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Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:55 pm
by tantalan
Guys can you say how many people bought this game? Or its a secret? Do you have any numbers and was it success for you or you esxpected better sales?
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:02 pm
by Darklord
They aren't allowed to give details, that being said,
After less than a week on digital shelves, the role-playing game has already recouped its development costs "many times over," developer Almost Human Games told Gamasutra, who added that the studio now "seems pretty secure."
Many times over has to be a good thing eh?
Daniel.
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:26 pm
by seebs
Darklord wrote:They aren't allowed to give details
Allowed by whom, exactly?
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:28 pm
by Darklord
They've discussed this in a few previous threads, but basically they've signed non disclosure agreements with Steam etc.
eg,
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=113&p=1395&hilit=no ... ents#p1361
Daniel.
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:29 pm
by seebs
Huh. Fascinating; I wonder why Steam, etc., object to people talking about sales numbers.
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:30 pm
by Darklord
Not sure, I hear it's pretty standard in the industry though.
Daniel.
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:31 pm
by Dandy
I bet you when Almost Human started up, they were thinking of maybe if we're lucky, we can scratch a living out of making games.
And I also bet they never dreamed it would explode into the gaming community in the way that it did. They came out of nowhere and blew the competition out of the water, and I think that was so cool.
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:33 pm
by Darklord
it is awesome, and it's all going to get so much bigger once we have modding capability!
Incidentally there's been an announcement about that,
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2118
Daniel.
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:36 pm
by t0tem
That does sound odd. Even though steam don't release the figures themselves I can't imagine why they would object to the devs doing it. But what do I know.
Maybe cause they don't want to get a discussion of royalties etc.
Re: Number of customers / players
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:30 pm
by Eobersig
t0tem wrote:That does sound odd. Even though steam don't release the figures themselves I can't imagine why they would object to the devs doing it. But what do I know.
Maybe cause they don't want to get a discussion of royalties etc.
Pure speculation, but it could be standard operation practice:
I'm sure none of the game portals (be it Steam, GoG or Origin) would want numbers floating around allowing people to speculate how the portals did
in comparison to each other.