> They missed a sliver (35%) of their target audience.

Honestly, there's no point in trying to argue with you. Either you're trolling, you're greatly disconnected from reality, or you think I'm brain dead. No good can come from a conversation with someone that is so incorrigible.

> Next time you're at a party go take a third of the cake and then tell everyone you just took "a sliver". See what happens...

Fine, I'll concede it's the wrong word used. But:

> Honestly, there's no point in trying to argue with you. Either you're trolling, you're greatly disconnected from reality

Wait. I'm disconnected? Selling millions of unit (Half life) is amazing success and tens of millions is stellar success by any measure (Baldur's Gate, Call of Duty, Skyrim). But selling hundreds of millions (Minecraft, GTAV)? That's top 10 most popular game of all time.

So according to you, one of the top 5 best-selling game in history is somehow missing a huge part of the market? You can argue a plethora of things, but you can't speculate that GTA V could have done much better by saying "you're trolling"/"no point arguing".

And saying that optimizing the DLC JSON loader could have given them a bigger slice of the pie is incredulous at best.

You're extrapolating your preferences to 6 billion people. It's like watching a designer assume everyone will notice they used soft kerning, with dark grey font color on a fishbone paper background for their website. And that they cleverly aligned the watermark with the menu elements.