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Shadow Complex sales figures shrug off gay rights controversy

Shadow Complex sales figures shrug off gay rights controversy

If you're making a game somehow affiliated with someone whose politics are controversial, don't sweat it. Microsoft proudly announced the number of people who didn't care enough about Orson Scott Card's anti-gay rights activism to not buy Shadow Complex.

Officially recorded as the most downloaded single-player title in Xbox LIVE Arcade history to date, more than 200,000 people purchased "Shadow Complex" in the first week of its release.
This bodes well for Ubisoft hiring anti-vaccination activist Jenny McCarthy for the Your Shape fitness game. I wonder if anyone has approached Orly Taitz. Maybe for a Castlevania game.

By the way, if you look closely, you'll notice the "single-player" qualifier, which is shorthand for "okay, we didn't do as well as Battlefield 1943, but we kicked the bejeezus out of Braid".

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