Game News ToEE hits the charts!

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Temple of Elemental Evil; Troika Games

<A href="http://www.greyhawkgame.com">Temple of Elemental Evil</a> has finally landed on the <A href="http://www.npdtechworld.com/">NPD Techworld</a> charts, coming in at <b>Number 5</b> for the week of the 21st to the 27th.
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<blockquote>1.) MoH: Allied Assault Breakthrough / EA / $22
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2.) C&C: Generals Zero Hour / EA / $26
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3.) Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy / LucasArts / $42
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4.) Homeworld 2 / VU Games / $41
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5.) <u>Temple of Elemental Evil</u> / Atari / $50
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6.) Flight Sim 2004: Century of Flight / Microsoft / $53
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7.) SimCity 4: Rush Hour / EA / $20
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8.) The Sims: Superstar / EA / $30
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9.) The Sims Deluxe / EA / $42
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10.) Command & Conquer: Generals / EA / $40</blockquote>
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Climb, boy! Climb!
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Thanks for the tip, <b>Exitium</b> who got this from <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/">GameSpot</a>
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[Major_Blackhart]

Awesome!! I guess it wasn't such a financial flop, eh?

 

[Psilon]

Not necessarily. Fallout Tactics was the single most preordered game in Interplay history, yet it flopped within three weeks of release.

 

[Voss]

Why is it that I can only find the link to last weeks list?
Off the link in the post, it seems to be the current one.

 

[Lemon]

The word of mouth must be decent then.

For anyone Its an accomplishment to appear above the (insert then current) sims expansion

 

[EEVIAC]

ToEE has just been released in Australia, not that Australian sales will effect world figures much. We did get crystal cases for our cd's, a perfect bound 172 page manual (what happened to the other four?) and pre-orders recieved a comic-store-guy-from-the-Simpsons sized t-shirt. No shit - its XXL and it looks like a muu-muu.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

(what happened to the other four?)

We're smarter than Americans. We don't need so many words to describe simple concepts.

EEVIAC: By the way, I did notice that thread where you mentioned ToEE would be out in Australia earlier. You shop at the Berlin Wall?

*Prepares to run down to Berlin Wall this weekend*

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

ToEE has just been released in Australia, not that Australian sales will effect world figures much. We did get crystal cases for our cd's, a perfect bound 172 page manual (what happened to the other four?) and pre-orders recieved a comic-store-guy-from-the-Simpsons sized t-shirt. No shit - its XXL and it looks like a muu-muu.

Hardcore RPG players wear muu-muus.

 

[EEVIAC]

(what happened to the other four?)

We're smarter than Americans. We don't need so many words to describe simple concepts.

The last four pages are "notes" pages anyways. Like I'm going to write in the back of my manual. Its printed on really good stock too, thick and shiny, the sort that wouldn't get all crumpled in spiral bound.

EEVIAC: By the way, I did notice that thread where you mentioned ToEE would be out in Australia earlier. You shop at the Berlin Wall?

*Prepares to run down to Berlin Wall this weekend*

I got my copy from an EB in North Queensland. Here's the perplexing thing - Games Warehouse recieved the game on the 3rd, but they have no more copies left. Games Market are still listing their release date as 24th, and even the ever professional Atari (I'd link to the site but its down) is saying 24th. BW has 13 copies left and say they recieved the game on the 9th, same as my Northern EB. It makes you wonder what the fuck their problem is when they can't even have a simultaneous national release.

Anyways, I hope you get your hands on it soon.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Games Market are still listing their release date as 24th, and even the ever professional Atari (I'd link to the site but its down) is saying 24th.

:shock:

Greyhawk: Temple of Elemental Evil PC

Platform: PC
Category: RPG
Censorship: N/A
Publisher: Atari
Release Date: 24/10/2003

Our Price: $83.95

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And BW with a $84.29 value!

Are these people bonkers? I already consider it abusive any game that's above 40 Euros :shock:

 

[axel]

And BW with a $84.29 value!

Are these people bonkers? I already consider it abusive any game that's above 40 Euros :shock:

84 dollars Austrailian is probably like 20 dollars monoply

 

[EEVIAC]

And BW with a $84.29 value!

Are these people bonkers? I already consider it abusive any game that's above 40 Euros :shock:

84 dollars Austrailian is probably like 20 dollars monoply

Hehe - if you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have checked a currency converter and found out just how much we're being ripped off. The AUD is pretty strong right now but game prices haven't gone down accordingly. $90AU is $62US or 52 Euro.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Yahoo Finance Currency Conversion (Take a look at the two year chart there to see the trend, as low as .50c last year.)

When the Aussie dollar was about $1 buying $0.55 US, prices were better. Games here hover around the $90 mark ($90 AUS * 0.55 = $49.50 us).

Current exchage rate as of right now is $1 AUS buys $0.69 US ($85 AUS * 0.69 = $58.65). So we're really "paying more", not that I'm gonna notice it though.