How does the video have 86,000 views and 2.1m likes? What am I missing?
This is the most expensive game ever built.
More expensive than Star Citizen?
Everyone here is missing the point that the video has more likes than views, by a few orders of magnitude...
It's because after a certain point, YouTube stops updating the view counts in real time. Some other stats (such as likes) will still update, though.
Exactly, thank you. I get what the massive appeal to the game is. I’ve played all the GTAs (yes I’m old), but something is fucky if it has that many updoots and not even 100k views (at the time).
Views don't update in real time but likes do. Always happens with big videos like this. It's something to do with YouTube reconciling the view counts across multiple servers, which gets very difficult with large numbers. It's a bit easier for them to create a stable like count when each user can only like it once, so they're essentially adding that user to a list and then counting the length of the list.
Interesting, thanks for explaining!
GTA is the most successful media franchise of all time.
It is way down the list, not even top 30. Pokémon tops all at 88 billion.
You're looking at the sequel to the game that is still within Steam's Top 10 active player count, 8.5 years after its release.
How does the video have 86,000 views and 2.1m likes? What am I missing?
This is the most expensive game ever built.
More expensive than Star Citizen?
Everyone here is missing the point that the video has more likes than views, by a few orders of magnitude...
It's because after a certain point, YouTube stops updating the view counts in real time. Some other stats (such as likes) will still update, though.
Exactly, thank you. I get what the massive appeal to the game is. I’ve played all the GTAs (yes I’m old), but something is fucky if it has that many updoots and not even 100k views (at the time).
Views don't update in real time but likes do. Always happens with big videos like this. It's something to do with YouTube reconciling the view counts across multiple servers, which gets very difficult with large numbers. It's a bit easier for them to create a stable like count when each user can only like it once, so they're essentially adding that user to a list and then counting the length of the list.
Interesting, thanks for explaining!
GTA is the most successful media franchise of all time.
It is way down the list, not even top 30. Pokémon tops all at 88 billion.
You're looking at the sequel to the game that is still within Steam's Top 10 active player count, 8.5 years after its release.
https://steamdb.info/app/271590/charts/
People have been speculating on GTA6 for well over 5 years at this point, it's no surprise this announcement is popular.
The video was up early with a premiere scheduled, so people could start liking it before the video was available.
YouTube view counts can lag a few hours behind when videos get sudden huge views like this
YouTube probably updates views on a periodic basis and likes in realtime.
My guess is you'll see views as higher than likes once activity dies down and the latter catches up to the former.
Money. Money buys everything.