Ready Or Not Console Release Tops 1m Sales Despite 'Censorship' Controversy

Ready oregon Not's console larboard yet released past week, and it's already surpassed 1 cardinal sales. Combined with income of its aboriginal entree PC version, which released successful December 2023, the crippled has present topped 10 cardinal units sold.

"When we launched Ready oregon Not connected PC, it took astir 36 days to scope 1 cardinal units sold," said VOID CEO, Julio Rodriguez. "On console, it took astir 3.6 days. I’m incredibly arrogant of the squad and what we’ve accomplished together. It’s a immense infinitesimal — and 1 we don’t instrumentality for granted."

Rodriguez past went connected to convey Ready oregon Not's players and "everyone who believed successful the project."

Last week, July 15, VOID Interactive proceeded with changes introduced to arguable shooter Ready oregon Not contempt wide condemnation from fans who claimed the developer was "censoring" the game's gore and unit by "appeasing console marketplace regulators."

VOID said it had to set levels of gore, nudity, violence, and the "mistreatment of children" up of console release, and alternatively than "maintaining aggregate versions with antithetic assets and mechanics" that would "increase the likelihood of bugs," immoderate aspects of the PC mentation would besides person to beryllium revised.

At the time, VOID insisted the changes were "small capable that astir radical present wouldn't announcement if we didn't accidental anything," but it "wanted to beryllium transparent" with its players. Players disagreed, and the quality caused Ready oregon Not's Steam idiosyncratic reappraisal standing to plummet to "mostly negative" for caller reviews. Up until the controversy, it had accured a "Mostly Positive" rating.

Within 20 minutes of implementing unpopular changes to Ready oregon Not, however, a mod was disposable to reverse the changes.

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