Eternity PoE II: Deadfire Sales Analysis Thread

[agris]

badler got anything to add?

 

[Roguey]

Making games with the idea of being just ''good enough'' is such a terrible thing to say,

Mistakes were made with "let's have three people make pitches and then combine them" but once you're on that path, spinning your wheels is just costing money.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Mistakes were made with "let's have three people make pitches and then combine them" but once you're on that path, spinning your wheels is just costing money.

You should have chosen Eric.

 

[Invictus]

Is there any hard data on the sales of this game? What kind of estimates are there? Seems the game HAS been pretty well received by critics and youtubers but apparently that hasn’t translated to sales

 

[Lacrymas]

Steamspy says 100-200k, it was 50-100k a couple of days ago, so I'd say it's closer to 100k than 200k. The concurrent players are also declining.

 

[Xeon]

If things are too bad, kinda wonder if Obsidian will really abandon cRPGs or just decide to switch things by trying to make another IP. Kinda hope they do the latter and if they do that, hope they go for something other than fantasy to spice things up, they made 3 games in fantasy setting with PoEs and Tyranny.

Also hope they go low key so no gods or world ending shtick.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Steamspy says 100-200k, it was 50-100k a couple of days ago, so I'd say it's closer to 100k than 200k. The concurrent players are also declining.

Yes you are an idiot, we know that already. Stop repeating this bs in every second post.

 

[Lacrymas]

I see the retarded shitlord brigade is in full swing recently.

 

[dragonul09]

I see the retarded shitlord brigade is in full swing recently.

Oh they are, but you still need to play the full game to actually prove to these these retards the game is an abysmal failure, I had to endure a lot of torture to actually finish this pile of dung. So please don't cheapen my pain without actually experiencing it yourself

 

[Lacrymas]

I just love how you provide people with actual numbers, the only numbers anyone has access to, and they still try to... "defend" the game, I guess? I don't really know what exactly they are doing by blatantly denying the only numbers we have access to. Even if Steamspy isn't precise or correct, the concurrent player statistic is.

 

[Roguey]

Yes you are an idiot, we know that already. Stop repeating this bs in every second posts.

Well the more nearly-accurate number from May 13 was 111,000 http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...es-analysis-thread.121823/page-3#post-5613689

Though surely it's increased since then, though given how quickly it fell off the charts, not by a significantly greater amount.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Speaking of retards:

I had to endure a lot of torture to actually finish this pile of dung

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

The whole game screams "Wasted potential". Such a shame.

What wasted potential? Potential assumes talent poorly used. What talent? The game is a BG2 knockoff. It was doomed to fail from the start.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

Steamspy numbers are made up bullshit. The game has almost 200K sales now. It’s a bit of a slow burner, true, but it will turn out a decent profit.

 

[Lacrymas]

The game has almost 200K sales now.

And you know this how exactly?

 

[dragonul09]

Steamspy numbers are made up bullshit. The game has almost 200K sales now. It’s a bit of a slow burner, true, but it will turn out a decent profit.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

You can quote me on that, morons.

 

[Cross]

Steamspy numbers are made up bullshit. The game has almost 200K sales now. It’s a bit of a slow burner, true, but it will turn out a decent profit.

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

Codexers larp:

• that BG2 is a classic
• that the next time Obsidian’s BG2 knockoff will be a classic
• that Obsidian’s BG2 knockoff is a not a failure despite all the evidence to the contrary
• that Obsidian is a good studio despite more than one decade playing safe and releasing buggy mediocre games

Obsidian developers larp:

• that they care about codexers tastes
• that they will try to make a BG2 knockoff instead of adding a bunch of shit that players didn’t ask
• that they are professional and know how to run a business

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

You can quote me on that, morons.

 

[Blakemoreland Hybrid Boss]

Steamspy numbers are made up bullshit. The game has almost 200K sales now. It’s a bit of a slow burner, true, but it will turn out a decent profit.

That's great, but studios of the size of Obsidian can't survive on slow burners alone.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

If SteamSpy was a doctor and Codex was a patient.

SteamSpy: you have between 1 and 5000 months to live
Codex: Goodby cruel world, I'm dead in 30 days.
SteamSpy: No, that's not how it wo...
Codex: Stop disputing the only numbers we have.

 

[dragonul09]

That's great, but studios of the size of Obsidian can't survive on slow burners alone.

Leave them dude, they live in their own little world, they truly think a studio based in California is going to survive with slow burners, but why do we lie to ourselves, this game is a total failure, it will be hardstuck between 250k-400k for a long ass time, with discounts included.

 

[Lacrymas]

If SteamSpy was a doctor and Codex was a patient.

SteamSpy: you have between 1 and 5000 months to live
Codex: Goodby cruel world, I'm dead in 30 days.
SteamSpy: No, that's not how it wo...
Codex: Stop disputing the only numbers we have.

Except it's not like that. They aren't "disputing" any numbers, they just flat out state those numbers are wrong or bs and they know better. When asked how exactly they know better, they just shrug. What we do know is that Steamspy says 100k - 200k, the last precise number was 110k 2 weeks ago, concurrent players are declining and the game keeps falling further down the top-sellers list (or whatever that list is). I think that's enough to make an informed guesstimate about how the game is doing. Everything else is wishful thinking, white knighting and whatever else you can think of along those lines.

 

[FreeKaner]

This dumpsterfire is a flop of epic proportions. It does worse than Tyranny. Now that's no shame because Tyranny is spiritual successor to AoD while PoE spiritual successor to IE-garbage.