorite 27.7% beating the final boss, but only 27.3% beating the game, implying ~1.5% of people who beat the final boss didn't bother to turn in the quest and see the ending cutscene. It seems silly, but that's actually a lot of fucking people.
In short, achievements on Steam are a terrible metric for absolutely anything, particularly for games that get modded, and beating a game is a terrible metric for whether or not it's good or people had fun. I'll leave you with a final stat: the most common achievement for Mount and Blade: Warband is installing a mod (at 51.6%)--which disables all other achievements.

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