Posted by Valaquen
- May 27, 2013, 01:20:34 PMQuote from: PRI. HUDSON on May 16, 2013, 11:41:13 PMQuote from: ShadowPred on May 16, 2013, 11:15:24 PMQuote from: PRI. HUDSON on May 16, 2013, 10:21:18 PM
May force SEGA to really put some effort into the next game.
They never do.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
The dream is over.
Posted by Corporal Hicks
- May 27, 2013, 01:14:46 PMQuote from: demonbane on May 17, 2013, 04:46:52 AMQuote from: PRI. HUDSON on May 16, 2013, 10:21:18 PMOr pass the licence to a better caretaker.
Glad it failed. May force SEGA to really put some effort into the next game.
If I remember rightly the new Creative Assembly game is the last one under Sega's license?
Posted by PRI. HUDSON
- May 18, 2013, 08:20:59 AMQuote from: demonbane on May 18, 2013, 01:52:53 AM
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-10-aliens-colonial-marines-managed-1-31-million-sales
It says sales not shipped. Odd. Did they manage to sell more within a month? Or are they lying through their teeth to hide the damage?
Doesn't matter. Rumored budget was large, 65 mill. 1.31 million copies would still put them in the red.
Posted by demonbane
- May 18, 2013, 01:52:53 AMhttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-10-aliens-colonial-marines-managed-1-31-million-sales
It says sales not shipped. Odd. Did they manage to sell more within a month? Or are they lying through their teeth to hide the damage?
It says sales not shipped. Odd. Did they manage to sell more within a month? Or are they lying through their teeth to hide the damage?
Posted by PRI. HUDSON
- May 17, 2013, 08:45:49 AMQuote from: demonbane on May 17, 2013, 04:46:52 AMQuote from: PRI. HUDSON on May 16, 2013, 10:21:18 PMOr pass the licence to a better caretaker.
Glad it failed. May force SEGA to really put some effort into the next game.
That's what I am REALLY hoping for.
Posted by demonbane
- May 17, 2013, 04:46:52 AMQuote from: PRI. HUDSON on May 16, 2013, 10:21:18 PMOr pass the licence to a better caretaker.
Glad it failed. May force SEGA to really put some effort into the next game.
Posted by PRI. HUDSON
- May 16, 2013, 11:41:13 PMQuote from: ShadowPred on May 16, 2013, 11:15:24 PMQuote from: PRI. HUDSON on May 16, 2013, 10:21:18 PM
May force SEGA to really put some effort into the next game.
They never do.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Posted by ShadowPred
- May 16, 2013, 11:15:24 PMQuote from: PRI. HUDSON on May 16, 2013, 10:21:18 PM
May force SEGA to really put some effort into the next game.
They never do.
Posted by PRI. HUDSON
- May 16, 2013, 10:21:18 PMGlad it failed. May force SEGA to really put some effort into the next game.
Posted by PsyKore
- May 16, 2013, 03:39:47 AMYeah... it's a joke mate.
Posted by demonbane
- May 15, 2013, 07:05:33 PMQuote from: PsyKore on May 15, 2013, 05:53:37 AMIt is shipped, not sold. There is a huge difference between the two.
1.3 million victims conned.
Posted by PsyKore
- May 15, 2013, 05:53:37 AM1.3 million victims conned.
Posted by demonbane
- May 14, 2013, 04:40:53 AMQuote from: Local Trouble on May 14, 2013, 03:07:35 AMWhy should anyone do that to support this scam further?
Did you buy another copy like I suggested?
Posted by Local Trouble
- May 14, 2013, 03:07:35 AMDid you buy another copy like I suggested?
Posted by PRI. HUDSON
- May 13, 2013, 10:16:38 PMQuote from: Xenomrph on May 13, 2013, 09:16:21 AMQuote from: demonbane on May 13, 2013, 06:15:39 AMWe don't know what the game's actual budget was, and we also don't know how many digital copies of the game sold. Gearbox and Sega didn't lay anybody off that we know of (nor did either of them cancel any other projects due to Colonial Marines being some kind of financially crippling failure or something like that) so I'm pretty confident they made some money out of the whole endeavor.Quote from: Xenomrph on May 12, 2013, 01:05:26 PMYou forgot how much time and money was invested in A:CM compared to other games reaching millions. Cost is difference. You didn't mention that.
There's other variables that his estimate isn't accounting for, and also doesn't include sales numbers for digital copies.
That and I countered his estimate with basic common sense - if what he's saying is true, where even highly-regarded, well received games that sell millions of copies are considered "failures", then the game industry would have imploded ages ago. The fact that video games are still made shows that there's something wrong with his numbers.
"Hollywood accounting" works the same way - sales figures can be manipulated in such a way that it's a "valid" interpretation that a movie was a total failure, but that doesn't mean it was actually true or even makes sense.
W/e makes you sleep at night. This game did not sell many copies on digital download. I would bet the house on that. This game is going to take a loss. The numbers will surface sooner or later.
