Game News Divinity: Original Sin has sold 160,000 copies, already approaching profitability

[Zeriel]

Sure, as is the case with any game. My question was more about why this gives you pleasure.

Larian doesn't make games the way I prefer them.

It's always important to force your subjective opinion on everyone else. This is the sign of a well-adjusted individual.

 

[Murk]

plz stop feeding the monkeys, they tend to throw feces at you

 

[Irenaeus]

Sure, as is the case with any game. My question was more about why this gives you pleasure.

Larian doesn't make games the way I prefer them.

I thought you didn't like any games other than Sonic, Super Mario, Metroid and Donkey Kongey.

 

[Roguey]

I thought you didn't like any games other than Sonic, Super Mario, Metroid and Donkey Kongey.

Whoa whoa whoa, though I enjoyed Sonic 2-K, they're not elegant nigh-perfection like the others.

 

[Metro]

Game is shit and unpopular because not everyone is playing at the same time.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Roguey is playing this game against larian alone, then, it's a failure, since today's peak is just 1 codex user doing that. Though it seems he will play it till the end...

 

[dukeofwhales]

Seems like 100% player retention week-on-week though. Better than D:OS!

 

[Invictus]

Roguey as pathetic and sad your attenion seeking histrionic schtick is and as tired as of it most of us are, coming to the Divinity thread and hating on the game for beign light years better to than 95% than all other RPGs out there (and arguably better than any Sawyer designed game) is not even Trolling 101
Your retarded "only 20k people are playing it" shows how simply unrelated you are to any semblance of human interaction or reason; maybe you conviently forgot those are the stats from Steam only and there is that highly misterious and engaging game called life out there and some of us get to play 5 or 6 hours a week if we are lucky
Some of the posters here are offensive in their vulgarity, you como across a simply needy and attention seeking...if you don't have anyhting positive to add to the conversation go play something soothing like Sonic...how someone who doesn't like RPGs likes to post in a site called RPG Codex is a mistery to me

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Why wouldn't they do a kickstarter though? It makes sense, especially if they do it the same way they did DOS - ie self-fund to a decent state and then do a kickstarter towards the end.

Larian could do that, but I don't think that starting a new Kickstarter solely for publicity and marketing would be well received by the community.

"We have a 4 million dollar game planned. With your help, we hope to make a 5 million dollar game."

This seems reasonable.

 

[Black_Willow]

D:OS reached its peak for today and it couldn't break 20,000. You should know by now how I feel about this.

Divinity is the Steam top seller ATM. Where are Pillars of Eternity on steam sales?

 

[Sceptic]

I blame Angthoron, as I too asked for a non-Steam version, and got a Steam one. Eh, I'll live, it will be one extra copy I can sell or trade or give away.

I'm actually quite annoyed with this. I ordered the non-Steam box and the Steam key, on the assumption I would end up with both versions. Instead, the box version is Steam, my key is Steam.... and the extra key I get with the game is ALSO Steam. If I had even known about the extra key I would've just ordered the original key for GOG as an immortal backup, and gotten both anyway. Instead I'm stuck with three Steam versions. Yeah, thanks.

It would be nice if there was a way to convert Steam key into GOG key, or something. Or just get both versions. When I got FTL from the developers' website I got both a download link from them AND a Steam key, which is always nice.

 

[imweasel]

Why wouldn't they do a kickstarter though? It makes sense, especially if they do it the same way they did DOS - ie self-fund to a decent state and then do a kickstarter towards the end.

Larian could do that, but I don't think that starting a new Kickstarter solely for publicity and marketing would be well received by the community.

"We have a 4 million dollar game planned. With your help, we hope to make a 5 million dollar game."

This seems reasonable.

The way it looks D:OS will probably sell over one million copies. It would look somewhat strange if they ask for one million dollars to make another 5 million dollar game while they have another 15 - 20+ million dollars sitting in the bank.

Just Sayin'.

 

[Darkzone]

A number like 20k may be interesting, but any cross connection to other data make this even better. While D:OS didn't reached the 20k on sunday, it still managed to obtain the 13 most played game at the same time. Which could indicate that while less people played D:OS the same percentage playing on Steam did play D:OS.

Raapys i lke your statement about what would happen if Larian would have failed it, because i think it is correct.

The Kickstart may have a beginning in the need for financing a project, but many side effects are also very good. Also the Kickstarter is always in need of good executed projects, like the D:OS, else the attention perhaps could turn away slowly from Kickstarter and similar groups. Perhaps Larian never needed the Kickstarter for the money that it offered them, but as a marketing medium. The Kickstarter has helped to do W2, SRR, Brocken Age, T:ToN, PoE and perhaps D:OS, (and many others) but also this projects have helped the Kickstarter, and if a group like Larian returns to Kickstarter, i would call this a giving back (money and attention).

 

[Angthoron]

I blame Angthoron, as I too asked for a non-Steam version, and got a Steam one. Eh, I'll live, it will be one extra copy I can sell or trade or give away.

I'm actually quite annoyed with this. I ordered the non-Steam box and the Steam key, on the assumption I would end up with both versions. Instead, the box version is Steam, my key is Steam.... and the extra key I get with the game is ALSO Steam. If I had even known about the extra key I would've just ordered the original key for GOG as an immortal backup, and gotten both anyway. Instead I'm stuck with three Steam versions. Yeah, thanks.

