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A Lot of You Called in Sick to Play Red Dead Redemption 2, According to Social Analytics



We’ve all done it at some time or another. A great game comes out, and we either schedule some time away from work, or we- *COUGH* call in and- *COUGH* oh boy, I think I’m- *Cough cough* I think I’m coming down with something. Sorry, I’m going to have to cut this article short, I’m not feeling quite myself today?which also just happens to be the Red Dead Redemption 2 release day?and have to go home to uh, sleep. Yeah, that’s it. Sleeping off this really bad case of the sick that I have.
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According to the social analytics firm Fizziology (via VentureBeat), a whole lot of you called in sick to work today in order to get your Red Dead Redemption 2 fix. Or at least you’ve talked about calling in sick on social media. After analyzing more than 800,000 tweets about Red Dead Redemption 2, Fizziology came to the conclusion that 1.5 times more people were taking the day off for this game than for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Despite great sales and reception for both God of War and Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption 2 beat both of them out on the “sorry boss, I can’t come in today” scale by more than three times. And it was also noted that people just weren’t that hyped for Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Red Dead Redemption 2 cleared it with 12 times the number of “sick” folks playing that game on release day. This isn’t actually a ...
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