Volrath
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Also the title of the thread is misleading, its says "The Sales of Incline" yet Pillars of Eternity is there.
Also the title of the thread is misleading, its says "The Sales of Incline" yet Pillars of Eternity is there.
The game actually got sold on Desura long before getting on Steam so I hope that it sold few more thousand copies there.
Considering the mechanics in place in PoE you could even say they're halfway there already.D:OS sold twice as much as POE because it has Co-op, it's meant for 2 players while POE is meant for 1. Therefore, if POE 2 becomes an MMO, it will sell millions.
It has already reached a million (counting GOG sales)Aw yees, 800 000 for D:OS!
Who wants to bet when it will reach a million?
Steam is the Amazon of videogames, and nowadays almost all retail sales are just glorified Steam keys, like it or not Steam represents at least the eighty percent of overall sales and alternative channels are dwarfed by comparison.I wonder how equal the ratio of Steam Sales : Outside Sales (GoG,GG, Brick & Mortar, whatever) is between D:OS and the rest of the titles. Seems like people might opt to get D:OS on Steam simply for the ease-of-use Steam brings for starting up a co-op game, and get the rest of the titles via a less DRMy source. Then again there are a lot of sheeple out there, and people seem to love Steam for some strange reason
Holy speculation batman!Barring any crazy discounts that shoot any of the other games up, PoE will eventually (after getting 25-33-50% discounts) climb to be the second or third highest game on the list. It's currently the most expensive of them.
Steam is the Amazon of videogames, and nowadays almost all retail sales are just glorified Steam keys, like it or not Steam represents at least the eighty percent of overall sales and alternative channels are dwarfed by comparison.
Barring any crazy discounts that shoot any of the other games up, PoE will eventually (after getting 25-33-50% discounts) climb to be the second or third highest game on the list. It's currently the most expensive of them.
Barring any crazy discounts that shoot any of the other games up, PoE will eventually (after getting 25-33-50% discounts) climb to be the second or third highest game on the list. It's currently the most expensive of them.
D:OS cost was about five millions of dollars, more or less as PoE,
This explains Obsidian deal with the Russians, they are trying to enter into that untapped market.Steam is the Amazon of videogames, and nowadays almost all retail sales are just glorified Steam keys, like it or not Steam represents at least the eighty percent of overall sales and alternative channels are dwarfed by comparison.
I don't think I'm disputing that at all, but ok. I'm not trying to make an argument that PoE, for example, is going to upend the status quo and ultimately sell most of its lifetime sales on GoG, I'm merely speculating that a higher proportion of PoE's lifetime sales will be non-Steam sales when compared to D:OS' lifetime sales. Now, as you say, Steam rules Digital Distribution withGaben's sweaty palmsan iron fist, and they are going to get the lion's share, but PoE and D:OS are more dissimilar than the mainstream journos would like to paint them, and different demographics frequent different marketplaces.
Successful games sell at full price, besides, at the time PoE will get a discount others will too.D:OS cost was about five millions of dollars, more or less as PoE,
I mean the price to buy the game, not its development budget
As any well mannered girl will tell you the wallet is the real measure of love, besides, for being free, and madly good, is still quite low.