@garrynewman More importantly, player counts have also grown - which is the opposite of what many said would happen. pic.twitter.com/cbdJ6u5rHF — Garry Newman (@garrynewman) April 21, 2016

According to a tweet from Newman, sales increased by 74 percent when the update was released and overall player count nearly doubled for a period, "which is the opposite of what many said would happen," he tweeted.

Typically when updates roll out, like last year's that introduced randomly assigned skin color and faces, there'd be a slow but steady increase over months, rather than a sudden uptick. Newman tells Kotaku that outside of Steam sales, he's never witnessed these types of numbers before.

"We're seeing a lot more positivity around the change than negativity," he says. "It's still a bit of a novelty right now, but I'm guessing in another couple of months it will just exist without acknowledgement just as the skin color stuff." Let's hope he's right.