MRY
Wormwood Studios
Three things jump out at me in looking at the Troika sales figures:
(1) My, how pricing has changed. Troika grossed $37.61 per copy of Arcanum sold! I am skeptical the average price point for any RPG these days is anything like that; I assume that for them, as for other things, most of the sales happen during 50% or 75% discount periods on Steam.
(2) Arcanum grossed several million dollars more than T:TON raised on Kickstarter. Now one hopes that for the big KSer RPGs, the total sales wind up far exceeding what they raised on KSer, but that still struck me as an interesting data point, given that "the titles simply failed to generate enough revenue for the studio to survive."
(3) The Bloodlines sales seemed ludicrously low, but it had not been out for very long when those sales figures were released: November release, February article. Even taking that into account, though, it's remarkable; Bloodlines is a great game and a super accessible one. If I were trying to ease someone from, say, Mass Effect into more complicated RPGs, Bloodlines might be the best bridge. I guess a buggy release -- and a non-fantasy setting -- really hurts.
(1) My, how pricing has changed. Troika grossed $37.61 per copy of Arcanum sold! I am skeptical the average price point for any RPG these days is anything like that; I assume that for them, as for other things, most of the sales happen during 50% or 75% discount periods on Steam.
(2) Arcanum grossed several million dollars more than T:TON raised on Kickstarter. Now one hopes that for the big KSer RPGs, the total sales wind up far exceeding what they raised on KSer, but that still struck me as an interesting data point, given that "the titles simply failed to generate enough revenue for the studio to survive."
(3) The Bloodlines sales seemed ludicrously low, but it had not been out for very long when those sales figures were released: November release, February article. Even taking that into account, though, it's remarkable; Bloodlines is a great game and a super accessible one. If I were trying to ease someone from, say, Mass Effect into more complicated RPGs, Bloodlines might be the best bridge. I guess a buggy release -- and a non-fantasy setting -- really hurts.