Wasn’t sure they were gonna put Patrick Stewart in the marketing or leave it as a T&A situation (though less common knowledge). I think this was the right choice for the sake of my OW bullishness at least 😛
I do not remember that
Pre release projections are just that, and trolling based on them is foolish (I mean, even relative to trolling based on actuals). But there is a huge interest in prerelease projections nonetheless and similar international markets are a perfectly legitimate source to throw into the stew-- keeping in mind an appropriate amount of uncertainty. For instance, uncharted's weekend in the UK should certainly be incorporated into a forecast for this upcoming weekend.
I understand it can be annoying to see tepid reactions based on expectations that you might personally think got overheated, but high expectations usually don't come out of thin air. "It will be the second best pandemic presales/previews/OW so people should automatically be enthused about that even if it comes on the lower end" doesn't really make sense either.
Not really. They're solid but they seem to be pointing toward like 20-27ish (roughly) which is solid but below what some people were getting hyped for.