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Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game (www.gamereactor.eu)
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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where did you get the "multiply by 55" part from?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's a correlation to how many reviews a thing gets in a given marketplace compared to how many of it were sold. This was a mostly unscientific number shared among devs once the user privacy settings changed for Steam and we could no longer count on SteamSpy for copies sold metrics. At one point years ago, the multiple passed around was as high as 77. Here's a slightly more scientific accounting of it.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I am always amazed and baffled at how statistics work