Divinity Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

[Athelas]

0,7 x 40 x 1,000,000 = 28,000,000 - whatever cut the Belgian mobsters took.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

Don't count every copy sold as $40. I bought it in Poland for 40 zloty which is currently around $19 according to google. And don't forget about the Russians - they always pay peanuts for games on Steam.

 

[Athelas]

It has also been on Steam sales, right? I guess I should go with 30.

 

[DeepOcean]

Well, considering that Larian is opening a new studio... Swen must be happy with the money or developed suicide tendencies all of a sudden.

 

[LESS T_T]

They are setting up *two* offices, in Quebec, Canada (a dev team) and Dublin, Ireland (a publishing team).

 

[Darkzone]

0,7 x 40 x 1,000,000 = 28,000,000 - whatever cut the Belgian mobsters took.

It has also been on Steam sales, right? I guess I should go with 30.

You should go with $21 - $24 pro copy, because of the VAT. So $22,5 mio would be a good estimation and if you take the 3mio away for production costs, then you have a number between $18mio - $22mio.

 

[Alienman]

I don't understand how it can be good business to start 2 new studios in other countries, just because you made some cash from one game. Seems like a crazy investment, and risky as hell.
Oh well, I hope Larian knows what they are doing.

 

[Bubbles]

I don't understand how it can be good business to start 2 new studios in other countries, just because you made some cash from one game. Seems like a crazy investment, and risky as hell.
Oh well, I hope Larian knows what they are doing.

One of them will be working on MMOs and F2P games, presumably.

 

[agris]

I don't understand how it can be good business to start 2 new studios in other countries, just because you made some cash from one game. Seems like a crazy investment, and risky as hell.
Oh well, I hope Larian knows what they are doing.

I hate to be a naysayer, but this is going to be their ruin.

Spoiler

That or shitty writing, but it hasn't done them in yet.

 

[Jezal_k23]

Hardly anyone ever gives a shit about shitty writing. I mean, not saying that I don't, but just saying that most people genuinely don't care, or think Skyrim's writing is good, for example.

 

[Roguey]

https://twitter.com/adreeadree/status/582793753049579520

Why have any user submitted content in your games? It's gross that I see RPGCodex listed every time I boot Divinity: OS.

This is the second time this person has tweeted about this. To quote Lesi, "Show me on the doll where the Codex touched you. Did they run over your dog and rape your sister too?"

 

[Galdred]

I don't understand how it can be good business to start 2 new studios in other countries, just because you made some cash from one game. Seems like a crazy investment, and risky as hell.
Oh well, I hope Larian knows what they are doing.

publishing team in Ireland might be understood : minimal structure to minimize taxation in the EU (the usual strategy would be to have the Dublin publishing office sell the game at its retail price to the Belgian office, so that all profits are localized in Ireland, where taxation is lower). It might be for other reasons, but this move would be pretty standard in the EU.
Opening another dev studio, now, is a vastly different thing.

 

[Infinitron]

Well, FWIW, after startup costs, the Quebec studio should be cheaper to run than the original one

 

[agris]

Well, FWIW, after startup costs, the Quebec studio should be cheaper to run than the original one

I think the real concern is remote studio and project management. That's an entirely different beast than what Sven is used to.

 

[Bubbles]

Don't they have Skype in Belgium? Just put a camera and a display in every room.

 

[agris]

I'm forever blowing

 

[ERYFKRAD]

https://twitter.com/adreeadree/status/582793753049579520

Why have any user submitted content in your games? It's gross that I see RPGCodex listed every time I boot Divinity: OS.

This is the second time this person has tweeted about this. To quote Lesi, "Show me on the doll where the Codex touched you. Did they run over your dog and rape your sister too?"

Must be from RPGWatch.

 

[Aenra]

Swen is pretty ..slick.. in his own way. And an effective slick at that. Time elapses, and you gotta wait for the next chip to fall into place prior to getting the grasp of things*. I would not entirely discard the possibility of his knowing (and endorsing) Thierry's answers in that piece.
In that light, i find this last interview a good sign. While Larian cannot afford to openly engage into an anti-SJW campaign, they can "prepare" the ground sort of speak for their next two titles. And i am mentioning this as it is not first time we get such hints, strategy-wise. I recall an excerpt from a Dragon Commander blog entry where we had similar attempts going (http://www.lar.net/2013/07/08/the-pitfalls-of-politics-ethics-in-video-games/). So there is some credence;

* example being his retrospect of Dragon Commander developing costs and more importantly, the time he decided to do it ^^

Pre-emptive market manipulation.. in order to make games.. the brave new world!
But anyway i look at it, i prefer this to Sawyer's tweeting "sorry, our publishers cannot check everything, we will remove offensive comment". It wasn't offensive Josh, stop giving in to these arseholes.

Infinitron if i may ask, have you or anyone else from the codex approached Larian? For an interview? If not, how likely would that be? Assuming you can answer me that is.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Has the full video of Swen's GDC talk been posted yet? Can't seem to embed it here, unfortunately.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021934/Divinity-Original-Sin-Postmortem-Success

 

[Cyberarmy]

Has the full video of Swen's GDC talk been posted yet? Can't seem to embed it here, unfortunately.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021934/Divinity-Original-Sin-Postmortem-Success

Ego Draconis really hit'em hard it seems.

 

[LESS T_T]

18:12

Spoiler

He mentions common Codex knowledge.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Further Codex name-dropping at 24:08.

Really great talk overall.


P.S.

 

[Jaesun]

Swen had a game that was similar to Dragon Age Inquisition (dragons and rifts in the sky)?

Granted it would be 10000 times better than BioWare's garbage, I'd play it.

 

[Kirkpatrick]

"Preparing to announce two new RPGs"

 

[hiver]

Planning how to satisfy angry joe and total biscuit! yay!