The Sales of Incline.

[Volrath]

Also the title of the thread is misleading, its says "The Sales of Incline" yet Pillars of Eternity is there.

 

[CyberWhale]

The game actually got sold on Desura long before getting on Steam so I hope that it sold few more thousand copies there.

Everyone who owns a copy on Desura also gets a Steam key which means that most of those sales would be overlapping.
It is also somewhat important to note that the game was already featured in a bundle - a big chunk of those numbers could be coming from there as well.

 

[Morkar Left]

The potential customer market for iso-like rpgs seems to be around 300 - 400k people on Steam. With the exception of DOS which somehow managed to get 800K. Wow...

 

[Infinitron]

Barring any crazy discounts that shoot any of the other games up, PoE will eventually (after getting 25-33-50% discounts) climb to be the second or third highest game on the list. It's currently the most expensive of them.

 

[Renegen]

D:OS sold twice as much as POE because it has Co-op, it's meant for 2 players while POE is meant for 1. Therefore, if POE 2 becomes an MMO, it will sell millions.

 

[CyberWhale]

D:OS sold twice as much as PoE because:

• it has co-op
• is on the market a lot longer than few months
• was released when there was no competition at sight
• freedumb - you can interact with teh enviroment and put buckets on your head!!!11

Taking into account the stupidity of an average gamer I would also say that the last factor was also probably the most important one.

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

the average gamer wouldnt know what to do with freedom if it kicked him in the arse

 

[Volrath]

D:OS sold twice as much as POE because it has Co-op, it's meant for 2 players while POE is meant for 1. Therefore, if POE 2 becomes an MMO, it will sell millions.

Considering the mechanics in place in PoE you could even say they're halfway there already.

 

[Volrath]

Aw yees, 800 000 for D:OS!

Who wants to bet when it will reach a million?

It has already reached a million (counting GOG sales)

 

[Kz3r0]

I am browsing various Kickstarter projects, here one Codex pet project:
Xenonauts
Owners: 94,510

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Summoner

Developer: Volition Publisher: Nordic Games
Genre: Action, RPG
Release date: Mar 12, 2014 Price: $4.99
Userscore: 79% Metascore: 78%
Owners: 101,870 ± 8,064

 

[Kz3r0]

Paper Sorcerer

Owners: 42,320

Similar to Darkest Dugeon.

 

[Kz3r0]

Quest for Infamy
Owners: 20,909


No love for Adventure RPG hybrids.

 

[Kz3r0]

Primordia
Owners: 65,237

The author has joined the Torment writing team.

 

[Morality Games]

Obsidian lost some sales at release so that they could squeeze out an additional $15 from people who like the Infinity Engine games. There will be a price drop to make the game palpable to casuals sooner or later.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

I wonder how equal the ratio of Steam Sales : Outside Sales (GoG,GG, Brick & Mortar, whatever) is between D:OS and the rest of the titles. Seems like people might opt to get D:OS on Steam simply for the ease-of-use Steam brings for starting up a co-op game, and get the rest of the titles via a less DRMy source. Then again there are a lot of sheeple out there, and people seem to love Steam for some strange reason

 

[Kz3r0]

I wonder how equal the ratio of Steam Sales : Outside Sales (GoG,GG, Brick & Mortar, whatever) is between D:OS and the rest of the titles. Seems like people might opt to get D:OS on Steam simply for the ease-of-use Steam brings for starting up a co-op game, and get the rest of the titles via a less DRMy source. Then again there are a lot of sheeple out there, and people seem to love Steam for some strange reason

Steam is the Amazon of videogames, and nowadays almost all retail sales are just glorified Steam keys, like it or not Steam represents at least the eighty percent of overall sales and alternative channels are dwarfed by comparison.

 

[Jaedar]

Barring any crazy discounts that shoot any of the other games up, PoE will eventually (after getting 25-33-50% discounts) climb to be the second or third highest game on the list. It's currently the most expensive of them.

Holy speculation batman!

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Steam is the Amazon of videogames, and nowadays almost all retail sales are just glorified Steam keys, like it or not Steam represents at least the eighty percent of overall sales and alternative channels are dwarfed by comparison.

I don't think I'm disputing that at all, but ok. I'm not trying to make an argument that PoE, for example, is going to upend the status quo and ultimately sell most of its lifetime sales on GoG, I'm merely speculating that a higher proportion of PoE's lifetime sales will be non-Steam sales when compared to D:OS' lifetime sales. Now, as you say, Steam rules Digital Distribution with Gaben's sweaty palms an iron fist, and they are going to get the lion's share, but PoE and D:OS are more dissimilar than the mainstream journos would like to paint them, and different demographics frequent different marketplaces.

 

[Kz3r0]

Barring any crazy discounts that shoot any of the other games up, PoE will eventually (after getting 25-33-50% discounts) climb to be the second or third highest game on the list. It's currently the most expensive of them.

D:OS cost was about five millions of dollars, more or less as PoE,

 

[Infinitron]

Barring any crazy discounts that shoot any of the other games up, PoE will eventually (after getting 25-33-50% discounts) climb to be the second or third highest game on the list. It's currently the most expensive of them.

D:OS cost was about five millions of dollars, more or less as PoE,

I mean the price to buy the game, not its development budget

 

[Kz3r0]

Steam is the Amazon of videogames, and nowadays almost all retail sales are just glorified Steam keys, like it or not Steam represents at least the eighty percent of overall sales and alternative channels are dwarfed by comparison.

I don't think I'm disputing that at all, but ok. I'm not trying to make an argument that PoE, for example, is going to upend the status quo and ultimately sell most of its lifetime sales on GoG, I'm merely speculating that a higher proportion of PoE's lifetime sales will be non-Steam sales when compared to D:OS' lifetime sales. Now, as you say, Steam rules Digital Distribution with Gaben's sweaty palms an iron fist, and they are going to get the lion's share, but PoE and D:OS are more dissimilar than the mainstream journos would like to paint them, and different demographics frequent different marketplaces.

This explains Obsidian deal with the Russians, they are trying to enter into that untapped market.

 

[Kz3r0]

D:OS cost was about five millions of dollars, more or less as PoE,

I mean the price to buy the game, not its development budget

Successful games sell at full price, besides, at the time PoE will get a discount others will too.

 

[V_K]

Quest for Infamy
Owners: 20,909


No love for Adventure RPG hybrids.

Not necessarily.
It's free, of course, but still.

 

[Kz3r0]

Quest for Infamy
Owners: 20,909


No love for Adventure RPG hybrids.

Not necessarily.
It's free, of course, but still.

As any well mannered girl will tell you the wallet is the real measure of love, besides, for being free, and madly good, is still quite low.

Also:
Heroine's Quest Patreon