Eternity PoE II: Deadfire Sales Analysis Thread

[ArchAngel]

I don't know, there must be something to it. How can a single-player game generate over a billion dollars in profit and years of enthusiastic engagement from fans without doing something right?

Let them be, they are edgy idiots who want to go against anything "mainstream" so they can think they are above the "plebs". They go against the grain. They are the "cool kids".

Obviously no one buys something he does not enjoy. The fact that Skyrim is still, 7 complete years after its release, still relevant today, speaks volumes about its quality. Unless those edgelords believe that Todd Howard placed a gun on everyone's head to open our wallets and buy the game...

Whether they like it or not, Skyrim IS an RPG, and it IS hugely successful. And no matter what they claim, i am willing to bet it is installed on their systems too.

So is Baldur's Gate 20 years after its release. And if we put together all the sales of Bg1 + BG2 + GoG versions+ Bg1EE + BG2EE+ SoD I would bet it gets close to 10 million copies.

 

[Galdred]

DA:O is a game that I know for a fact I completed three times, yet have no memory of playing. In this regard it is unique. I'm not sure what this says about it.

That is true replayability!

 

[rusty_shackleford]

DA:O is a game that I know for a fact I completed three times, yet have no memory of playing. In this regard it is unique. I'm not sure what this says about it.

I've forgotten everything not related to the deep roads which was the only interesting part of the dragon age games.

 

[Nuclear Explosion]

Commercial success =/= masterpiece.

I don't know, there must be something to it. How can a single-player game generate over a billion dollars in profit and years of enthusiastic engagement from fans without doing something right?

Britney Spears made a ton of money in the early 2000s. While some are ok pop songs no one would call it masterpieces of music.

Consensus around here is that Skyrim is a fun action game, but mostly fails in the RPG department.

It's a bad action game. It doesn't even get the basics right; its melee combat is floaty.

 

[HoboForEternity]

skyrim is an okay hiking larping game

 

[Funposter]

i like the bits where you can dragon shout people off cliffs

 

[ArchAngel]

skyrim is an okay hiking larping game

It is not even an OK hiking game. I reinstalled it once again with mods 1 year ago so see if it is any better now after so many years (I could only stand to play it after release for a very short time). I told myself I would not teleport around but I would hike/ride everywhere. That only managed to last for 10h or so before I got fed up. And soon after I got fed up with the rest of the "gameplay". Not even mods can save that shitty game.

 

[HoboForEternity]

DA:O is a game that I know for a fact I completed three times, yet have no memory of playing. In this regard it is unique. I'm not sure what this says about it.

That is true replayability!

so bad it triggers your auto defense system to repress the memory associated with it, creating a mini-amnesia effect?

 

[Elex]

i like the bits where you can dragon shout people off cliffs

and the main theme.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

As for the world DA world building is better than PoE anyway. It actually has a mystery towards which the plot is building. The story telling is simply hampered by bad writing and agenda based tone.

PoE has no mystery and bad writing.

Tyranny, also by Obsidian, as a good plot and mystery. However I am still playing it, so I don't know if it screws up at the end.

(Hi, first post in this forum)

 

[AwesomeButton]

As for the world DA world building is better than PoE anyway. It actually has a mystery towards which the plot is building. The story telling is simply hampered by bad writing and agenda based tone.

PoE has no mystery and bad writing.

Tyranny, also by Obsidian, as a good plot and mystery. However I am still playing it, so I don't know if it screws up at the end.

(Hi, first post in this forum)

 

[fobia]

Welcome Nifft Batuff!

Thank you for sharing your honest opinion on this game. Stay courageous!

 

[Mustawd]

If you were to think of Skyrim as an action game, it's literally among the worst, almost PS1 tier.

I said it was fun. Cuz it appears to be fun seeing that so many codexers here have played it for hundreds of hours.

If you wanna argue how it compares to other pure action games be my guest, but ppl are obviously having fun with it.

 

[fantadomat]

As for the world DA world building is better than PoE anyway. It actually has a mystery towards which the plot is building. The story telling is simply hampered by bad writing and agenda based tone.

PoE has no mystery and bad writing.

Tyranny, also by Obsidian, as a good plot and mystery. However I am still playing it, so I don't know if it screws up at the end.

(Hi, first post in this forum)

You must be a magician,99% of first post get ether shit rated in to oblivion or ignored. For a first time i see first post get that much positivity. How many child's hearths have you sacrificed to achieve such a miracle?

 

[Lacrymas]

Rating newcomers with anything other than shit is a sign of weakness spreading through the ranks.

 

[Brancaleone]

Rating newcomers with anything other than shit is a sign of weakness spreading through the ranks.

"The shit-ratings will continue until morale improves"

 

[Funposter]

DA:O is a game that I know for a fact I completed three times, yet have no memory of playing. In this regard it is unique. I'm not sure what this says about it.

That is true replayability!

so bad it triggers your auto defense system to repress the memory associated with it, creating a mini-amnesia effect?

I think this is it. Fade-induced PTSD or some such.

 

[aweigh]

Fucking Mario has better action than Skyrim.

 

[Mustawd]

Which Mario?

 

[LESS T_T]

So, Steam Autumn Sale. Let's check out RPG (things tagged "RPG") top seller list!: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=122&os=win&filter=globaltopsellers

#01 Monster Hunter
#04 D:OS 2
#05 Witcher 3 GOTY
#06 Fallout 4 GOTY
#09 Skyrim :todd:
#10 Kingdom Come
#27 Pathfinder: Kingmaker
#40 Star Control: Origins
#44 New Vegas Ultimate
#49 Thronebreaker
#51 ELEX
#60 NWN:EE
#62 D:OS EE
#75 Fallout 3 GOTY
#86 PoE 2

 

[fantadomat]

#86 PoE 2

It is dead as a doornail.

 

[Flou]

So, Steam Autumn Sale. Let's check out RPG (things tagged "RPG") top seller list!: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=122&os=win&filter=globaltopsellers

It did better on GOG (not a surprise). The edition that has base game and the DLCs was top3 to top5 and has passed the normal edition in sales numbers.

 

[unfairlight]

Even Elex sold more, and that game has been at 20€ on sale multiple times by now.

 

[Lacrymas]

There are zero comments about the last DLC announcement on GOG, while literally random stuff has at least 1.

 

[Riddler]

The intense lack of interest this game generates is a bit perplexing, it is not that bad and it has decent reviews.

Were people really that badly burned by PoE?

Does it somehow come off like a glorified expansion to a game people didn't much like?