"They were successful, because they made at least one game that I liked. Can't say the same about 90% of all other "successful" game companies out there."
You must be arrogantly delusional. I liked 2 of the 3 games Troika made and I know for a fact that all three were failures.
NEWSFLASH: Troika wasn't making games for just us two, moran.
"This is possibly the poorest comeback I have seen from you to date. You were playing the older games, are you suggesting that every CRPG game from those days were failures? You must be, because none of them garnered as many sales as even the worst selling Troika game. And considering CRPG's were one of the biggest sellers in the 80's and early 90's, this doesn't say much for your judgement.
The publishers changed the rules and stifled anything that isn't a next gen hit. Just admit it instead of fighting until the bitter end for kredits."
What a tool. You never ehard of inflation. Once upon a time, before Jaws hit the theatres, a successful movie only needed to make a decent amount to be successful. With Jaws came the blockbuster where $100M became the new standard. Currently, $100M making movies are laughed at, and you need $200M to be considred a true blockbuster.
FFS Superman returns made in the nighberhood of $200M and is by those in the know considered a flop. FFS
You can't comapre how much copies Troika's early to mid 200s games sold to those games made a decade before. FFS
The gaming market has gotten way bigger than it used to be, and games are much more expensive to produce.
Example: JE has old between 1.5-2M copies since its release and its basically considered BIO's unwanted stechild espicially comapred to their other games which have sold 2M+ (or hell 3M+ for DA and ME2). Yet, SS and MDK2 (both early BIO games) sold less than JE and were consisered solid sellers. LMFAO
Fuckin' new fag codexers are fuckin' morans and makings way too fuckin' easy for us old fag codexers.