Template:Did you know nominations/BattleBit Remastered

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 22:03, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

BattleBit Remastered

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... that BattleBit Remastered was created by three indie developers? Source: "This is a story about how 3 developers managed to make a massively multiplayer online shooter ..."
- ALT1: ... that BattleBit Remastered has been compared to Roblox so frequently that the developers had to clarify that they were not related? Source: "... the simplistically clean and blocky yet charming graphical style could easily lead some to mistake BattleBit Remastered for a Roblox creation. However, according to a concise one word FAQ response on the game's website, this is assuredly not the case."

** ALT2: ... that within two weeks of release, BattleBit Remastered was the #1 top seller on Steam and sold over 1.8 million copies? Source: This PC Gamer article

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Behind Closed Doors (book)
- Comment: The original author was blocked as a sockpuppet, and the article was deleted yesterday because of that. Article recreated today with the permission of the admin that deleted it.

Created by GeneralHamster (talk). Nominated by AdoTang (talk) at 22:05, 22 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/BattleBit Remastered; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Article passes DYK standards, hooks are verifiable and cited properly. They do have a bit of a lack of context, though -- this is especially problematic for ALT0, because lots of games are made by tiny indie teams, and you need to know the game is an MMO to understand how big a deal that is. Proposing a tweak:
- ALT0a: ... that BattleBit Remastered, a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter, was created by three indie developers? Source: "This is a story about how 3 developers managed to make a massively multiplayer online shooter ..."
I think ALT0-as-ALT0a with the context is better than ALTs 1 or 2, but ALT2 is pretty good too. It might be considered too advertorial for some, though. A combination of ALT0a and ALT2 might be better than the sum of its parts, given how few indie games get that kind of sales, especially indie attempted-MMOs. Will workshop that. Vaticidalprophet 14:43, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

@Vaticidalprophet: Sorry for the late reply. I think ALT0a works better. A cross between ALT0a and ALT2 to me would just be something like "BattleBit Remastered, an MMO created by three indie developers, sold over 1.8 million copies within the first two weeks of release"; I don't really feel that one, but if you think it works, sure. AdoTang (talk) 16:33, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@Vaticidalprophet: I just want to inform you that it's been a month and this user has since banned for being a sockpuppet. If closing DYK nominations is a thing, then that should probably be done here. NegativeMP1 21:14, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
- The creator was blocked, and was blocked before I even started the review, but the nominator isn't, which is the important part. Having said that, ALT0a does need approval by an independent reviewer. Vaticidalprophet 21:16, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
  - Ok, I got the two confused, my bad. Though while I'm here I can probably review the hook in a second. NegativeMP1 21:20, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Approved by two people already, and ALT0a is infact accurate. I do think that "BattleBit Remastered, an MMO created by three indie developers, sold over 1.8 million copies within the first two weeks of release" would give more context and would arguably be better, but ALT0a works. Giving this a third approval. NegativeMP1 21:33, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

ALT2 or any version of it is way too promotional. Striking. Valereee (talk) 20:26, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

@Vaticidalprophet: AdoTang Shouldn't this be added to the list? List of massively multiplayer online first-person shooter games. We also have a WP:SEAOFBLUE in our hook but their may be no way around it. I have also rewrote one sentence in the article and moved one citation to make the hook and cited fact clearer. Bruxton (talk) 22:01, 9 September 2023 (UTC)