Also consider, ~6M people have bought Origins over the last four years. That means there are ~5M people who played Origins and passed on buying Inquisition during its first week -- either they hated Origins and swore off anymore Dragon Age games...or Inquisition went in a direction that turned them off; someone who is smarter than me will have to figure that one out.
pretty sure a lot of the origins where sold at steam sales for 5 bucks and never or just a few hours played.
Oooh forgot darksouls was this year.
That's my favorite hehe
darksouls? the game you have to control with a controler and has controler optimized ui? GET THE HERETIC...GET HIM!!
Are digital sales being counted yet? I originally had a physical copy of Inquisition preordered for months, but once Microsoft put up the digital preload for the Xbox One, I preloaded a digital copy.
Assuming physical copies are being counted and not digitals, my purchase along with others isn't making up the totals.
It has sold ~1M copies in its first week.
It's not just mod support for Skyrim, it's the fact it's also available on Steam so when it comes to PC downloads at least, Bioware simply don't have their game selling on by far the largest digital download service there is. Skyrim must have racked up millions of sales digitally through Steam alone, even excluding people who bought retail.
If you want to look at numbers then this mod alone has over 6 million unique downloads.
but every download counts to this, so when the mod is updated and you download it again its counted. so looking at the downloads for the newest version its "just" 2,6 millions max
darksouls? the game you have to control with a controler and has controler optimized ui? GET THE HERETIC...GET HIM!!
Dark Souls was always a console first game and never purported to be otherwise. DAI was proclaimed to be a "PC game by PC gamers", which is where the disconnect happened when they went to controller focused UI deign.
exactly it was just said the pc is the leading platform (and not m&kb) but i get what you mean and cant disapprove. but these little inaccuracies are the things you have to recognize in marketing blabla. nobody will tell you that their product has flaws, but if you only saw once the inventory managment or recognize that they played 90% with a controler you could have known what the reality is
Are digital sales being counted yet? I originally had a physical copy of Inquisition preordered for months, but once Microsoft put up the digital preload for the Xbox One, I preloaded a digital copy.
Assuming physical copies are being counted and not digitals, my purchase along with others isn't making up the totals.
The current 1.14M figure is from VGChartz, which means that it does not include digital sales.
That means PC numbers should at the very least be doubled.
sad to see this great game already on sales @ Amazon.
it is a really good game. sure, it have some faults esp with the PC controls (I'm going to discount bugs because all games have bugs) but it is a beautiful game.
Storm Coast is just amazing and all your companions are so interesting (well, except that power hungry Vivi). I hope it will do better after word of mouth. Please!
Dark Souls was always a console first game and never purported to be otherwise. DAI was proclaimed to be a "PC game by PC gamers", which is where the disconnect happened when they went to controller focused UI deign.
Yeah they made a bunch of promises about Dark Souls II PC version too (and it came out freaking awesome I think but yeah loads of buthurt people as always about this and that).
I know you probably didn't follow it like you would a bioware game/ .
I don't really care about hype though just judge on how I like a game.
The current 1.14M figure is from VGChartz, which means that it does not include digital sales.
That means PC numbers should at the very least be doubled.
Ahh, okay. Thanks. Then I'm not counted yet, same with others. We'll see down the line what the actual numbers are.
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Seems to have garnered better first week sales than either previous DA game, though not better than ME3.
Pretty much all there is to say about it, right? It's only been a couple weeks now.
I believe that; if the game was selling around or above the expectations, we would have already been informed about it via some kind of pr statement about pre-orders or first week sales and such.
Therefore; the numbers must be within the limit of the previous games. Probably higher than those but not anywhere near expectations.
The sales trend after the first 3-4 weeks will most likely be decisive as we have witnessned with the previous installments. While DA2 seemed to nose dive after that period, DA:O was different and showed some clear steady growth in sales for months. Both seem to be generated due to user feedback and word of mouth...
As the marketing for DA:I was not aggressive and seems to be directed to heating up user interaction, it is reasonable to expect the same pattern as the previous games. Therefore Bioware' s response to initial feedback across all platforms would be decisive; especially for the pc which seems to be the most troubled platform atm...
I don't think sequel is in danger. We'll probably get one.
Budget for DA4 is what's in danger here. Are we going to get another cheap rushed game like DA2 or will it be another good game like DAI.
EA has themselves to blame for a lot of caution among customers. With DAO they had something rare and fairly well received in this day and age. They took it and then produced a cheap sequel which created a lot of negativity. It still haunts the series.
If it sells anything less than 5-6 Mil., it will probably be seen as a failure.
The game is good, though. I don't think it's selling as bad as some people seem to think.
sad to see this great game already on sales @ Amazon.
You don't put something no one wants out as a lead for sale like Amazon did. Loss leaders are called leaders because they lead people to buy more that only works if anyone wants the thing you are selling.
Citation please.
None. It's pure speculation.
sad to see this great game already on sales @ Amazon.
it is a really good game. sure, it have some faults esp with the PC controls (I'm going to discount bugs because all games have bugs) but it is a beautiful game.
Storm Coast is just amazing and all your companions are so interesting (well, except that power hungry Vivi). I hope it will do better after word of mouth. Please!
I don't think sequel is in danger. We'll probably get one.
Budget for DA4 is what's in danger here. Are we going to get another cheap rushed game like DA2 or will it be another good game like DAI.
EA has themselves to blame for a lot of caution among customers. With DAO they had something rare and fairly well received in this day and age. They took it and then produced a cheap sequel which created a lot of negativity. It still haunts the series.
If it sells anything less than 5-6 Mil., it will probably be seen as a failure.
The game is good, though. I don't think it's selling as bad as some people seem to think.
Over 3.5 should put them solidly in the black.
It's hard to say, you can't assume everything with a big budget sells well. DA2 sold very poorly compared to similar budgeted games. I'm sure EA will comment on DA:I's sales at some point, in a conference call with investors if nothing else.
And you shouldn't be "surprised" by negativity, even if you love the game. Everyone has different tastes.
If you've had a bad day, you can come home, pop in Skyrim,GTA5,New Vegas or Red Dead and merc whole towns if you want to. Reload your save and you're back to status quo. Tons of gamers like that sort of freedom that just does not exist in inquisition. You cant even really be a villian if you're so inclined. I like inquistion,flaws and all but if Bioware wants to suceed with open world games I think they should remove the shackles.
If you've had a bad day, you can come home, pop in Skyrim,GTA5,New Vegas or Red Dead and merc whole towns if you want to. Reload your save and you're back to status quo. Tons of gamers like that sort of freedom that just does not exist in inquisition. You cant even really be a villian if you're so inclined. I like inquistion,flaws and all but if Bioware wants to suceed with open world games I think they should remove the shackles.
And tons of gamers don't like that because it ends with the generic world where most of the content is irrelevant. I don't think EA needs BW to produce a game like that.
Not sure what anyone else wants in an RPG.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'd have liked actual RPG gameplay. It's a great looking game, runs beautifully on my PC(OK, the controls suck) but I wouldn't call it an RPG.
Wouldn't call it an RPG? Are you kidding me, it's a role-playing game first and foremost.
Assuming you're talking about Dragon Age of course.
And tons of gamers don't like that because it ends with the generic world where most of the content is irrelevant. I don't think EA needs BW to produce a game like that.
Agree with this. It is like taking the new car out early in the morning for a drive. It is fun for a while but eventually you get bored as you are not 'reaching' anywhere
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