Steam's own numbers show that it had a peak of 36,905,706 players today. Both of those numbers beat the previous record of 36,354,393 concurrent players, which was set in mid-March of 2024.
36905706 ÷ 36354393 = 1.015
This is 1.5% more than the previous record set 3½ months ago. I suppose its nice that the numbers haven't declined but I'm not sure I would call today's figure remarkable in any way.
The devil is in the details, remasters are often "two steps forward one step back".
We don't know until its in our hands if they have messed up something critical.
From a game accessibility perspective the important release was in 2016 when it was posted to Windows / PS4 / Xbox One. Before that it was only on Xbox 360 which made it much harder to get hold of.
Its not good as a daily driver - if you use it every day you will end up with the song stuck in your head. But its great as a sometimes tone, I think I have it set for Wednesdays at the moment.
Sega's fiscal year ending March 2024 results show a 6.6 billion yen deficit due to European restructuring, and operating profit also falls 87% to 2.3 billion yen. "Yakuza 8" sells a million copies in the first week after its release.
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So it looks like there is an off by 1000 error somewhere.
Bugs are a specific kind of fault, it could be that or they might think that any number of aspects (e.g. plot, ui, gameplay loop, animations, crafting tree, character progression, quest structure, world layout, etc, etc) are flawed in any number of ways.
As an example If someone says that modern ubisoft open world games "have a lot of faults" its unlikely they are complaining about bugs per se.
The numbers on fuelwatch have rolled over for the new day now but when I was looking last night there was around 5-10% variation within each day but also a 15-20% price drop from Tuesday to Wednesday. By min-maxing across both days I could a min that was 25% lower than the max.
The range would be much less impressive if we only had access to a single days prices.
For a pretty extreme example consider, as you say, a large 25-gal tank, and filling up from dry twice a week, at an average of $0.10/gal non-optimal price: you pay an annual premium of $260 bucks not to drive yourself batty hunting for pennies, and burning at least a tiny bit more fuel to do it.
Since 2001 here in WA we have a system where petrol stations have to lock in their price for a day by announcing it the afternoon before. The highlights used to be mentioned on the local news and newspaper (maybe they still are, who knows?). But more importantly they all get published on https://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/ so its pretty trivial to visit the site in the afternoon and check the stores along the commute home, plus you can also compare their tomorrow price to see if you should wait until then.
Looking at that site right now I can see 25% variance across my commute without even considering a detour. Its a pretty handy system.
Then in 2008 this teaser about waiting was released confirming a sequel was in the works , since then Duke Nukem Forever has been released and BG&E2 now holds the title for "longest development for a AAA video game".
Shortly after the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley proposed that birds were descendants of dinosaurs. He compared the skeletal structure of Compsognathus, a small theropod dinosaur, and the "first bird" Archaeopteryx lithographica (both of which were found in the Upper Jurassic Bavarian limestone of Solnhofen). He showed that, apart from its hands and feathers, Archaeopteryx was quite similar to Compsognathus.
But having fossil evidence is quite young:
One of the earliest discoveries of possible feather impressions by non-avian dinosaurs is a trace fossil (Fulicopus lyellii) of the 195–199 million year old Portland Formation in the northeastern United States. Gierlinski (1996, 1997, 1998) and Kundrát (2004) have interpreted traces between two footprints in this fossil as feather impressions from the belly of a squatting dilophosaurid.
Newspaper classifieds used to be full of arcane abbreviations.
Now we have the internet we can look up a cheatsheet, but no longer use newspaper classifieds.