Well it’s not bitterness. It’s trying to bring up facts that are met with responses like yours with “sold millions of paints”. Umm. That wasn’t in my post. Many try to change the context to support another agenda.I find it fascinating that you are so invested in your bitterness you simply cannot cope with anything countering even a fragment of your narrative. FD is a publicly traded company. They have earned hundreds of millions in the past few years, and ED is their most profitable IP. Whatever you think of ED is your business, but denying that ED has been a major, cross-platform, commercial success, catapulting FD from a very small studio to a the corporation it is today, is just rather tragic. It changes nothing about what is real and what is not, and only reveals how deep your frustration goes.
But sure, if ranting that they probably just 'sold millions of paints' makes you feel better, have at it.
Fact is FDev did at one point confirm when they said “Elite franchise” it included all items. That was long ago. DLC also adds into this, and the multi account users and free Xbox betas also, so right there you can likely take any real number that they do release and divide it by 2 or even 3 if trying to determine the number of individual customers.
But you, like others, keep steering away from the debate brought up by the OP, and what I’ve commented on.