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| 21 MAR 2004 at 7:59am |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Regarding number of copies sold, I'm going to refer you to sales figures from Randy's latest State of Adventure Gaming that features total sales figures for 2003. The number looks like 3,013. Keep in mind the game has only been out for a short while and the list does not include online sales or foreign markets, so it is probably higher.
As to whether or not it's a financial success, I couldn't say. Anybody know where I can view their annual report?
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| 22 MAR 2004 at 2:33am |
Estoy LocoIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Why don't they make things like this easier to find?
Current Walkthrough Project: [s]Broken Sword 2[/s]
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| 22 MAR 2004 at 2:49am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Steve Ince could probably tell us, assuming he's not under a NDA, or something.
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| 22 MAR 2004 at 6:07am |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I don't know how it works for foreign companies (Revolution is in the UK), but here in the U.S., financial data for markets publicly traded on the stock market has to be made available to investors. Most companies have the information available on their website. Perhaps Revolution is a small company and is not involved with stock shares & therefore does not have to post the information.
Steve Ince, where are you?
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| 22 MAR 2004 at 9:20am |
Steve IncePrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | We are still waiting for official figures from our publishers.
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| 23 MAR 2004 at 6:17am |
GreatPumpkinSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | I'm not sure what target number of sales they expected to hit, but I'm guessing they didn't hit it. After the initial hype the adventure community seems to have greeted BS3 with an indifferent shrug and no one outside the adventure community seems to have noticed the game at all. Also, consider that Beyond Good and Evil was largely similar in a number of ways, and being an action game was much more average gamer friendly and it was much better advertised and got much better word of mouth and still tanked.
Syberia 2 seems to be headed in the same ho-hum direction and of course we need not mention the cancellation of Sam and Max. I hope you like ill-produced Adventure Company crap, because methinks that's what we are back to.
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| 23 MAR 2004 at 6:31am |
| Deleted User | I spent $AU79.95 on this game and need to get a NEW, faster, computer before I can install it. I pre-ordered it and at the time it didn't give the basic requirements online at the time. I was devastated when it arrived and I couldn't install. Oh well! I have BS1 but could never get BS2 so I wasn't going to miss out on BS3 Something to look forward to when I do buy a new PC .... maybe next year! Hardly worth buying a new computer for ONE game, but undoubtedly I will need more "grunt" if/when they start releasing all the NEW games everyone keeps talking about! :
No, I cannot upgrade the CPU ...... :'(
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| 23 MAR 2004 at 7:17am |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By GreatPumpkin (23 MAR 2004 6:16am)
I'm not sure what target number of sales they expected to hit, but I'm guessing they didn't hit it.
Considering they are already starting on Beneath a Steel Sky 2 I would guess the game was probably moderatly successful.
If it was a complete flop then Revolution would not be making another adventure.
Unless of course BASS2 is a 3D Platform game with RPG elements
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| 23 MAR 2004 at 10:28pm |
RevliskciPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | I read in a magazine that sales of BS3 were pretty disappointing.
As for BASS2, don't count your chickens yet. It could go the same way as Sam and Max 2.
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| 24 MAR 2004 at 1:05pm |
NellieSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Unless of course BASS2 is a 3D Platform game with RPG elements
It's a tennis game!
Oh wait, wrong forum...
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| 24 MAR 2004 at 2:25pm |
DragonRoseSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | That anual sales chart- is that units sold or the amount of money spent buying them?
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| 25 MAR 2004 at 5:54am |
SusanGuild Master
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| 25 MAR 2004 at 10:56pm |
RevliskciPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Well, if you look at Ray's figures for Jan/Feb it's sold another 2000 copies, bringing the total sold in the US to just over 5000. I see it is being beaten by Dark Fall.
These figures don't include internet sales and some retail outlets where the figures would be much larger, but they don't tell a pretty picture, do they?
They'd probably need to sell into six figures to start making a profit. And if you compare it to other recent adventure big sellers like TLJ and Syberia, which sold well over 200 000 worldwide it does not compare well. Of course, much of those two titles first big sales came from Europe and it could be that BS3 is doing well there. But with no figures out, who can tell?
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| 26 MAR 2004 at 4:44am |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Revliskci (25 MAR 2004 10:56pm)
Well, if you look at Ray's figures for Jan/Feb it's sold another 2000 copies, bringing the total sold in the US to just over 5000.
I contributed to that amount. :
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| 26 MAR 2004 at 12:41pm |
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Status : Online | It's still being sold for £30 in the UK, so I assume it's doing reasonably well here.
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