It would be nice if there was a way to convert Steam key into GOG key, or something. Or just get both versions. When I got FTL from the developers' website I got both a download link from them AND a Steam key, which is always nice.

Hm, I'll look into this, the "This should be a non-Steam disk" notes were present in my list. They might be arriving late. Not sure.

 

[Invictus]

Yo Angthoron any chance of a boxed copy still available there? Pretty please?

 

[Shannow]

I blame Angthoron, as I too asked for a non-Steam version, and got a Steam one. Eh, I'll live, it will be one extra copy I can sell or trade or give away.

I'm actually quite annoyed with this. I ordered the non-Steam box and the Steam key, on the assumption I would end up with both versions. Instead, the box version is Steam, my key is Steam.... and the extra key I get with the game is ALSO Steam. If I had even known about the extra key I would've just ordered the original key for GOG as an immortal backup, and gotten both anyway. Instead I'm stuck with three Steam versions. Yeah, thanks.

It would be nice if there was a way to convert Steam key into GOG key, or something. Or just get both versions. When I got FTL from the developers' website I got both a download link from them AND a Steam key, which is always nice.

Just out of curiosity: Why would one want STEAM and GOG keys? One as a present for a non-STEAM friend? Insurity if STEAM is shut down and all your games get deleted like your porn? Something else...?

 

[Sceptic]

Just out of curiosity: Why would one want STEAM and GOG keys? One as a present for a non-STEAM friend? Insurity if STEAM is shut down and all your games get deleted like your porn? Something else...?

Normally I'd have been pretty happy with the GOG key alone, except that at the time they were talking about delaying the GOG version until was it October? and then there were more talks about how coop wasn't properly functional in the non-Steam versions. So it was "Steam version so I can play the game before October" and "GOG non-Steam physical version because that's the one I'd normally prefer anyway". Of course none of this mattered because a) they shipped the boxes much faster than I expected (I was expecting them to take as long as Big Finish have) and b) they released GOG version earlier, c) I ended up with 3 Steam versions anyway and d) regarding Steam vs GOG I know you're being facetious and I don't feel like going into why offline>online for the hundredth time.

 

[Broseph]

I've played Steam games offline frequently for over two years with no problems.

 

[Roguey]

I blame Angthoron, as I too asked for a non-Steam version, and got a Steam one. Eh, I'll live, it will be one extra copy I can sell or trade or give away.

I'm actually quite annoyed with this. I ordered the non-Steam box and the Steam key, on the assumption I would end up with both versions. Instead, the box version is Steam, my key is Steam.... and the extra key I get with the game is ALSO Steam. If I had even known about the extra key I would've just ordered the original key for GOG as an immortal backup, and gotten both anyway. Instead I'm stuck with three Steam versions. Yeah, thanks.

It would be nice if there was a way to convert Steam key into GOG key, or something. Or just get both versions. When I got FTL from the developers' website I got both a download link from them AND a Steam key, which is always nice.

Hm, I'll look into this, the "This should be a non-Steam disk" notes were present in my list. They might be arriving late. Not sure.

They'll be shipping the non-Steam boxes in August (probably when they finally finish those final two companions). The thing is, by the time they made this offer, they had all the Steam discs already printed so they decided to say fuck it and ship 'em all anyway. Non-Steam requesters will get bonus discs.

There's a post from Vincke on the forums explaining this but I'll be damned if I'm going to go digging for it now.

 

[FUDU]

Has Lesi played it yet?

One of her friends has, but if she did, she pirated it. She'd probably consider it banal and boring since her primary motivation in playing RPGs is the writing.

Good Lord, are you fucked. That's like saying, you like the dessert for the water.

 

[FUDU]

D:OS reached its peak for today and it couldn't break 20,000. You should know by now how I feel about this.

Like there is even more sand in your vagina?

 

[Rake]

Has Lesi played it yet?

One of her friends has, but if she did, she pirated it. She'd probably consider it banal and boring since her primary motivation in playing RPGs is the writing.

Good Lord, are you fucked. That's like saying, you like the dessert for the water.

More fucked would be to like RPGs for the combat. THAT would be like saying you like the dessert for the water.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I've played Steam games offline frequently for over two years with no problems.

The "Steam" version of Original Sin just activates and downloads through Steam, it can be played from the game folder after that without ever opening the client. Or burned to a DVD or whatever you like. It's a non-issue.

 

[himmy]

Being finished with something and finishing it are two different things. Half the people who have D:OS have gone so far as to find the teleporting pyramids. 8.7% have actually made it out of Cyseal. 1.7% finished it. Most people are just fucking around and moving on.

I really don't understand how that means anything. I have played 118 hours (granted, some of them were in alpha and beta) and have just left the Cyseal area. I also have no intention on stopping any time soon.

 

[Irenaeus]

Has Lesi played it yet?

One of her friends has, but if she did, she pirated it. She'd probably consider it banal and boring since her primary motivation in playing RPGs is the writing.

Good Lord, are you fucked. That's like saying, you like the dessert for the water.

More fucked would be to like RPGs for the combat. THAT would be like saying you like the dessert for the water.

Except the combat in D:OS is good.